Tag: health

Brief: Meat giant JBS shutters its US plant-based meat division

October 3, 2022

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.

BREAKING: PeakBridge Growth Fund II holds first close on €100m, makes first 2 investments

September 14, 2022

Alternative protein technologies like casein and whole-cut “meats” are the first investments from PeakBridge and Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity’s fund.

Meet the Founder: To tackle stress, Big Pharma veteran Rachel Yarcony launched a foodtech startup

September 2, 2022

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.

Brightseed bags $68m Series B funding from Temasek, AgFunder, others to launch ingredients biz

May 9, 2022

The San Francisco-based startup will use the funds to bring its first ingredient, which is aimed at improving gut health, to market.

Unlocking food’s dark matter

March 29, 2022

BioActive Foods is the latest program from FoodShot Global – focused on nutrient-dense and optimized bioactive foods supporting human health.

Brightseed discovers compounds in waste hemp hulls that could help fight fatty liver disease

March 9, 2022

Hemp hulls are normally discarded. But Brightseed says they contain compounds that could help treat metabolic diseases.

Brief: Canada approves world’s first plant-based Covid-19 vaccine

February 25, 2022

The vaccine developed by Canadian company Medicago highlights the role plant-based proteins could play in speeding up response times to global health crises.

Asian firms top list of protein producers at risk of incubating next pandemic

February 16, 2022

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.

Faeth raises $20m from Khosla, AgFunder to battle cancer with food

January 18, 2022

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.

Nuritas raises $45m to scale its plant-based peptides discovery platform

November 11, 2021

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.

Future Food 🎙️: Soylent CEO on shift towards middle America & the future of plant-based

October 28, 2021

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: More science, more sustainability, more transparency

October 28, 2021

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.

The 30-year wait for golden rice shows why ag research needs ongoing funding

August 18, 2021

In a world first, the GM crop – developed in the early 1990s to provide higher levels of vitamin A – was recently approved for commercial planting in the Philippines.

Danone partners with nutrient discovery startup Brightseed amid ‘plant-based 2.0’ push

August 4, 2021

The pair are expanding on their earlier collaboration, which “uncovered 10 times more bioactives than previously known” in the soybean plant.

We already have the blueprint to prevent the next pandemic – and it’s on our farms

July 6, 2021

On World Zoonoses Day, a call for farms in emerging markets to get access to the same tech and knowhow as their counterparts elsewhere.

How to indulge healthily this festive season

December 23, 2020

Christmas sees many of us overdo the food and drink, so it’s not always the healthiest time of year. Here are a few nutritionist’s tips for keeping in corpore sano.

Cheap food fuelled the Covid death toll. Now it’s time to tackle the obesity epidemic

July 9, 2020

Of all the reports on the tragic and rising death toll resulting from Covid-19, there’s one underlying health condition that has been largely overlooked: obesity.

Future Food: From software to regen ag, Soilworks says key to better health is in the ground

July 6, 2020

Soilworks’ co-founders formed the regenerative ag-focused investment group after working together at B2B SaaS investor Scaleworks.

A quick look at the impact of Covid-19 on fresh produce and ag commodity prices

April 6, 2020

Covid-19 is impacting much more than restaurants and grocery stores; farmworkers, logistics suppliers and more are struggling to keep up and it’s impacting the supply of fresh produce and staples. Here’s a look at the impact on pricing for a few food and ag products.