Tag: alternative protein

Agritecture Xchange Toronto

December 1, 2020

Agritecture Xchange is a virtual conference connecting key innovations in the field of AgTech to the future health of our cities. In the face of

Meat & dairy industries holding back global progress on climate change, FAIRR report says

November 11, 2020

Investor network FAIRR concludes that 86% of major meat, egg, and dairy suppliers are failing to declare greenhouse gas emissions or set meaningful reduction targets.

Pushing for US & Middle East to eat organic, Saudi prince joins Back To The Roots round

November 4, 2020

“There’s an abundance of need for what they do,” Prince Khaled, Saudi royal and new investor in the Oakland-based startup, told AFN.

Where are the world’s first ‘lab burger’ growers now? Enlarging their Series B raise

October 14, 2020

Dutch startup Mosa Meat is expecting a second close of its Series B round in “the next few months” following a $55 million first tranche.

BREAKING: Ÿnsect extends Series C to $372m, targets pet food & aims for carbon-negative status

October 6, 2020

The French startup – which farms mealworms to produce ingredients for fish feed, pet food, and crop fertilizers – claims it’s the biggest insect protein round ever.

Fermentation sees foodtech investors bubbling up in 2020

October 5, 2020

Microbes such as mycoprotein and microalgae can be used to produce biomass, improve plant-based products, and create paradigm-changing functional ingredients.

Smartagrifood Summit

September 24, 2020

the third year of Startup Europe’s Smart Agrifood Summit, an industry-leading event for the creation of innovative ecosystems within the European agri-food sector. This year

Why we invested in SIMULATE

July 30, 2020

Mail order, frozen, plant-based chicken nuggets… Before we met Ben Pasternak, the founder of SIMULATE (formerly NUGGS), this would have sounded like the worst idea ever.

SavorEat gets funding for 3D printer that builds and broils plant-based patties

July 29, 2020

Is there a case to be made for distributed, hyper-local food processing models? SavorEat CEO Racheli Vizman thinks so.

Geltor brews up $91.3m Series B to offer collagen ingredients-as-a-service model

July 27, 2020

The off-the-shelf animal-free ingredients provider is stepping into bespoke formulations as it eyes a food & bev debut in 2021.

Canada’s largest pension fund makes alt-dairy bet in Perfect Day’s $300m Series C

July 8, 2020

Perfect Day, a Californian startup using plants and fermentation techniques to manufacture animal-free dairy products, has expanded its Series C round to $300 million. Hawk

Here’s a list of the top 100 alternative protein disruptors in Asia

June 22, 2020

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.

Designing proteins to replace preservatives, Protera closes $5.6m Series A, moves to France

June 11, 2020

CEO Leonardo Álvarez said there were near-term gains to be made by zeroing in on replacing unhealthy and ineffective ‘E-number’ chemical preservatives.

Future Food 🎙️: Oatly co-founder on scaling alt milk and the need for local food production

June 2, 2020

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.

New normal: Veteran egg processor and plant-based egg alternative upstart strike a deal

May 21, 2020

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 plant-based protein investment in 2020 will surpass 2019 as Q1 brings in $741m

May 14, 2020

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.

Covid-19 is accelerating inevitable food trends but which changes will stick?

April 29, 2020

The news cycle for the entire Covid-19 pandemic crisis has been awash with crises in the food industry, forcing various tech providers to step up to the challenge. But which will be left wanting when the virus eventually subsides?

FoodShot Global is shifting the protein conversation from animal vs plant towards precision

April 21, 2020

“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.

Beyond Meat enters China for the first time via Starbucks partnership

April 21, 2020

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.

THRIVE Ag& Food Tech Innovation Summit 2020

March 25, 2020

The THRIVE Innovation Summit is held annually in Silicon Valley and each year attracts 250+ agribusiness leaders, investors, AgTech and FoodTech startups, and California and