IFT FIRST’s Startup Pavilion brings technical, business and scientific professionals under one roof — a true rarity at agrifood events.
Advancing the food system in the 21st century requires a hands-on approach to innovation that connects business and technology with deep science.
‘Feed the gut, protect the liver, support the brain…’ AFN caught up with sugar’s arch nemesis Dr. Robert Lustig to learn more about his three-pronged strategy to re-engineer ultra-processed foods to improve their ‘metabolic matrix’
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.
With a fintech platform and food prescription program, About Fresh is making food accesiblity a reality for more Americans.
Powerful data and validated science were just a few of the reasons Middleland Capital led BIOHM’s recent $7.5m funding round.
Over 60% of the global population lives in Asia with just 20% of farmland, and a growing middle class demanding high-status animal protein. We need to create better alternative protein products for the Asian consumer, writes Sonalie Figueiras.
Brightseed Bio 01 is a dietary fiber ingredient meant to be incorporated into food and beverage items in order to boost gut health properties.
The move includes closing down a 189,000-square-foot plant-based meat factory in Denver, Colorado, as well as getting rid of more than 100 jobs.
Alternative protein technologies like casein and whole-cut “meats” are the first investments from PeakBridge and Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity’s fund.
Co-founder and CEO Rachel Yarcony discusses the personal nature of stress, the role of tech in managing it, and why she left Big Pharma to create myAir.
The San Francisco-based startup will use the funds to bring its first ingredient, which is aimed at improving gut health, to market.
BioActive Foods is the latest program from FoodShot Global – focused on nutrient-dense and optimized bioactive foods supporting human health.
Hemp hulls are normally discarded. But Brightseed says they contain compounds that could help treat metabolic diseases.
The vaccine developed by Canadian company Medicago highlights the role plant-based proteins could play in speeding up response times to global health crises.
Nearly two-thirds of the world’s largest meat, fish, and dairy suppliers present a “high risk” of spreading zoonotic disease from livestock to humans.
It uses “precision therapies, software, and nutrition to help treat cancer, for the millions of patients who desperately need better outcomes,” according to CEO Anand Parikh.
The Series B funds will be used to scale up the Irish company’s platform, which aims to unlock additional health benefits for food and beverage products.
Soylent meal replacement drinks, reportedly beloved of some entrepreneurs and VCs, have proven somewhat controversial in the podcast’s ‘hot or not’ rounds.
The future of food is exciting and unknown; but one way or another, it’s going to require more consumer education, writes Soylent’s Demir Vangelov.
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