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| Aug 25, 2026 | ADM Converts Iowa Tanks for Precision Fermentation Egg Protein: Demand Up 550% Amid Bird Flu | By Otis D. Sheehan
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| Jul 27, 2026 | Campbell’s Chunky Soup expands into frozen meals | Listen to the article 3 min
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The Campbell’s Company is bringing its protein-laden Chunky Soup brand into the frozen aisle for the first time.
The New Jersey food maker is... |
| Jul 9, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Chipotle’s next agrifood cohort, John Deere settlement, fruit-harvesting robots | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇬🇧 Cambridge AI robotics group Dogtooth scores £14m investment UKTN
🇳🇱 Aardaia bags €5M to build the... |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Apeel founder on MAHA, misinformation, layoffs, and a second act in post-harvest tech | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company is an investor in Impact Vision, a startup acquired by Apeel Sciences in 2021]
In 2021, Santa Barbara based Apeel Sciences—a startup best known for edible plant-based coatings that extend the shelf-... |
| Apr 16, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Nestlé & Soil Capital regen partnership, Unilever buys Grüns, John Deere lawsuit | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇫🇷 Agriodor raises €15 million to expand scent-based crop protection globally Tech.eu
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| Feb 19, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Egypt eGrocer Breadfast banks $50m, Kubota invests in spray ‘bot, Trump’s glyphosate order | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇺🇸 inKind raises $450m in funding FinSMEs
🇪🇬 Breadfast moves closer to IPO with $50 million pre-Seri... |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Peter McGuinness stepping down as CEO at Impossible Foods | Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuiness is stepping down from the plant-based foods company after almost four years at the helm.
AgFunderNews understands that he will be wrapping up day-to-day involvement over the next couple of weeks although... |
| Jan 23, 2026 | 🎥 Taste, price, or bust: Bruce Friedrich’s roadmap for alt meat | Bruce Friedrich’s core thesis—laid out in his new book MEAT—will be familiar to anyone who has followed the Good Food Institute over the years: using vast quantities of crops to feed animals, rather than people directly, is an inefficient a... |
| Jan 22, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: Yield Energy launches farm-based grid platform, new $500m farmland fund | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇫🇷 MYCOPHYTO closes €16m Series A to accelerate industrial scale-up and international expansion iGro... |
| Jan 15, 2026 | AgriFood Signals: SAP & Syngenta partner, BASF buys biocontrol startup, Microsoft’s record deal with Indigo | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news
🇫🇷 Equitable Earth raises $14.7 million to advance certification standard for nature-based carbon pr... |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Festive agrifoodtech vox pop part 1: From GLP-1 to continuous fermentation, what trends are founders tracking as we head into 2026? | What are agrifoodtech startups tracking as we head into 2026? To find out, we fired off some emails to companies we’ve covered on AgFunderNews this year.
Unsurprisingly, AI was high up the list, which spans everything from MAHA to mushrooms... |
| Nov 10, 2025 | ‘New Milk’ signals new phase for recombinant dairy, says Remilk: ‘It doesn’t look like another alternative product’ | Israeli startup Remilk has partnered with family-owned dairy firm Gad Dairies to launch New Milk, a low-sugar, lactose-free milk featuring recombinant dairy proteins made in fermentation tanks, rather than from cows.
While some players have... |
| Oct 2, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: SwarmFarm Robotics nabs $30m, DoorDash delivery ‘bots, new carbon fund from Cibus | More robots are rolling into the agrifoodtech space, with new funding rounds from SwarmFarm Robotics and Terra Robotics, while US delivery giant DoorDash unveiled a new food delivery ‘bot.
Elsewhere, Jennifer Garner’s Once Upon a Farm filed... |
| Sep 10, 2025 | Strauss Group launches ‘cow-free’ range featuring animal-free whey from Imagindairy | Israeli food giant Strauss Group is preparing to launch ‘cow-free’ drinks and cream cheese featuring whey protein from Imagindairy made by microbes, rather than cows.
The products, which will be sold under Strauss Group’s established Yotvat... |
| Sep 6, 2025 | Elliott’s plan for PepsiCo includes investing in some of its iconic brands, shedding others | Company: PepsiCo
Business: PepsiCo is one of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods companies, with a portfolio of some of the most iconic brands in food and beverage. Its brands include: Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, ... |
| Aug 5, 2025 | What is ultra-processed food? First wave of comments to FDA/USDA highlight minefield facing regulators | The first wave of public comments responding to an FDA/USDA request for information (RFI) on defining “ultra-processed foods” is in, and it highlights the challenge facing regulators tasked with nailing down a definition.
The agencies have ... |
| Jul 30, 2025 | Chobani sued by Danone for allegedly copying cold brew packaging | Listen to the article 3 min
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Danone sued competitor Chobani for allegedly copying the slogan and packaging of its cold brew coffee line, calling it the latest... |
| Jul 25, 2025 | Guest Post: How Advanced Filtration Accelerates Upcycled Protein Production
How Advanced Filtration Accelerates Upcycled Protein Production | Kartheek Anekella has a PhD in Food Science and Microbiology and more than ten years’ experience in the food science industry. At Pall Corporation, he leads the global technical strategy and direction of the company’s alternative protein se... |
| Jun 4, 2025 | Perfect Day urges court to toss deceptive marketing lawsuit over animal-free dairy | Perfect Day has urged a court in the District of Columbia to toss a lawsuit alleging it is misleading consumers about its animal-free dairy products.
The complaint* focuses on beta-lactoglobulin, a whey protein (brand name ‘ProFerm’) that P... |
| May 22, 2025 | ‘Stunning’ MAHA report draws praise and fury: Stated goals undermined by GOP policies, say experts | Nutrition experts have praised a much-anticipated report from Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission for cogently outlining the parlous state of America’s health, but said actions taken by the Trump administrati... |
| May 14, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Massive Attack, Blonde Chocolate & A Price Freeze | 6 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Massive Attack’s vegan concert, Beleaf’s plant-based meat price freeze, and the FDA’s labelling guidelines. New p... |
| May 12, 2025 | Better Dairy targets high-margin nutrition market with precision-fermented osteopontin | UK-based Better Dairy—one of a flurry of startups producing casein proteins via precision fermentation—has moved into new territory with the successful production of osteopontin, a bioactive protein found in mammalian milk, bones, and tissu... |
| May 5, 2025 | Are natural alternatives to synthetic food dyes getting better? In conversation with ADM | The chance synthetic dyes will be out of the US food supply by the end of 2026—the stated aim of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr—is “close to zero” given that his pledges lack regulatory teeth, ex-FDA official Jim Jones told delegates a... |
| Apr 20, 2025 | Grocery Giants: The New Frontier of Food and Beverage Innovation | The grocery landscape is shifting. Major food and beverage brands are no longer content to stay in their lanes. They are venturing into new aisles, chasing consumer trends like a hawk after its prey. This strategy is not just about survival... |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Perfect Day hit with lawsuit from organic, anti-GMO groups over animal-free dairy claims | Perfect Day, a startup pioneering the production of whey proteins via precision fermentation, has been hit with a lawsuit alleging it is misleading consumers about its animal-free dairy products.
The complaint* focuses on beta-lactoglobulin... |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Aisle hopping: Why major food and beverage brands are entering new parts of the grocery store | Listen to the article 7 min
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Even as sales for the century-old Café Bustelo were heating up, J.M. Smucker executives worried the fast-growing brand was in danger of falli... |
| Apr 15, 2025 | Eat Just strikes deal with VFG to take plant-based JUST Egg to Europe | Eat Just—the US market leader in plant-based egg alternatives—has struck a deal with UK-based Vegan Food Group (VFG) to take its flagship JUST Egg product to Europe.
A holding company formed last year, VFG is the parent company of VFC, Meat... |
| Apr 10, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: First Water nets $43m, INTAKE raises $9.2m Series C, AgroStar bags $6.7m | This week, salmon-farming startup First Water raised $43 million, while precision fermentation company INTAKE closed a $9.2million Series C deal, and Accel India lead a $6.7 million round for ag marketplace AgroStar.
On the corporate side, ... |
| Apr 1, 2025 | 🎥The EVERY Co on egg proteins… without chickens: ‘Next year, we will have profitable unit economics’ | The EVERY Co—which pioneered technology to make egg proteins via precision fermentation—says it will have “profitable unit economics” next year as it ramps up manufacturing capacity to meet demand.
While manufacturers have been looking to r... |
| Apr 1, 2025 | The New Pink Drink: Are Flavoured Milks the Next Big Thing in Plant-Based? | 4 Mins Read Califia Farms has launched a line of summer-coded fruity drinks using coconut cream, tapping into the growing trend for flavoured plant-based milk.
Los Angeles-based Califia Farms is going back to its juice roots with its latest... |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Eat Just seizes the moment as avian flu fuels surge in demand for egg alternatives | Recurrent bouts of avian flu, fluctuating feed and energy costs, regulatory changes, and a global pandemic have wreaked havoc in the egg market, prompting a surge of interest in alternatives. And Eat Just—which makes a product called JUST E... |
| Mar 7, 2025 | Leftovers: DiGiorno infuses pizza with Hidden Valley Ranch | Ritz spices up with hot honey | Listen to the article 5 min
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Leftovers is our look at a few of the product ideas popping up everywhere. Some are intriguing, some sound amazing and some are the kinds of ... |
| Feb 13, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech:Tidal Vision completes $140m B round, Oobli raises $18m, Agteria bags $6.2m | The week brought money flows on the agbiotech front, as chitosan solutions developer Tidal Vision announced a Series B round, sweet protein innovator Oobli teamed up with ingredient giant Ingredion, and Stockholm-based Agteria raised a seed... |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Beyond x NBA, Corn Milk & Carbon Crackers | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Beyond Meat’s new products and cookbook, the US’s first corn milk brand, and a cultivated seafood tasting. New pr... |
| Feb 11, 2025 | MeliBio aims for profitability by year end as it ramps up bee-free honey business in US | MeliBio, a California-based startup developing honey without bees, says it is on course to reach profitability by the year end as it ramps up sales in the US market.
“In 2024 we went from 10 stores to 400, and to get to profitability we nee... |
| Feb 6, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Avisomo secures $5.2m, BiocSol snaps $4.6m, PlantBaby raises $4m | This week, Norwegian vertical farming startup Avisomo secured $5.2 million, Belgian sustainable crop protection startup BiocSol snapped up $4.6 million, and US-based PlantBaby raised $4 million for its alt-milk for kids.
Meanwhile Israeli s... |
| Feb 3, 2025 | Burcon investor leads facility acquisition to scale up plant protein production in Illinois | Burcon Nutrascience—which has developed patented extraction technology for multiple plant-based proteins—aims to start commercial-scale production in the first half of this year from a facility in Galesburg, Illinois following a partnership... |
| Jan 31, 2025 | Exclusive: Perfect Day buries legal hatchet with co-manufacturer; searches for new CEO | The high-profile legal dispute between animal-free dairy pioneer Perfect Day and co-manufacturer Olon is over, with court records showing that the litigation has been voluntarily dismissed with each party agreeing to cover its own legal exp... |
| Jan 18, 2025 | Impossible Foods Triumphs in Patent Battle Amidst Global Uncertainty | In a world where innovation is the lifeblood of progress, Impossible Foods has emerged victorious in a critical patent dispute in Europe. The European Patent Office (EPO) recently overturned a previous decision that revoked a key patent for... |
| Jan 17, 2025 | The Future of Food: Trends Shaping 2025 and Beyond | The food industry is on the brink of transformation. As we step into 2025, three key trends are emerging, driven by consumer demands and technological advancements. These trends—mindful eating, texture innovation, and sustainable practices—... |
| Jan 16, 2025 | Breaking: Impossible Foods prevails in EU patent dispute | A decision by the European Patent Office (EPO) to revoke a key EU patent granted to Impossible Foods has been overturned following a lengthy appeals process.
The patent in question (EP2943072 B1) covers the use of Impossible Foods’ flagship... |
| Jan 13, 2025 | Texture, innovation and mindful eating take center stage in 2025 | The food industry is entering an exciting new chapter in 2025 driven by Gen Z’s ability to dictate food trends through social media platforms. What once was considered viral has become vital to new product development, and this year’s top t... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | The Shifting Landscape of Plant-Based Dining and Regulation | The culinary world is undergoing a seismic shift. Once a sanctuary for plant-based enthusiasts, restaurants are now navigating turbulent waters. The recent closure of Sage Regenerative Kitchen, a former vegan haven, is a stark reminder of t... |
| Jan 6, 2025 | FDA draft guidance on labeling of plant-based foods ‘unfairly burdensome,’ says PBFA | Terms such as ‘meatless sausage’ or ‘plant-based burger’ are too generic and should be replaced by more specific wording such as ‘chickpea sausage’ or ‘soy-based burger,’ says the FDA.
In new draft guidance, which covers plant-based alterna... |
| Dec 12, 2024 | The Rise of Plant-Based Proteins: A New Era in Food Distribution | The food landscape is changing. Plant-based proteins are no longer a niche market. They are stepping into the spotlight, and companies like Rebellyous Foods are leading the charge. This Seattle-based startup has made waves by partnering wit... |
| Dec 12, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Nexus W2V raises $140m, Haber nets $44m, Planet A Foods bags $30m | As US legislation evolves across the waste-management industry, Nexus W2V, a leading developer of waste-to-value infrastructure projects, announced the closing of an anchor $75 million structured equity commitment from Orion Infrastructure ... |
| Dec 11, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Cultivated Meat Tasting, THIS Is New & Sweet Proteins | 5 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Upside Foods’s latest cultivated meat tasting, a new vegan re... |
| Dec 5, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Mondelez invests in cocoa tech, a $350m regen ag fund launches | Is biotech “the next industrial revolution?” The United States Department of Defense appears to think so, as it has injected millions into multiple agrifoodtech startups including The Every Co and Liberation Labs.
And actually, biotech was ... |
| Nov 25, 2024 | XPRIZE ‘Feed the next billion’ finalists learn there is no $10m grand prize: ‘It feels dishonest’ | The prestigious XPRIZE ‘Feed the Next Billion’ competition to find “structured, nutritious, affordable, and versatile” alternatives to chicken breasts and fish fillets “capable of competing with conventional products” has concluded with no ... |
| Nov 16, 2024 | The Rise of Plant-Based Innovation and Women’s Wellness: A Dual Narrative of Change | In a world where health and sustainability collide, two stories emerge. One is about a plant-based food revolution, while the other focuses on redefining wellness for women. Both narratives reflect a shift in consumer preferences and the re... |
| Nov 15, 2024 | Impossible Foods’ heme protein is safe, says EFSA GMO panel | The European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA’s) GMO panel has issued a positive opinion on the safety of Impossible Foods’ heme protein ingredient (soy leghemoglobin), bringing the firm’s flagship products closer to commercialization in the E... |
| Nov 8, 2024 | The Rise of Robotics and Plant-Based Innovations: A New Era in Food Delivery and Sustainability | In the bustling landscape of modern food service, two trends are reshaping the industry: robotic delivery systems and plant-based innovations. As technology and sustainability converge, companies are racing to adapt. The recent acquisition ... |
| Nov 6, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Lighter Oatly, Vegan Shortening & Plant-Forward National Trust | 6 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oatly’s new barista milk for light-roasted coffee, European p... |
| Oct 3, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Fly farmer catches $58m, new deals for restaurant tech, TR4-resistant bananas | Restaurant tech was in the spotlight this week as food delivery app HungryPanda and software startup Dinii both announced new funding rounds. In Canada, Entosystem raised new capital for its black soldier fly larvae farming operation.
In no... |
| Aug 29, 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... |
| Aug 29, 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... |
| Aug 17, 2024 | Lifeway Foods: A Family Feud Brewing in the Boardroom | Lifeway Foods is caught in a storm. The kefir producer, once a family-run beacon of innovation, now finds itself in the eye of a corporate hurricane. At the center of this tempest is CEO Julie Smolyansky, her brother Edward, and their mothe... |
| Aug 14, 2024 | Lifeway Foods ‘concerned shareholders’ up ante in leadership row via new SEC filing: ‘Lifeway has been on autopilot for far too long’ | Lifeway Foods shareholders Edward and Ludmila Smolyansky and other “concerned shareholders” at the Illinois-based kefir maker have filed a consent statement* with the SEC urging stockholders to agree to remove the company’s current board ... |
| Jul 18, 2024 | Family feud heats up at Lifeway Foods as key shareholders demand resignation of CEO – again | The family feud over who should lead Illinois-based kefir maker Lifeway Foods and how it should be run has heated up, as key shareholders of the publicly listed business have again called on the CEO and other top executives to resign.
Found... |
| Jul 11, 2024 | Roquette and Bonumose team up to enhance scalability of tagatose, a rare sugar with 92% of the sweetness of sugar, and 38% of the calories | Roquette—a leading player in starches and starch-based sweeteners—has signed a cooperation agreement with Virginia-based startup Bonumose to “enhance the scalability” of tagatose, a low-glycemic, tooth-friendly rare sugar with 92% of the sw... |
| Jun 26, 2024 | TurtleTree Announces Strategic Partnership with Strive, a Sustainable Nutrition Company; Expands Consumer Product Offerings with LF+™ for Adult and Sports Nutrition | Strive and TurtleTree to Collaborate on a Immunity Support Beverage for Adults and a Protein Powder to be Made Available to the Public Q1 2025
SACRAMENTO, Calif. and SINGAPORE, June 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TurtleTree, a pioneer in sustaina... |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Envisioning a future where food is synonymous with health, fostering longevity, productivity, and societal well-being | If you missed Carter’s testimony at the Senate hearing, “Feeding a Healthier America: Current Efforts and Potential Opportunities for Food is Medicine,” the replay is available here.
The hearing emphasized the importance of nutrition to red... |
| Jun 14, 2024 | BREAKING: Perfect Day files $200m counterclaim accusing ex-partner of ‘gross negligence’ and ‘willful misconduct’ | Animal-free dairy pioneer Perfect Day—which was hit with a $144 million lawsuit from Italian contract manufacturing partner Olon in April accusing it of breach of contract—has fired back with a $200 million counterclaim accusing Olon of “gr... |
| Jun 5, 2024 | CIBO now offers ‘end-to-end’ strategies for farmers and F&B companies tackling Scope 3 emissions | Regenerative agriculture is seen by many (though not everyone) as an important player in the fight to reduce Scope 3 emissions, which account for nearly 90% of food and beverage companies’ carbon footprint.
So far, however, both regen ag an... |
| May 31, 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... |
| May 23, 2024 | Flood of cheap Chinese pea protein drove Merit Functional Foods to receivership, says ex-CEO | In 2021, Merit Functional Foods unveiled a state-of-the-art facility for producing high-purity pea and canola proteins in Winnipeg, Canada. By March 2023, receivers had been called in. So what went wrong? And why, over a year later, is ther... |
| May 22, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Doner Kebabs, Wild Salmon & Mayor Battles | 5 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Revo Foods’ new salmon analogue, a new vegan doner kebab, and... |
| May 16, 2024 | The Vegetarian Butcher to Use The Every Company’s Animal-Free Egg Whites for Plant-Based Meat | 5 Mins Read Dutch plant-based meat startup The Vegetarian Butcher has teamed up with Californian precision fermentation pioneer The Every Company to use its animal-free egg whites in meat analogues.
Unilever-owned The Vegetarian Butcher wil... |
| May 2, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Oishii bags another $15m, BTG launches Betagro Ventures, HeavyFinance eyes Ukraine | This week, Thailand-based food company Betagro (“BTG”) launched its own venture arm to invest in early-stage agtech and foodtech startups. Oishii, which grows high-end berries via vertical farming, nabbed $15 million to build out a new sola... |
| Apr 25, 2024 | Choose Chicken-Free Week: Veganuary Announces First of Multiple New Campaigns | 5 Mins Read Veganuary will soon host the first Choose Chicken-Free Week, as part of a wider rollout of mini-campaigns to complement its annual month-long initiative.
On the back of its most successful campaign to date, Veganuary is initiati... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Beyond IV, Oat Milk Paste & Beanless Espresso | 4 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Beyond Meat’s new product rollout, a new precision-fermented ... |
| Apr 22, 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... |
| Apr 15, 2024 | Major Losses for Minor Figures, But Oat Milk Brand Now Looks to Become Profitable by 2025 | 5 Mins Read UK oat milk brand Minor Figures saw losses grow to nearly £10M last year, citing inflationary pressures and a downturn in the Asia-Pacific market – but its overall revenues jumped to £31.8M, and the company is now on the path to... |
| Apr 15, 2024 | Exclusive: Perfect Day sued by manufacturing partner for fraud and breach of contract. Olon claims $112m in unpaid bills, $32m in damages | Perfect Day—a pioneer in the ‘animal-free’ dairy space making whey protein via precision fermentation—has been sued by its Italian contract manufacturing partner Olon for breach of contract, fraudulent inducement, and fraudulent concealment... |
| Apr 3, 2024 | Revolution Foods up for sale | Revolution Foods, a provider of meals to California and Nevada school students, is working with Kroll Investment Bank on a sale process, sources familiar with the companies say.
Why it matters: The auction occurs as California plows billion... |
| Mar 29, 2024 | FDA Considers Banning Chemical in Decaf Coffee Over Cancer Concerns | John Lopez, Tech Times 29 March 2024, 01:03 pm
The FDA is currently looking into a potential ban on a chemical used in decaf coffee amid rising concerns about its cancer risk implications.
Food Navigator reports that methylene chloride, the... |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Yo Egg moves into US retail with ‘world first’ poached and sunny side up ‘whole’ plant-based eggs | Yo Egg, a Los Angeles-based startup with patent-pending tech to create sunny-side-up and poached eggs from plants, is making its retail debut on the west coast.
Founded in September 2021 by entrepreneur Eran Groner (CEO) and chef Yosefa Ben... |
| Feb 26, 2024 | How a new recipe can help food win in an Ozempic world | The following op-ed is written by Scott Bowman, a managing director at Clareo and the co-founder of the NOURISH Movement and Wiles Kase, a senior consultant at Clareo.
The stunning rise of anti-obesity (GLP-1 agonist) medications has caught... |
| Feb 23, 2024 | Leftovers: Hubba Bubba gum tastes the rainbow | Guinness and Tipsy Scoop feel the luck of the ice cream | Leftovers is our look at a few of the product ideas popping up everywhere. Some are intriguing, some sound amazing and some are the kinds of ideas we would never dream of. We can’t write about everything that we get pitched, so here are som... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Captain Fresh reels in $25m, Trace Genomics lands $10.5m, new beef at Beyond Meat | Plenty of funding rounds to be had this week, from sustainable seafood company Captain Fresh to soil insights startup Trace Genomics, a UAE-based cloud kitchen company and an agrifintech outfit from India.
Elsewhere, Syngenta and Lavie Bio ... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Unilever enters ‘animal-free dairy’ arena via Breyers brand in tie up with Perfect Day | CPG giant Unilever has teamed up with Perfect Day to launch a lactose-free chocolate frozen dairy dessert under the Breyers brand, using whey protein made in fermentation tanks by microbes, rather than cows.
The ‘animal-free frozen dairy de... |
| Feb 15, 2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Spacegoods and Cellva raise new funds, Inspire Brands buys delivery tech startup | This week, functional mushroom brand Spacegoods, cultivated pork fat maker Cellva, and insect-breeding-as-a-service startup FreezeM announced new funding rounds. US restaurant giant Inspire Brands, which owns Arby’s, Dunkin’, and a host of ... |
| Feb 14, 2024 | New Culture Earns ‘World’s First’ Self-Affirmed GRAS Status for Precision-Fermented Casein | 7 Mins Read US precision fermentation company New Culture has obtained what it claims is the world’s first self-affirmed GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status for animal-free casein in the US, paving the way for its market entry with N... |
| Feb 12, 2024 | Is Marbling the ‘Holy Grail’ for Plant-Based Steak? | 7 Mins Read As more and more companies focus on whole-cut plant-based meats, some are relying on fat to produce highly desired marbled textures for consumers – could it be the new ‘holy grail’ for vegan steak?
Last year, scientists at Texas... |
| Feb 9, 2024 | Pea protein: PURIS secures initial victory in anti-dumping case vs China; Louis Dreyfus announces new plant | Seven months after warning that the future of the US pea protein industry was in “grave peril” thanks to a flood of cheap imports from China, leading US producer PURIS is claiming an initial victory after the US Department of Commerce (DOC)... |
| Feb 2, 2024 | The EVERY Company to ‘launch with multinationals’ this year as it ramps up manufacturing capacity for animal free egg proteins | The EVERY Company—which pioneered the tech to make egg proteins via precision fermentation—says it will be launching with multinational food companies this year as it ramps up manufacturing capacity to meet demand.
The startup—founded by Ar... |
| Jan 31, 2024 | Phytolon plans US debut of ‘cost competitive’ natural food colors via precision fermentation | Israeli precision fermentation startup Phytolon aims to launch a broad range of vibrant natural colors produced by genetically engineered baker’s yeast in the US this year, pending regulatory approvals.
The move follows technical breakthrou... |
| Jan 23, 2024 | Not All UPFs are Equal: Green Queen Unveils FAQ Guide for Plant-Based Meat & Ultra-Processed Foods | 6 Mins Read To combat misinformation, ease consumer confusion and offer balance to the discussion around plant-based meat and ultra-processed foods, Green Queen has published a free, comprehensive resource guide on the topic in an easy-to-u... |
| Jan 23, 2024 | Cultivated Meat Regulation: Where Are We? UK, Israel & Australia Forge Ahead, US & EU Fall Behind | 12 Mins Read With 2024 tipped to be a landmark year for cultivated meat regulation, we look at how the industry is faring across the world.
While some countries are stepping up their efforts to progress these novel foods, others are pushing... |
| Jan 17, 2024 | Imagindairy acquires industrial-scale precision fermentation lines for animal-free whey: ‘This will allow us to support mass-market adoption’ | Israeli startup Imagindairy has acquired industrial-scale precision fermentation production lines at an undisclosed location “in close proximity to Israel” and now expects products containing its animal-free whey protein to launch in the US... |
| Jan 17, 2024 | Juice… with up to 80% less sugar? Ingredion Ventures leads series A at Israeli foodtech co Better Juice | Ingredion’s venture arm Ingredion Ventures has led a series A round at Better Juice, an Israeli startup behind enzymatic technology that converts up to 80% of the sugars in fruit juice into dietary fibers and non-digestible sugars without i... |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Honey… without bees? MeliBio rolls out plant-based alternative in Austria and Switzerland with ALDI | MeliBio, a California-based startup developing honey without bees, is rolling out its first products in partnership with Slovenian food maker Narayan in the UK, Switzerland, and Austria in the first part of a $10m, four-year deal to reach 7... |
| Jan 5, 2024 | Exclusive: Perfect Day founders step away as company finalizes ~$90m pre-series E, installs interim CEO | The founders of precision fermentation specialist Perfect Day are stepping down from their leadership roles after a decade at the helm. The news comes as the company finalizes a pre-series E round of up to $90 million and installs current p... |
| Jan 2, 2024 | What’s next in the legal spat between ABEC and GOOD Meat (Eat Just) over unpaid bills? | A Pennsylvania court has ruled largely against Eat Just and its cultivated meat division GOOD Meat in the early stages of litigation* with bioreactor firm ABEC over unpaid bills. However, ABEC—which claims it is owed $100 million in cash an... |
| Dec 25, 2023 | Кофе без кофе и мясо из принтера: фудтех-стартапы и их разработки | Ожидается, что уже к 2050 году население планеты достигнет 9,7 млрд человек. Чтобы обеспечить всех нас едой, нужно будет производить на 60% больше продуктов, чем сегодня. При этом из-за глобального потепления площадь пригодных для земледели... |
| Dec 19, 2023 | How to Make Lab-Grown Coffee: Scientists Publish Recipe to Create New Coffee Ecosystem | 5 Mins Read Finnish researchers have published details of the process behind its lab-grown coffee, with the aim of developing an ecosystem that can speed up production and commercialisation of the novel ingredient.
What if you could grow yo... |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Springdale Ventures closes $40m fund for early-stage consumer brands: ‘As investors, we’re here to help remove obstacles’ | Austin, Texas-based venture capital firm Springdale Ventures has closed a $40 million fund (Fund II) to invest in early-stage consumer brands across the food, beverage, pet, health, and beauty sectors.
The fund is almost double in size from... |
| Dec 15, 2023 | MycoTechnology’s new CEO: ‘My job is to get the company to the point where we are growing profitable revenue on a recurring basis’ | A month into his new position as CEO of Colorado-based startup MycoTechnology, Dr. Mike Leonard caught up with AgFunderNews to talk about his new role.
Leonard, who spent four years at Boston-based foodtech company Motif Foodworks—three as ... |
| Dec 11, 2023 | Food tech roundup: VC funding declines again in Q3 amid fewer deals | Venture capital investment into the food tech sector experienced its eighth consecutive quarter of decline in the third quarter of 2023, with 205 deals worth $2 billion, according to a new PitchBook report.
This is down 13.9% from the previ... |