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| 22.09.2025 | General Mills outlines marketing spend increase to help return to growth | Listen to the article 3 min
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| 11.07.2025 | Leftovers: Cinnamon Toast Crunch fries up bacon cereal | Welch’s fruit snacks get juicy | Listen to the article 3 min
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| 24.06.2025 | The Future of Food: Innovation and Sustainability in Plant-Based and Dairy Industries | The food industry is evolving. It’s a race against time, a quest for sustainability, and a battle for consumer hearts. Two players are making waves: Rival Foods in the plant-based sector and Yili Group in dairy. Both are harnessing innovati... |
| 23.06.2025 | Yili Secures Four World Dairy Innovation Awards at the 18th Global Dairy Congress | AMSTERDAM, June 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 18–19, the Global Dairy Congress 2025 was held in Amsterdam. At the forum, Dr. Ignatius Szeto, Assistant President of Yili Group, delivered a keynote speech titled "Innovating for a sust... |
| 26.03.2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Impossible Sliders, Major League Baseball & Cat Jewellery | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Impossible Foods’s beef slider rollout, the New York Mets’s new vegan sandwich, and Grubby’s vegan meal kits for ... |
| 08.01.2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Veganuary Launches, Hospital Caps & A Ted Talk | 6 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers a host of launches for Veganuary, several plant-based brand c... |
| 09.12.2024 | Oatly’s “Post Milk Generation” Trademark Rejected by UK Court Amid Dairy Industry Pushback | The UK Court of Appeal has ruled that Swedish plant-based drink brand Oatly cannot use the slogan “Post Milk Generation” on its food and beverage products, a decision that overturns a previous ruling by the High Court. The decision marks th... |
| 04.11.2024 | The Green Revolution: AgriFoodTech's Bold Moves Towards Sustainability | The world of AgriFoodTech is buzzing. New investments are flowing like a river after rain. Companies are pivoting, innovating, and racing towards sustainability. This week, the spotlight shines on insect farming, green hydrogen, and regener... |
| 31.10.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Funding for mealworms & green hydrogen, Ohalo unveils a new kind of almond | Insect producer Tebrio and green hydrogen producer Matteco both announced new capital raises this week. Outside of funding, Dave Friedberg’s Ohalo introduced a self-pollinating Nonpareil almond, the EPA approved an alternative to the recent... |
| 24.10.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Agtonomy raises $32.8m, NVentures backs Orbital Materials, NotCo unveils ‘fragrance formulator’ | Ag robotics and automation startups swarmed the news this week, coinciding with the FIRA 2024 farm robotics show in Sacramento, California. Agtonomy, Carbon Robotics, FarmDroid, and others all announced fundraises, while AgFunder portco Ver... |
| 03.10.2024 | The Rise of Alternative Proteins: A New Era in Sustainable Eating | The world is changing. The food we eat is evolving. Alternative proteins are at the forefront of this transformation. As climate change looms, the need for sustainable food sources has never been more urgent. The alternative protein industr... |
| 02.10.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Dairy-Free Mozzarella Sticks, Vegan Wetherspoons & Indian Cultivated Meat | 6 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Sunday Supper’s plant-based mozzarella sticks, M&S’s new ... |
| 19.09.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: eGrocer Flink nabs $150m, biotech co Arzeda lands $38m, Kubota acquires Bloomfield Robotics | Venture capital to the eGrocery category may be down 90% since the fundraising heyday of 2021, but the sector’s far from dead. Case in point: Germany-based Flink’s mega-raise this week.
Elsewhere, biotech startup Arzeda raked in funds to de... |
| 11.09.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Domino’s, Plant-Based Dairylea & A KitKat Copycat | 4 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Fry’s Family Foods’ formable mince, Domino’s vegan cheese col... |
| 21.08.2024 | The Future of Food: Navigating the Challenges of Supply Chains and Sustainability | The world of agriculture is at a crossroads. Rising food costs and strained supply chains threaten to destabilize the delicate balance of food security. As we grapple with these challenges, innovative agritech companies are stepping up to t... |
| 19.08.2024 | Sustainable Agriculture: The Growing Need for Biotech Innovations in the World's Food Supplies | USA News Group Commentary
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- USA News Group – How we take care of the planet, and the food we eat is rapidly shifting. Back in May, the World Economic F... |
| 16.08.2024 | The Future of Food and Fashion: Innovations in AgriFoodTech and Sustainable Materials | The world of AgriFoodTech is buzzing. Startups are racing to innovate, creating solutions that tackle food waste, enhance sustainability, and redefine consumer experiences. In this landscape, two stories stand out: Zepto's meteoric rise in ... |
| 15.08.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Zepto secures fresh $340m, Bolt Threads goes public, ReFED has a new boss | Quick-delivery continues speeding ahead in India, the latest development being a mega-raise from Zepto that values the company at $5 billion. Elsewhere, food waste think tank ReFED got a new executive director, Impossible Foods opened a bri... |
| 01.08.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: osapiens nabs $120m for ESG tech, Impossible clears EU hurdle, layoffs at Deere | In what’s been an otherwise fairly quiet week, Germany’s osapiens, which makes ESG compliance tech, scored a Series B round. Smaller fundraises this week include restaurant tech company Batbox, insect protein startup Entocycle, and Millow, ... |
| 17.07.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Ben & Jerry’s Tour, Kids’ Protein Shakes & Blended Sausages | 5 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Ben & Jerry’s non-dairy ice cream tour, a cultivated seaf... |
| 01.07.2024 | JULIENNE BRUNO Scoops Gold in Free From Food Awards & World Dairy Innovation Awards | UK artisan vegan cheesemaker JULIENNE BRUNO is celebrating two significant wins for its Superstraccia®product, a soy and coconut-based fermented cheese, crafted for pizzas and salads.
The Superstraccia — which last year was added to menus a... |
| 01.07.2024 | Yili Received Four World Dairy Innovation Awards at the 17th Global Dairy Congress | LONDON, July 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The 17th Global Dairy Congress took place from June 25 to 27 in London, the United Kingdom. Themed "Healthy People, Healthy Planet", the Congress convened senior leaders of dairy companies, sch... |
| 19.06.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Cinnamon Miyoko’s, Vegan Euro 2024 & Fighting Florida | 5 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Upside Foods’ cultivated meat tasting in Florida, a fermented... |
| 17.06.2024 | Sparkling water companies: State of play | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
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| 13.06.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: EvodiaBio scores $7.5m, Microcaps raises $10m, Aleph Farm lays off 30% of staff | It was a rough week for cultivated meat. Israel’s Aleph Farms, a longtime trailblazer in the industry, announced it was laying off 30% of its staff, while over in the US, SCiFi Foods closed up shop entirely and various groups were up in arm... |
| 12.06.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: DoD v Cattlemen, Non-Dairy Footballers & Vegan in the Bronx | 6 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Alpro’s collaboration with Peter Crouch, a new alternative pr... |
| 16.05.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Hysata snags $111m for green hydrogen, Ocean 14 launches $200m+ fund | This week, green hydrogen startup Hysata raised a whopping $111 million and Rize bagged funds to decarbonize rice production. Elsewhere, the Ocean 14 Capital Fund announced more than $200 million in ocean health investment, and Uber scooped... |
| 03.04.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Oatly Jiggers, Flavoured Barista Milks & A Factory Farming Vote | 5 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers flavoured barista milks, Oatly’s new Jiggers, and Quorn’s sum... |
| 14.03.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: HeavyFinance lands $55m, Bezos Fund commits $60m to alt protein | One of the biggest funding rounds this week went to Lithuanian agrifinance platform HeavyFinance, while Bezos Earth Fund announced a $60 million commitment to improve alt protein. Meanwhile, Impossible Foods unveiled a brand refresh this we... |
| 13.03.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Kraft Dinner, Falafalcinis & Oat Milk Reese’s | 7 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers nutrition wins for plant-based meat, a ton of alt-dairy annou... |
| 15.02.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Spacegoods and Cellva raise new funds, Inspire Brands buys delivery tech startup | This week, functional mushroom brand Spacegoods, cultivated pork fat maker Cellva, and insect-breeding-as-a-service startup FreezeM announced new funding rounds. US restaurant giant Inspire Brands, which owns Arby’s, Dunkin’, and a host of ... |
| 18.01.2024 | Why Blended Meat is Not a BIG Idea | 4 Mins Read Marketing expert Irina Gerry argues that while blended meat, could meet niche consumer needs such as upgraded nutrition or improved flavor, it’s not a ‘big’ idea.
The concept of blended meat — combining plant-based ingredients w... |
| 17.01.2024 | Aleph Farms receives green light for its cultivated beef products | Dive Brief:
Aleph Farms was issued a “no questions” letter on Tuesday from the Israel Ministry of Health that granted it pre-approval for the sale of its cultivated beef steak products.
The letter deems Aleph’s product as safe to eat, marki... |
| 17.01.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Ben & Berry’s, Better Butter & A Covid-19 Study | 6 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Ben & Jerry’s new oat milk ice-creams, Beyond Meat’s new ... |
| 20.12.2023 | Future Food Quick Bites: Oat Milk Soap, New TiNDLE CEO & Plant-Based Diplomas | 8 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Beyond Meat’s giant Costco partnership, a new CEO for plant-b... |
| 08.11.2023 | Future Food Quick Bites: Dazzling Dairy, Amazing Awards & Poopy Water | 8 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers a host of plant-based dairy news, a bunch of awards and a Chi... |
| 26.10.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: URB-E pivots to last-mile delivery, GoodBytz bags $12m, a new fund for regen ag | This week, URB-E, a company best known for developing e-scooters, took a sharp left turn with both its business and its brand. And while funding rounds are low and slow of late, they nonetheless trickle in despite the tough economic times. ... |
| 18.09.2023 | Groundbreaking COLLAB Takes Over Iceland's Beverage Scene | Groundbreaking COLLAB Takes Over Iceland's Beverage Scene
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In an industry ripe for innovation, COLLAB has successfully disrupted the non-alcoholic beverage sector, unveiling an entirely new pro... |
| 10.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Bactolife raises $33m, FAO scoops up $27 million, irrigation tech in the spotlight | This week, Danish startup Bactolife raised funds to develop gut microbiome-strengthening proteins and the UN’s FAO scooped up funding from the EU for its Sustainable Wildlife Management program. CPG giant Campbell made a new acquisition, as... |
| 20.07.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Keurig Dr Pepper bets $300m on coffee, Simbe Robotics scores $28m | Big news this week came from CPG Keurig Dr Pepper, which scooped up a 33% stake in a coffee company, while several food robotics companies that raised new funding. Elsewhere, US-based CubicAcres raised funding and launched a partnership wit... |
| 25.05.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pluton Biosciences bags $16.5m, Babylon Micro-Farms secures funds, José Andrés launches climate institute | This week, agtech companies Pluton Biosciences and Babylon Micro-Farms raised funds for microbial cover crops and vertical farms, respectively. Celebrity chef José Andrés teamed up with a university for a new food and climate institute, and... |
| 04.05.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Maple Hill Creamery lands $20m, Michelle Obama’s new food brand, Agrii & Drone Ag team up | This week, organic, regenerative dairy company Maple Hill Creamery announced new funding, as did low-carb bread brand Hero Bread and others. Former First Lady Michelle Obama launched a food and bev brand for children. Agronomy service provi... |
| 13.04.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: ClimateAI raises $22m, Legit Group cooks up $13m, Farm.One reopens | This week, climate forecasting platform ClimateAI landed Series B funding and cloud kitchen startup Legit Group snagged Series A funds. Elsewhere, struggling Farm.One secured investment and reopened its farm in Brooklyn, and eGrocery startu... |
| 27.03.2023 | Exclusive: Former Outcast Foods CEO Darren Burke Named In Wrongful Termination Lawsuit Alleging Discrimination On The Basis Of Sex | 7 Mins Read Canadian foodtech entrepreneur Marissa Bronfman says that after being recruited as co-founder for a new biotech mycelium fermentation company, she was subjected to a sexist work environment and was terminated by former Outcast F... |
| 16.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Andes lands $30m to tackle carbon, THIS cooks up $18m, Leaf & AWS team up | This week, climate tech startup Andes bagged funding for its carbon removal technology, plant-based meat maker THIS announced Series B funding and Immi raised funds for plant-based ramen. In the world of ag data, two infrastructure provider... |
| 09.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Chromologics raises $7.5m, Next Gen Foods dabbles in alt-dairy, Amazon shutters Go stores | This week in foodtech, natural food color company Chromologics raised seed funding and Singapore’s Next Gen Foods acquired an alt-dairy startup. Agtech funding was all about ecosystem restoration projects, while down in Australia, a cultiva... |
| 16.02.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: GrainChain raises $29m, Brigad bags $30m, AeroFarms & iFarm head to MENA | This week, US-based GrainChain announced a $29 million raise for its ag supply chain platform, and hospitality tech startup Brigad landed $30 million. More vertical farming startups are headed to the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, ... |
| 09.02.2023 | The week in agrifoodtech: JOKR’s back with $50m, Plenty nabs $20m indoor ag grant, Mewery debuts microalgae meat | Despite ongoing setbacks for the instant grocery sector, JOKR returned to the headlines this week with new funding. Vertical farming startup Plenty was also in the news with a new grant for R&D. Czech startup Mewery put a new spin on th... |
| 04.02.2023 | Summit Plastics Invests in Flexible Packaging Producer Fredman Bag | Jan 23, 2023
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Summit Plastics, a US custom packaging manufacturer, has announced the acquisition of Fredman Bag Company.
Founded in 1889, Fredman specialises in custom flexible packaging, serving the food and... |
| 06.01.2023 | Leftovers: Kind softens its approach to granola; Hippeas takes on Doritos | Leftovers is our look at a few of the product ideas popping up everywhere. Some are intriguing, some sound amazing and some are the kinds of ideas we would never dream of. We can't write about everything that we get pitched, so here are som... |
| 08.12.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Grocery startup Oda bags $158m, new rounds for alt meat & restaurant tech | Despite losing its unicorn status, Norwegian online grocer Oda bagged a sizable round this week. Restaurant tech company MarginEdge and AgFunder portfolio company Black Sheep Foods also raised money, as did forest tech platform Gaia AI and ... |
| 04.11.2022 | Meet The Founder: InnovoPro’s Taly Nechushtan on why we need more versatile, clean-label ingredients | “We have an urgent responsibility to rethink and redefine agricultural yield and efficient utilization of crops and plant-based sources,” says Taly Nechushtan, CEO of ingredients startup InnovoPro.
For the last 25 years, she has launched pr... |
| 27.10.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Trigo’s $100m, Dutch gov’t backs cultivated meat, Bill Gates wants to decarbonize rice | This week, foodtech startup Trigo landed funds for its automated checkout system that lets shoppers purchase goods without waiting for a cashier. The Dutch government is allocating new funds to cultivated meat initiatives, and Bill Gates an... |
| 07.10.2022 | Moooving on up and out: Plant-based staff dismissals, JBS’s first ESG chief, Starbucks’ new CEO, more people moves | News moves fast in agrifoodtech, and high-profile job changes are no exception. To help keep everyone up to speed on the latest people moves in the world of food and ag, AFN now publishes a monthly column to compile all the significant move... |
| 29.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Food delivery’s latest unicorn, $80m for virtual restaurants, Pat Brown’s new venture | Thailand-based food delivery service Line Man Wongnai became the sector’s latest company to achieve unicorn status with a massive Series B round. Virtual restaurant/cloud kitchen startups like Not So Dark and CloudEats continue to rake in t... |
| 08.09.2022 | Blendtek partners with Bunge on plant protein ingredients | Dive Brief:
Ingredients specialist Blendtek signed a North American distribution agreement with commodities powerhouse Bunge. Through this agreement, Blendtek will offer Bunge’s soy, pea, faba, lentil and mung bean proteins — including conc... |
| 18.08.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Oatside secures $65m for Singapore’s first oat milk, input supplier iProcure scores $10m | Singapore’s first-ever oat milk brand Oatside made headlines this week with news of its sizable Series A round while iProduce landed funds to expand its input distribution tech across Africa. Fashion designer Stella McCartney is helping lau... |
| 17.08.2022 | 18 Chestnuts, Plant-Based Soups, Selected as Finalists for the World Plant Based Awards 2022 | We are honored to be included among such an impressive list of industry leaders and to be named a finalist in three very competitive categories.
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18 Chestnuts, a collection of distinctly nutritious and... |
| 05.08.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Vertical farmer Spread raises $30m, McWin launches $500m restaurant fund | Kyoto-based Spread set a record for foodtech funding in Japan this week with a Series A raise for its vertical farming operation. Investment firm McWin has launched a fund for restaurants, while Source Global bagged a late-stage round for i... |
| 28.07.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: FreshRealm, Kitchen United score mega-deals in a downturn, Arable raises $40m | Despite the current downturn in tech, FreshRealm landed a mega-deal recently, as did ghost kitchen network Kitchen United. In agtech, Normative bagged funds for its carbon reporting platform and old favorites like donuts and avocados are go... |
| 14.07.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Cruising Kitchens nets $100m, foodtech layoffs & shutdowns continue | The biggest funding round this week went to mobile kitchen manufacturer Cruising Kitchens, which counts Hard Rock Cafe, Whataburger, and the LA Dodgers among its clients.
But a growing number of foodtech headlines these days seems to be abo... |
| 28.02.2022 | Diageo launches regenerative agriculture pilot for Guinness production | Dive Brief:
Alcohol giant Diageo has announced the launch of a regenerative agriculture pilot for Guinness on barley farms in Ireland. It is a part of the company's larger sustainability push, Society 2030: Spirit of Progress, in which one ... |
| 04.01.2022 | TCI's Golden Formula Has Won the Best Plant-Based Functional Product in the World Plant-Based Awards 2021 | TAIPEI, Jan. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In recent years, there has been a global trend of plant-based health care, which is known as vegetarian food in Taiwan. In the World Plant-Based Awards, jointly organized by FoodBev Media and Plant Based... |
| 30.11.2021 | Equinom: “We Simply Need to Make the Most of the Wonders That Nature Has Designed Over Millions of Years” | Israel’s Equinom is a company with a clear mission: to ensure the supply of nutritious and affordable alt proteins for a sustainable future. This year, the company celebrated a $20 million Series C funding round to help achieve that goal.
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| 15.11.2021 | Prodigy: The UK’s First Vegan, Plastic-Negative, and Carbon Neutral Chocolate | The chocolate industry is notorious for its involvement in deforestation and other unsustainable practices. But UK brand Prodigy has set out to change that.
Following an agreement made at the COP26 Summit to end deforestation, UK Prime Mini... |
| 05.11.2021 | Verdino Green Foods raises growth equity to expand its plant-based meat alternatives business | Bucharest, Romania ~
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Romanian-founded Verdino Green Foods, a plant-based meat alternatives (PBM) company with an increasing presence in Central and Eastern Europe, raised growth equity to accelerate its growth in the local market a... |
| 21.10.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Biomilq banks $21m; AeroFarms scraps SPAC | Bio-breastmilk maker Biomilq, coffee innovator Cometeer, and farm produce platform WayCool were among the startups raising big-ticket rounds this week; while vertical ag company AeroFarms announced an end to its SPAC intentions – for now, a... |
| 13.10.2021 | Spanish Vegan Meat Pioneer Heura Enters Mexican Market Via 220 Retailers, Including Walmart | 1
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Heura, the Spanish plant-based meat startup, has brought its products to Mexico for the first time. Launching with a number of retail chains, including the world’s largest supermarket giant Walmart, the brand’s iconic ... |
| 10.09.2021 | Portuguese Conglomerate Sonae Acquires UK’s Gosh Food For £64M | Portuguese conglomerate Sonae has this week acquired Claybell Limited, owner of Gosh Food, known in the UK for its range of vegan sausages, burgers and falafels. The deal is reported to have taken place for around £64 million via Sonae Food... |
| 06.09.2021 | Cargill & AeroFarms talk indoor cocoa production | “Cocoa demand will continue to grow. Yields will have to go up. Obviously, weather patterns are changing, and so you have more erratic rainfall, maybe longer droughts. What can we do?”
Niels Boetje, managing director at Cargill Cocoa Europe... |
| 05.08.2021 | ‘An identity crisis’: Why PepsiCo is getting out of the fruit juice business | “In addition to unpackaged alternatives, such as home preparation of fruit smoothies and fresh or cold-pressed formats, there are simply far more beverage options available to consumers for their morning occasion,” said Telford. “Fruit juic... |
| 23.06.2021 | Heura raises €16M to accelerate the protein transition | Heura, the Mediterranean plant-based meat brand, has announced a €16M investment round led by Impact Fooding. Founded in 2017 by food activists Marc Coloma and Bernat Añaños, this is the Series A investment round by the Barcelona-based star... |
| 21.06.2021 | Has Peperami Misread the Market? Vegerami Hits Shelves in UK | Peperami, the UK meat snack owned by US beef jerky producer Jack Link’s, has entered into the meat-free category following the launch of its Vegerami range. The snacks are aimed at the vegetarian and flexitarian market as the new meat-free ... |
| 16.06.2021 | Motif FoodWorks raises $226m to tackle plant-based’s challenges with texture & taste | Alt-protein company Motif FoodWorks has raised $226 million in Series B funding. The round was jointly led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board — through its Teachers’ Innovation Platform — and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock.
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| 08.04.2021 | How To Make The Ultimate Vegan Charcuterie Board | The HIippie EX Charcuterie Board, roasted cauliflower, mushroom pâté, asparagus, shishito peppers ... [+] and eggplant caponata served at the Carboy Winery and Logan Street restaurant in Denver, Colorado.Denver Post via Getty Images |
| 02.04.2021 | Friday Foodtech Digest: Animal-free fat, bee-free honey & fish-free fish get funding | Nourish Ingredients banks $11 million to make animal-free fats (Australia). Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures and CSIRO-affiliated Main Sequence Ventures invested in the Canberra-based startup, which is using bacteria to produce fats and oils... |
| 20.01.2021 | Spirited away: How the alcohol-free trend is stirring up the liquor aisle | If you’ve found yourself wandering over to the liquor cabinet more than usual during the Covid-19 pandemic, you’re not alone. Alcohol sales in the US were up 54% in March 2020 compared to a year previously, while online sales skyrocketed ne... |
| 23.12.2020 | Adapt Or Die: Molson Coors Turns To Partnerships, Non-Alcoholic Beverages For Growth | Molson Coors has pushed into the non-alcoholic beverage category with the launch of several ... [+] innovations, inlcuding Huzzah and MadVine.Molson Coors Beverage Company |
| 10.12.2020 | Coca-Cola, Pepsi & Nestlé Worst Plastic Polluters For Third Year Despite Public Promises To Improve | 2
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Beverage giants Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestlé have again topped the list for being the world’s biggest polluters for the third year in a row, showing no progress despite a slew of sustainability claims and pledges the... |
| 01.09.2020 | Corporate innovation weekly: tiny satellites, plant recipes and lidar listings | Energy Electricity for emerging markets
Total Energy Ventures invested in the $12m Series A funding round for SparkMeter, a startup developing technology to help utility companies manage electricity distribution and billing in emerging mark... |
| 26.08.2020 | Vegan Gourmet Brand Sol Cuisine Closes $10M Financing Round, Launches into all Costco Canada | ©Sol Foods
Sol Cuisine, a leader in gourmet plant-based protein foods, recently closed a $10 million financing round. The company also announced Monday a partnership with Costco to distribute its Spinach Chickpea Bites into all locations ac... |
| 26.08.2020 | Vegan Gourmet Brand Sol Cuisine Closes $10M Financing Round, Launches into all Costco Canada | Sol Cuisine, a leader in gourmet plant-based protein foods, recently closed a $10 million financing round. The company also announced Monday a partnership with Costco to distribute its Spinach Chickpea Bites into all locations across Wester... |
| 13.08.2020 | UK Dairy Giant Launches New Milkshake Line “Shaken Other” as Dairy Continues to Turn to Plantbased | UK milkshake giant Shaken Udder announces the launch of its first dairy-free range, which will be marketed under the vegan-friendly sister brand Shaken Other. This follows a line of dairy producers turning to dairy-free products in order to... |
| 23.06.2020 | ‘The timing couldn’t be better’: Vending machines are entering a new golden age | These new attempts are far from the first to revolutionize vending-style food sales. From 2006 to 2009, New York’s Bamn! targeted college students in lower Manhattan with a lurid pink-toned automat format, seling late-night custard buns or ... |
| 15.06.2020 | Stockwell, the AI-vending machine startup formerly known as Bodega, is shutting down July 1 | Stockwell AI entered the world with a bang but it is leaving with a whimper. Founded in 2017 by ex-Googlers, the AI vending machine startup formerly known as Bodega first raised blood pressures — people hated how it was referenced and poorl... |
| 03.06.2020 | Dutch Fish Processing Company Takes over Plant-Based Brand Vegafit | Bobeldijk Food Group, the parent company for the Dutch plant-based company Vegafit, has been fully acquired by fish processing company, Kennemervis Groep, also based in The Netherlands. Financial details of the acquisition have not been dis... |
| 11.03.2020 | Upfield Debuts “Flora Plant” Whipping Cream for Food Service Industry | Upfield’s Flora brand debuts a a plant-based whipping cream for the UK foodservice industry. Upfield states that 100% plant-based Flora Plant whipping was developed to help chefs deal with increasingly complex consumer diets and that it “be... |
| 04.03.2020 | Daily funding roundup - March 4th, 2020 | Anagram raised $9.1M; FastForward.ai landed $8M; Membrion secured $6M
[Editor's note: Future of Behavioral and Mental Health with BetterHelp, Headspace, Ginger.io, Providence Hospitals, UnitedHealthcare Optum, Khosla Ventures, Oak HC/FT an... |
| 11.12.2019 | Corporate innovation weekly: seaweed, electric shocks and the “crazy rules” theory of success | Chemicals Weed-zapping farmbots
There’s an interesting challenge coming up for the $26bn global herbicide industry — two UK startups, Small Robot Company and RootWave, are developing an autonomous farmbot that can precision-zap weeds with e... |
| 10.12.2019 | Plant-Based Yogurt Is Being Milked For All That It’s Worth | Lavva yogurt is made not from dairy, but from the pili nut - a healthy alternative to traditional ... [+] dairy-based yogurts.Lavva |
| 18.10.2019 | UK’s Largest Pig Farmer Tulip Reveals “The Green Butcher” Line of Vegan Products | Tulip – The UK’s biggest pig farmer – has received continuous petitioning and protesting from animal rights activists over the years due to its inhumane practices. Now Britain’s largest producer of pork announces the launch of a vegan line ... |
| 08.09.2019 | Kite Hill, co-founded by the creator of Impossible Foods, looks to be gaining traction, too | Before he founded the plant-based burger company Impossible Foods, Patrick Brown, who spent 25 years as a biochemistry professor at Stanford, also co-founded a Hayward, Ca.-based food company called Kite Hill that has developed numerous nut... |
| 25.06.2019 | Oumph! Now Available in ASDA | Multi award-winning Oumph! today announced its expansion in the UK, with supermarket chain ASDA. Five Oumph! products are part of the initial launch, which will take place the week commencing 1st of July: Pulled Oumph!, Kebab Spiced, The Ch... |
| 15.04.2019 | Simply Good Jars tapped for New York-based food innovation accelerator | Simply Good Jars, makers of a line of jarred, ready-to-go meals stored in connected fridges, has been selected to join New York-based Food-X, an accelerator program for food-related startups.
The program, founded in 2014 and backed by Princ... |
| 15.03.2019 | Elmhurst Launches Hemp Creamer at Expo West | Elmhurst 1925 has brought the first hemp creamer to the North American domestic market. Formally a dairy farm, the New-York based company launched its original range of plant-based milks at the Natural Products Expo West in March 2017.
The ... |
| 05.03.2019 | Plant-Based Drinks Demonstrate Largest Growth Globally | Plant-based products are proving their worth globally by being one of the food and beverage categories showing the largest growth. Statistics are proving that the trends in milk production are showing the same patterns around the world; acc... |
| 04.02.2019 | Daily funding roundup - February 4th, 2019 | Aurora Solar raised $20M; Catalytic raised $30M; Sustainable Bioproducts raised $33M
Go-Jek: Go-Jek specializes in ride-hailing, logistics, and digital payments. Go-Jek has raised roughly $1 billion in funding at a valuation between $9 bill... |
| 31.01.2019 | Daily funding roundup - January 31st, 2019 | Avinew raised $5M; Stateless raised $11.3M; Augury raised $25M; MycoTechnology raised $30M
TRM Labs: TRM helps the leading crypto companies understand their users, grow fast, and stay compliant. TRM has raised $1.7 million in seed funding l... |
| 10.01.2019 | Meal Kit Startups Focus on Health & Fitness as UK’s Gousto and MindFul Chef Raise Combined £24m | It’s been a bumpy ride for many startup businesses offering meal kit delivery services — where they send customers pre-portioned ingredients to cook specific recipes at home each week.
The cost of attracting and retaining customers, and the... |
| 11.10.2018 | Daily funding roundup - October 11th, 2018 | June.ai raised $1.5M; Papa Technologies raised $2.4M; Paladin Cyber raised $3.6M; Coord raised $5M
June.ai: June.ai operates as a communication hub that replaces email. New York based company has raised $1.5 million in the bank from a group... |
