| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.12.2025 | Why the chocolate in your holiday candy could be ‘fake’ this year | Unpredictable cocoa markets have prompted some candy makers to rethink how they’re sourcing chocolate.
While some products are seeing their coca content reduced, others are foregoing cocoa altogether.
Startups that make cocoa alternatives t... |
| 03.07.2025 | Can chocolate substitutes step in as cocoa prices soar? | Listen to the article 5 min
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As cocoa prices soar, chocolate substitutes offer a cheaper and potentially more sustainable solution for the sweets sector. But can consumer... |
| 03.07.2025 | Coffee Alternative Startup Founded by Former Alpro Exec Closes Pre-Seed Funding Round | Koppie, a Belgian startup developing a coffee alternative using locally-sourced legumes and fermentation, has closed a pre-seed funding round. The round was led by Nucleus Capital, with participation from Mudcake, Rockstart, and various ang... |
| 18.03.2025 | As Coffee And Chocolate Prices Surge, Startups Scale Up Alternatives | 2 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
In my world, chocolate and coffee are two of the main substances that make life worth living. So it’s a big deal to see tighter supplies and higher prices for both commodities.
Chocolate lovers in pa... |
| 06.03.2025 | Europe’s Crossroads: The Quest for Peace in Ukraine | The world watches as Europe stands at a critical juncture. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has transformed the continent's political landscape. Leaders gather, strategizing to forge a path toward peace. The stakes are high, and the implicat... |
| 05.03.2025 | The Cost of Climate Change: 6 Foods You Love Are About to Get More Expensive | 7 Mins Read Climate change is already disrupting food supplies across the world, causing shortages and raising prices for consumers – here are six staples under threat.
For those who find it sexy, your morning mocha could be in trouble. Or ... |
| 28.01.2025 | Pluri's Bold Leap into Sustainable Chocolate: A Game Changer for the Food Industry | In a world where sustainability is the new gold standard, Pluri Inc. is making waves. The Israeli biotechnology firm has secured a $6.5 million investment and is acquiring a majority stake in Kokomodo, a company specializing in cell-based c... |
| 27.01.2025 | Israeli Cell Ag Innovator Pluri Raises $6.5M, Announces Lab-Grown Cocoa Startup Acquisition | 4 Mins Read Israel’s Pluri has secured a $6.5M investment and entered the cell-based chocolate space with the impending purchase of a majority stake in Rehovot-based Kokomodo.
After innovating with cultivated meat and lab-grown coffee, Haif... |
| 25.01.2025 | The Beanless Revolution: Atomo Coffee's Bold Leap into the Future of Coffee | In the bustling world of coffee, a quiet revolution brews. Atomo Coffee, a Seattle-based startup, is leading the charge with its innovative beanless coffee blend. With a recent $7.8 million funding boost, Atomo is poised to expand its reach... |
| 24.01.2025 | Atomo Brews Up $7.8M Fundraise to Expand Café Collaborations with 50:50 Beanless Coffee Blend | 4 Mins Read Seattle startup Atomo Coffee has raised $7.8M in Series B funding to ramp up sales of its 50:50 beanless coffee blend via international partnerships.
A leader in the bean-free coffee space, Atomo has secured $7.8M from investors... |
| 04.01.2025 | Foodtech Funding: A Resilient Landscape in 2024 | The foodtech sector is a battleground. In 2024, it faced headwinds. Economic uncertainty loomed large. Yet, like a phoenix, it rose from the ashes. Startups showcased resilience. They navigated a landscape riddled with challenges. Venture c... |
| 30.12.2024 | 2024 Wrapped: The Top 10 Future Food Funding Rounds of the Year | 4 Mins Read While investment in alternative protein and future food startups has fallen again this year, there have still been some sizeable VC funding rounds. These are the 10 biggest raises of 2024, featuring mycelium meat, animal-free mi... |
| 06.12.2024 | Planet A Foods Bags $30M Investment to Take Cocoa-Free Chocolate Global | 5 Mins Read German food tech player Planet A Foods, which makes cocoa-free chocolate, has raised $30M in a Series B funding round to expand across Europe, the US and Asia.
To take its cocoa-free chocolate business to the next level, Planet ... |
| 28.10.2024 | Voyage Foods to open Ohio cocoa-free manufacturing facility | Listen to the article 3 min
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Cocoa-free chocolate provider Voyage Foods is opening a 284,000-square-foot facility in Mason, Ohio, to produce cocoa-free chocol... |
| 23.10.2024 | The Future of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production: Innovations in Indonesia and the U.S. | In the world of agriculture, change is the only constant. As climate change looms and biodiversity dwindles, innovative solutions are sprouting up across the globe. Two recent projects, one in Indonesia and the other in the United States, s... |
| 22.10.2024 | US Govt Loans $25M for Voyage Foods to Build Large Cocoa-Free Chocolate Factory | 4 Mins Read US food tech startup Voyage Foods is set to open a large-scale manufacturing facility for its ethical pantry staples, aided by a $25M loan from the government.
Recognising the vulnerability of the global cocoa supply, the US Dep... |
| 20.10.2024 | The Rise of AgriFoodTech: A New Era of Sustainable Innovation | The world of AgriFoodTech is buzzing. It’s a landscape ripe with innovation, where sustainability meets technology. Companies are racing to transform how we produce and consume food. This week, the headlines overflowed with exciting develop... |
| 17.10.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Blue Stripes, Nukoko land rounds for alt chocolate, OroraTech snags deal for wildfire detection | Foodtech headlines this week contained more chocolate than a jumbo bag of Ghiradelli Squares. Blue Stripes and Nukoko both announced fundraises, while Voyage Foods announced a massive new manufacturing facility.
Elsewhere, climate-focused c... |
| 16.10.2024 | Voyage Foods Opens $25M USDA-Backed Facility, Targeting 10,000 Metric Tons of Cocoa-Free Chocolate Annually | Voyage Foods, a food technology company based in Oakland, California, is set to expand its manufacturing operations with a new facility in Mason, Ohio.
The plant, spanning 284,000 square feet, will be used to produce the company’s cocoa-fre... |
| 05.10.2024 | The Future of Chocolate: Fava Beans vs. Cocoa in a Warming World | The chocolate industry is at a crossroads. Climate change is wreaking havoc on cocoa crops, pushing prices to record highs. As cocoa futures plummet, the search for alternatives intensifies. Enter Nukoko, a UK startup that is transforming f... |
| 04.10.2024 | Döhler Backs Fava Bean Chocolate Maker As Climate Change Eats Up Cocoa Crops | 4 Mins Read German food manufacturing specialist Döhler has invested in UK startup Nukoko to scale up its bean-to-bar cocoa-free chocolate, ahead of a market launch in 2025.
This month, cocoa futures in the UK dropped by 16%, marking a rare... |
| 18.09.2024 | Plant Based World Expo North America Sees Record Attendance From Buyers | Plant Based World Expo North America took place for the fifth time on September 11-12 at the Javits Center in New York City.
This year’s event saw a record-breaking number of buyers in attendance, representing sectors such as food service, ... |
| 12.09.2024 | Ingredients in Focus: Sugarcane crops on fire | Listen to the article 5 min
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Brazil, the world’s lea... |
| 14.08.2024 | Cargill Seeks Profitability with Business Split and Alternative Protein Focus | US agribusiness giant Cargill reportedly plans to split its business into three operating units instead of the current five: Food, Ag & Trading, and a Specialised Portfolio focused on animal nutrition and health.
According to Reuters, C... |
| 01.08.2024 | Ingredients in peril due to climate change | Listen to the article 4 min
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Commodities like coffee, cocoa, and olive oil have faced highly publicized supply chain woes in recent months. Some companies have even gone ... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Rise of Beanless Coffee: A Sustainable Shift in the Beverage Industry**
** | ** The coffee industry is facing a storm. Climate change is threatening the very existence of coffee as we know it. With rising temperatures and unpredictable weather patterns, the future of arabica coffee is uncertain. Enter Voyage Foods, ... |
| 22.07.2024 | Voyage Foods Debuts Beanless Coffee for Cafés and Brands, and It’s 40% Cheaper | 5 Mins Read Now available for commercial partners, Californian ethical pantry startup Voyage Foods’ beanless coffee is 40% cheaper than conventional options.
Voyage Foods has begun offering its bean-free coffee to cafés, restaurants and CPG... |
| 17.07.2024 | Voyage Foods Launches Bean-Free Coffee for Food Service & CPG, Underpricing Traditional Coffee | Voyage Foods, a US company developing future-proof alternatives to the world’s favorite foods, has launched bean-free coffee for food service and the food manufacturing industry.
The coffee alternative is made from roasted chickpeas and ric... |
| 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... |
| 11.06.2024 | Voyage Foods Launches its Peanut-Free Butter & Hazelnut-Free Nutella Dupe in Bulk on Amazon | Voyage Foods announces the availability of its allergen-friendly peanut-free butter and hazelnut-free spread (self-described as a Nutella dupe) in foodservice-sized tubs on Amazon.
These products are designed to cater to the needs of small ... |
| 31.05.2024 | Meet the founder: Voyage Foods’ Adam Maxwell on futureproofing the chocolate supply chain | Looking at cocoa prices over the last few years, there’s a fair bit of volatility, says Voyage Foods founder Adam Maxwell. But if you normalize the curve, he says, they’re just going in one direction (spoiler alert: it’s up). And in the l... |
| 21.05.2024 | Voyage Foods to lean into $52 million Series A round | OAKLAND, CALIF. — Voyage Foods, a maker of peanut-free spread, chocolate without cacao and coffee without coffee beans, has raised $52 million in a Series A round. The startup’s total funding exceeds $94 million, according to the company.
T... |
| 11.05.2024 | Voyage Foods: Leading the Way in Sustainable Food Innovation | Voyage Foods, a cutting-edge food innovation company based in California, has recently secured a substantial $52 million in funding, bringing their total raise to an impressive $94 million. This funding round, co-led by Level One Fund and H... |
| 09.05.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Voyage Foods raises $52m, ArkeaBio bags $27m, a ‘regulation-free’ zone for biotech | Funding rounds were abundant this week, including a raise by chocolate-free cocoa maker Voyage Foods, ag biotech startup ArkeaBio, and several players in southern Asia.
Speaking of Asia, South Korea has designated a “regulation-free” zone f... |
| 09.05.2024 | Voyage Foods Secures $52M for Future-Proof Allergen-Free Foods, Bringing Total Raise to $94M | Californian food innovation company Voyage Foods has secured $52 million in a funding round, bringing the total amount it has raised to $94 million. The round was co-led by Level One Fund and Horizons Ventures, with participation from SOSV,... |
| 09.05.2024 | Voyage Foods Closes $52M Series A+ Round After Notching Cargill Partnership | 4 Mins Read Ethical pantry company Voyage Foods, famous for its cocoa-free chocolate and nut-free spreads, has secured $52M in a Series A+ funding round, weeks after signing a commercial deal with Cargill.
Voyage Foods, which says it makes ... |
| 22.04.2024 | Futureproofing your Morning Joe? Atomo opens ‘beanless’ coffee roastery in Seattle | [Disclosure: AgFunder, parent company to AgFunderNews, is an investor in Atomo.]
Atomo—maker of the ‘world’s first beanless espresso’—has opened a 33,547sq ft roastery in Seattle capable of producing four million pounds of ground ‘coffee’ a... |
| 11.04.2024 | Voyage Foods Pens Deal with Cargill to Expand Cocoa-Free Chocolate & Nut-Free Spreads | 5 Mins Read Californian ethical pantry startup Voyage Foods has signed a commercial deal with food conglomerate Cargill to scale up the production and distribution of its cocoa-free chocolate and nut-free spreads.
Cargill has announced a co... |
| 08.04.2024 | Cargill and Voyage Foods Partner to Upscale Confectionery Without Cocoa, Nuts, and Dairy | Cargill has announced a commercial partnership with Voyage Foods — a California-based food tech company that creates spreads and chocolates free from cocoa, nut, and dairy — to offer sustainable alternatives to popular sweet favorites.
With... |
| 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... |
| 29.01.2024 | Voyage Foods Secures $22M in Funding, as LCA Claims It Makes the ‘Most Sustainable Chocolates Ever’ | 5 Mins Read Californian CPG startup Voyage Foods, which makes ethical and eco-friendly pantry staples, has raised $22M in funding, and released the results of a life-cycle assessment that shows its cocoa-free chocolate produces up to 88% fe... |
| 09.10.2023 | From on-farm fertilizer production to upcycled coffee grounds to replace alkalized cocoa, two circular economy startups to watch | From sugary wastewater from food production facilities to brewers’ spent grains and used coffee grounds… scores of so-called ‘waste’ streams are now being upcycled into a new generation of products.
On the farm, meanwhile, enterprising star... |
| 28.02.2023 | A Strategy To “Future-Proof” Some Of Our Favorite Foods | We shouldn't take the future supply of treats like these chocolate peanut butter cups for grantedgetty |
| 24.01.2023 | Coffee and Chocolate Drive Deforestation and Human Rights Violations. Can the Industries Change? | 8 Mins Read The world loves coffee and chocolate. But both are linked to two big problems: deforestation and ongoing human rights violations. What will it take for the industries to change their ways for good?
Both coffee and chocolate are ... |
| 11.07.2022 | Voyage Foods – Selling Artificial Flavors in 2022 by Alexander Gornyi | The post was originally published in Russian on Startup of the Day. Alexander kindly agreed to republish what we think is of great value to our readers.
Boomer’s line of thinking. True, natural ingredients are expensive these days, and the... |
| 01.06.2022 | Voyage Foods CEO: ‘If you look at cocoa and coffee prices over the last 20 years, they’re going in one direction’ | “You'll see Voyage Foods branding on the front and back of the label,” says founder and CEO Adam Maxwell, who was speaking to FoodNavigator-USA after raising $36m in a series A round led by funds managed by UBS O'Connor and Level One... |
| 06.05.2022 | Voyage Foods Raises $36M In Series A Funding | Vojage Foods, an Oakland, CA-based food technology company, raised $36M in Series A funding.
The round, which brings total funding to date to $41.7M, was led by UBS O’Connor and Level One Fund, with participation from Horizons Ventures, SOS... |
| 06.05.2022 | BREAKING: Tomorrow Farms lands $8.5m to develop next-gen pantry staples | Right on the cusp of announcing its first product, New York-based food tech company Tomorrow Farms has announced an $8.5 million seed round to recreate refrigerator and pantry staples with healthier ingredients.
The round was led by Lowerca... |
| 05.05.2022 | Voyage Foods lands $36m Series A funding, first product launch planned for Q2 2022 | The round was co-led by funds managed by UBS O'Connor and Level One Fund with participation from Horizon Ventures and Social Impact Capital.
Wanting to help "future-proof" the food system by creating more economically- and enviro... |
| 05.05.2022 | Voyage Foods gets $36M investment to scale up | Dive Brief:
Voyage Foods, the California-based company that has reverse-engineered chocolate, peanut butter and coffee, closed a $36 million Series A investment round. It was co-led by UBS O'Connor and Level One Fund. Horizons Ventures, SOS... |
| 05.05.2022 | Voyage Foods Lands $36M Series A Round |
OAKLAND, CA, Voyage Foods today announced a $36 million Series A round.
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Voyage Foods, the leading foo... |
| 05.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Zepto bags $200m, Stanford launches climate change school | This week, Indian “instant delivery” e-grocer Zepto got closer to unicorn status with its Series D fundraise, while Colombia’s RobinFood raised funds to expand its ghost kitchen network across Latin America. Elsewhere, cultivated leather st... |
| 05.05.2022 | Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, a Saudi prince, and other investors have agreed to pour $7.1B into Elon Musk’s deal for Twitter | 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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| 18.02.2022 | Voyage Foods: The Company Making Chocolate, Peanut Butter And Coffee Without Cacao, Peanuts or Labour Scandals | 4 Mins Read
Budding Californian CPG Voyage Foods has emerged from stealth development to announce the successful reverse engineering of certain favourite foods. The food tech is focussed on reproducing items considered unsustainable, allerg... |
| 01.09.2021 | Chocolate minus cocoa? Peanut butter minus peanuts? Voyage Foods wants to ‘decouple’ food from its source material to ease negative environmental, social implications | The founder of food-tech startup Voyage Foods says he has found a way to do just that by using patent-pending technology that can recreate any non-fibrous food with real ingredients at an accessible price and without negative environmental... |
| - | Новости foodtech за пять минут: лазерный принтер для еды, дисплей, передающий вкус блюд, топ фудтех-изобретений 2021 | Всем привет! Открываем новый сезон с дайджестом самых интересных событий фудтех-индустрии за последнее время. В Японии разработали дисплей, передающий вкус еды. TikTok запускает свою сеть темных кухонь. Студенты печатают сырую курицу на 3D-... |
| - | Voyage Foods | “Voyage Foods was born out of a deep hunger to harness the power of technology to secure the future of our favorite foods, from Nut-Free Spreads to Cocoa-Free Chocolate & Bean-Free Coffee.” |
