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| Aug 18, 2026 | Perfect Day is Coming Out of ‘Incognito Mode’ With Its Animal-Free Whey | 9 Mins Read Californian startup Perfect Day has spent two years in the sheds to solve the cost and scalability challenges of precision fermentation. Now, with the whey market in overdrive, it’s re-emerging as a “fundamentally stronger” busi... |
| Jul 24, 2026 | ‘Not Your Average Chickpea’: NuCicer Unveils Higher-Protein Version of Beloved Bean | 4 Mins Read Californian agtech startup NuCicer has introduced Nuchi, a new class of chickpeas with 50% more protein and 25% less fat than conventional varieties.
The protein craze has birthed its newest tech-led innovation: ultra-high-prote... |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Molecular Farming Startup Plantopia Bags $9M to Grow Dairy Proteins in Oats | 4 Mins Read Israeli food tech startup Plantopia has secured $9M in funding to establish a molecular farming facility to produce casein proteins within sprouted oats.
Plantopia, a molecular farming firm growing dairy proteins in oats, has ra... |
| Jul 22, 2026 | As Supply Chain Pressures Grow, Oregon Company Earns National Award for Sustainable Sourcing Leadership | Cameron Stearns, CEO/CFO of Mountain Rose Herbs.
Mountain Rose Herbs Honored with NBJ Stewardship & Sustainability Award for Industry Leading Environmental and Community Impact
Mountain Rose Herbs has pioneered a holistic approach to su... |
| Jul 6, 2026 | Nutrition From Water to Take Equity Stake in PhycoFerm to Accelerate Microalgae Strain Development | 4 Mins Read Food tech startup Nutrition From Water has agreed to make an equity investment in Portugal’s PhycoFerm, formalising a joint R&D collaboration to accelerate microalgae strain generation.
New Zealand-Portuguese startup Nutriti... |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Vivici Earns $14.4M EU Funding to Expand Animal-Free Dairy Protein Platform | 4 Mins Read Dutch precision fermentation startup Vivici has secured €12.5M ($14.4M) in funding from the European Innovation Council to scale up and expand its footprint for cow-free whey proteins.
A year after raising €32.5M in a Series A r... |
| Jun 12, 2026 | No Whey: How Future Food Startups Are Plugging the Protein Shortage | 10 Mins Read Whey is everywhere, but relentless demand puts it at risk of being nowhere. To address the shortage, manufacturers must turn to alternative protein sources.
Food companies are scrambling to load protein into everything, and the... |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Two River Gourmet Mushrooms Wins NEXTY Award at Natural Products Expo West 2026 | New Jersey organic mushroom farm takes top honors in Functional Food and Beverage category; brand on track for 2,000-store distribution by year's end
MILLSTONE, N.J., March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Two River Gourmet Mushrooms, a ... |
| Mar 26, 2026 | OUT OF THE JUNGLE AND INTO THE SPOTLIGHT: BIG TREE FARMS WINS 2026 NEXTY AWARD FOR ORIGINAL NAUGHTY BALI BBQ SAUCE | After nearly 25 years in Bali’s jungles, the brand emerges with an award-winning BBQ sauce delivering elevated street food flavor to home kitchens ANAHEIM, CA, UNITED STATES, March 26, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- After nearly 25 years workin... |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan ‘Proffee’, Bread Waste Pasta & Slutty Vegan | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Gregorys Coffee’s plant protein coffee, Wasted’s upcycled pasta, and a new plant-based meat brand in Thailand. Ne... |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Opinion: Why Functional Mushrooms Are Ready For Prime Time | 4 Mins Read Gali Artzi, partner and CTO at VC firm PeakBridge, suggests that science is finally catching up to ancient tradition with functional mushrooms – and investors are watching.
While consumers wade through wellness trends and superf... |
| Aug 11, 2025 | REVEALING STUDY HAS REJUVANT LEADING THE LONGEVITY PACK | Renowned Longevity Researcher Reveals Highlights of New Study to NBJ Conference Guests
FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla., Aug. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Brian Kennedy, one of the world's leading Longevity researchers, gave a keynote presentati... |
| Apr 24, 2025 | Compound Foods launches ingredient platform to future proof coffee and cocoa | Compound Foods, the San Francisco-based startup behind the ‘Minus’ beanless coffee brand, has moved into the b2b arena with an ingredients platform offering cocoa, coffee, and chocolate alternatives to manufacturers looking to “future proof... |
| Mar 12, 2025 | Nature’s Fynd, Yo Egg & Nuts for Cheese Among Winners of Expo West NEXTY Awards 2025 | Natural Products Expo West has revealed the winners of its annual NEXTY Awards, which recognize the best of the natural products industry.
161 finalists were selected, before being narrowed down to one winner in each of 34 categories. Three... |
| 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... |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Business | Boulder Chamber celebrates business leadership | The Boulder Chamber honored business leaders for their innovation and impact Wednesday at its annual Celebration of Leadership event.
Doug Greene, founder of New Hope Network, received the Franny Reich Lifetime Achievement Award, while the ... |
| Mar 12, 2024 | Minnesota Brands Bringing Local Flavor to California Trade Show | Ten Minnesota food and beverage companies are bringing local flavors to Natural Products Expo West (NPEW), the world’s largest natural foods trade show. The brands will exhibit as part of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s (MDA) Minn... |
| Mar 11, 2024 | Recoup's New Sparkling Prebiotic Beverage Named Finalist for Prestigious NEXTY Award | Recoup Lemon Lime Ginger NEXTY Finalist
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The Lemon Lime Ginger flavor, selected as a finalist, is one of three new flavors launching this spring from Recoup.
We are honored to be recognized as a finalist for the NEXTY Award in th... |
| Jan 31, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Dupe Cheese, Squeezy Sour Cream & TikTok Butter | 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 a ton of alt-dairy developments, more discussions around bann... |
| Oct 5, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Umiami raises $34.7m for plant-based whole cuts, Bonsai Robotics bags $13.5m, Blue Apron to sell for$103m | This week, French plant-based meat startup Umiami snagged €32.5m ($34.7m) to take its whole cuts platform to the US; Australian precision fermentation startup Eden Brew raised A$24.4m ($15.3m) to scale up animal-free casein production; and ... |
| Mar 10, 2023 | Why Patagonia’s First Acquisition In 20 Years Is a Regen Cracker Company Called Moonshot | 3 Mins Read Patagonia Provisions, the food and beverage arm of outdoor giant Patagonia, has announced the acquisition of Moonshot, a snack brand that is known for its environmentally-friendly and sustainable practices.
The acquisition, whic... |
| Mar 6, 2023 | Natural Products Expo West Announces 5 Emerging Trends Industry Watchers Will See at the Event March 7-11 at the Anaheim Convention Center | New Hope Network's Team of Experts Looks at the Big Picture for 2023 and Examines How Natural & Organic Product Trends Will Evolve in the Year Ahead
ANAHEIM, Calif., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Informa Markets' Natural Produ... |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Kyowa Hakko USA Celebrates Launch of CENTR Enhanced Functional Sparkling Water featuring Cognizin® Citicoline | NEW YORK (PRWEB) February 09, 2023
Kyowa Hakko USA is excited to announce the launch of CENTR Enhanced sparkling water, a functional beverage with a blend of nootropic and adaptogenic ingredients that includes its Cognizin® citicoline.
The ... |
| Dec 18, 2022 | Why The Federal Reserve Can’t Solve Food Price Inflation | Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Digging into the next food revolution with former Obama policy advisor and VC Sam Kass | Editor’s Note: New Food Order is a new podcast brought to by AFN’s parent company AgFunder in collaboration with Food+Tech Connect, co-hosted by AgFunder’s Louisa Burwood-Taylor and Food+Tech Connect’s Danielle Gould.
The views expressed in... |
| Nov 16, 2022 | NEW FOOD ORDER 🎙: Is the world better off with your business in it? With Paul Polman | In episode two of New Food Order, the new podcast brought to you by AgFunder (AFN‘s parent company) and Food+Tech Connect, Danielle and I speak with the inspiring Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever from 2009 to 2019 and author of “Net Posi... |
| Sep 21, 2022 | Kvarøy Arctic Wins Expo East’s 2022 NEXTY Awards For Best New Frozen Product | Kvarøy Arctic Salmon Hot Dogs
Kvarøy Island, Norway (PRWEB) September 21, 2022
Kvarøy Arctic (pronounced "Kwa-ray"), a third-generation family business that sustainably raises Atlantic salmon along Norway’s Arctic Circle, is pleas... |
| Jun 22, 2022 | Clif Bar, Kellogg, and Honest Tea: Major Shakeups Come to Multinational Food Giants | 5 Mins Read
Kellogg is splitting into three divisions to foster growth, Clif Bar finally sells out, and Honest Tea gets CPR as the founders swoop in after Coca-Cola announces plans to discontinue the legacy brand.
Michigan-based cereal gian... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | Procaps S A : Group Announces Capacity Expansion Plans in the United States with Construction of New Gummy Manufacturing Facility in Florida - Form 6-K | Procaps Group Announces Capacity Expansion Plans in the United States with Construction of New Gummy Manufacturing Facility in Florida
New Funtrition Gummy Manufacturing Facility in Florida Slated to be Fully Operational by Q1 2023
Producti... |
| May 10, 2021 | Health Supplements For Staying Fit, Focused And Ageless This Summer | Natural and safe supplements now available in the market are essential for getting lean, toned and ... [+] strong this summer. getty |
| Apr 20, 2021 | Do we really need vitamin startups? | More of us are taking vitamins than ever before.
Spurred on by the rise of the wellness industry, the pills’ popularity has grown, from Gwyneth Paltrow’s subscription vitamin packs — called things like “Madame Ovary” and “High School Genes”... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | Raising The Sustainability Bar With Generation R: The Re: Generation | The Nature Wrap by One Golden Thread is handcrafted, artisan-dyed tree fiber. Every Nature Wrap ... [+] sold replenishes nature by planting trees in biodiversities around the world where it’s needed most.Katarina Benzova | One Golden Thread... |
| Jan 5, 2021 | 7 Food And Lifestyle Trends That Will Define 2021 | getty |
| Nov 12, 2020 | People who take multivitamins say they feel healthier, but it may just be a placebo effect, a study found | The perceived health benefits of multivitamins may be due to a placebo effect, a new study suggests.
Researchers did not find any measurable health advantages between people who took multivitamins and those who didn’t.
People who took vitam... |
| Apr 14, 2020 | Launch For Tofurky’s Vegan Dairy Brand Moocho is Disrupted and “In Limbo” For Now | Speaking with the New Hope Network, Jaime Athos, CEO of Tofurky, speaks about the postponement of Tofurky’s new sister brand Moocho, which had been due to launch at Natural Products Expo West 2020, commenting that the new products aren’t “a... |
| Oct 22, 2019 | Tofurky Debuts First Alt Meat Burger | Tofurky is a well-loved brand which has been a part of the plantbased market for almost four decades. The Oregon based company announced this April that it had secured a $7 million investment from an outside, undisclosed source, and that re... |
| Jul 26, 2019 | Plant-based proteins’ popularity nothing new to Boulder natural food companies | As the plant-based foods movement gathers momentum among consumers nationwide, Boulder continues to build upon its reputation as mecca of the food and beverage industry, attracting new companies in the plant-based foods sector.
Boulder has ... |
| Sep 2, 2016 | Stop applying tech principles to consumer startups | Sophie Bakalar Contributor
Sophie invests in consumer products at Collaborative Fund in New York.
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| May 3, 2016 | Enjoy Life Foods: The US gluten-free market is still growing in excess of 25% year-on-year | Speaking at a webinar on the ‘free-from’ category organized by New Hope Network on April 28, Joel Warady, chief sales & marketing officer at Enjoy Life Foods, said: “The US gluten-free market is still growing in excess of 25% year on y... |
| Enduring Changes: What the World Will Look Like Post COVID-19 | We are now a few months into the most significant public health and economic crisis we have seen in several generations. The impact of this virus and the subsequent shutdowns of cities across the globe has made itself clear across an ever g... |
