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| 19.09.2024 | How a dairy additive startup is finding success in precision fermentation by thinking small | Listen to the article 8 min
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Alternative milk has become a key success point of the plant-based movement — a beacon that consumer purchasing behavior can change.
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| 12.09.2024 | Oracle Database@Azure launched in Australian market | Oracle and Microsoft have announced that Oracle Database@Azure is now available in Australia. This marks the first time the service is available in the Microsoft Azure Australia East region, enabling customers to combine Oracle Database ser... |
| 05.09.2024 | Methane-busting feed supplements are beginning to scale. But who will foot the bill, and what will drive widespread adoption? | While burping cows and other ruminants are some of the leading sources of methane emissions, a surprisingly small sum—little more than $233 million according to AgFunder data—has been pumped into startups tackling the problem over the past ... |
| 16.08.2024 | The Future of Food and Fashion: Innovations in AgriFoodTech and Sustainable Materials | The world of AgriFoodTech is buzzing. Startups are racing to innovate, creating solutions that tackle food waste, enhance sustainability, and redefine consumer experiences. In this landscape, two stories stand out: Zepto's meteoric rise in ... |
| 15.08.2024 | The Rise of Cultivated Dairy: A New Era in Food Production | The dairy industry is on the brink of a revolution. Traditional methods of milk production are being challenged by innovative technologies that promise to reshape how we think about dairy. Two companies, Senara and Superbrewed Food, are at ... |
| 15.08.2024 | Fonterra and Superbrewed Food join forces for biomass protein technology | Listen to the article 3 min
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Fonterra, a New Zealand-based dairy cooperative, joined forces with natural ingredient manufacturer Superbrewed Food to advance s... |
| 15.08.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Zepto secures fresh $340m, Bolt Threads goes public, ReFED has a new boss | Quick-delivery continues speeding ahead in India, the latest development being a mega-raise from Zepto that values the company at $5 billion. Elsewhere, food waste think tank ReFED got a new executive director, Impossible Foods opened a bri... |
| 14.08.2024 | Collo's €5 Million Boost: A Leap Towards Sustainable Liquid Processing | In a world where sustainability is no longer optional, Finnish tech company Collo is making waves. With a recent funding round of €5 million, Collo is poised to revolutionize the food and beverage industry. This investment, co-led by Swedis... |
| 14.08.2024 | Superbrewed Food’s Strategic Partnership with Dairy Group Fonterra Explores Uses of Biomass Protein | New Zealand-based multinational dairy cooperative Fonterra and US fermentation startup Superbrewed Food have entered into a strategic partnership to explore applications and further develop Superbrewed’s biomass protein platform.
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| 13.08.2024 | Fonterra and Superbrewed Food: A New Era in Sustainable Protein Production | In a world hungry for sustainable solutions, Fonterra and Superbrewed Food are forging a path. Their recent collaboration aims to redefine protein production. This partnership is not just about dairy; it’s about innovation, sustainability, ... |
| 13.08.2024 | Doubling Down on Animal-Free Dairy, Fonterra Looks to Advance Superbrewed Food’s Postbiotic Cultured Protein | 4 Mins Read New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra is exploring how US biomass fermentation startup Superbrewed Food’s Postbiotic Cultured Protein can complement its dairy portfolio.
Fonterra, the world’s largest dairy exporter, is continuing to ... |
| 13.08.2024 | Collo raises €5M to optimise industrial liquid processes with IoT tech | Collo, a Finnish technology company offering IoT analysers for optimising industrial liquid processes, announces today a growth funding of €5 million.
Collo's analyser can quickly characterise any type of liquid. It offers food and beverage... |
| 12.08.2024 | Fonterra and Superbrewed Food Collaborate to Advance Biomass Protein Technology | NEW CASTLE, Del.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–August 12, 2024–
Global dairy co-operative Fonterra and natural ingredient manufacturer Superbrewed Food have teamed up to boost sustainable food production. The partnership combines Superbrewed’s biomass pr... |
| 12.08.2024 | Exclusive: Fonterra and Superbrewed Food collaborate to advance postbiotic protein tech | Global dairy co-op Fonterra has signed a multi-year joint development agreement with biomass fermentation startup Superbrewed Food to explore the potential of its “postbiotic” ingredient.
Under the agreement, Fonterra—which also makes ‘anim... |
| 07.08.2024 | Why Australia Is Ideally Positioned to Play A Leading Role in the Global Smart Protein Industry’s Success | 7 Mins Read Australia has unique advantages when it comes to pushing the future of protein technology forward, argues independent alternative protein think tank Food Frontier CEO Dr Simon Eassom.
Food systems transformation is increasingly ... |
| 30.07.2024 | Mars shares progress toward net zero goals | MCLEAN, VA. — Mars, Incorporated released its “2023 Sustainable in a Generation Report” on July 24, which highlighted the company’s progress toward its goal of achieving net zero by 2050. The company recorded an 8% reduction of greenhouse g... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Creamy Future: Nourish Ingredients and Fonterra’s Fermentation Revolution**
** | ** In a world where food innovation meets sustainability, a new partnership is stirring the pot. Australian startup Nourish Ingredients is teaming up with New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra to create a new wave of dairy and non-dairy products... |
| 24.07.2024 | Creamilux: Dairy Giant Fonterra to Use Nourish Ingredients’ Animal-Free Fat in New Products | 4 Mins Read New Zealand dairy cooperative Fonterra has teamed up with Australia’s Nourish Ingredients to develop dairy and non-dairy products with the latter’s precision-fermented Creamilux fat.
In a new trans-Tasman partnership, Fonterra w... |
| 23.07.2024 | Designer lipids startup Nourish Ingredients collaborates with dairy giant Fonterra on fats from fermentation | Australian startup Nourish Ingredients has announced a collaboration with dairy giant Fonterra to accelerate the development of dairy products with fats produced via fermentation.
Nourish, which is developing a range of high-impact, low-inc... |
| 18.07.2024 | How Big Meat & Dairy Use the Tobacco Playbook to Influence Governments, Consumers & Climate Policy | 13 Mins Read The world’s largest meat and dairy producers are using tobacco industry tactics to hinder global climate action and influence policymakers and the public in their favour.
Political manipulation, twisted science, targeted ads an... |
| 12.07.2024 | New Zealand’s first ‘high-value’ agriPV solar farm revealed | - |
| 27.06.2024 | Nutiani report reveals age-agnostic interest and proactive consumers in healthy ageing space | AUCKLAND, New Zealand, June 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Nutiani's latest Consumer Health and Nutrition Index, conducted in collaboration with Ipsos, indicates a strong and growing consumer focus on ageing healthily. This is underpinned by a st... |
| 20.06.2024 | Consumers prioritize health over prices in food products: report | Listen to the article 3 min
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Despite the increasing price of health and well-being products, consumers prioritize their wellness. Sixty-seven percent consider... |
| 13.06.2024 | European dairy, pork producers wary of Chinese retaliation for EV tariffs | SHANGHAI: Global food companies from dairy producers to pork exporters are on high alert for potential retaliatory tariffs from China after the European Union's decision on Wednesday (Jun 12) to impose anti-subsidy duties on Chinese-made el... |
| 11.06.2024 | Carbon neutral foods company Neutral Foods merges with grass-fed dairy milk brand Zeal Creamery | Two fast-growing dairy innovators will create a full-service consumer and foodservice offering
PORTLAND, Ore. , June 11, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Neutral Foods, the first certified carbon neutral foods company in the U.S., backed by Break... |
| 07.06.2024 | Shedding Light on the Future of Biomanufacturing: Prolific Machines' Revolutionary Approach to Cellular Control | Prolific Machines, a dynamic startup based in California, is making waves in the world of biomanufacturing with their cutting-edge use of light-sensitive proteins to manipulate cellular functions. The recent announcement of their successful... |
| 06.06.2024 | Optogenetics startup Prolific Machines raises $55m series B1, uses light to ‘control virtually any cell function in any cell type’ | Prolific Machines—a California-based startup harnessing light-sensitive proteins to control cells used in biomanufacturing—has raised $55 million in a series B1 round led the Ki Tua Fund, the corporate venture arm of New Zealand dairy co-op... |
| 06.06.2024 | Prolific Machines Nabs $55M to Create Cultivated Meat & Novel Proteins by Harnessing Light | 6 Mins Read Californian biotech startup Prolific Machines has closed a $55M Series B1 round for its photomolecular platform, which leverages light to create novel proteins at significantly lower costs.
The $55M investment represents the fir... |
| 20.05.2024 | Global Soy and Milk Protein Ingredients Market Expected to Reach $24.9 Billion by 2032 | DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Global Soy and Milk Protein Ingredients Market Report by Product Type, Application, and Region 2024-2032” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.
The global market for soy and milk protein ing... |
| 09.05.2024 | Snickers owner Mars commits $47M to slash dairy emissions | Dive Brief:
Confectionery giant Mars Inc. is investing $47 million over three years to reduce the carbon footprint of the dairy used in products like M&M's and Snickers.
The candy maker will work with major dairy co-ops including Fonter... |
| 12.04.2024 | Empower Her - 38 Organizations are recognized as 'Best Workplaces for Women™ in Greater China 2024', by Great Place To Work® | SHANGHAI, April 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Place To Work® takes pride in announcing the 38 'Best Workplaces for Women™ in Greater China 2024'.
The Best Workplaces for Women™ stand above competitors by creating trustworthy organizations ... |
| 01.04.2024 | Antarctic Milk Capsule Reveals Nutritional Evolution, Unlocking Dairy Secrets | Inno Flores, Tech Times 01 April 2024, 01:04 am
Variations in milk powder composition attributed to historical manufacturing techniques and equipment shed light on the evolution of dairy products.
This groundbreaking discovery enables resea... |
| 26.03.2024 | 🎥Vivici CEO on whey from fermentation: “If we narrow the message only to ‘animal-free,’ we’re pigeonholing ourselves” | Multiple startups are now making dairy proteins with microbes in fermentation tanks instead of cows. But if the marketing and positioning of these ingredients is too narrowly focused on the ‘animal-free’ aspect, says Netherlands-based start... |
| 25.03.2024 | DSM-Firmenich to Develop Plant-Based Beverages at Recently Inaugurated New Jersey Pilot Plant | DSM-Firmenich recently opened a new pilot plant in Plainsboro, New Jersey. The facility, located in the Taste, Texture & Health business unit, aims to promote and optimize collaboration with customers. It supports the company’s goal of ... |
| 21.03.2024 | Cash Cows: Banks Have Financed Over Half a Trillion Dollars to Increase Meat & Dairy Production Since the 2015 Paris Agreement | 6 Mins Read Since world leaders signed the landmark Paris Agreement in 2015, banks and financial institutions have credited livestock producers with $615B to increase meat and dairy production, according to a new study.
It’s not just public... |
| 06.03.2024 | Micellar Casein Market to exceed $8.3 Bn by 2032, Says Global Market Insights Inc. | - |
| 19.02.2024 | Fonterra/DSM JV Vivici unveils whey protein from fermentation: ‘We are already at commercially viable titers’ | Vivici—a joint venture formed by Fonterra and DSM to disrupt the emerging ‘animal-free dairy’ category—says it is already in a position to supply commercial quantities of whey protein from fermentation to the US market, just over a year aft... |
| 19.02.2024 | Miruku: New Zealand Startup Raises $5M in Pre-Series A to Create Dairy Products with Molecular Farming | 6 Mins Read New Zealand food tech startup Miruku has raised $5M in a pre-Series A financing round to expand its molecular farming platform for dairy proteins and fats, and conduct field trials in Australia.
The $5M pre-Series A fundraiser w... |
| 16.01.2024 | Daisy Lab: Women-Led NZ Startup Scales Animal-Free Whey Production, Diversifies Protein Portfolio | 5 Mins Read New Zealand’s Daisy Lab has scaled up the production of its precision-fermented beta-lactoglobulin powder a year after discovering its initial expression systems, while diversifying into lactoferrin to boost its commercial gains... |
| 09.10.2023 | Big Dairy-Backed Vivici To Launch Animal-Free Dairy Whey Protein After Successful Scale-up | 4 Mins Read Dutch B2B ingredients company Vivici has announced it has successfully scaled up its platform to produce animal-free beta-lactoglobulin – the chief whey protein found in dairy. The company hopes to earn US regulatory approval by... |
| 15.08.2023 | DSM-Fonterra Backed Startup Closes Seed Round to Produce Animal-Free Dairy Ingredients | 3 Mins Read Dutch business-to-business ingredients company Vivici has successfully closed its seed funding round to bring its animal-free precision fermented dairy proteins to market. Backed by founding investors DSM-Firmenich Venturing and... |
| 27.02.2023 | BREAKING: Perfect Day animal-free dairy patent in US challenged | A US patent recently granted to Perfect Day, one of the highest-profile startups in the emerging ‘animal-free’ dairy field, has been challenged by an anonymous petitioner.
The request has not yet been published on the US Patent and Trademar... |
| 31.01.2023 | NZMP Dairy Experts to Showcase High-Performing Dairy Ingredients and Sustainability Solutions at Gulfood 2023 | NZMP Dairy Experts to Showcase High-Performing Dairy Ingredients and Sustainability Solutions at Gulfood 2023
NZMP is ready to connect with customers at the world’s largest F&B sourcing event in Dubai to support regional growth
DUBAI, D... |
| 17.10.2022 | Fonterra Announces New Sustainable Finance Framework | As part of Fonterra’s commitment to sustainability and implementation of its strategy, the Co-operative has released its Sustainable Finance Framework.
This Framework aligns Fonterra’s funding strategy with its sustainability ambitions and ... |
| 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... |
| 22.04.2022 | Tracking corporate climate goals for meat and dairy is more crucial than ever | Of all the corporate climate goals out there, those from the world’s biggest meat and dairy companies tend to ignite the most debate. On the one hand, many of these companies have come forward in the last several months with concrete dates ... |
| 16.02.2022 | Chinese companies top FAIRR list of protein producers at risk of incubating next pandemic | Nearly two-thirds of the world’s largest meat, fish, and dairy suppliers are at high risk of incubating the next global pandemic, according to a new report by investor network FAIRR.
Titled “Industry Reinfected,” FAIRR’s report examines 60 ... |
| 09.12.2021 | Fonterra operative : Flexible Shareholding structure gets green light from farmers | Our Stories
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| 17.11.2021 | Fonterra Shareholders Fund : Notice of Special Meeting Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd | For personal use only
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Today we have released our Notice of Annual Meeting and Notice of Special Meeting (Capi... |
| 31.05.2021 | Sprout’s new CEO on what drew him to New Zealand – and why startups should follow him there | Holstein Friesian dairy cattle grazing in New Zealand. Image credit: pelooyen / iStock
When Israeli venture investor Gil Meron told colleagues that he was considering a career move to New Zealand, people thought he was mad.
“They said: ‘It’... |
| 12.05.2021 | Ginkgo Bioworks to go public at $15bn valuation as ag SPAC frenzy continues | US synthetic biology startup Ginkgo Bioworks has announced its plan to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in a deal that values it at $15 billion.
The Boston-based biotech is set to combine with Nasdaq-li... |
| 12.05.2021 | Ginkgo Bioworks to go public at $15bn valuation as agrifood SPAC frenzy continues | US synthetic biology startup Ginkgo Bioworks has announced its plan to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in a deal that values it at $15 billion.
The Boston-based biotech is set to combine with Nasdaq-li... |
| 09.04.2021 | Sprout Agritech’s first-ever venture investment was 400m years (+19) in the making | Andrew Králíček spent 19 years at New Zealand R&D institute Plant & Food Research (PFR), on an idea to use the olfactory receptors of insects to make a biosensor that can smell and taste, before he and his team took the plunge and l... |
| 09.04.2021 | Sprout Agritech’s first-ever venture investment was 400 million years (plus 19) in the making | Andrew Králíček spent 19 years at New Zealand R&D institute Plant & Food Research (PFR), on an idea to use the olfactory receptors of insects to make a biosensor that can smell and taste, before he and his team took the plunge and l... |
| 01.03.2021 | Free4DairyFree: Non Profit Campaign Seeks To End Surcharge On Plant-Based Milk At U.K. Coffee Shops | 4 Mins Read
Free4DairyFree has started a campaign to sustainably end the extra charges applied on plant-based milk alternatives at cafés, coffee shops, and other U.K. retailers.
Launched by Manchester-based Nicole McCulloch and George Bloor... |
| 15.02.2021 | Cattle seaweed supplement, pregnancy test get Australian government funding | The Australian government has invested A$1 million ($779,000) into a seaweed-farming firm to drive the commercialization of technology that can reduce methane emissions from cattle.
Tasmania’s Sea Forest is among the recipients of the lates... |
| 17.11.2020 | Israel’s most active venture investor partners New Zealand’s Sprout on agrifoodtech | New Zealand’s Sprout Accelerator and Israel-based venture investing platform OurCrowd were selected last year by Kiwi government agency Callaghan Innovation to run a new agrifoodtech acceleration program in the Land of the Long White Cloud.... |
| 17.11.2020 | Israel’s most active venture investor partners New Zealand’s Sprout on agrifoodtech | New Zealand’s Sprout Agritech and Israel-based venture investing platform OurCrowd were selected last year by Kiwi government agency Callaghan Innovation to run a new agrifoodtech acceleration program in the Land of the Long White Cloud.
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| 11.11.2020 | Meat & dairy industries holding back global progress on climate change, FAIRR report says | Investor network FAIRR has released a report examining whether the meat and dairy industries are doing their fair share to facilitate climate change mitigation.
The network — which claims to represent investors with $25 trillion in assets u... |
| 07.09.2020 | Innovative Food startups raised more in H1 2020 than they did in the whole of 2019 | Startups developing innovative food and ingredients, including alt-proteins, raised more funding in the first half of 2020 than all of 2019, according to AgFunder‘s recent Agrifoodtech Mid-Year Investment Review.
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| 30.06.2020 | Chinese Confectionery Firm Multizen Invests In Vegan Dairy Startup Ripple Foods | 9 2
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Multizen, one of the largest B2B confectionery and snack companies in the Greater China region, has recently announced investment into Californian vegan pea-based dairy brand Ripple Foods. It marks Multizen’s first... |
| 24.03.2020 | Starbucks Announces Plan To Ditch Vegan Milk ‘Tax’ | 1
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Following Starbucks’ highly publicised company-wide pledge to become more eco-friendly this year, the global coffee giant is now hoping to be able to remove the additional fee for drinks that use plant-based milks shor... |
| 31.01.2020 | Starbucks To “Push” Plant-Based Milk Amid Slew Of Sustainable Measures In Bid To Become ‘Resource Positive’ | 2
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As a part of a company-wide drive to become more eco-friendly, the global coffee giant Starbucks will be promoting vegan milk. Among other sustainable measures that the company plans to implement include waste reducti... |
| 23.01.2020 | India Vegan Milk Startup Goodmylk Raises US$400K In Second Seed Funding Round | 1
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Veganarke Enterprises, the India-based operator of plant-based milk alternative brand Goodmylk, has just completed its second seed funding round with US$ 400,000, bringing the total financing raised so far to around US... |
| 21.01.2020 | Plant-Based Milk & Yogurt Company Califia Farms Secures US$225M In Funding | 31 13
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Plant-based milk brand Califia Farms has just announced that it has completed a landmark US$225 million financing in their latest Series D funding round. The investment was led by the Qatar Investment Authority (... |
| 13.10.2019 | Why should you be part of Sprout’s latest cohort in New Zealand? | Interest in cutting out meat and animal products in diets, be it partially or wholly, is on the rise. The term ‘veganism’ has been Googled 550% more over the past five years. The number of vegans in the US grew six times to 19.6 million in ... |
| 26.02.2019 | Motif Ingredients Raises $90m Series A to Engineer Alternative Proteins in Ginkgo Bioworks Spin-Out | Ginkgo Bioworks, the unicorn startup manufacturing microbes using genetic engineering and fermentation, has spun off its food-related business into a new company called Motif Ingredients.
Motif will focus on providing food companies with in... |
| 22.05.2017 | Farming2020 Marks a Major Shift for the New Zealand Agtech Ecosystem | Editor’s Note: Peter Wren-Hilton is founder at Wharf42. Wharf42 was established in 2012 to support early stage Kiwi tech companies connect with Silicon Valley’s vast innovation ecosystem. It’s also a cofounder of WNT Ventures. This year he ... |
| 30.11.2015 | Fonterra Launches GOS Ingredient for Global Infant Formula Market | 30th November: Fonterra today announced that commercial samples of NZMP Galacto-Oligosaccharides (GOS) will be available early in the new year.
Fonterra’s new partnership with leading UK dairy company, Dairy Crest, means it can now offer th... |
| 31.01.2013 | Functional improvements drive demand for milk proteins | Chemists working with milk proteins have moved light years beyond the days when skimming cream and pasteurizing what was left and turning some of it into milk or yogurt was the end stage of milk processing. Formulators now have an array of ... |
