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| 23.08.2024 | The Rise of Precision Fermentation: De Novo Foodlabs and the Future of Lactoferrin | In the ever-evolving landscape of food technology, a new player is making waves. De Novo Foodlabs, a North Carolina-based startup, has secured $1.5 million in seed funding to accelerate the commercialization of its innovative product, NanoF... |
| 21.08.2024 | Coway and De Novo Foodlabs: Pioneering Wellness Innovations in Air and Nutrition | In a world increasingly aware of health and wellness, two companies are stepping into the spotlight. Coway and De Novo Foodlabs are not just players; they are game-changers. Each company tackles a different aspect of well-being—air quality ... |
| 20.08.2024 | De Novo Foodlabs to Revolutionize Health & Wellness Market with Anti-Aging, Animal-Free Lactoferrin | The US-based precision fermentation company De Novo Foodlabs announces it has secured new funding to expedite the commercialization of its flagship ingredient, NanoFerrin.
NanoFerrin is said to be a “nature-identical” alternative to bovine ... |
| 20.08.2024 | De Novo Foodlabs Secures Funding from Industry-Backed VC for Precision-Fermented Lactoferrin Protein | 4 Mins Read Precision fermentation startup De Novo Foodlabs has raised $1.5M in funding for its NanoFerrin protein from Joyful Ventures, a VC firm backed by alternative protein leaders.
North Carolina-based De Novo Foodlabs, which is making... |
| 22.05.2024 | Peruvian Veef Secures $320K in First Funding Round, Aims for Latin American Expansion | Peruvian Veef, a plant-based food startup in South America, has raised $320,000 in its first funding round, led by US-based venture capital investors. This round included contributions from Ahimsa Foundation and Sustainable Food Ventures, a... |
| 21.02.2024 | Atlantic Fish Co. Pioneers Cell Lines for Cultivated Halibut and Other Overfished Wild Species | Biotech startup Atlantic Fish Co., headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, leverages cellular agriculture to create seafood free of plastics, mercury, antibiotics, and animal suffering.
Doug Grant and Trevor Ham founded the company in 202... |
| 05.02.2024 | Cultivated seafood co Finless Foods reduces headcount | A flurry of departures at California-based Finless Foods—one of the first players to enter the cultivated seafood segment—suggests the firm has engaged in a fresh round of layoffs as the funding environment has deteriorated.
The startup—whi... |
| 20.11.2023 | Crunch time for cultivated meat: ‘Probably 70-90% of players will fail in the next year’ | On paper, cultivated meat might seem like a no-brainer. Unlike plant-based options, which still don’t quite hit the spot for many consumers, it promises the allure of ‘real’ meat without the ethical and environmental baggage that comes with... |
| 11.05.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Flash Coffee brews up $50m, ChrysaLabs nets $15m for soil science | This week, Singapore-based tech-forward coffee chain Flash Coffee secured funding, as did soil science startup ChrysaLabs, biotech startup MicroHarvest and sustainability measurement platform Improvin’. Beyond Meat got a thumbs up from the ... |
| 08.05.2023 | EXCLUSIVE: My Food Job Rocks! Adam Yee teams up with Gainful cofounder Eric Wu to launch ‘Asian comfort food’ brand Sobo Foods | “If you look in the Asian section of the frozen food aisle, it’s kind of a wasteland when it comes to better-for-you products,” observes Eric Wu, cofounder of Sobo Foods, a startup emerging from stealth with $1 million in funding. As for br... |
| 30.03.2023 | 🎥 Cultivated meat startup Myodenovo emerges from stealth, focuses on whole cuts to reach ‘diehard meat lovers’ | “To get really diehard meat lovers to transition to cultivated meat, it’s going to need to be really close to the real thing,” says the founder and CEO of Myodenovo, a US-based startup emerging from stealth with a mission to create thick, w... |
| 21.10.2022 | Hoxton Farms raised $22 million to pack in the fat and up the taste of meat alternatives | London-based cultivator of fat as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry Hoxton Farms has raised a fresh $22 million in a Series A round. The lipids are aimed at breaking ground on a pilot facility for producing cultivated fat, i.... |
| 02.09.2022 | 5 African alternative protein startups innovating to meet 3-fold increase in meat & dairy demand by 2050 | As we’ll soon report in our upcoming Africa AgriFoodTech Investment report in collaboration with FMO and BII, the trend for alternative protein products — those that offer consumers the experience of eating meat and dairy without the use of... |
| 11.08.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Afresh grabs $115m to fight food waste, rural fintech firm Jai Kisan lands $50m | While $100 million-plus foodtech funding rounds are less common these days, Afresh managed to close one this week for its operating system that reduces supermarket food waste. Fintech startup Jai Kisan raised funds to help rural businesses ... |
| 05.07.2022 | Simple Food Ventures closes $6 million | NEW YORK — Simple Food Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on healthy food and beverage products, has closed $6 million of its $15 million fundraise. The female-founded fund invests in seed to Series B consumer products companies “with... |
| 22.04.2022 | 5 African climate-smart agriculture investors helping close a $106bn climate finance gap | Since 1970, the world has celebrated Earth Day, a day that focuses on green living and tackling the environmental crisis. Through Earth Day, humans have been made aware of the harm they cause to the environment. They have also been enlighte... |
| 01.04.2022 | Umaro’s $3m AgFunder-led seed round hints at a ocean-based future for alternative protein | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Umaro Foods.
California’s Umaro Foods has raised $3 million in seed funding for its technology that turns seaweed into a protein source and functional ingredient for meat analogs... |
| 08.03.2022 | IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 166
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The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them... |
| 28.02.2022 | In Ghana’s agrifoodtech sector, investors and entrepreneurs share mutual skepticism | Desmond Koney knew the fundraising journey for his startup was going to be tough. His company, Complete Farmer, operates an agribusiness marketplace for Ghana’s under-financed and under-resourced farmers. Financing for agrifoodtech ventures... |
| 28.10.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Daring, Fabric & World Fund raise big money; Sweetgreen files for IPO | Farmer marketplace DeHaat made headlines this week with India’s biggest-ever agtech round. Elsewhere, fulfillment robotics company Fabric and online produce platform GrubMarket pulled in sizable financings, as did plant-based players Daring... |
| 27.10.2021 | Aqua Cultured Foods closes $2.1m pre-seed round for fungal alt-seafood | Aqua Cultured Foods, a US company that makes seafood analogs via a fermentation process, has raised $2.1 million in pre-seed funding.
Investors in the round included Supply Change Capital, Big Idea Ventures, Aera VC, Sustainable Food Ventur... |
| 05.10.2021 | Women entrepreneurs are unlocking value in Africa’s overlooked agrifood resources | The global agrifood sector is full of examples of underutilized resources. Food grown and wasted. Lost value from “waste products.” Undiscovered foods growing right in front of us.
A new cohort of women entrepreneurs in Africa are identifyi... |
| 21.09.2021 | Aqua Cultured Foods breaks new ground in alt-seafood space with fermentation-based whole cuts | The Chicago-based company – which was founded last year by Anne Palermo and Brittany Chibe – has filed a series of patents (not yet public) covering the method of production, its usage in the food system, and the fungi strain itself, which ... |
| 08.09.2021 | VeggieVictory is making meat alternatives suited to African tastes | Editor’s note: AFN’s coverage of the emerging African agrifoodtech sector is supported by Dutch development bank FMO.
Hakeem Jimo and Bola Adeyanju started one of the first fully vegan restaurants in Lagos to solve a problem they were all t... |
| 25.08.2021 | Burda invests £16m in Mercia-backed sustainable food platform | Oddbox – the Mercia-backed platform using technology to fight food waste – has secured a £16m investment from BurdaPrincipal Investments (BPI), the growth capital arm of media and tech company Hubert Burda Media whose titles include BBCGood... |
| 08.03.2021 | IWD 2021: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 15 Mins Read
Editor’s Note: This list is the result of hours of work, and no doubt we have missed some amazing queens. We will do our best to keep adding. On the startup side, we focused on founders, but many of these startups have incredib... |
| 24.02.2021 | Ryan Bethencourt and the Trends Disrupting Meat and Dairy | Ryan Bethencourt, investor and founder of Wild Earth Pets, discusses with Elysabeth Alfano the major trends destabilizing the meat and dairy industries, his newest venture, Sustainable Food Ventures and his investment strategy. Plus, he des... |
| 19.02.2021 | Nigeria’s first plant-based food tech startup secures funding | Lagos-based vegan food tech startup VeggieVictory has secured an undisclosed amount in a pre-seed round led by Sustainable Food Ventures, Capital V, Kale United, and Thrive Worldwide.
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| 19.02.2021 | Nigeria’s first plant-based food tech startup secures funding | Lagos-based vegan food tech startup VeggieVictory has secured an undisclosed amount in a pre-seed round led by Sustainable Food Ventures, Capital V, Kale United, and Thrive Worldwide.
VeggieVictory secures funding
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| 04.02.2021 | Jellatech carves novel path in alt protein market with animal-free, cell-based collagen, gelatin | Jellatech – which emerged from stealth mode in November 2020 – was founded in June 2020 by Danish entrepreneur Stephanie Michelsen (CEO - based in Raleigh, NC), and Kylie van Deinsen-Hesp (head of science - based in The Netherlands), who ... |
| 06.10.2020 | Vegan Investor Ryan Bethencourt Launches Sustainable Food Ventures | In a recent interview with Elysabeth Alfano on the Plantbased Business Hour, thought leader, founder of Wild Earth pet food and investor, Ryan Bethencourt, shares his newest endeavor Sustainable Food Ventures. For the full interview, click ... |
| 06.10.2020 | Vegan Investor Ryan Bethencourt Launches Sustainable Food Ventures | ©Wild Earth
In a recent interview with Elysabeth Alfano on the Plantbased Business Hour, thought leader, founder of Wild Earth pet food and investor, Ryan Bethencourt, shares his newest endeavor Sustainable Food Ventures. For the full inter... |
| 30.09.2020 | Sustainable Food Ventures: First Rolling Fund For Alt Protein Debuts On AngelList | 7 0
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Launched by impact investor and plant-based pet food brand Wild Earth founder and CEO Ryan Bethencourt and Mariliis Holm, the former food scientist at cell-based seafood pioneers Finless Foods, Sustainable Food Vent... |
