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| 05.02.2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Hot Honey, Dairy-Free February & Earthshot Prize | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Eleven Madison Park’s new vegan hot honey and Kite Hill’s post-Veganuary dairy-free campaign. New products and la... |
| 04.09.2023 | Plant-Based Greek Yogurt: The 6 Best, Creamiest Vegan Brands To Try | 5 Mins Read From coconut and soy to almonds and oats, there are a host of vegan ingredients that make for a fantastic base for plant-based Greek-style yogurt (or labneh). Here are six of the best offerings on the market.
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| 11.04.2023 | BREAKING: Babybel maker Bel Group invests in AI-powered startup Climax Foods; will co-create ‘best-in-class’ plant-based cheeses | Bel Group—the multinational firm behind cheese brands Babybel, The Laughing Cow, and Boursin—has teamed up with AI-powered startup Climax Foods to develop plant-based versions of its iconic brands for launch in Europe and the US by the end ... |
| 21.03.2023 | Low Calorie Dip and Spread Market Growing With CAGR of 5.5%, Global Industry Analysis and Forecast Till 2033 | Low Calorie Dip and Spread market valued at USD 0.26 Bn in 2022 and is predicted to USD 0.48 Bn by the end of 2031, with growing CAGR of 5.5% from 2023 - 2031.
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, March 21, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Global Low Cal... |
| 04.04.2022 | Impossible Foods’ new CEO starts today. He has some big decisions to make about its future | Today, Patrick Brown steps down as CEO of Impossible Foods – the plant-based protein juggernaut he founded in 2011.
Peter McGuinness, former president and chief operating officer at yogurt brand Chobani, has taken the reins; Brown will rema... |
| 17.01.2020 | A plant-based seafood startup just got a big boost from one of America's biggest and oldest food companies | Flickr / surdna
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General Mills, the company behind popular brands like Cheerios cereal, Yoplait yogurt, and Nature Valley granola bars, is investing in a startup offering plant-based seafood.
General Mills, which has been around f... |
| 10.12.2019 | Plant-Based Yogurt Is Being Milked For All That It’s Worth | Lavva yogurt is made not from dairy, but from the pili nut - a healthy alternative to traditional ... [+] dairy-based yogurts.Lavva |
| 10.09.2019 | Impossible Foods CEO’s Kite Hill Yogurt Brand Secures $15 Million | ©Kite Hill
Vegan yogurt producer Kite Hill has received around $15 million in funding, which in addition to the previous round which saw backing from General Mills, CAVU Venture Partners, and New Crop Capital, brings the total investment to... |
| 10.09.2019 | Impossible Foods CEO’s Kite Hill Yogurt Brand Secures $15 Million | Vegan yogurt producer Kite Hill has received around $15 million in funding, which in addition to the previous round which saw backing from General Mills, CAVU Venture Partners, and New Crop Capital, brings the total investment to around $80... |
| 09.09.2019 | Kite Hill raises $10m to support “dramatic growth” of plant-based dairy empire | CEO Rob Leibowitz was speaking to FoodNavigator-USA after Kite Hill’s brand owner Lyrical Foods revealed in a Sept 6 SEC filing that it had secured $10m in equity from a single investor as part of a $15m offering. The remaining $5m has ... |
| 09.09.2019 | Daily funding roundup - September 9th, 2019 | Drivetime raised $11M; CasperLabs landed $14.5M; Kite Hill closed a $15M
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| 08.09.2019 | Kite Hill, co-founded by the creator of Impossible Foods, looks to be gaining traction, too | Before he founded the plant-based burger company Impossible Foods, Patrick Brown, who spent 25 years as a biochemistry professor at Stanford, also co-founded a Hayward, Ca.-based food company called Kite Hill that has developed numerous nut... |
| 04.03.2019 | Kite Hill unveils new look, new products, at Expo West | Hayward, CA-based Kite Hill - which has raised $65.5m since 2014 from backers including General Mills 301INC and CAVU Venture Partners - almost doubled its revenues last year, and expects to do the same in 2019, CEO Rob Leibowitz told Foo... |
| 23.10.2018 | General Mills Invests $40 Million into Vegan Dairy | General Mills Inc., an American multinational manufacturer, with a portfolio including Cheerios, Betty Crocker, Blue Buffalo, Pillsbury, Haagen-Dazs, Annie’s and Cascadian Farm, has announced that they are leading $40 million of funding int... |
| 23.10.2018 | Kite Hill secures $40 million investment from 301 INC, CAVU | HAYWARD, CALIF. — Kite Hill, a maker of artisanal nut milk cheeses and yogurts, has completed a $40 million capital round led by 301 INC, the business development and venturing unit of General Mills, Inc. CAVU Venture Partners also particip... |
| 22.10.2018 | Kite Hill seals $40m investment round led by General Mills' 301 INC | Kite Hill brand owner Lyrical Foods closed an $18m fundraising round also led by 301 Inc. in 2016 with 301 INC. founder and managing director, John Haugen, serving as interim CEO until Leibowitz took over in February 2018.
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| 22.10.2018 | Term Sheet — Monday, October 22 | ‘EMERGING NEW WORLD OF VC’
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| 19.10.2018 | Kite Hill Closes $40M Capital Raise |
HAYWARD, CA, Kite Hill announced the completion of a $40 million capital round led by 301 INC.
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| 19.10.2018 | Kite Hill Closes $40M Funding Round | Kite Hill, a Hayward, CA-based maker of chef-inspired plant-based foods, completed a $40m funding.
The round, which expected to close within a month, was led by 301 INC, the new business development and venturing unit at General Mills, with... |
| 03.04.2018 | Where’s the beef? For Impossible Foods it’s in boosting burger sales and raising hundreds of millions | Any company that’s looking to replace the more than 5 billion pounds of ground beef making its way onto tables in the U.S. every year with a meatless substitute is going to need a lot of cash.
It’s a big vision with lots of implications for... |
| 04.01.2018 | NMPF ups ante in plant-based dairy labeling debate... but is the FDA listening? | Jenny Berrien, VP of marketing for Kite Hill – which makes almondmilk-based ‘cheeses,’ ‘yogurts’ and other products – was speaking to FoodNavigator-USA after the NMPF wrote to the FDA and the California Dept of Agriculture to accuse t... |
| 08.09.2017 | Israeli No-Waste Plant-based Yogurt Yofix Raises $2m Series A | Israeli plant-based yogurt maker Yofix has raised a $2 million Series A round led by Strauss Health, an Israeli food and beverage manufacturer. Individual investors from the US, UK, and Israel also participated in the round.
Yofix makes a s... |
| 11.07.2017 | Land O’Lakes Hopes to Boost Animal-Based Dairy with Startup Accelerator in Face of Alternative Competition | Land O’Lakes, the Minnesotan agricultural cooperative and food brand business, has created a dairy entrepreneurship program to support dairy product startups that are at a plateau and have a hard time reaching scale, according to Patrick Aa... |
| 28.07.2016 | Which consumer brands are the most innovative? CircleUp picks the top 25 for 2016 | The CircleUp25 list of winning companies was first published in Forbes on Thursday with all comments in italics below from Ryan Caldbeck, founder and CEO of CircleUp, an online marketplace that connects investors with consumer and retai... |
| 08.06.2016 | Kite Hill Raises $18m from General Mills’ VC for Plant-Based Dairy Products | Northern California-based Kite Hill, a plant-based dairy alternative startup, has raised $18 million in a round led by 301 INC, General Mills’ new business development and venturing unit, and CAVU Venture Partners, a consumer growth equity ... |
| 20.05.2016 | Plant Based Food Maker Kite Hill Closes $18M Venture Capital Funding | Kite Hill, a Hayward, Northern California-based company that makes a line of artisanal nut milk cheeses and yogurts, closed an $18m funding round.
The round was led by 301 INC, General Mills’ new business development and venturing unit, and... |
| 20.05.2016 | Kite Hill Closes $18M Funding Round |
HAYWARD, CA, Northern California-based company that first gained notice for its ground-breaking line of artisanal nut milk cheeses and yogurts, today announced that it closed $18M round.
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| 19.05.2016 | Kite Hill closes $18m funding round led by Gen Mills 301 Inc & CAVU: 'We are growing very aggressively' | Founded by vegan chef Tal Ronnen, cheesemaker Monte Casino and Stanford biochemist Dr Pat Brown, brand owner Lyrical Foods makes almond milk from nuts and water, and then cultures it using proprietary cultures and enzymes to separate it out... |
| 03.04.2016 | Health Foods Of The Future At The World’s Largest Natural Products Expo | 1
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Thanks to our other jobs as co-founders of Ekowarehouse, a global B2B trade platform for certified organic and ecolabel products, we get to attend awesome natural and organic product trade shows all over the world. Sin... |
| 17.03.2016 | New Crop Capital Closes $25m Fund, Invests in Beyond Meat | A new venture capital firm focused on investing in plant and culture-based meat, egg and dairy alternatives has closed a $25 million fund. New Crop Capital has already invested in a substantial list of companies in the subsector, which it a... |
| 02.12.2015 | Advice For Higher-Yielding Agriculture Startups | Gabriel Wilmoth Contributor
Gabriel Wilmoth is an investment manager at Syngenta Ventures and has spent more than a decade helping farmers and ag innovators become more profitable and more sustainable.
With interest and investment in food a... |
| 06.10.2015 | Impossible Foods Raises a Whopping $108 Million For Its Plant-Based Burgers | Impossible Foods, a four-year-old, Redwood City, Ca.-based company at work on a new generation of meats and cheeses made entirely from plants, has raised $108 million in new funding from a powerful group of backers.
Investors in the round, ... |
