Plus: NoPalm Ingredients raises funds for its palm oil alternative and layoffs at Cargill.
Meanwhile, Voyage Foods enters the bean-less coffee space and alt-protein startup Mycorena files for bankruptcy.
Plus… Nestlé enters ‘blended meat’ space, Ahimsa acquires Good Catch alt-seafood production facility from Gathered Foods, and study probes ‘unexplored’ subsoil.
Plus: Tyson’s backpedaling on its beef pledge and another biomaterials startup makes a splash.
Plus: Denmark to tax livestock farming emissions and Ohio lawmakers create a stink about cultivated meat.
Plus: New funds from Proterra, Asian Development Bank and others, and lawsuits aplenty.
Meanwhile, a longtime hot-dog-eating champion got the boot from a famous contest, and plant-based meat is the culprit.
Plus: new funding for Packwise, Aeropowder, and HerdDogg
Plus: new fundraises from MENA-based startups Grubtech, YoLaFresh, and Mileutis.
Plus: more layoffs at Deere and new fundraising to bring AI into the hospitality biz.
Plus: Rize raises new capital to decarbonize rice, Uber scoops up Delivery Hero’s Taiwan business.
Plus: alt-protein investor Big Idea Ventures enters the biologicals sector.
Plus: Delivery platform Pipedream raises $13 million and Florida signs a ban on cultivated meat.
Plus: Swiss cleantech startup Bcomp raises new funds and Shake Shack expands its carbon neutral shake offerings.
Plus: more pesticide alternatives enter the agtech arena.
Plus: Science Based Targets initiative’s new rules for Scope 3 emissions are causing more than a little chaos.
Also: farm labor management platform Seso raises $26 million, L’Oreal backs sustainable pigment producer.
Plus: more funding for ag robotics and bad news for Kroger’s e-commerce business.
Plus, meet the Internet of the Forest.
Plus: Impossible Foods unveils a “meatier” new look to attract more carnivorous customers.
