The Good Food Institute Asia-Pacific has also named who it believes to be the top 35 alt-protein investors in the region, and calls for more upstream focus on areas like raw materials.
CEO Leonardo Álvarez said there were near-term gains to be made by zeroing in on replacing unhealthy and ineffective ‘E-number’ chemical preservatives.
From IT to oat milk, Bjorn Oste started working with his oat milk-inventing brother Rickard in the 1990s to build Oatly, the hugely successful, Sweden-born oat milk company, known for its quirky marketing campaigns, and more recently for selling out in major grocery stores at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Many of America’s animal protein powerhouses are looking to capitalize on rising consumer demand for plant-based products. Michael Foods just joined the club.
US alternative protein investment in the first quarter of 2020 reached $741m, just shy of the $741m total in the whole of 2019, according to GFI.
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“We can’t oversimplify this into good vs evil. The democratization of nutrition is the next frontier of food. Proteins – which are necessary for all key human biological functions, including the musculo-skeletal system, the circulatory system, the pituitary system, and our overall health – will play a critical role in this democratization,” says Victor Friedberg announcing FoodShot’s latest focus area.
Products from Hong Kong’s Omnipork and Sweden’s Oatly will also debut at some of the coffee chain’s 3,500-plus stores throughout the country.
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Nature’s Fynd is a food brand using a proprietary volcanic microbe-produced protein, dubbed Fy, which contains all nine essential amino acids as well as dietary fiber, calcium, and vitamins.
The Livekindly Company — a collective of plant-based brands — lifted the lid this month on a $200-million founders’ funding round, a move designed to help its brands keep pace with an increasingly competitive peloton of global plant-based protein brands
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South Korea’s Mirae Asset led the round, with existing backers including Hong Kong-based Horizons Ventures and Singapore sovereign fund Temasek joining in.
New Crop Capital, a pre-IPO investor in Beyond Meat, has funded Shenzhen plant-based protein startup Starfield alongside Matrix Partners and others.
Venture capital investment across all industries dropped in 2019 — around 16%, according to the VenturePulse report — against a backdrop of global uncertainty related
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there are a few ways to interpret this $19.8 billion figure. Though it signals a 4.8% drop in funding and 15% decline in deal activity year-over-year, it also represents a staggering 250% growth in five years, and proves that the huge scale of investments in 2018 was no freak outlier.
When Perdue purchased the high-welfare pork, beef, and lamb brand in 2015, speculation about whether Niman could retain its niche appeal was high.
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