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| 30.10.2025 | Darko Mandich Appointed Managing Director of BEAM Circular Accelerator, Announces Open Applications for Next Cohort | The BEAM Circular Accelerator, a program focused on promoting circular bioeconomy innovation, has appointed Darko Mandich as its new Managing Director. Mandich, previously the co-founder and CEO of MeliBio, brings extensive experience in th... |
| 14.08.2025 | Is Precision Fermentation the Next Big Bet for Future Protein Investors? | Once just a humble food-preserving method behind kimchi, miso, and tempeh, fermentation is now at the centre of one of the most promising developments in alternative proteins: precision fermentation. This cutting-edge twist on an ancient pr... |
| 27.05.2025 | MeliBio’s Bee-Free Honey Technology Acquired by Swiss Foodtech FoodYoung Labs | MeliBio, a California-based developer of plant-based honey alternatives, has been acquired by FoodYoung Labs, a Switzerland-headquartered foodtech company specializing in vertically integrated food innovation. The acquisition includes MeliB... |
| 20.05.2025 | Big Idea Ventures Acquires Investment Platform Vevolution | Vevolution, the platform connecting startups and innovators in the bioeconomy with impact investors and corporate partners, has been acquired by Big Idea Ventures.
Claiming to be the world’s most active investor in food technology, Big Idea... |
| 21.04.2025 | Neat Burger to Close All UK Locations, Citing Financial and Operational Challenges | Neat Burger, the vegan restaurant chain co-founded by Sir Lewis Hamilton and Leonardo DiCaprio, has announced the closure of all its UK locations, marking the end of its six-year run in the country, as reported by The Sun. The closures, whi... |
| 08.04.2025 | Expo West 2025 Tried & Tasted: Our Favourite Future Food Eats | 11 Mins Read From animal-free egg salad to a milk alternative made from corn, here are the future food products that stood out most to our expert reviewer at Expo West 2025.
It’s that time of year again: when Anaheim, California is packed w... |
| 06.03.2025 | Pow.Bio Opens New Facility With AI-Enabled Continuous Fermentation Capabilities | Pow.Bio, a company known for its biomanufacturing solutions, has announced the opening of a new 25,000 square foot facility in Alameda, California.
The plant has production facilities equipped with AI-enabled continuous fermentation capabil... |
| 12.02.2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Beyond x NBA, Corn Milk & Carbon Crackers | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Beyond Meat’s new products and cookbook, the US’s first corn milk brand, and a cultivated seafood tasting. New pr... |
| 11.02.2025 | MeliBio aims for profitability by year end as it ramps up bee-free honey business in US | MeliBio, a California-based startup developing honey without bees, says it is on course to reach profitability by the year end as it ramps up sales in the US market.
“In 2024 we went from 10 stores to 400, and to get to profitability we nee... |
| 05.02.2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Hot Honey, Dairy-Free February & Earthshot Prize | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Eleven Madison Park’s new vegan hot honey and Kite Hill’s post-Veganuary dairy-free campaign. New products and la... |
| 27.11.2024 | CULT Food Science Congratulates Venture Arm Companies on Recent Achievements | CULT is uniquely positioned to benefit from early investments into leading cellular agriculture and lab grown meat companies
Toronto, Ontario, November 27, 2024 / CNW / CULT Food Science Corp. (“CULT” or the “Company”) (CSE: CULT) (OTC: CUL... |
| 01.11.2024 | Cultivated Meat, Lab-Grown Cotton Make It to Time’s Best Inventions of 2024 List | 5 Mins Read Time Magazine has recognised a cultivated meat technology as one of the year’s best inventions, alongside lab-grown cotton and an AI platform for functional plant-based ingredients.
As further proof of the technology’s potential... |
| 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... |
| 24.10.2024 | MeliBio Bags Pre-Series A Investment to Expand Bee-Free Mellody Honey | 4 Mins Read Californian food tech startup MeliBio has secured a “strategic investment” as part of a pre-Series A round to accelerate the growth of its vegan honey.
As it makes inroads on its precision-fermented honey, San Francisco-based Me... |
| 18.09.2024 | MeliBio Secures Patent for Plant-Based Honey in Germany, Bee-Free Products to Reach More EU Consumers | San Francisco-based MeliBio announces it has secured a utility model registration for its “Plant-Based Honey Composition” from the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA).
The registration protects the company’s novel method of replicatin... |
| 18.09.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Uggs, Plant-Based Stroopwafels & Beer from Pasta Waste | 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 Alpro’s new flavoured barista milk, vegan footwear wins, and ... |
| 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... |
| 16.07.2024 | Lewis Hamilton-Backed Neat Features MeliBio’s Bee-Free Hot Honey Sando | MeliBio, a bee-free honey producer, has announced that Neat, a prominent plant-based restaurant chain supported by Lewis Hamilton and Leonardo DiCaprio, has introduced a new menu item featuring MeliBio’s honey product, Mellody. The new dish... |
| 11.07.2024 | CULT Food Science Venture Arm Company MeliBio Earns Fast Company Accolade and Provides Growth Updates | Melibio achieved record breaking sales in June for their bee-free honey, which continues to grow in popularity
Toronto, Ontario, July 11, 2024 / CNW / CULT Food Science Corp. (“CULT” or the “Company”) (CSE: CULT) (OTC: CULTF) (FRA: LN0), a ... |
| 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... |
| 30.05.2024 | CULT Food Science Provides Update on Global Investment Portfolio | Strategic seed and Series A investments into cellular agriculture and lab grown meat companies position the Company on leading edge of foodtech
Toronto, Ontario, May 30, 2024 / CNW / CULT Food Science Corp. (“CULT” or the “Company”) (CSE: C... |
| 08.05.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Cultivated Pepperoni, Odd Burger & A Vegan Pub | 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 Mission Barns’ newest cultivated meat, Waitrose’s whole-food ... |
| 20.03.2024 | MeliBio Partners with Pow.Bio to Advance Bee-Free Honey Through Precision Fermentation | MeliBio, a pioneering company in the production of bee-free honey, today announces a strategic collaboration with Pow.Bio to escalate precision fermentation capabilities.
This partnership is set to further innovate the production of high-va... |
| 13.03.2024 | Expo West 2024: The Most Exciting Alt-Protein & Future Food Launches | 4 Mins Read With tens of thousands of people flocking to the Anaheim Convention Center this week for Natural Products Expo West, we look at some of the standout plant-based and future food products being unveiled at the trade show.
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| 12.03.2024 | MeliBio’s Mellody Unveils Spicy Habanero, Expanding Plant-Based Honey Range | Mellody, a plant-based honey brand under the umbrella of MeliBio, has introduced Spicy Habanero, a new addition to its lineup. This month, the product will be showcased at the National Products Expo West in California and the International ... |
| 06.03.2024 | CULT Food Science Applauds Regulatory Approval of Cultivated Beef and Provides Portfolio Company Updates | TORONTO, March 6, 2024 /CNW/ - CULT Food Science Corp. ("CULT" or the "Company") (CSE: CULT) (OTC: CULTF) (FRA: LN0), a pioneer in the investment, development, and commercialization of cellular agriculture technologies a... |
| 10.01.2024 | Exclusive: Bee-free honey startup MeliBio raising $10M Series A | Food tech startup MeliBio is raising a $10 million Series A that will bring the bee-free honey maker to profitability, CEO Darko Mandich tells Axios exclusively.
Driving the news: MeliBio and Narayan Foods today announced a four-year, $10 m... |
| 09.01.2024 | MeliBio and Narayan Foods to Launch Vegan Honey at ALDI-Owned Hofer Stores Through Private Label Deal | MeliBio, a US-based producer of vegan honey, has partnered with organic food producer Narayan Foods to launch bee-free honey at ALDI-owned Hofer stores in Europe.
The private-label deal will see the plant-based honey sold under the name Veg... |
| 09.01.2024 | Honey… without bees? MeliBio rolls out plant-based alternative in Austria and Switzerland with ALDI | MeliBio, a California-based startup developing honey without bees, is rolling out its first products in partnership with Slovenian food maker Narayan in the UK, Switzerland, and Austria in the first part of a $10m, four-year deal to reach 7... |
| 08.12.2023 | Op Ed: Darko Mandich, CEO of MeliBio, Discusses the Dark Side of the Honey Industry | Darko Mandich, as many of our readers will know, is the CEO of MeliBio, the Californian pioneer of bee-free honey. Founded in 2020, MeliBio replaces honeybees with microorganisms to create an award-winning B2B solution for restaurants and 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... |
| 15.12.2022 | The week in agrifoodtech: NotCo scores $70m, HealthKart’s mega-round, new funding for Winter Farm | Another week, another funding round for Chilean foodtech startup NotCo. But it wasn’t the only company to land funding during this downturn. Nutrition platform HealthKart secured a mega-round, while indoor farming and restaurant tech both s... |
| 29.11.2022 | MeliBio Raises $2.2M in Funding | MeliBio, an Oakland, CA-based company focused on creating honey without bees, raised $2.2M in funding.
Backers included Collaborative Fund, Siddhi Capital, new investor The Greenbaum Foundation led by Jim Greenbaum, executive producer of Th... |
| 13.07.2022 | MeliBio Partners with San Francisco’s BAIA to Debut Exclusive Bee-Free Honey Menu | MeliBio, a startup making real honey without bees, announces its groundbreaking honey is now available at San Francisco’s BAIA restaurant for a limited time. From July to September, guests at BAIA can order the startup’s award-winning honey... |
| 24.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: African startups Apollo, Wasoko & ThriveAgric close big-ticket rounds | This has been a watershed week for African agrifoodtech, with a string of startups from the continent closing eight and nine-figure US dollar rounds over the past few days. Kenya’s Wasoko and Apollo Agriculture raised $125 million and $40 m... |
| 21.03.2022 | XRC Labs Announces Cohort 13 | XRC Labs In Cohort 13, we have some exceptionally strong founders who address white spaces in the market with a truly unique approach. They uphold shared values like inclusivity and sustainability and demonstrate growing customer traction.
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| 18.03.2022 | MeliBio raises $5.7M for bee-free honey | MeliBio, a company developing honey made without bees, has raised $5.7 million in a seed round led by Astanor Ventures. The funds will be used in part to launch MeliBio's first line of commercial products
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| 17.03.2022 | MeliBio Scoops $5.7 Seed Funding To Keep The Buzz Going For Real Honey Made Without Bees | 1
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California’s MeliBio has closed a successful seed round with $5.7 million invested for its bee-less honey made without bees led by Astanor Ventures, with some existing backers doubling down and new names coming on boar... |
| 17.03.2022 | MeliBio Raises $5.7M In Seed Funding | MeliBio, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based food-tech company focused on creating real honey without bees, raised $5.7M in seed funding.
The round was led by Astanor Ventures, with participation from existing investors Big Idea Ventures and 18... |
| 17.03.2022 | MeliBio Secures $5.7 Million in Seed Funding to Disrupt Global Honey Industry | MeliBio, the world’s first company making real honey without bees, announces a $5.7 million seed funding raise to commercialize its first line of bee-free honey. The seed round, led by Astanor Ventures, brings the startup’s total funding to... |
| 17.03.2022 | MeliBio’s honey production, minus the bee, will have you buzzing | MeliBio is turning the 9,000-year-old method of honey production on its head, taking out the bee and injecting precision fermentation and plant science.
Darko Mandich, a former bee-honey industry executive, and Aaron Schaller, a scientist a... |
| 19.12.2021 | Plant Based World Expo NYC: The 11 Best Vegan Foods We Tried | 11 Mins Read
What was it like attending the Plant Based World Expo in New York City? Green Queen tried it all and there were so many great vegan foods it was hard to pinpoint the best, but we narrowed it down to these.
After spending the fe... |
| 06.12.2021 | Cellular agriculture & emerging markets: Just because we can, does it mean we should? | Saron Berhane is an agrifoodtech entrepreneur based in Sydney, Australia.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of AFN.
Alt-protein is taking the food world by storm. Plant-ba... |
| 26.10.2021 | Who Has The Right To Stop Evolution? Darko Mandich is on The Plantbased Business Hour | CEO and Co-founder of Melibio, Darko Mandich joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss making honey without the bees and why this is mission critical. Listen in to learn about the secret life of bees and plant-based and fermented ... |
| 01.10.2021 | Giving Bees a Break: MeliBio Unveils World's First Real Honey Made Without Bees | MeliBio, Inc. the company using proprietary technology to make real honey without bees has unveiled its first product: world’s first real honey made without bees as a plant-based ingredient for B2B customers and foodservice.
This press rele... |
| 01.10.2021 | Honey... without bees? MeliBio unveils first product at tasting event, gears up for commercial launch | The company - which is taking orders from foodservice and B2B customers for deliveries starting from the end of 2021, and the beginning of 2022 – hosted a tasting this week for 100 members of climate tech, food tech and investor communities... |
| 01.10.2021 | Exclusive: We Tasted the World’s First Real Honey Made Without Bees From MeliBio and We Couldn’t Taste the Difference | 1
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Californian food tech MeliBio has just unveiled its flagship product, the world’s first-ever real honey made without bees. After debuting the product at a private tasting event in San Francisco, MeliBio is now ready to... |
| 31.03.2021 | MeliBio Raises $850,000 to Launch Real Honey Made Without Bees | US startup MeliBio has raised $850,000 in its pre-seed funding round. The funding will allow it to further develop and soft-launch its bee-free honey. Investors in the round included Big Idea Ventures, Joyance Partners, 18.ventures, and oth... |
| 30.03.2021 | Making Honey Without Bees: MeliBio Raises $850,000 Pre-Seed Round | MeliBio, Inc., the startup making real honey without bees, has today announced the closing of $850,000 in the pre-seed round funding.
The company, founded in 2020 by Aaron Schaller, PhD and Darko Mandich is developing a proprietary technolo... |
| 30.03.2021 | ‘Real honey, without bees...’ Vegan honey startup MeliBio raises pre-seed round, gears up for soft launch | MeliBio – which is in talks with potential partners from several countries and expects further commercial product rollout in the first half of 2022 - has raised funds from Big Idea Ventures, Joyance Partners, 18.ventures, Sparklabs Cultiv... |
| 21.10.2020 | Вкус, текстура и вязкость настоящего мёда: американский стартап MeliBio разработал прототип синтетического мёда Статьи редакции... | Аналог пчелиного мёда может преуспеть на рынке веганской продукции, который в 2018 году оценивался в $14,2 млрд.
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| 14.10.2020 | MeliBio: This Remarkable Food Tech Is Making Real Honey Without Bees | 1
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While many food techs have been working on sustainable alternatives for meat, eggs and dairy, there perhaps hasn’t been as much innovation focused on honey – an often overlooked food that vegans avoid due to ethical an... |
| 02.10.2020 | Real honey… without bees? Berkeley-based startup MeliBio gears up for launch in late 2021 | While the ethical and environmental rationale behind seeking alternatives to industrial-scale egg and dairy production is perhaps easier to understand, there are also compelling arguments for seeking alternatives to commercial-scale honey p... |
| 28.09.2020 | Alt Protein conference highlights: ‘We’ll see more change in the next 10 years than we’ve seen in the last 10,000’ | The report's apocalyptic predictions “seemed outlandish,” when it first came out, said Ryan Bethencourt, co-founder of petfood brand Wild Earth, partner at Babel Ventures and co-founder at IndieBio, a biology accelerator and early stage ... |
| 11.08.2020 | Meet The 12 Next-Gen Food Techs Transforming The Future Of Protein | 1
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Today (August 11), Big Idea Ventures (BIV) announces the launch of its second food technology accelerator program in New York City and Singapore. This year’s cohort includes 12 early-stage startups working in the plant... |
