Marica Quarsingh calls her cell-cultured seafood startup, Sea-Stematic, the “Tesla of seafood” to communicate how seafood should be produced: sustainably and with the right market insights.
Fyto’s automated grow environments for aquatic plants promise to provide a more sustainable protein base for animal feed, human food, and soil amendments.
The US company’s e-commerce portal provides a more efficient way to source proteins for novel food ingredients, drug discovery, and more.
The round, led by Lisbon-based venture capital firm BlueCrow Capital, will be used to develop an off-shore farm to meet local clam demand in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy.
AgFunder has just opened the New Carnivore Fund to investors. The $20M fund will invest in alternative protein startups including plant-based alternatives, cellular agriculture, and the picks-and-shovels that will enable the industry.
This is the second-largest round for a cultivated meat startup after Memphis Meat’s $17 million Series A.
Aleph Farms — a startup designing bio-reactor grown and 3D-printable beef steaks — has been busily turning the International Space Station into, well, an International ‘Space Steak’ Station.
China is hungry for fake meat. But it turns out – it always has been. Find out what’s causing the world’s largest pork consumers to drop steak for tofu.
Evolv Ventures launched late last year as the venture arm of ketchup and mac-and-cheese behemoth Kraft Heinz with $100 million to invest in startups. We caught up with Steve Sanger, a partner at Evolv, to find out more about the fund’s strategy and his personal shift from startup to investor
Wherever we look, humans have consistently built technologies that surpass their animal predecessors. Cars replaced horses, petroleum replaced whales, tractors replaced oxen, telecommunications replaced carrier pigeons. Food may be next.
Kuli Kuli is driving the moringa products market in the US with over 50% of a segment that’s now in 3% of US households.
The plant-based meat maker is launching at 27 Gelson’s locations in Southern California while Tim Hortons is backpedaling its Beyond Meat offerings.
It’s hard to miss the investor enthusiasm for alternative protein startups but valuations are creeping up as I heard at the Good Food Conference last week.
New Culture is making dairy cheese without animals instead using fermentation, the addition plant-based fats, sugars and traditional cheesemaking process.
Watch out, Beyond Meat. Edible cricket farmer and roaster, ENTO, is coming for you with a bug-based burger patty. And it’s probably healthier.
Asia and Africa are home to 80% of the world’s population and with rising incomes, they are craving and demanding more animal-sourced foods, GFI India’s head Varun Deshpande told AFN on the sidelines of the Good Food Conference in San Francisco today.
For former yogurt maker and company co-owner Tom Moffitt, if you can’t beat the plant-based dairy alternatives, it’s best to join them.
Cargill “gives peas more chances” with $75m investment into Puris. It also entered a JV with White Dog Labs to supply an alternative to unsustainable fishmeal to the aquaculture industry.
You learn a fair bit about someone by just asking how they take their eggs. And it’s a pretty hot question to fire up AFN’s new “Table Talk” series when across the table this time is a veteran food industry egg-spert like David Wagstaff.
Ginkgo Bioworks spin-off company has also added key hires including a head of regulatory compliance as the protein alternatives spaces begins to tackle new challenges.
I’m drowning in new food! Can someone please restructure me out of this mess?