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| Jan 13, 2025 | LIVEKINDLY Collective Names Bart Wolfert as Global Head of Operations | LIVEKINDLY Collective (LKC), a global group of plant-based food brands, has announced Bart Wolfert as its new Global Head of Operations. In his role, Wolfert will oversee operations across LKC’s three manufacturing facilities located in Oss... |
| Sep 5, 2024 | Fry’s Launches the “First” Shapeable Plant-Based Mince to Be Available in UK Supermarkets | Meat alternatives brand Fry’s Family Foods has announced the launch of a new product, Shape & Sizzle Mince, at Tesco stores UK-wide.
The company believes the product is the first ever shapeable plant-based mince to be available in UK su... |
| Jul 25, 2024 | The Cultured Meat Conundrum: Navigating Morals and Market Trends**
** | ** The future of food is here, and it’s cultivated. As alternative proteins gain traction, a recent study sheds light on the moral compass guiding consumer attitudes toward these innovations. The study, conducted by researchers from the UK ... |
| Jul 24, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Baby Ribs, Believe in Chickens & An Alt-Protein Week | 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 VFC’s ad in response to KFC’s new campaign, a new oat milk co... |
| Jun 24, 2022 | Leftovers: Land O'Lakes cuts corners on butter; Saputo spreads into plant-based cheese | 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 28, 2022 | Betterland Foods: “Cow-Free Milk” Made With Perfect Day Whey Protein | Betterland Foods is a US foodtech company that has developed highly realistic “cow-free milk” with whey protein made via precision fermentation.
The company was founded by Lizanne Falsetto, who previously founded protein bar company think!.... |
| Feb 22, 2022 | Brief: Wildtype reels in $100m to make sushi-grade cultivated salmon ‘ubiquitous’ | Cultivated seafood company Wildtype has raised a $100 million Series B “to make its product ubiquitous,” according to TechCrunch, which broke the news. L Catterton, Cargill, Bezos Expeditions, Temasek, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Robert Downey J... |
| Jan 14, 2022 | Plant-based seafood analogs debut in Europe for “Veganuary” | Plant-based seafood analog suppliers are gaining new access to foodservice outlets and debuting new products across Europe to celebrate "Veganuary."
Berlin, Germany-based Betta!Fish debuted TU-NAH Pizza this month, after rolling o... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Drake-Backed Daring Foods Gets $65 Million From Steve Aoki, Naomi Osaka and More | Backed by pop star Drake, Daring Foods raised $65 million in new funding from DJ Steve Aoki, tennis star Naomi Osaka and others, the faux-chicken company told dot.LA on Tuesday.
Founders Fund led the round. NFL quarterback Cameron Newton, T... |
| Sep 20, 2021 | Miyoko’s Creamery CEO on $52m funding, federal court victory & vegan cheese fails | “Vegan cheese has been the laughing stock of the food industry because it has been crap,” Miyoko Schinner tells AFN. “It’s fake food for the most part and we need to turn that around. We need to make real cheese out of real food ingredients... |
| Sep 14, 2021 | LIVEKINDLY Collective Pushes Plant-Based Shift with Launch of Virtual Vegan Cooking Platform | On a mission to make plant-based living the new norm, LIVEKINDLY Collective is opening the world’s largest virtual plant-based kitchen. Featuring 11 internationally recognized chefs and over 50 unique recipes, the virtual kitchen will help ... |
| May 12, 2021 | Icon: A Monster $550M Round Feeding The Plant-Based Revolution | Two years ago, I made the leap to plant-based eating and never looked back (here’s why I jumped). Vegans in the 20th century had it hard. Today, we have sizzling burgers, creamy milk, cheesy pizzas - basically if you crave it, plants can ma... |
| Apr 21, 2021 | Black-Owned Vegan Burger Brand Lands $300,000 Investment on 'Shark Tank'; Reached Six-Figure Revenues Within 24 Hours | April 21, 2021 3 min read This story originally appeared on Black Enterprise
Everything Legendary founders pitched their vegan burger brand on season 12 of ABC’s hit TV show “Shark Tank.” After striking a deal with Mark Cuban, Everything Le... |
| Mar 30, 2021 | Livekindly Collective Raises $335M in Funding | Livekindly Collective, a NYC-based collection of plant-based food companies, raised $335m in funding.
The round, which included $135m converted from a prior round, was led by The Rise Fund, with participation from existing investor Rabo Cor... |
| Mar 29, 2021 | LIVEKINDLY Collective : Raises $335 Million to Accelerate Adoption of Plant-Based Living and Sustainability in the Global Food System | LIVEKINDLY Collective, a collection of heritage and start-up brands on track to become one of the world’s largest plant-based food companies, today announced a successful capital raise led by The Rise Fund, the global impact investing platf... |
| Mar 29, 2021 | LIVEKINDLY Collective Raises $335 Million to Accelerate Adoption of Plant-Based Living and Sustainability in the Global Food System | New York -- LIVEKINDLY Collective, a collection of heritage and start-up brands on track to become one of the world’s largest plant-based food companies, today announced a successful capital raise led by The Rise Fund, the global impact inv... |
| Mar 29, 2021 | LiveKindly raises $335 million | NEW YORK — LiveKindly Collective, a collection of heritage and startup plant-based brands, closed a $335 million funding round led by The Rise Fund. Existing investors Rabo Corporate Investments and S2G Ventures also participated in the rou... |
| Mar 29, 2021 | LIVEKINDLY Collective raises $335m fueling US market ambitions | The funding round was led by global impact investing platform, The Rise Fund (which manages more than $5bn in assets across its platform), while other investors in the round include existing investor Rabo Corporate Investments (the investme... |
| Mar 29, 2021 | Brief: Plant-based house of brands Livekindly Collective nets $335m funding | The Livekindly Collective — “a collection of heritage and start-up brands” marketing plant-based food products — has raised $335 million in a funding round led by TPG Capital‘s The Rise Fund.
Rabo Corporate Investments — the VC arm of Rabob... |
| Dec 7, 2020 | If Current Levels Of Meat Production Are Unsustainable, What's The Alternative? | Photo by John Gress /Corbis via Getty Images |
| Dec 6, 2020 | Jeff Bezos’ $800 Million Missed Opportunity To Transform The Climate Movement | Sep 19 2019: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the founding of Amazon's Climate Pledge at the ... [+] National Press Club on September 19, 2019 in Washington, DC.Getty Images for Amazon |
| Oct 22, 2020 | Plant-Based Food Firm LIVEKINDLY Collective Raises US$135M For Portfolio Brands Launch & Expansion | 1
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The LIVEKINDLY Collective, a plant-based food company formerly known as Foods United that rebranded after the acquisition of the vegan media publisher of the same name earlier this year, has announced that it has secur... |
| Oct 21, 2020 | TOP 10 AgTech Startups in the USA | AgTech or Agricultural Technology means using technology in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture with the goal of improving yield, productivity, profit and beneficialness. |
| Oct 18, 2020 | Неделя foodtech за 5 минут: коллаборация роботов, foodtech-стартап года, сделки на сотни миллионов | Всем привет! На этой неделе роботы пожали свои моторизированные руки и договорились о партнерстве в направлении доставки пиццы. Smart Kitchen Summit объявил лучший foodtech-стартап 2020 года. Livekindly и Plenty получили более 100 миллионов... |
| Oct 15, 2020 | Livekindly raises $135 million | NEW YORK — Global plant-based food company Livekindly Collective secured $135 million in a funding round led by Blue Horizon Corp.
Proceeds from the capital raise will be used to increase capacity and accelerate the 2021 nationwide US launc... |
| Oct 15, 2020 | LIVEKINDLY Collective raises $135m gearing up for 2021 US launch of plant-based portfolio | Additional investors in the recent capital raise, which brought the company's total funding to $335m, include global investment organization EQT, Griffith Foods, a syndicate from Asia led by Trustbridge Partners, and other existing sharehol... |
| Oct 14, 2020 | LIVEKINDLY Collective Receives Funding of $135M to Expand its Portfolio Brands into USA | LIVEKINDLY Collective, founded this year by Blue Horizon Corporation upon the acquisition of various plant meat brands as well as LiveKindly Media, announces a successful capital raise of $135 million led by Blue Horizon Corporation itself ... |
| Oct 1, 2020 | Poultry Giant PHW Launches Plant-Based Brand ‘Green Legend’ and Will Partner with The LIVEKINDLY Collective For Upcoming Launch | Green Legend/ PHW, image supplied
German poultry giant PHW states that its entrance into the alternative protein market is based on four pillars: its own brand vegan products in the new Green Legend range; sales partnerships; strategic part... |
| Oct 1, 2020 | Poultry Giant PHW Launches Plant-Based Brand ‘Green Legend’ and Will Partner with The LIVEKINDLY Collective For Upcoming Launch | German poultry giant PHW states that its entrance into the alternative protein market is based on four pillars: its own brand vegan products in the new Green Legend range; sales partnerships; strategic participations; and finally the establ... |
| Sep 15, 2020 | Snoop Dogg On Plant-Based Foods, Investments, Cannabis, The Munchies, Martha Stewart | Snoop DoggCourtesy Photo |
| Aug 26, 2020 | Burger Wars: Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Fight Back – Read Their Official Rebuttals to Lightlife | Yesterday, in a bold and heavily criticised move, Lightlife Foods published an open letter to Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods through a full page ad in the New York Times, stating: “Enough with the hyper processed ingredients” and claiming... |
| Aug 26, 2020 | Burger Wars: Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Fight Back – Read Their Official Rebuttals to Lightlife | ©Impossible Foods
Yesterday, in a bold and heavily criticised move, Lightlife Foods published an open letter to Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods through a full page ad in the New York Times, stating: “Enough with the hyper processed ingredi... |
| Aug 17, 2020 | The meatpacking industry is an incubator for AI, automation, and COVID-19 | This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series: Automation and jobs in the new normal.
In early spring 2020, Smithfield, Tyson, and other industrial food suppliers warned that upwards of millions of pounds of meat could di... |
| Jul 23, 2020 | Why Haven’t E-Commerce Firms Started Carbon Labeling Yet? | Should each product sold on e-commerce sites be carbon labeled?getty |
| Jun 2, 2020 | Future Food 🎙️: Oatly co-founder on scaling alt milk and the need for local food production | From IT to oat milk, Bjorn Oste started working with his oat milk-inventing brother Rickard in the 1990s to build Oatly, the widely recognized, Sweden-born plant-based milk company, known for its quirky marketing campaigns.
More recently, i... |
| May 6, 2020 | 5 Signs Plant-Based Food Tech Investment Is Heating Up Amid Covid-19 Supply Shock | 1
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Startups working on plant-based substitutes for animal products are now raking in capital as investor sentiment for the conventional meat industry goes awry. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of in... |
| May 6, 2020 | 5 Signs Plant-Based Food Tech Investment Is Heating Up Amid Covid-19 Supply Shock | Article by Sally Ho for Green Queen
Startups working on plant-based substitutes for animal products are now raking in capital as investor sentiment for the conventional meat industry goes awry. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the vulne... |
| Apr 2, 2020 | High-Carbon Products Should Have Smoking-Style Health Warnings, Experts Say | 1
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A group of public health experts are urging authorities to use smoking-style graphic imagery on high-carbon products that are damaging to the climate, such as petrol pumps, plane tickets and energy bills. The warning l... |
| Mar 19, 2020 | With $200m fresh funding, Livekindly joins the global plant-based protein peloton | The Livekindly Company — a collective of plant-based brands — lifted the lid this month on a $200-million founders’ funding round, a move designed to help its brands keep pace with an increasingly competitive peloton of global plant-based p... |
| Mar 7, 2020 | No More Chicken: KFC Branch To Go 100% Meat-Free For Week Without Meat | 1
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A branch of KFC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands will be replacing all chicken with meat-free Quorn products to mark the national “Week Without Meat” initiative, which will be taking place across the country this year fro... |
| Dec 4, 2019 | Costco is Selling Nestlé’s Awesome Burger | According to Live Kindly, last month Costco stores around Texas and the Midwest area began selling Awesome Burger patties, produced by Nestlé brand Sweet Earth, with the move going unnanounced. The burgers are being sold in bulk with each b... |
| Nov 5, 2019 | Consumer Trends: Study Proves We Need Carbon Emission Labels On Our Food | 4
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In a 2018 study, researchers found that a front-of-pack carbon emissions label can drive more eco-friendly food choices amongst consumers. According to the scientists involved in the study, one of the most crucial cha... |
| Oct 14, 2019 | Sainsbury’s Reponds to Tesco’s Huge Vegan Expansion With Plant Pioneer Line | UK supermarket giant Tesco last month made a widespread announcement about the expansion of its Wicked Kitchen line, created by chef Derek Sarno, as well as its new affordable line Plant Chef, and the launch of dedicated veggie areas in the... |
| Jun 27, 2019 | Olivia Fox Cabane: Meat & Dairy – The Kodak Moment | For this feature we are very pleased to welcome a special guest contributor, one who is extremely well-respected in our vegan world and will be well-known to most of our readers. Olivia Fox Cabane is the founder & CEO of The Global Alte... |
| May 2, 2019 | 33 items you should buy at Costco — and 14 more you should skip every time | Food 33 items you should buy at Costco — and 14 more you should skip every time
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| Apr 29, 2019 | Burger King will roll out the Impossible Burger nationwide by the end of the year | The Impossible Whopper’s debut at Burger King has gone from a not-April-Fool’s-joke to a nationwide rollout by year-end.
Originally launched on April 1st at 58 restaurants in St. Louis, the Impossible Burger will be on Burger King menus in ... |
| Mar 11, 2019 | Plant-Based JUST Egg Launches Soon In China, Continues Work on Cell-Cultured Chicken Nugget | 19
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Silicon Valley foodtech startup, JUST, has announced plans to roll out their innovative vegan egg product in mainland China through a multi-channel approach in the coming months. JUST Egg, made from mung beans and f... |
| Feb 10, 2019 | Asia’s Ready: Alternative Proteins Are The Future, Say Industry Leaders | 31
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Rethink Agri-food Innovation Week premiered in Singapore November 27-29 2018 with the goal of going deep on technology’s role in addressing the most pressing food issues of our time, including meeting the growing gl... |
| Feb 6, 2019 | Why 2019 is The Year of the Mushroom | Editor’s Note: Andrew Carter is cofounder and CEO of Smallhold, a distributed farming pioneer, placing connected, autonomous mini-farms throughout the Northeast of the US–each capable of growing between 30 and 120 pounds of produce a week i... |
| Jan 2, 2019 | Nestlé to Launch Incredible Burger | © Nestlé
Big Food is slowly but surely cashing in on veganism. According to Bloomberg, Nestlé SA intends to use the global increase in veganism to their advantage and create a billion-dollar business out of plant-based products. The world’s... |
| Jan 2, 2019 | Nestlé to Launch Incredible Burger | Big Food is slowly but surely cashing in on veganism. According to Bloomberg, Nestlé SA intends to use the global increase in veganism to their advantage and create a billion-dollar business out of plant-based products. The world’s biggest ... |
| Dec 11, 2018 | LIVEKINDLY’s Jodi Monelle: “It’s My Mission to Positively Impact as Many Lives as Possible” | Plant-based media company LIVEKINDLY is the home of informative and thought-provoking content focusing on sustainable and compassionate living. Launched in Spring 2017, LIVEKINDLY quickly became a global success across North America and oth... |
| Dec 7, 2018 | NYC Hosts New Class: Fundraising 101 – Vegan Style | LIVEKINDLY has announced the launch of a fundraising class for vegan entrepreneurs with athletic clothing company Lululemon’s HUB seventeen, alongside Class Rebel, an education company dedicated to sharing insights into private investing an... |
| Nov 12, 2018 | Wu-Tang Clan Leader RZA Launches Vegan Lipstick | The Wu-Tang Clan has collaborated with Milk Makeup on a line of vegan lipsticks. The collection is called Wu-Tang x Milk Makeup, and is inspired by the group’s passion for Shaolin Kung Fu.
Billboard reported that member and leader of Wu-Tan... |
| Aug 15, 2018 | 10 Reasons You Need To Eat Less Meat: All The Facts | 156
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Not sure why everyone you know is suddenly going meatless? Unless you live in a cave, you will have noticed that there are more and more headlines about people going vegan and about the negative environmental and ... |
| Jul 30, 2018 | Canadian Milk Consumption Declines, According to Report | Declining demand for milk has already prompted many milk producers to rethink; large companies such as Danone and Dean Foods have taken steps towards developing vegan alternatives. The Canadian federal authority Statistics Canada has also l... |
| Apr 26, 2018 | A Vegan Pork Startup Hopes to Win Over Meat-Loving China | During Saturday Night Live’s early-90s golden era, Mike Myers played Linda Richman, the sequin sweater-wearing, New York-accented host of “Coffee Talk,” who liked starting conversations about the incongruous naming conventions of various it... |
| Apr 19, 2018 | Impossible Foods Vegan Burger Made From Plants Launches in Hong Kong, First City Outside of USA | 1
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All hail the Impossible Foods meatless vegan burger patty that bleeds! Hong Kong is fast becoming one of the most exciting plant-based dining scenes in the world – just weeks after the revolutionary JUST Scramble eggle... |
| Apr 10, 2018 | The Future of GREENovation Forum 2018: A Vision For A Plant-Based Planet | 4 Mins Read
From pills to plants, smart phones to smart foods, and explosion of plant-based food brands in recent years, we are taking moves in the right direction for a more sustainable planet. While we still have a long way to go, countri... |
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| Hungarian Startup Makes Vegan Deli Meat From Bananas | A new vegan deli meat range is set to hit the plant-based protein market - and it’s made from bananas. Hungarian-based food startup Plantcraft creates the nutrient-dense, clean-label deli meats. It also carries vegan pate. |
