Tag: ingredients

Future Food-Tech San Francisco

March 11, 2021

Moonshot Solutions for a Food System Under Stress Our food system is undergoing a revolution. Covid-19 and the threat of climate change are driving

Here’s how one of Asia’s biggest noodle makers is turning to tech

October 30, 2020

Ho Ren Hua, CEO at Bangkok-based Thai Wah, shares how the 70 year-old starch and noodle manufacturer is embracing technology and the startup ecosystem.

Future Food-Tech London

October 22, 2020

The Future Food-Tech Summit returns to London and brings together over 500 leaders, senior executives, pioneering innovators and VCs from around the globe. The

The top 20 innovative food deals of 2019

April 1, 2020

Alternative protein had a blockbuster year in 2019, doubling its 2018 funding dollars to $1 billion.

Could Covid action spur climate action? Packaged food company Planet FWD thinks so.

April 1, 2020

The brand recently raised a $2.7m seed round for its private-label snack line and platform helping other companies identify ingredients grown with regenerative practices.

Egg white replacement ingredient company scores €500k seed funding from Dutch VCs

February 4, 2020

A Wageningen spin-out, the company claims its non-GMO animal-free replacement is more cost-effective than traditional egg whites.

Startup Spotlight: How Treasure8 is using tech & ingredients to fight food waste

October 28, 2019

The San Francisco-based food waste startup is tackling the global issue from different angles through what it describes as its early-investment platform.

Alternative Protein Pitch Event

July 16, 2019

Plug band Play Food is teaming up with the Cultured Meat Symposium to host a meetup focused on Alternative Proteins and the Future of Food.

Planetarians is Helping Food Companies Make your Favorite Foods Using Upcycled Ingredients

July 9, 2019

The California-based food waste startup recently won Most Innovative US Startup Pre-Series A at the 2019 Agri-FoodTech Innovation Awards.

Evolving to Serve a Dynamic Agri-Food Market – What’s Next for Benson Hill?

March 7, 2019

Matt Crisp is cofounder and CEO of Benson Hill Biosystems, a crop genomics platform using computational biology and gene editing. Here he writes about the startup’s evolution and transition to now serving a broad range of clients across the food system.

Superfood Product Startup Kuli Kuli Closes $5m Series B to Sell Moringa as an Ingredient

February 28, 2019

Kuli Kuli is a manufacturer and distributor of moringa, a superfood that’s become the fastest growing green supplement in the category, surpassing matcha and catching up to spirulina and wheatgrass.

Motif Ingredients Raises $90m Series A to Engineer Alternative Proteins in Ginkgo Bioworks Spin-Out

February 26, 2019

Motif will focus on providing food companies with ingredients for their growing alternative protein product lines in the plant-based and meat alternative space. It will also use Ginkgo’s science and technology to design and engineer new cells to develop other new food formats.