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| 17.06.2024 | As Bird Flu Threatens Cattle, Scientists Explore Cow-Free Milk Production Using Plants, Microorganisms | By John Lopez
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The outbreak of bird flu on US dairy farms has introduced new concerns about the safety ... |
| 16.04.2024 | Alpine Bio Announces Rebrand from Nobell Foods, Secures New Patent in Dairy Alternatives | Alpine Bio, formerly known as Nobell Foods, announces a significant development in its business and technology strategy, revealing a corporate rebranding and the acquisition of a new US patent. The company, which produces animal-free dairy ... |
| 16.04.2024 | Molecular farming startup Nobell Foods rebrands as Alpine Bio, secures 10th US patent | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Alpine Bio.]
Nobell Foods—a molecular farming startup engineering plants to produce animal proteins in what it claims is a more sustainable and ultimately more efficient m... |
| 12.04.2024 | Op Ed: Maya Sapir-Mir, PhD, CEO and Co-Founder of PoLoPo, on Growing Animal Proteins from Potatoes | Maya Sapir-Mir is CEO and co-founder of PoLoPo, a molecular farming pioneer producing proteins directly in common crops, beginning with egg protein (ovalbumin) grown in potatoes.
PoLoPo last year raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding and ... |
| 02.04.2024 | Casein… from potatoes? Molecular farming startup Finally Foods emerges from stealth | Finally Foods—an Israeli molecular farming startup producing dairy proteins in potatoes—has emerged from stealth with pre-seed funding from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub (TKH) by Strauss Group and the Israeli Innovation Authority.
Founded by Dr.... |
| 25.03.2024 | FoodTech 500: Plant-Based Companies Lead the Way in Forward Fooding’s Annual List of Food Innovators | 11 Mins Read Described as the “Fortune 500 of agrifood tech”, food tech consultancy Forward Fooding has released its 2023 FoodTech 500 list, with the highest number of companies belonging to the plant-based sector. Other alternative protein... |
| 20.12.2023 | Festive agrifoodtech vox pop part 1: From fundraising to hiring challenges, what keeps startups awake at night as we head into 2024? | As we approach 2024, what is keeping agrifoodtech startups awake at night? To find out, foodtech editor Elaine Watson fired off a few emails to companies she’s covered on AgFunderNews this year (apologies if you weren’t contacted, next year... |
| 19.10.2023 | Eden Brew aims to hit the market with animal-free ‘milk’ in 2025: ‘We’re wedded to a B2C strategy’ | Barely a month goes by without a new player entering the ‘animal-free’ dairy category, with a flurry of startups now producing whey and casein proteins via genetically engineered microbes or plants. But what will distinguish the winners fro... |
| 08.08.2023 | Alt Cheese Startup Nobell Foods Explores Climate Change’s Impact on the Future of Pizza | 4 Mins Read US molecular farming pioneer Nobell Foods has launched an ad campaign imagining the impact of climate change on the future of pizza. The Bill Gates-backed brand, which is developing animal-free cheese from soy-derived casein pro... |
| 02.08.2023 | Nobell Foods Launches Campaign Exploring Impact of Climate Change on the Future of Pizza | Nobell Foods, a US-based producer of cheeses made with animal-free dairy proteins, has launched a new campaign exploring how climate change could affect the production of pizza.
Called Pizza Futures, it consists of a report, limited-run mag... |
| 09.06.2023 | People moves: Ag CEO leads Bill Gates-backed rice venture, new CEO for Oatley, chef Marcus Samuelsson joins Aleph Farms | To keep us all up to speed on the latest people moves in agrifood, AFN publishes a monthly column of the industry’s biggest leadership changes.
Are you in a new role or company? Know someone who has left? Drop me a line to share the details... |
| 05.06.2023 | Women entrepreneurs are a missed opportunity in venture capital. Here’s how investors and policymakers can change that | Dr. Ashlie L Burkart, MD is the chief scientific officer at Germin8 Ventures, a venture capital firm that impact invests in the food and agricultural domain, and an associate at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and Interna... |
| 07.04.2023 | People Moves: Impossible Foods vet joins Nobell, cheers to Diageo’s first female CEO, FDA head to retire | To keep us all up to speed on the latest people moves in agrifood, AFN publishes a monthly column of the industry’s biggest leadership changes.
Are you in a new role or company? Know someone who has left? Drop me a line to share the details... |
| 16.03.2023 | In a tough year for fundraising, upstream startups ‘solving big problems’ are the most defensible | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder.
“I don’t even remember 2021!” AgFunder partner Manual Gonzalez declared from the stage this week at the AgFunder 2023 Global Report special briefing in San Francisco.
Gonzalez, along with Winnie... |
| 01.02.2023 | Who were the most active food and agriculture technology venture capital firms in 2022? | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder, a food and agriculture technology venture capital firm.
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| 15.06.2022 | Want To Invest Like Bill Gates? These Are The Alternative Protein Companies He Has A Stake In | 4 Mins Read
Bill Gates is a repeat investor in the alternative protein sector. He has cited the industry as crucial to helping solve the climate crisis, with alternatives to animal agriculture heralded as essential developments. Not one to ... |
| 22.03.2022 | AgFunder captures increasing, urgent investor demand for agrifoodtech with $60m Fund IV first close | Disclosure: AgFunder is AFN’s parent company.
AgFunder, one of the world’s most active investors in foodtech and agtech startups, has increased its assets under management to $160 million – 10x in two years – with the first close of its fou... |
| 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... |
| 10.01.2022 | New Year, New Fund, New Opportunities in Bio + Health | 2021 saw higher than ever funding of startups, continued maturation of the tech-enabled bio and healthcare landscape, and new platforms and business models that propelled growing levels of adoption and scale amongst both upstarts and tradit... |
| 23.11.2021 | BREAKING: ADM, Kraft & Dr Oetker back bovine-free mozzarella maker New Culture in $25m round | US alt-dairy startup New Culture has raised $25 million in Series A funding to bring its bovine-free mozzarella product to market.
Founded in 2018 by CEO Matt Gibson and chief scientific officer Inja Radman, New Culture is using precision f... |
| 23.11.2021 | ADM, Kraft & Dr Oetker back bovine-free mozzarella maker New Culture in $25m round | US alt-dairy startup New Culture has raised $25 million in Series A funding to bring its bovine-free mozzarella product to market.
Founded in 2018 by CEO Matt Gibson and chief scientific officer Inja Radman, New Culture is using precision f... |
| 30.09.2021 | Brief: Perfect Day raises $350m, plots IPO – report | US alt-dairy startup Perfect Day has raised $350 million in Series D funding, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board co-led the round. Other Series D investors includ... |
| 20.09.2021 | Miyoko’s Creamery CEO on $52m funding, federal court victory & vegan cheese fails | “Vegan cheese has been the laughing stock of the food industry because it has been crap,” Miyoko Schinner tells AFN. “It’s fake food for the most part and we need to turn that around. We need to make real cheese out of real food ingredients... |
| 13.09.2021 | Formo nets $50m for animal-free cheese fermented from microbes | German alt-dairy startup Formo has raised $50 million in Series A funding, it announced in a company statement today.
The Series A round was led by Sweden’s EQT Ventures, with Elevat3 Capital, Lionheart Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, and Ha... |
| 02.09.2021 | Stockeld Dreamery raises $20m Series A funding to expand plant-based cheese lineup | Swedish startup Stockeld Dreamery has raised €16.5 million ($19.5 million) in Series A funding to advance its alternative cheese business.
Food- and ag-focused VC Astanor Ventures and early-stage investor Northzone led the round, which also... |
| 26.08.2021 | AgFunder raises $21m for New Carnivore alt-protein fund from ADM, Alexandria & others | Disclosure: AgFunder is AFN’s parent company.
Agrifoodtech VC AgFunder has announced the final close of New Carnivore, its alternative protein fund, on $21 million.
The fund was oversubscribed, surpassing its hard cap.
ADM Ventures, the VC ... |
| 19.08.2021 | From cows, to microbes, to plants… the brave new world of animal-free dairy: In conversation with Nobell Foods | On paper, microbes might seem to have the edge over plants and animals from an efficiency perspective as they multiply fast in the right conditions, while R&D development cycles are much shorter (stakeholders can determine pretty quickl... |
| 27.07.2021 | Nobell Foods Scores $75M Series B Round |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Nobell Foods has secured a $75 million Series B financing round.
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| 24.07.2021 | Ironman Joins Bill Gates in $75M Round For Startup Making Stretchy Vegan Cheese From Soybeans | 3 Mins Read
Alt-dairy startup Nobell Foods has just bagged $75 million in a new Series B round, led by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures. The startup, until now operating under stealth mode, programs soybeans to produce casein, the i... |
| 23.07.2021 | Got a top MBA and started a company? Here’s the potential opportunity cost of that decision | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 22.07.2021 | Nobell Foods: Plant-Based Casein For Realistic Vegan Cheese Endorsed by Robert Downey Jr Raises $75M | Plant-based cheese company Nobell Foods has raised $75 million in a Series B funding round. Founded by Lebanese entrepreneur Magi Richani, the San Francisco-based startup claims to have unlocked the secret to stretchy, realistic vegan chees... |
| 22.07.2021 | Plant-based cheesemaker Nobell Foods nets $75m from a16z, AgFunder & Breakthrough Energy | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company AgFunder is an investor in Nobell Foods.
Alt-protein startup Nobell Foods has raised $75 million in a Series B round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) – the climate-focused investment group founded b... |
