An IT sales executive turned foodtech entrepreneur, MycoTechnology cofounder and CEO Alan Hahn got the call that dramatically his career trajectory just over a decade ago.
Hyfé, a Chicago-based startup transforming food processing wastewater into feedstocks for biomanufacturing and clean water, has raised a $9 million seed round led by Synthesis Capital.
Cultivated meat startup Omeat has emerged from stealth armed with $40m to fund a novel approach to making meat from animal cells.
UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat will be the first to launch cultivated meat in the US after clearing the final hurdles required by regulators.
BetterBrand—a Los Angeles-based startup making high-protein, ultra-low-carb bagels—has raised a $6 million series A round led by VERSO Capital.
The US Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has agreed to review a patent granted to Impossible Foods following a petition by Motif FoodWorks, which is being sued by Impossible for patent infringement.
Guardian Agriculture has raised $20m in a series A round to expand its autonomous drone technology to farms across the US and ramp-up manufacturing of its SC1 aircraft.
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Jon Blair is stepping down as interim president at Miyoko’s Creamery at the end of the month, AFN has learned. A replacement has not been announced.
Bond Pet Food is carving a distinct path in the alt protein space by engineering yeast to produce animal proteins for pet food.
UPSIDE Foods has edged closer to commercialization in the US after receiving a thumbs up from USDA for its ‘cell-cultivated chicken’ label, seven months after securing a green light from the FDA.
Launched in September 2021 with $30 million in funding, microbiome startup Verb Biotics engineers ‘precision biotics’ for foods and supplements with ‘measurable effects that consumers can feel.’
MyForest Foods—a New York-based startup making whole cuts of meat from mushroom mycelium—has raised $15 million in Series A-2 funding and hired Greg Shewchuk as its new CEO.
Impossible Foods’ lawyers did not violate rules of professional conduct by hiring private investigators to pose as potential customers in order to obtain product information and samples from Motif FoodWorks as the companies clashed over IP, a court has ruled.
Fungi-fueled alt meat startup Meati Foods has laid off 17 of its 300 employees this week, three months after opening a new production facility in Thornton, Colorado, but says the move does not reflect weak demand for its products.
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Motif FoodWorks has accused Impossible Foods of hiring private investigators to pose as potential customers to “covertly” obtain information about Motif’s business that could influence ongoing litigation between the warring foodtech companies and “circumvent the discovery process.”
Miyoko Schinner and the board of the plant-based dairy company she founded have agreed to bury the hatchet, withdraw their respective lawsuits and end their very public spat.
ADM has entered a strategic development agreement with Air Protein, a startup seeking to decouple food production from agricultural land by using carbon dioxide and hydrogen, rather than sugar, to fuel its fermentation-based food production platform.
Alt protein investor Lever VC has released its internal playbook for assessing the scientific progress of early-stage cultivated meat companies to help investors place more informed bets in a “complex and nascent industry” and help avoid a “Theranos-style outcome.”
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