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| 2018 | What Happened in Plant-Based Protein in 2017? | The plant-based protein startups using technology to create and mass produce their products have traditionally received support from a small, but dedicated group of investors, which is increasingly being joined by major food and agriculture... |
| Aug 24, 2017 | Kimbal Musk’s Indoor Farmer Training Program Raises $5m Seed Funding | Square Roots, the Brooklyn-based indoor farmer training program and container farm founded by Kimbal Musk, has raised a $5.4 million seed round led by New York-based VC Collaborative Fund, joined by several individual investors.
The 12-mont... |
| Aug 23, 2017 | Lab-grown food startup Memphis Meats raises $17 million from DFJ, Cargill, Bill Gates, others | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Meat grown in a laboratory is the future, if certain sustainable food advocates have their way, and one startup just raised a bucketloa... |
| Aug 23, 2017 | Lab-grown food startup Memphis Meats raises $17 million from DFJ, Cargill, Bill Gates, others | Meat grown in a laboratory is the future, if certain sustainable food advocates have their way, and one startup just raised a bucketload of cash from major investors to make this goal a reality.
Memphis Meats produces a variety of meat prod... |
| Mar 24, 2017 | The SEC and DOJ just dropped their inquiries into Hampton Creek | The SEC and the Department of Justice, which had launched preliminary inquiries into the vegan food company Hampton Creek last summer, have officially closed their inquiries, according to founder and CEO Josh Tetrick. He informed the compan... |
| Jan 26, 2017 | Why Silicon Valley is high-fiving over Trump’s SEC pick | Wall Street lawyer Walter “Jay” Clayton hasn’t been officially appointed to the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission yet. But given the finite amount of political capital that Democrats wield right now, it’s easy to imagine that h... |
| Dec 16, 2016 | What Happened in Ag and Foodtech in 2016? Experts Reflect | Feeling reflective as we approach the holiday season and the end of 2016? In this week’s podcast, we talk to two food and agtech experts about the innovation and investment trends they’ve noticed in ag and foodtech in 2016.
Andy Ziolkowski ... |
| Oct 21, 2016 | Board of Hampton Creek said to be investigating buyback allegations | The board of Hampton Creek has hired one of the Big Four accounting firms to investigate claims in a Bloomberg story that the San Francisco-based vegan food company executed on a campaign to buy back mass quantities of its eggless mayo prod... |
| Oct 17, 2016 | The SEC gets the case it’s been waiting for in Silicon Valley | Not so long ago, Theranos was flying high, its claims that it was upending the medical diagnostics business largely accepted by the public. Behind the scenes, however, some employees were growing wary of those claims, with at least one even... |
| Aug 19, 2016 | SEC looks into Hampton Creek’s mayo buy back scheme | The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a preliminary inquiry into Hampton Creek after it was accused of running a secret project to buy up its own mayonnaise product from stores.
Bloomberg, which first reported the news of the bu... |
| Aug 8, 2016 | Hampton Creek CEO Hits Back at Bloomberg Over ‘Just Mayo’ Buyback Scheme | Plant-based alternative foods company Hampton Creek, which has captured $120 million in venture capital funding, engaged in a large-scale undercover operation in which employees were instructed to buy back its mayo products to boost sales f... |
| Jun 16, 2016 | Meat Without Cows? These Game-Changing Food Tech Startups Are Revolutionizing The Way We Eat | 7 Mins Read
Three years ago, Bill Gates famously stated that by 2050, global demand for meat will increase significantly as the world’s population balloons to more than nine billion people. This is not tenable: the livestock industry is res... |
| Apr 8, 2016 | Food-X Picks 10 Food Tech Startups for Fourth Cohort and $500k of Investment | Food tech accelerator Food-X has announced its fourth cohort of startups. Tapping into the accelerator’s mentor network, business model development, and pitch prep, the 10 companies will spend the next several weeks ramping up for Demo Day ... |
| Oct 26, 2015 | The American Egg Board May Have Used Public Funds To Conspire Against Hampton Creek | The American Egg Board (AEB) may have violated federal laws by using public funds to try to obstruct Hampton Creek from selling its eggless mayonnaise alternative “Just Mayo.” The USDA has now opened an investigation.
Hampton Creek accuses ... |
| Sep 7, 2015 | Egg lobby tries to fry Hampton Creek | Government officials and an egg lobby group have teamed up to try to scramble a Silicon Valley food startup that offers a plant-based egg alternative.
The Guardian has obtained 600 pages of emails that saw a US department of agriculture off... |
| Aug 30, 2015 | Our Lingering Questions For Hampton Creek | Josh Tetrick, the charismatic founder of Hampton Creek, a food startup in Silicon Valley, bills it as one that uses science and technology to change the way the world eats. However, Tetrick has repeatedly found himself in trouble over compa... |
| Aug 26, 2015 | The FDA Says Vegan Mayo Is Not Mayo | With a bit of chemical wizardry, the Bill Gates-backed company Hampton Creek Foods has been able to achieve a vegan mayonnaise with a texture and flavor that is almost identical to the Hellmann's variety, but without relying on unborn chick... |
| Jul 17, 2015 | Egg White Replacement Start-Up Raises $1.7m in Seed Funding | Clara Foods, a biotech start-up using genetically modified yeast to create egg white liquid for cooking, and an alumnus of the biotechnology accelerator IndieBio, has raised $1.7 million in seed funding from an impressive line-up of angel i... |
| Apr 12, 2015 | AgTech is the New Queen of Green | Editors note: Rob Leclerc is the CEO and Melissa Tilney is the Head of Marketing at AgFunder. This article originally appeared in TechCrunch.
Before Monsanto acquired Climate Corporation in late 2013 for nearly $1 billion, few investors gav... |
| Apr 1, 2015 | AgTech Is The New Queen Of Green | Rob Leclerc Contributor
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Editors Note: Rob Leclerc is the CEO, and Melissa Tilney is head of communications at AgFunder, an investment marketpla... |
| Feb 21, 2015 | Restaurant Tech Restocked For Tomorrow And Beyond | John Serrao Contributor
Editor’s note: John Serrao is a UI engineer and product owner who specializes in technical consulting for the food and health industries (currently advising wellness startup Daocloud).
A recent article in TechCrunch ... |
| Dec 31, 2014 | Ten Ways The World Changed In 2014 | David Hirsch Contributor
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| Dec 19, 2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 12/19/14 | Serviz, SurveyMonkey, Clever, Quikkly, First Opinion, Boxbee, Geenio, Adyen, Redfin, Mixpanel, Dots
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Quikkly, which creates personalized action tags, received $1 million in seed funding in a round led by Initial Capital, along wit... |
| Dec 19, 2014 | Hampton Creek Swallows $90M in Series C |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Hampton Creek has raised a $90M Series C round of funding.
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| Dec 18, 2014 | More money for mayo: Food startup Hampton Creek raises $90 million in funding | San Francisco-based Hampton Creek raised $90 million in a strategic Series C financing round, the food technology startup said today. This latest investment brings the company’s total funding to $120 million.
Hampton Creek, which is best kn... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Hampton Creek Plans For World Food Tech Domination With $90 Million In Series C Funding | Hampton Creek is on the fast track to eggless world domination. What started out as a little startup with $500,000 in seed from Khosla Ventures and a plan to swap out eggs for pea protein is now selling product in grocery stores, colleges, ... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Hampton Creek, changing the world one plant-based mayo jar at a time, gets $90M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Startup Hampton Creek has a lofty goal. It desire... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Hampton Creek, changing the world one plant-based mayo jar at a time, gets $90M | Startup Hampton Creek has a lofty goal. It desires to “reshape this crazy, bizarre food system in a way that actually works for people,” according to founder and chief executive Josh Tetrick.
And you can’t necessarily do that on the cheap.
... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Hampton Creek Foods raises $90m to support ‘massive’ growth: ‘Just Mayo has gone from zero to 15,000 locations in a little over a year’ | San Francisco based Hampton Creek Foods - which has already secured $30m from Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, and Sun Microsystems founder Vinod Khosla among others - has also impressed Facebook co-founder Eduardo... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Food Startup Hampton Creek Raises $90 Million | December 18, 2014 4 min read This story originally appeared on Fortune Magazine
San Francisco-based Hampton Creek raised $90 million in a strategic Series C financing round, the food technology startup said today. This latest investment bri... |
| Nov 28, 2014 | Hampton Creek’s data scientists team up with chefs to find the holy grail of plant proteins | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
At Facebook and LinkedIn, data scientists analyze... |
| Nov 28, 2014 | Hampton Creek’s data scientists team up with chefs to find the holy grail of plant proteins | At Facebook and LinkedIn, data scientists analyze site usage and develop features that take user information into consideration. Inside the cramped office of Hampton Creek, a 3-year-old San Francisco startup, data scientists are doing somet... |
| Nov 11, 2014 | Hampton Creek Plans To Counter-Sue Unilever Over Mayo Fight | Plant-based food startup Hampton Creek is readying a response and planning to counter-sue major food corporation Unilever over the meaning of ‘mayo.’
Unilever filed a lawsuit against Hampton Creek this weekend, involving its “Just Mayo” pro... |
| Nov 10, 2014 | Soylent, the startup that wants to disrupt food, goes vegan | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Soylent, the Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator... |
| Nov 10, 2014 | Soylent, the startup that wants to disrupt food, goes vegan | Soylent, the Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator-backed experiment to replace delicious food with a blend of powders and extracts, today expanded its horizons with the release of a new formula: Soylent version 1.2.
Going forward, Soylent w... |
| Sep 18, 2014 | It’s not about the mayo, Hampton Creek CEO says | Food tech company Hampton Creek should have a lot more money to spend soon, or at least that’s what Josh Tetrick, the startup’s founder and chief executive, tells us. And when the money comes in, as it inevitably will, it will fund Hampton ... |
| Sep 17, 2014 | Hampton Creek, with substitute egg on its face, is raising fresh money | Updated at 3:50 p.m. Pacific with comments from Hampton Creek’s Josh Tetrick.
Hampton Creek, a startup looking to replace factory-farmed eggs with a plant-based alternative, has lost high-profile investor Ali Partovi as its chief strategy o... |
| Sep 17, 2014 | Hampton Creek In A Management Pickle As It Seeks To Raise $50 Million In Funding | It hasn’t even been a full two weeks since Ali Partovi switched from an adviser role to chief strategy officer at Hampton Creek. However, the plant-based mayo startup has confirmed that Partovi is out. This leaves the company in a bit of a ... |
| Sep 17, 2014 | Hampton Creek, with substitute egg on its face, is raising fresh money | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Updated at 3:50 p.m. Pacific with comments from H... |
| Sep 4, 2014 | 'Plant-based egg' maker Hampton Creek gets new strategy boss, eyes China | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Update at 9:56 a.m. PT: Updated with clarificatio... |
| Sep 4, 2014 | 'Plant-based egg' maker Hampton Creek gets new strategy boss, eyes China | Update at 9:56 a.m. PT: Updated with clarification from Partovi.
Hampton Creek rattled the food and tech worlds when it set out to replace eggs with plant-based alternatives in 2011. Now it’s selling its mayonnaise through retail stores and... |
| Sep 2, 2014 | An Interview With The Potato Salad King Of Ohio, Zack Danger Brown | It’s rare to meet a comedy genius at a Tee Jaye’s Country Place in Columbus, Ohio, but that’s just what I did when I sat down for breakfast with Zack Danger Brown, the guy who blew up the Internet a few weeks ago with his exciting potato sa... |
| Aug 5, 2014 | Kickstarter Serves Up Potato Salad By The Numbers | The now famous potato salad Kickstarter project closed this weekend with a total of $55,492 from 6,911 backers. Kickstarter crunched the campaign numbers in a blog post today and found the majority of those backers came from California or C... |
| Jul 3, 2014 | How A Former Google Data Guy Could Change What We Eat For Breakfast | Hampton Creek, the plant-based egg startup known for its product “Just Mayo,” launched in Dollar Tree this week and is expanding its operations to a 90k square-footfacility in the heart of San Francisco in the next few months. On top of tha... |
| Feb 18, 2014 | Hampton Creek Foods Raises $23M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Hampton Creek Foods has raised $23 million in Series B funding.
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| May 27, 2013 | Hampton Creek Foods Raises $1M in Funding | According to TechCrunch (read here), Hampton Creek Foods, a San Francisco, CA-based food tech startup, raised $1m in funding.
The backer was Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. The company had previously raised $2m from Khosla Ventures.
Founded by... |
| Стартап, получивший яичный белок из дрожжей, привлек $1,7 млн | Миссия расположенной в Сан-Франциско компании Clara Foods – создавать белковые продукты, идентичные по своему качеству натуральным, прямо в лаборатории и без привлечения животных.
В то время как похожий биотех-стартап Hampton Creek сосредот... |
