Biotech startup Modern Synthesis and Danish fashion brand GANNI have teamed up to create GANNI’s signature ‘Bou Bag’ using a leather-alternative produced, in part, by bacteria.
Alt protein startup ENOUGH has raised $43.6 m in a series C round led by World Fund CPT Capital to expand its mycoprotein business.
UPP enables farmers to harvest broccoli mechanically without damaging the crop, and upcycle stalks and leaves to extract proteins and fibers.
UK-based alt meat brand VFC has acquired distressed meat-free brand Meatless Farm, which laid off most of its staff earlier this month after a key investor expected to provide a capital injection backed out.
Loss-making UK-based plant-based meat startup Meatless Farm has laid off most of its staff after failing to secure additional funds to help it stay afloat.
UK-based Higher Steaks has rebranded as Uncommon and raised $30m in a series A round to scale production of cultivated pork using technology it claims gives it a competitive edge by speeding up the cell differentiation process.
Plant cell culture has been around for decades. So what’s prompted the recent flurry of activity in the food and nutraceuticals space?
GMOs still have an image problem when it comes to food. But attitudes are evolving, insists one startup on a mission to change hearts and minds, one purple tomato at a time.
UK’s Hectare nets $20m Series A to strengthen its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)offering, boost product development and expand into new international markets.
Fable’s meaty mushroom products are minimally processed and clean label with all natural ingredients, a boon amid growing controversy about the alternative meat industry.
A mix of high inflation, drought conditions, and high energy costs are making the chance of food shortages and food insecurity in the UK ever more likely this winter. We need circular solutions, argues one startup.
In agtech, produce quality control platform Clarifruit raised $12 million while more layoffs struck the food delivery sector.
Meanwhile, it’s more bad news for food delivery, with a quick-commerce startup shutting down and a major service leaving Australia.
Seren Kell from the Good Food Institute Europe speaks to AFN following a £20 million pledge from two UK bodies to support the sector.
Plus, Starbucks names a new CEO and a longtime veteran of consumer goods corporate Unilever calls it quits after 35 years.
The UK alternative protein sector could be a leader but it needs to improve its regulatory process and provide more funding to support its growth.
Ivy Farm, a cultivated meat startup in the UK, just unveiled what it claims to be Europe’s largest cultivated meat pilot plant.
Roughly 70% of German agrifood’s $3.3 billion in funding went to just two companies, both part of the now-struggling instant-delivery sector.
Agreena will bring Hummingbird’s remote monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) technology in-house to further scale and validate its carbon market.
While foodtech startups feel the crunch of the current downturn, fundraising in agtech and alternative protein keeps coming.
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