The Singapore-based trend-spotting platform for food will grow its partnerships in North America and launch a new tool to speed up CPG product development.
The company is recreating classic refrigerator and pantry staples using novel ingredients and will launch its first product in Spring 2022.
Benson Hill aims to scale its Ultra-High Protein soy by incorporating it into Kellogg’s MorningStar Farms alt-meat range.
His startup aims to combine the nutrients of traditional whey powder with a taste that’s superior to existing plant-based offerings.
“We have absolutely no aversion to doing that, we just haven’t had the bandwidth,” he said.
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.
Alternative protein had a blockbuster year in 2019, doubling its 2018 funding dollars to $1 billion.
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.
A Wageningen spin-out, the company claims its non-GMO animal-free replacement is more cost-effective than traditional egg whites.
The San Francisco-based food waste startup is tackling the global issue from different angles through what it describes as its early-investment platform.
The California-based food waste startup recently won Most Innovative US Startup Pre-Series A at the 2019 Agri-FoodTech Innovation Awards.
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.
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 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.
Sensient Technologies, a global colors, flavors, and fragrances company, has acquired Mazza Innovation, a Canadian startup with a novel method of extracting plant-based ingredients for the
The Irish company will launch the first food ingredient discovered using artificial intelligence next year.
The new funding will go toward building out the company’s “Bioworks3” production facility and branching out into more industries beyond the company’s mainstays of agriculture and pharmaceuticals.
This round was led by OS Fund, which, according to its website, “finances and supports inventors and scientists who are working on audacious breakthroughs to solve the greatest issues and opportunities facing humanity today.”
The next in our series of interviews with female CEOs and founders working in agtech, AgFunderNews caught up with Vuong to find out more about Redmelon Company and being a minority female entrepreneur in agtech.
Cavallo Ventures is not just focused on investing in startups; it also wants to partner with them and distribute new products to its customers.
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