Tag: ingredients

Brief: Impossible Foods could sell proprietary heme to other companies – CEO Brown

June 25, 2021

“We have absolutely no aversion to doing that, we just haven’t had the bandwidth,” he said.

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.

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.

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.

Clean Ingredients Startup Mazza Innovation Acquired by Sensient Technologies

July 11, 2018

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

Nuritas Raises $20m Series A for AI Ingredient Discovery Platform

December 20, 2017

The Irish company will launch the first food ingredient discovered using artificial intelligence next year.

Ginkgo Bioworks Raises $275m Series D for Robotic Microbe Factory Expansion

December 14, 2017

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.

UPDATE: Arzeda Closes Series A on $15.2m for Plant-Based Computational Protein Production, Led by OS Fund

November 30, 2017

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.”

Women in Agtech: From Vietnam to Founding Redmelon Company – Le Vuong

July 27, 2017

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.

Wilbur-Ellis Launched Cavallo Ventures to ‘Remain Innovative’ and Sell New Tech to Customers

March 9, 2017

Cavallo Ventures is not just focused on investing in startups; it also wants to partner with them and distribute new products to its customers.

Ginkgo Bioworks Eyes Agriculture After Raising $100m for GE Microbe Manufacturing Business

June 9, 2016

Ginkgo Bioworks, a startup genetically engineering microbes for partner companies in the flavor, fragrance and food industries, has raised $100 million in Series C funding from a variety of late-stage investors.

Irish A.I. Startup Nuritas Raises $3.4m Seed Round to Expand Database

October 27, 2015

The startup is building a database of healthy peptides found in agriculture byproducts for use in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and supplement markets.

How Biotech Startup Phytoption is Helping Fortune 500 Companies

October 19, 2015

Phytoption poised to transform the natural additives sector with its solubilizing technology and recently won the BioCrossroads New Venture Competition.