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| 20.05.2025 | Midwest US Retail Chain Hy-Vee Adds Blackbird’s Plant-Based Pizzas Across 88 Stores | Plant-based food manufacturer Blackbird Foods has expanded its retail distribution with the rollout of its frozen New York-style pizzas in 88 Hy-Vee supermarket locations across the US Midwest. The pizzas, made in New York City, are availab... |
| 17.02.2025 | Blackbird Foods: Ahimsa Companies Continues Vegan Acquisition Spree with Frozen Pizza Maker | 3 Mins Read New York-based Blackbird Foods has been acquired by Ahimsa Companies, a holding company with several sustainable protein startups in its roster.
Frozen plant-based food maker Blackbird Foods has been acquired by Ahimsa Companies... |
| 07.01.2025 | What Does the FDA’s Labelling Guidance Mean for Plant-Based Meat? | 5 Mins Read The FDA has updated its draft guidance for vegan meat, egg and dairy labelling, suggesting companies place an emphasis on the plant-based sources that make up the product.
‘Chickpea meatballs’ is a more favourable term than ‘pla... |
| 08.10.2024 | The UK’s Bold Leap into Cultivated Meat: A Regulatory Revolution | The UK government is stepping into the future of food with a £1.6 million investment aimed at revolutionizing the cultivated meat industry. This move is not just a financial commitment; it’s a declaration of intent. The establishment of a r... |
| 08.10.2024 | Nuggs Maker Simulate Bought By Ahimsa Companies After Period of Uncertainty for the ‘Tesla of Chicken’ | 5 Mins Read Vegan chicken startup Simulate, famous for its Nuggs, has been acquired by Ahimsa Companies to get the business back on track after months of (dis)quiet.
Simulate, the plant-based meat brand known for its meme-famous Nuggs, has ... |
| 07.10.2024 | Simulate Announces Acquisition by Ahimsa Companies | Simulate, the company best known for producing plant-based nugget brand NUGGS, has announced an acquisition by plant-based investor Ahimsa Companies.
As reported by Axios, Simulate required significant capital and opted to find a buyer rath... |
| 25.06.2024 | “Largest” Blind Taste Test Reveals Insights on Plant-Based Meat Preferences | A comprehensive blind taste test has revealed that plant-based nuggets outperform their animal-based counterparts, according to a new report. The study, conducted by Food System Innovations (FSI) under its NECTAR initiative, claims to be th... |
| 25.06.2024 | Most Plant-Based Products Fall Short of Meat-Eaters’ Taste Expectations, Finds Analysis | 8 Mins Read Most plant-based meats underperform on the taste front for omnivores, and blended meat could be a potential game-changer, detailed sensory analysis has found.
Vegan meat analogues need to be spicier, smokier, sweeter, darker, ju... |
| 14.06.2024 | Mez Foods turns to mesquite as skyrocketing cocoa prices drive interest in choc alternatives | Cocoa prices are currently in the stratosphere, with an imbalance between supply and demand exacerbated by everything from volatile weather to pests and disease, illegal mining and land degradation, aging trees, and investor speculation.
An... |
| 15.11.2022 | Vegan Chicken: Why It’s Better For The Environment, The Animals, And For Us Too | 13 Mins Read
Whether it’s fried, roasted, boiled, or barbecued, in many countries around the world, chicken is a big deal. It’s the most-loved meat in the US, where, on average, Americans eat more than 200 pounds of it every year. In Europe... |
| 02.09.2022 | Simulate launches Strips and Cutlets with an eye on foodservice | Dive Brief:
Plant-based chicken maker Simulate is launching two new products: Strips and Cutlets. These products use high moisture extrusion to create a more fibrous product, which is similar to the texture of animal meat.
Strips, which are... |
| 01.09.2022 | SIMULATE targets restaurants with new simulated chicken products | Alternative protein startup SIMULATE, known for its NUGGS and TENDERS, is introducing two new versions of its plant-based, simulated chicken product aimed at restaurants.
STRIPS are similar to grilled chicken, while CUTLETS mimic the kind o... |
| 30.08.2022 | Here are the 25 fastest-growing direct-to-consumer brands, according to monthly traffic and Q2 growth from Similarweb data | Simulate, Bad Birdie, and Sunski were among Similarweb's 25 fastest-growing DTC brands in the second quarter. Better Booch; Loisa; Dormify; Gussi; Patch; Simulate; Anna Kim/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers.... |
| 06.01.2022 | Aqua Cultured Foods: “Using Biological Processes to Solve Large Systematic Issues is Going to Be Paramount” | Chicago’s Aqua Cultured Foods has developed the first whole-muscle cut sushi-quality seafood through microbial fermentation. The young company, founded only in 2020, closed an oversubscribed round in October in the largest ever pre-seed rou... |
| 30.09.2021 | Data Snapshot: Alt-protein, functional foods raise record $1.4bn in H1 2021 | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
Startups developing innovative food and ingredients, including alt-proteins, raised a total of $1.4 bil... |
| 22.09.2021 | Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Aleph Farms & Mosa Meat | US actor Leonardo DiCaprio has invested in Israel’s Aleph Farms and the Netherlands’ Mosa Meat, the cell-cultured meat startups announced in a joint statement.
“One of the most impactful ways to combat the climate crisis is to transform our... |
| 12.09.2021 | Why Alexis Ohanian gave a second chance and funding to plant-based meat startup Simulate | This is an installment of Why I Invested, a series featuring famous investors from all different backgrounds and industries, revealing what inspired them to invest their own money in a new business.
As a successful tech founder and investor... |
| 01.09.2021 | 15 emprendedores que construyeron negocios millonarios con menos de 27 años | September 1, 2021 15+ min read
Cada año, Entrepreneur comparte una cartera de emprendedores jóvenes y prometedores que están haciendo grandes cosas. El grupo de este año está haciendo que el mundo sea más amable y divertido. Desde nutrición... |
| 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 ... |
| 24.08.2021 | How 15 People in Their 20s Built Million-Dollar Businesses | August 24, 2021 15+ min read
This story appears in the September 2021 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Every year, Entrepreneur shares a portfolio of young, up-and-coming founders who are doing big things. This year's group is making the ... |
| 18.06.2021 | Brief: Jay-Z fund backs plant-based NUGGS maker Simulate | Marcy Venture Partners, a VC firm founded by music moguls Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter and Jay Brown alongside Walden Venture Capital‘s Larry Marcus, has invested in plant-based protein startup Simulate, Bloomberg reports.
New York-based Simulate —... |
| 08.06.2021 | What the Tuesday morning internet outage tells us | 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.
A lot of high-traffic websites had a bad morning Tuesday, and there’s a good chance you ran into ... |
| 08.06.2021 | SIMULATE Announces $50M Series B and Receives Valuation Of Over $250M | New York’s SIMULATE, which started life under the name of its first product NUGGS in 2019, today announces $50 million in Series B funding, making a total raise of $60 million, in a round which valued the company at more than $250 million. ... |
| 16.12.2020 | ‘Tesla Of Chicken’ Food Tech SIMULATE Launches New Plant-Based Discs | 1
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SIMULATE, the New York startup behind the tech-forward plant-based NUGGS, has just launched its newest product – a vegan chicken patty dubbed DISCS. Known as the “Tesla of Chicken”, the food tech describes its operatio... |
| 25.11.2020 | 50 Healthy Snacks And Sips For The Holidays And New Year | Alex’s Awesome Sourdough |
| 30.07.2020 | Why we invested in SIMULATE | Editor’s Note: Earlier this year we launched our New Carnivore Fund to invest in the massive potential for alternative protein products. To learn more about our investment thesis for this space you can read our whitepaper here. Since then, ... |
| 22.07.2020 | SIMULATE Raises $11M to Reinvent the Food System | As we reported last week, Nuggs founded a new parent company, Simulate, to go beyond the vegan chicken nugget and innovate further plant-based alternatives. Following a recent article by AlleyWatch, the US company is about to repair a broke... |
| 16.07.2020 | Nuggs Raises $4.1M, Says “Food System is in Need of Complete Reinvention”, is Already Reinventing the Hot Dog | According to Food Dive, the plant-based chicken startup Nuggs received $4,1 million in investments and has founded its new parent company Simulate to expand the product range beyond the plantbased chicken nugget. By taking this step, Nuggs ... |
| - | I'm a 22-year-old founder who raised more than $57 million for my startup. Here's how I landed investors like Alexis Ohanian. | Ben Pasternak. Courtesy of Ben Pasternak This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Ben Pasternak is the cofounder of Simulate, a food-tech company based in New York. In June 2021 he... |
| - | McCain Foods gobbles up minority stake in Dublin-founded plant-based frozen foods producer Strong Roots at $55 million | Dublin-founded maker of plant-based frozen foods Strong Roots and global frozen potato product brand McCain Foods have entered a strategic partnership that will see McCain invest $55 million in Strong Roots, thereby assuming a minority stak... |
