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| Aug 21, 2024 | Coway and De Novo Foodlabs: Pioneering Wellness Innovations in Air and Nutrition | In a world increasingly aware of health and wellness, two companies are stepping into the spotlight. Coway and De Novo Foodlabs are not just players; they are game-changers. Each company tackles a different aspect of well-being—air quality ... |
| Aug 20, 2024 | De Novo Foodlabs to Revolutionize Health & Wellness Market with Anti-Aging, Animal-Free Lactoferrin | The US-based precision fermentation company De Novo Foodlabs announces it has secured new funding to expedite the commercialization of its flagship ingredient, NanoFerrin.
NanoFerrin is said to be a “nature-identical” alternative to bovine ... |
| Aug 20, 2024 | De Novo Foodlabs Secures Funding from Industry-Backed VC for Precision-Fermented Lactoferrin Protein | 4 Mins Read Precision fermentation startup De Novo Foodlabs has raised $1.5M in funding for its NanoFerrin protein from Joyful Ventures, a VC firm backed by alternative protein leaders.
North Carolina-based De Novo Foodlabs, which is making... |
| May 16, 2024 | Empowering Women in Veganism: Inside the Vegan Women Summit 2024 | The Vegan Women Summit 2024 took place at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California, on May 9 and 10, drawing nearly 1,000 attendees from six continents. With over 100 speakers and brands, the summit celebrated the contributio... |
| Feb 20, 2024 | The Vegan Women Summit Returns to Hollywood Showcasing Female Leadership in Vegan Business | The Vegan Women Summit (VWS) is returning for its 4th year, scheduled for May 9 and 10, 2024, at the Pacific Design Center in Hollywood. The summit is a global event that brings together women leaders in vegan business, featuring speakers, ... |
| Jan 17, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Ben & Berry’s, Better Butter & A Covid-19 Study | 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 Ben & Jerry’s new oat milk ice-creams, Beyond Meat’s new ... |
| Nov 21, 2023 | Vegan Women Summit Introduces VWS Awards Recognizing Female Leadership Impact | To celebrate innovation in women’s leadership, sustainability, and animal welfare on a global scale, The Vegan Women Summit (VWS) has announced the “VWS Awards.” This marks the first-ever recognition event of its kind, designed to acknowled... |
| May 12, 2023 | Got Wood Milk? MilkPEP spoof ad sparks debate, but will it revive flagging fluid milk sales? | “Wood Milk started with a simple idea,” says actress Aubrey Plaza in a recent spoof ad from MilkPEP, the dairy industry-backed body behind the iconic ‘Got Milk’ ads. “I saw a tree and I asked myself: Can I drink this?”
The answer is yes, sa... |
| Apr 24, 2023 | Female-Led Food Tech, Cultivated Meat Take the Spotlight at Vegan Women Summit | 3 Mins Read New Yorkers are getting a taste of cultivated meat and other novel food tech products at the Vegan Women Summit coming to Brooklyn next month.
The Future of Food showcase, taking place at the May 19th New York Vegan Women Summit... |
| Apr 14, 2023 | Meet Jennifer Stojkovic, General Partner at Joyful Ventures | Joyful Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in alternative protein sources
Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed! While... |
| Mar 1, 2023 | HotelPlanner Partners with the Vegan Women Summit as their Exclusive Hotel Provider | WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (PRWEB) March 01, 2023
HotelPlanner, a leading travel technology platform and hotel booking engine, today announced a service provider partnership with the Vegan Women Summit (VWS), produced in partnership with Spire, ... |
| Apr 30, 2022 | The Vegan Women’s Summit Brought 800 Women Together for One Day. This Is What It Was Like Being One of Them. | 6 Mins Read
On a sunny and very hot Friday this past April, I attended the Vegan Women Summit (VWS) in downtown Los Angeles. The all-day event took place at the City Market Social House and brought together 800 vegan female vegan powerhouse... |
| Apr 8, 2022 | Vegan Women Summit 2022 Returns to Inspire Rising Women Leaders | The Vegan Women Summit (VWS) is returning to Los Angeles on April 8 for a full-day conference with top women business leaders, scientists and activists working to build a more compassionate and sustainable world. The sold-out event’s hosts ... |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Jennifer Stojkovic Launches First Book on Women in Food Tech: “The Future of Food is Female” | Jennifer Stojkovic, executive leader and founder of the Vegan Women Summit, announces the launch and tour of her new book, “The Future of Food is Female – Reinventing the Food System to Save the Planet.” The book is said to be the first to ... |
| Mar 8, 2022 | IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 166
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The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | VWS Announces Diversity Program Designed for Food Tech Leaders | To celebrate Black History Month, Vegan Women Summit (VWS) announces the first diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program made specifically for plant-based and food tech industry leaders.
Taking place throughout the month of May, this f... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | ‘It’s Not About Overnight Results’: A New DEI Program Means Designed For Food Tech Leaders Wants Startups To Build Better, More Diverse Teams | 4 Mins Read
Vegan Women Summit (VWS) has announced a new leadership initiative, to be run alongside Black History Month. The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Program is designed for key figures and leaders within the plant-based and f... |
| Jan 13, 2022 | Vegan Women Summit Reveals Increase In Bias Faced By Female-Identifying Company Founders | 1
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The 2021 Women Founder Report, compiled by the Vegan Women’s Summit (VWS), highlights concerning trends facing female-identifying leaders. Despite the plant-based business world experiencing vast growth, attitudes towa... |
| Jan 11, 2022 | VWS to Bring Back World’s Only Future of Food Job Networking Fair | The Vegan Women Summit (VWS), a media and events organization dedicated to empowering women, is set to host the world’s only future of food job networking series, VWS Connect, on January 26th. Impressively, over 2,000 jobseekers have connec... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | To a Forward-Looking Future: 67% of Blue Horizon’s Investment Team is Now Female | Blue Horizon today announces the appointment of a new female Partner and two female Directors to its investment team. In five years, Blue Horizon has grown to 28 employees, including nine in the investment team which is now 67% female. In t... |
| Oct 18, 2021 | Vegan Pitch Competition VWS Records 25% Increase in Women of Colour Founders | 1
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VWS Pathfinder, the world’s first pitch competition dedicated to female vegan founders, has seen a 25% increase in women of colour founders this year. Announcing the five finalists for the upcoming contest, organisers ... |
| Oct 12, 2021 | VWS: “The Longer We Leave the Talent and Expertise Of Women On the Table, the Longer We Leave Animals On the Table” | On a mission to inspire, educate and empower future and rising female leaders in food tech, Vegan Women Summit (VWS) is an events and media organization building a global community of strong and ambitious female-identifying change makers.
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| Sep 24, 2021 | Aiming to create a gender-equitable startup landscape? | Priyanka Srinivas Contributor
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Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co, a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives... |
| Jun 4, 2021 | “Looking for That Big Break” – Copper Branch and Vegan Women Summit Unveil Glow Up Contest | After its recent acquisition by Foodtastic Inc, Copper Branch – which holds the claim of being the world’s largest 100% plant-based restaurant chain – has launched a new collaboration with Vegan Women Summit to introduce the Plant Powered G... |
| May 17, 2021 | The Second Vegan Women Summit to Feature Industry Stars Like Beyond Meat, Miyoko’s, BIOMILQ, ProVeg | In February, Vegan Women Summit hosted its first ever VWS Connect event — an opportunity for jobseekers to network with mission-driven employers aiming to build a kinder and more sustainable world. The event was a huge success, attracting a... |
| Mar 8, 2021 | IWD 2021: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 15 Mins Read
Editor’s Note: This list is the result of hours of work, and no doubt we have missed some amazing queens. We will do our best to keep adding. On the startup side, we focused on founders, but many of these startups have incredib... |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Vegan Women Summit to Host Job Fair for Mission-Driven Employers | Vegan Women Summit (VWS) is to host an event series called VWS Connect, a job fair for “mission-driven employers building the future of food”. The first event will be held virtually on February 24.
All events will feature leading companies ... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | Vegan Women Summit To Host Future Of Food Job Fair To Promote Diversity In The Workplace | 50 1
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Vegan Women Summit recently announced that it will host the VWS Connect event series, the world’s first job networking series aimed at connecting mission-driven employers to underrepresented individuals thus build... |
| Dec 14, 2020 | CEO of Vegan Textile Company Algaeing Becomes First Ever Winner of VWS Pathfinder | Renana Krebs, CEO of Israeli company Algaeing, has won the first-ever VWS Pathfinder competition. Created by Vegan Women Summit, the event is a plant-based pitching contest exclusively for women founders.
Five finalists, selected from over ... |
| Dec 11, 2020 | Plant-Based Textile Startup Algaeing Wins Global Female Founder Pitch Competition VWS Pathfinder | 89 2
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Plant-based algae textile company Algaeing, led by CEO Renana Krebs, has won top prize at VWS Pathfinder, the world’s first global competition dedicated to female vegan founders. Taking home the winner’s reward pa... |
| Dec 1, 2020 | Vegan Women Summit Reveals Finalists for Pitch Competition Pathfinder | Five finalists have been announced for VWS Pathfinder, a global plant-based pitching competition for women founders. The competition, run by Vegan Women Summit, received over 800 applications.
Applications came from 31 countries and came fr... |
| Dec 1, 2020 | Diverse & Global: Top Finalists Announced For World’s First Female Plant-Based Pitch Competition | 1
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Ahead of VWS Pathfinder, the world’s first pitch competition dedicated to female plant-based founders, the Vegan Women Summit has announced the five top finalists that will showcase their animal-free solutions to a pan... |
| Nov 20, 2020 | Investments in Female-Led Companies Perform 63% Better than in All-Male Founding Teams | Only 3% of investment funds go to female founders, and an incredible 75% of female entrepreneurs have faced gender bias and discrimination or even worse. Why is this the case in 2020? And even more importantly, when female-founded companies... |
| Nov 11, 2020 | Only 3% of Investment Funds Go To Female Founders? WTF! Jennifer Stojkovic of the Vegan Women Summit | Jennifer Stojkovic of the Vegan Women Summit and the female founder event, Pathfinder, discusses the results of a study on bias, discrimination and harassment of female founders during investment rounds; VegTech predictions for the near fut... |
| Oct 5, 2020 | World First: Female Plant-Based Founder Pitch Competition Launched By Vegan Women Summit | 2
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The Vegan Women Summit (VWS), an events and media organisation dedicated to upending the gender bias and discrimination in the food tech world, has just annouced the launch of VWS Pathfinder, the world’s first summit ... |
| Oct 2, 2020 | 75% of Women Face Gender Bias in Plant-Based Industry: “People Have Assumed I Am My Male Co-Founder’s Assistant or an Aide.” | The founders of the Vegan Women Summit surveyed 160 female founders of plant-based and cell-based food startups around the world, and the results highlight huge disparities, with one woman commenting, “All my mentors were men who disappeare... |
| Sep 22, 2020 | Pervasive Inequality In Food Tech: New Survey Shows Gender Bias Still Too Common | 11 1
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The Vegan Women Summit (VWS), an organisation dedicated to break the gender bias and discrimination in the food tech world, recently published a report on the extensive investment inequities in the burgeoning alte... |
| Jan 30, 2020 | Inaugral Vegan Women Summit Taking Place 1st Feb in San Francisco | The Vegan Women Summit, a first-of-its-kind, one-day summit to inspire and empower female vegan changemakers, will take place next month and include speakers such as Miyoko Schinner; Dotsie Bausch, Founder of Switch4Good and 2012 Olympic Me... |
