| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.10.2024 | Enifer Breaks New Ground as First Nordic Firm to Seek Novel Food Approval for Mycoprotein | Finnish biotech company Enifer announces that it has applied for regulatory approval from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to sell its flagship ingredient, PEKILO, in the EU. The company claims to be the first Nordic company to app... |
| 17.10.2024 | The Better Meat Co. Expands to Asia with Singapore Approval for Rhiza Mycoprotein | California’s The Better Meat Co. (BMC) announces it has received approval from the Singapore Food Authority to sell its flagship, single-ingredient Rhiza mycoprotein in the country.
The approval confirms that Neurospora crassa, the fungi ge... |
| 03.10.2024 | Austrian Vegan Seafood Startup Opens ‘World’s Largest’ 3D-Printed Food Factory | 4 Mins Read Revo Foods has opened what it says is the world’s largest factory dedicated to 3D-printed food, rolling out an updated whole-cut mycelium salmon fillet as the facility’s first product.
Austrian alternative protein startup Revo F... |
| 01.10.2024 | PETA Warns US Meat Companies to Learn from Mistakes of Tobacco Farmers and “Get Out Now!” | PETA is urging five major US meat companies—Hormel Foods, Cargill, Smithfield Foods, Tyson Foods, and Oscar Mayer—to shift their focus from animal-based products to vegan alternatives, following the example set by one of Italy’s oldest meat... |
| 09.09.2024 | Beyond Meat: Why Alt-Meat Maker is Going Beyond Plant-Based to Embrace Mycelium for Clean-Label Steak | 6 Mins Read Beyond Meat will soon launch a fermentation-derived mycelium steak to address consumer demand for clean-label products, with a likely launch through a health-focused restaurant chain.
One of the world’s most famous meat analogue... |
| 06.09.2024 | The Rise of Mycelium: A New Era in Meat Alternatives | The landscape of meat alternatives is shifting. At the forefront of this transformation is mycelium, the root structure of fungi. Companies like Beyond Meat and Meati Foods are harnessing this powerful ingredient to create products that pro... |
| 05.09.2024 | Beyond Meat Unveils Plans to Launch a Mycelium Steak Alternative | Beyond Meat has plans to launch a mycelium-based whole-cut steak alternative, responding to growing consumer demand for clean-label alternatives, reports CNBC.
President and CEO Ethan Brown said that the new filet would roll out in a health... |
| 29.08.2024 | The New Wave of Meat: A Look at Applegate Farms and The Better Meat Co. | The meat industry is evolving. Traditional practices are being challenged by innovative companies like Applegate Farms and The Better Meat Co. Both brands are carving out their niches in a world that increasingly values sustainability and h... |
| 29.08.2024 | The Better Meat Co: US Government Grants $1.5M to Mycoprotein Maker for New Factory | 4 Mins Read California’s The Better Meat Co has received $1.5M from the US Department of Defense to scale up its manufacturing capacity via a new mycoprotein facility.
US food tech startup The Better Meat Co has won $1.48M in a grant from t... |
| 28.08.2024 | The Rise of Alternative Proteins: A New Era in Food Innovation | The world is changing. Our plates are evolving. The rise of alternative proteins is not just a trend; it’s a revolution. Governments and companies are investing heavily in this new frontier. The UK and the US are leading the charge, each wi... |
| 28.08.2024 | The Better Meat Co. awarded $1.4M grant from US Defense Department | Listen to the article 3 min
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The Better Meat Co. is receiving a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Defense Department to increase the production of Rhiza. The c... |
| 26.08.2024 | US Defense Department Backs The Better Meat Co. with $1.4M for Advanced Biotech Development | The Better Meat Co., a food tech company based in Sacramento, has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the United States Department of Defense (DoD) as part of the Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Program (DBIMP). This funding will... |
| 17.08.2024 | The Organic Illusion: Rethinking Our Food Choices | In the world of food, choices abound. We are often told that organic is the gold standard. But is it really? Paul Shapiro, CEO of The Better Meat Co, challenges this notion. He argues that organic farming may not be the environmental savior... |
| 16.08.2024 | Op Ed: Paul Shapiro, CEO of The Better Meat Co – Plant-Based is Paramount; Organic is Overrated | Paul Shapiro is the CEO of The Better Meat Co, producer of ‘Rhiza’ mycoprotein for blended products which recently received FDA no-questions GRAS approval. In 2018, he wrote the book Clean Meat, on the then-burgeoning subject of what was th... |
| 24.07.2024 | Mycelium Meat: Meati’s ‘Mushroom Root’ Claim Hit with False Advertising Lawsuit by Consumers | 4 Mins Read Colorado-based food tech startup Meati has been accused of false advertising over its use of ‘mushroom root’ in a class-action lawsuit.
Weeks after concluding a lengthy court battle with The Better Meat Co, mycelium meat produce... |
| 11.07.2024 | The Better Meat Co. Receives FDA GRAS ‘No Questions’ Letter for Rhiza Mycoprotein | California’s The Better Meat Co. (BMC), a B2B supplier of mycoprotein, announces that it has received the FDA’s “no questions” letter, confirming that its Rhiza mycoprotein, derived from the mycelium of the fungi genus Neurospora crassa, is... |
| 27.06.2024 | Quorn CEO on Blended Meat: ‘It Doesn’t Matter How People Join the Meat Reduction Journey’ | 7 Mins Read Quorn Foods is entering the blended meat category as part of foodservice and hospital offerings – its CEO Marco Bertacca explains why the mycoprotein giant is doing so.
British meat-free leader Quorn Foods’ mycoprotein will be m... |
| 26.06.2024 | Quorn’s Mycoprotein is Going to Be Blended with Animal Pork. Here’s Why This is a Good Thing. | First of all, to be clear, hybrid products are no new thing and have existed for years, both successfully and unsuccessfully. As a publication specialised solely in the vegan business niche, we have widely avoided the topic of products cons... |
| 11.06.2024 | The Better Meat Co. Slashes Mycoprotein Cost, Targeting Price Parity with Beef | California’s The Better Meat Co., a B2B company harnessing biomass fermentation and fungi to make sustainable alternatives to animal proteins, announces it has “dramatically” reduced the cost of its flagship ingredient, mycoprotein Rhiza.
T... |
| 23.05.2024 | Enifer's Groundbreaking Journey: A New Era in Mycoprotein Production | Enifer, a pioneering Finnish biotech startup, has recently made waves in the protein industry by securing an impressive €36 million in funding. This substantial investment is set to fuel the construction of a state-of-the-art mycoprotein fa... |
| 23.05.2024 | Biomass fermentation space heats up as Enifer raises $39m to scale mycoprotein plant in Finland | Finnish startup Enifer has raised €36 million ($39.1 million) from a mix of debt and equity to fund a large-scale facility growing a source of mycoprotein that was first commercialized as animal feed 50 years ago.
The funding package includ... |
| 03.05.2024 | Maia Farms Revolutionizes Protein Production with Mycelium Innovation | Maia Farms, a visionary company, secures $2.3 million in pre-seed financing to expand mycelium protein production, leading the charge towards a sustainable and nourishing future. With investors like Joyful Ventures and grant funding from to... |
| 02.05.2024 | Brief: Maia Farms raises $1.7m in pre-seed round to expand mycelium production | Maia Farms—which bagged the Canadian grand prize in the Deep Space Food Challenge with partner Ecoation last month—has raised CAD2.3 million ($1.7 million) in pre-seed financing from a mixture of private capital and grant funding to fuel it... |
| 10.04.2024 | To boldly go… fueled by mycoprotein & greens: Maia Farms and Ecoation win Canadian grand prize in Deep Space Food Challenge | Vancouver-based Maia Farms and Ecoation have bagged the grand prize from the Canadian Space Agency and Impact Canada in the Deep Space Food Challenge with a growing system for mycelium and fresh produce capable of producing 700kg of fresh f... |
| 15.03.2024 | The Kraken: Revo Foods Releases the World’s First Vegan Octopus | 7 Mins Read Revo Foods has today launched the world’s first vegan octopus for retail, using its patented 3D-printing technology to transform fungi into a seafood analogue beloved by many, and one being increasingly unethically farmed.
Six m... |
| 11.03.2024 | TIME’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2024 Recognizes The Better Meat Co., Rebellyous Foods, Prime Roots & More | TIME Magazine together with Statista, a leading statistics portal, recently unveiled America’s Top GreenTech Companies in 2024, recognizing 250 firms leading the charge in sustainability and environmental stewardship.
Among these, FoodTech ... |
| 14.08.2023 | Mycelium Meat: 8 of the Best Brands Turning Fungi Root into Whole-Cut Steak, Chicken, Bacon & Deli Meats | 6 Mins Read Mycoprotein – essentially mycelium created from microscopic fungi – has already been on plant-based radars for decades, with Quorn being the world’s first producer of meat alternatives made from the ingredient. Now, a host of st... |
| 27.07.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Builders Vision to invest $1.1bn in climate, Walmart & other corporates expand regen ag | Agrifoodtech funding this week was rather abysmal in terms of the number of deals announced. But there were plenty of new funds, including a $1.1 billion climate-focused one from VC Builders Vision. Meanwhile, Israeli startups and investors... |
| 25.07.2023 | Oshi and The Better Meat Co. Receive $1M Joint Grant to Develop Fish-Free Salmon Fillets | Alt protein startups Oshi (the company formerly known as Plantish) and The Better Meat Co. announce the two companies have jointly been awarded a USD $1M grant from the BIRD Foundation.
Intended to promote R&D that mutually benefits bot... |
| 09.06.2023 | OpenAI’s Sam Altman backs Cambridge-based Uncommon in €28M round to create better meat without antibiotics | Cambridge-based Uncommon (formerly Higher Steaks), a cultivated meat startup, announced on Friday that it has secured $30M (approximately €28M) in a Series A round of funding led by Balderton Capital and Lowercarbon.
Other investors include... |
| 08.05.2023 | EXCLUSIVE: My Food Job Rocks! Adam Yee teams up with Gainful cofounder Eric Wu to launch ‘Asian comfort food’ brand Sobo Foods | “If you look in the Asian section of the frozen food aisle, it’s kind of a wasteland when it comes to better-for-you products,” observes Eric Wu, cofounder of Sobo Foods, a startup emerging from stealth with $1 million in funding. As for br... |
| 12.04.2023 | Talking with Future Ventures about its new fund, AI hype, and Siri sucking (still) | For a firm whose bets are largely unpredictable, the early-stage venture firm Future Ventures has become very formulaic in its fundraising.
Now entering its fifth year, the firm just closed a $200 million fund – its third in a row. In fact,... |
| 03.03.2023 | The Better Meat Co. Joins Invest.Green as Newest Member | PORTLAND, Ore. (PRWEB) March 03, 2023
The Better Meat Co. is a Sacramento-based sustainable food tech start-up founded in 2018. As a business-to-business ingredients provider, it pioneers new ways of producing animal-free protein via fermen... |
| 21.12.2022 | Maple Leaf Foods partners with The Better Meat Co. to develop mycelium products | Dive Brief:
Canadian meat and plant-based giant Maple Leaf Foods signed a joint development agreement with fermented protein maker The Better Meat Co. to create potential alternative products with Better Meat’s Rhiza protein.
Better Meat fo... |
| 08.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: $40m for crop intelligence, using tobacco for cultivated meat, Netherlands’ meat ads ban | This week, crop intelligence platform Taranis secured more capital for its aerial imagery and AI tech and BioBetter landed funds to turn tobacco into growth factors for cultivated meat. Online grocer Motatos bagged new capital, Uber and Nur... |
| 15.05.2022 | EXCLUSIVE: Targeting protein ‘transition’ over ‘disruption,’ NewFish nets funds for algae-based products | New Zealand startup NewFish has emerged from stealth and closed NZ$1.3 million ($816,000) in funding to advance its range of “reimagined” local seafood items that incorporate both plant and animal proteins.
Investors in the pre-seed round i... |
| 11.05.2022 | How Does The Vegan Sausage Get Made? Behind The Scenes at The Better Meat Co. | Don’t you want to know how the vegan sausage is made?! Join Elysabeth Alfano on a live guided tour of The Better Meat Co.’s mycelium plant with Paul Shapiro on The Plantbased Business Hour. After the tour, Elysabeth tastes The Better Meat C... |
| 21.04.2022 | Motif FoodWorks hits back at Impossible Foods in heme patent spat | Last month, AFN reported that Impossible Foods had sued Motif FoodWorks in a US federal court for alleged infringement of one of its patents relating to the use of heme in plant-based meat replacement products.
Now, Motif has struck back wi... |
| 07.04.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Umiami grabs $30m for alt-chicken, funding for forest tech grows | France’s Umiami took a step closer to commercializing its whole-cut vegan chicken breast this week with the close of an Astanor Ventures-led Series A round.
Elsewhere, two startups raised funds for their reforestation-focused tech, while th... |
| 05.04.2022 | The Better Meat Co Introducing Mycelium Based Foie Gras | The Better Meat Co. is to introduce a foie gras analog based on mycelium. The California-based fermented meat specialist becomes the latest to enter the alt foie gras market, as consumers and lawmakers continue to shun the highly cruel deli... |
| 11.03.2022 | Meati Foods & The Better Meat Co. Lawsuit Escalates Over Mycelium | Update 11th March, comment sent by Paul Shapito of Better Meat Co: ” No one claims (Gus Pattillo) was ever employed by Meati. The dispute relates to when Pattillo was on a 2017 fellowship at the Dept. of Energy at the same time the founders... |
| 09.03.2022 | Fungi-Based Startups Meati Foods And The Better Meat Co Intensify Legal Dispute | 3 Mins Read
Two fungi-based alternative meat manufacturers are accusing each other of legal transgressions. Colorado-based Meati Foods, founded in 2015, claims that a former employee went to work for California’s The Better Meat Co, founded... |
| 04.03.2022 | Alt meat legal dispute heats up as fungi-fueled startups Meati Foods and The Better Meat Co square up over IP | Based in Colorado, Meati Foods (formerly known as Emergy Foods), was founded in 2015 by engineers Dr Tyler Huggins and Dr Justin Whiteley, who initially focused on the potential of filamentous fungi to create infinitely renewable batterie... |
| 30.09.2021 | The Miracle of Mycoprotein: Paul Shapiro of The Better Meat Co. is on The Plantbased Business Hour | Mycoprotein: what is it and why? I chat with Paul Shapiro AND take a tour of the new mycoprotein plant recently opened by The Better Meat Co. We’ll learn how the superfood fungi Rhiza is changing the alt protein landscape on The Plantbased ... |
| 20.08.2021 | Vegan Steak in a US Steakhouse “For the First-Time Ever” | Diners in Sacramento, CA, will have the opportunity this Saturday to enjoy an animal-free steak in a traditional American steak house. In a one-off event, Bennett’s American Cooking will serve a Rhiza mycoprotein steak made by the Better Me... |
| 11.06.2021 | Better Meat Co. Announces Mycoprotein Fermentation Facility in Sacramento | The Better Meat Co., a producer of plant protein ingredients, announced the opening of a new fermentation plant that will produce Rhiza, the company’s new mycoprotein superfood ingredient. The first brand in agreement to use the ingredient ... |
| 08.06.2021 | Introducing Rhiza: The Better Meat Co completes construction of 'substantial' mycoprotein production facility in Sacramento | Founded in 2018, The Better Meat Co currently supplies ‘drop-in’ solutions combining plant-based proteins, fibers, fats and flavors designed to blend seamlessly into ground meat products at inclusion rates of 30-50% to create a new wave o... |
| 03.02.2021 | How Does the Market Reward Innovation and Efficiency? Paul Shapiro of the Better Meat Co. Weighs In | CEO of The Better Meat Co. and author of Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, Paul Shapiro joins Elysabeth Alfano on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss 1) why blended plant-based/meat hy... |
| 17.08.2020 | The meat industry needs to take a page from the Impossible Foods playbook | Editor’s note: Based in Arizona, US, Janette Barnard is the author of Prime Future, a weekly newsletter on trends and tech enabling animal protein value chains. Sign up here. This article represents the views of the author, and not necessar... |
| 05.08.2020 | The Better Meat Co. closes $8.1 million seed round | SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Food tech startup The Better Meat Co. closed an $8.1 million seed round, bringing its total amount raised since launching in 2018 to $9.7 million.
The ingredients company supplies plant protein formulas to meat companie... |
| 28.07.2020 | Better Meat Co gets $8.1m to ‘enhance’ animal products with its plant-based protein | The Better Meat Co has raised $8.1 million in a seed round co-led by US funds Greenlight Capital and Green Circle Foodtech Ventures, a division of Green Circle Capital.
Also participating in the fundraise were US sausage maker Johnsonville ... |
| 28.07.2020 | The Better Meat Co. closes $8.1m seed round as hybrid trend combining animal- and plant-based proteins gathers pace | The round was co-led by Greenlight Capital and Green Circle Foodtech Ventures; while Johnsonville Holdings (parent company of Johnsonville Sausage), and Lever VC also participated, said The Better Meat Co co-founder and CEO Paul Shapiro,... |
| 01.06.2020 | Why COVID-19 is making food and agriculture collaboration more vital than ever | COVID-19 created major, unforeseeable problems for food and agriculture startups. Foodservice and some retail sales channels disappeared overnight. Laboratories and manufacturing plants shut down. Venture funding agreements fell though. In ... |
| 11.05.2020 | What’s With Blended Meat? (It’s certainly not vegan, but maybe there’s method to the madness?) | When I first heard about the concept of hybrid or ‘blended’ meat, I laughed. It seemed like a lazy attempt by Big Food manufacturers to stay relevant without too much effort. A way to hedge their bets and see where this little plant based f... |
| 11.10.2019 | 8 questions with FoodBytes! Chicago pitch startup The Better Meat Co. | FoodBytes! Chicago stormed the windy city with a variety of innovations including everything from printed sensors to fight food waste to a closed-loop system for local salmon. The plant-based trend made a strong showing at the event, as wel... |
| 26.09.2019 | WATCH: Hybrid products could capture a significant chunk of the protein market, predicts The Better Meat Co | The Better Meat Co – one of 15 companies pitching at Rabobank’s FoodBytes! competition in Chicago last week - makes plant-based proteins that “blend seamlessly into ground meat products” at inclusion rates of 30-50%, and reckons hybrid... |
| 20.09.2019 | LocalCoho, Tia Lupita Foods, and Capro-X take top prizes at FoodBytes! Chicago 2019 | The three winners were among 15 startups who each had three minutes to pitch on stage before a panel of judges on Thursday after a day and a half of meetings with industry experts helping them to hone their pitches, gain direct feedback on ... |
| 20.09.2019 | 3 startups focused on sustainability and nutrition win big at inaugural FoodBytes! Chicago | Tia Lupita Foods, LocalCoho and Capro-X won at FoodBytes! Chicago yesterday.
The first FoodBytes! in Chicago went off with a bang yesterday as 15 startups pitched in front of an audience of investors, food company executives and other entre... |
| 31.07.2019 | 15 next generation agri-food startups set to pitch at FoodBytes! Chicago | Functional foods, alternative proteins, digital and bio-farmtech all feature in the list of next-generation agri-food startups set to pitch at the inaugural FoodBytes! Chicago in September.
FoodBytes! by Rabobank is a pitch competition and ... |
| 31.07.2019 | Rabobank unveils 15 food & ag startups that will pitch at FoodBytes! Chicago | The 15 selected pitch companies – chosen from more than 100 applicants spanning 18 countries - have been assigned to two judging categories: Consumer packaged goods, and Food and Ag Tech, but are all eligible to receive the People’s Choice ... |
| 10.04.2019 | GUEST ARTICLE: Is 'vegan' a four-letter word on product packaging? | But as you can imagine just by gauging your own reaction to the above terms, not all terms are created equal, and in the free market, there aren’t participation trophies for new products. Some terms will outcompete others and sell better.
I... |
| 22.08.2018 | How do you make meat better? Add plants, says The Better Meat Co... | Co-founded by Paul Shapiro (CEO), author of the best seller, ‘Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World;’ food scientist Adam Yee; and finance and consulting industry veteran Joanna Bromley, Bett... |
| 08.09.2015 | Missed delivery killer, Shippit is changing online retail for the better fueled by a $500,000 seed round | - |
