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.
Microbes such as mycoprotein and microalgae can be used to produce biomass, improve plant-based products, and create paradigm-changing functional ingredients.
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.
Is there a case to be made for distributed, hyper-local food processing models? SavorEat CEO Racheli Vizman thinks so.
The off-the-shelf animal-free ingredients provider is stepping into bespoke formulations as it eyes a food & bev debut in 2021.
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
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.
Bjorn Oste started working with his oat milk-inventing brother Rickard in the 1990s to build Oatly, Sweden’s widely-recognized plant-based milk company.
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.
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?
“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.
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
Plant-based food products are often touted for their environmental benefits over those involving animal agriculture, but they’re certainly not perfect.
Genetically modified foods have a long history of opposition but today’s consumers are giving them another look.
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.
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