Arkeon claims that ingredients are a bottleneck in the alternative proteins and is out to produce ingredients combined with vital amino acids.
Two of the biggest hurdles facing plant-based meat, says Rebellyous Foods, are price and quality-at-scale, which the Seattle-based startup is tackling head on with technology it claims can dramatically increase yields and slash labor costs.
“I don’t know many companies who are really talking about the ethics of their supply chain in the plant-based world, other than the animal ethics part… I’m talking about the human ethics part of things and fair labor.”
Fable’s meaty mushroom products are minimally processed and clean label with all natural ingredients, a boon amid growing controversy about the alternative meat industry.
Sales of plant-based meat have slowed in the US market following a surge in the early months of the pandemic, but the category hasn’t fallen off a cliff.
Agtech startup FarmWise gets a new CEO, Cargill sees a CFO shuffle, and Beyond Meat saays good-bye to its longtime branding executive.
Public support from President Xi for cellular agriculture and synthetic dairy last year was a positive move, but China has never been the first one in the world to approve novel agrifood technology, writes Chinese agrifoodtech VC Bits x Bites.
The top 10 climate tech deals in agrifood in 2022 were almost exclusively upstream startups in vertical farming, alternative proteins and ag biotech.
Stalling progress and slumping valuations might feel disappointing to many. Heck, these are challenging times. But this could be the best year yet to invest in agrifoodtech.
It’s been a tough few months for the alternative protein startup category, particularly companies developing plant-based meat, dairy, and seafood alternatives
Good Meat says the approval of its new serum-free media is the first of its kind and will enable them to increase the production of its cultivated chicken while lowering its manufacturing costs.
AFN’s most-read guest articles of the year debated the future of CEA, analyzed (a complete lack of) plant-based meat branding and more.
Food delivery, cultivated meat, and bio-energy startups across Asia, North America and Oceana landed agrifoodtech’s top five deals of 2022.
Forsea, an Israeli cultured seafood startup is using organoid technolog, mostly used in phrama and developmental biology, to produce cultured seafood.
Keurig Dr. Pepper CEO leaves the company after just three months at the helm, while Impossible Foods makes two new C-suite hires.
The FlyFeed founder describes his journey from working at SaaS startups to building his own insect protein company to combat global hunger.
A mix of high inflation, drought conditions, and high energy costs are making the chance of food shortages and food insecurity in the UK ever more likely this winter. We need circular solutions, argues one startup.
Synonym connects precision fermentation startups with production infrastructure to help them unlock the promise of synthetic biology.
Innovative Food startups garnered $356 million in 2021; much of that went to Singapore alt-protein companies as well as those in China and India.
Despite a slowdown in people moves overall, the month included a few notable transitions from the likes of Beyond Meat and the Upcycled Foods Association.
