Plus… Remy acquires food-waste app Kitch and Ever After Foods partners with Swiss manufacturing giant Bühler Group.
Also: India-based KiranaPro acquires grocery delivery service Joper.
“I don’t think that there is any major dairy company in the world that isn’t researching cow-less products,” says Finally Foods cofounder Dafna Gabbay.
One well-publicized side effect of GLP-1 drugs is a loss of lean muscle mass, prompting a surge of interest in drugs that can attenuate the problem, says ProFuse Technology.
Plus: Israeli startups sign three fresh foodtech partnerships.
Under a 10-year purchasing agreement, Brevel will supply CBC with its algae-derived ingredients, grown in a high-yielding process combining LED lighting and sugar-based (‘dark’) fermentation.
Plus: Non-GMO project tackles ultra-processed foods with new labeling.
The first beans from Vanilla Vida’s facilities in the north of Israel are being harvested now, with crops from additional greenhouses run by kibbutzim in central and southern Israel using Vanilla Vida protocols set to deliver harvests in late 2025 and early 2026.
The tech combines two technologies: metamaterials—familiar materials with unique properties due to the way they are structured; and injection molding, which Prof. Yaakov Nahmias claims could enable mass production of plant-based steaks at a fraction of the cost of 3D printing.
While multiple startups engineer microbes to produce animal proteins via precision fermentation, PoLoPo and others in the ‘molecular farming’ space claim the unit economics of growing them in genetically engineered plants are more favorable.
Plus…John Kempf’s Advancing Eco Agriculture nabbed a USDA rural development award.
Rich’s will also explore using Phytolon’s colors in several of its products pending regulatory approvals, says Phytolon, which genetically engineers yeast to express pigments found in beets and prickly pears.
“Our new report provides proof that with the right technology there is a commercially viable path to market” for cultivated meat, claims SuperMeat CEO Ido Savir.
The Israeli startup is launching its plant-based whole cuts in the US retail market at independent retailers in Los Angeles and New York City and eyeing an e-commerce launch before the end of the year.
“We are the only ones we know of [developing biological products using predatory bacteria] in the field of agriculture,” says BioArmix CEO Dr. Tzvi Zvirin.
Israel-based agrifoodtech startups have closed just 17 funding rounds since the start of the conflict. Raising some $161 million since October 7, 2023, the total is a 72% drop on the same period the year before, and some 73% fewer deals.
Kinoko-Tech, an Israeli startup specializing in fungi-based fermentation, has struck a deal with Metaphor Foods, the innovation arm of Hela, to produce its minimally-processed fermented foods in APAC.
Multiple startups can now make casein proteins without cows. But do the unit economics add up? Israeli startup DairyX weighs in….
Potato protein is highly soluble and has gelling, foaming, emulsification, binding, texturizing and stabilizing properties. It is also non-allergenic, which makes it attractive to formulators if the availability is there and the price is right, says ReaGenics.
Blue Tree uses ultrafiltration coupled with adsorption to selectively remove disaccharides such as sucrose, lactose, and maltose from natural beverages such as juice, milk, and beer.
