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Investment led by Lever VC to allow Blackbird Foods to expand into retail chains and scale operations.Blackbird Foods builds on early successes of supplying popular NYC restaurants with its plant-based protein to launch on grocery shelves nationwide.Demand has already quadrupled within Blackbird’s home region of the northeast since the start of 2020.
Read ReleaseUK-based Hoxton Farms has announced a £2.7 million seed round to cultivate animal fat and solve an urgent issue for the rapidly growing meat alternatives market.
Read ReleaseShanghai-based HERO Protein, the first Chinese company to use high-moisture extrusion technology, drawsbacking from senior food industry execs and leading corporates
Read ReleasePlant-based dairy startup Take Two Foods, which launched the world’s first barleymilk in March of 2020, is excited to announce expansion into several new grocery markets this year, including Sprouts Farmers Market, Imperfect Foods, New Seasons Market, and New Leaf Community Markets. The company has also brought on seven new key members to its rapidly growing team in the last six months.
Read ReleaseCPI, an independent technology innovation centre and founding member of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, today announced its plans to establish a Novel Food, Feed and Nutraceuticals Innovation Centre of Excellence, catalysed by £4 million in funding from the Tees Valley Mayor and Combined Authority Cabinet.
Read ReleaseUK-based startup CellulaREvolution has announced new funding to accelerate development of their technology which promises to solve key scalability challenges in cell-based meat production.
Read ArticleTechnology disrupter CellulaREvolution, which aims to revolutionise the way cells are grown in labs, has raised £1million from a set of strategic investors including CPT Capital, Stephan Schmidt, Orange Light Ventures, and funds managed by Northstar Ventures, the North East Innovation Fund supported by the European Regional Development Fund and the newly launched Northern Accelerator Seed Investment Fund (NASIF).
Read ReleaseInvestor and author Jim Mellon talks one-on-one with Doug Grant, host of the Brave New Meat podcast, to discuss his new book, Moo’s Law, and the investment opportunity in cultivated meat.
Read ArticleEat Beyond Global Holdings is announcing that it has completed an investment in Above Food. Above Food develops and distributes premium, whole plant alternatives to meat and dairy by creating delicious, nutrient-dense consumer products and branded ingredients. It uses a proprietary blend of plant proteins created from heirloom pulses and gluten free grains.
Read ReleaseThe confluence of the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, the rapid development of new food technologies and the rising global demand for protein mean that we are on the cusp of a huge and profitable investment wave into new forms of agriculture. The greatest beneficiaries of this investment wave will be cultured and plant-based foods.
Read ArticleWhat I’ve learned through my first eleven Brave New Meat podcast interviews with founders and investors in the cultured meat industry
Read ArticleRemedy Organics, a leading producer of plant-based functional wellness shakes, today announced its expansion into the wellness shot category with the launch of their new line of Immunity+ Shots.
Read ReleaseCultivated ground meat has the potential to unravel the business model of the beef industry.
Read ArticleTurtleTree Labs, the biotech company pioneering the method to produce milk using cell-based technology, has just announced the close of an oversubscribed $6.2 million Pre-A funding round from new and existing global investors including Green Monday Ventures, Eat Beyond Global, KBW Ventures, and Verso Capital.
Read ReleaseFuture Food-Tech has announced an Innovation Challenge in partnership with Kellogg Company and Unilever to unlock new talent within the industry and enable opportunities for collaboration. The Innovation Challenge offers food-tech innovators from around the world the opportunity to showcase their solution in plant-based meat and dairy alternatives, and digestive wellness. After an in-depth shortlisting process, selected finalists will pitch their solution to the challenge partners and global audience during the live-streamed virtual Future Food-Tech Summit on March 11-12, 2021.
Read ReleaseEat Beyond Global Holdings, an investment issuer focused on the global plant-based and alternative food sector, is announcing that it has joined the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA). The PBFA is a San Francisco-based trade association that represents over 170 leading plant-based food companies and is focused on building a strong foundation for the plant-based foods industry to succeed and grow. Launched in March 2016, PBFA works to expand market opportunities for this fast-growing sector of the food industry.
Read ReleaseCultivated meat biotechnology start-up Avant today announced it has closed a US$3.1 million seed funding round to fuel R&D and commercialization of its cultivated fish products. The funding round saw participation from prominent Greater China investors including China Venture Capital, AngelHub, and ParticleX, as well as western alternative protein investors Lever VC, CPT Capital, Loyal VC, Artesian, and 208 Seed Ventures. Strategic food investors PTG Food, a consortium of fast-growing and progressive food businesses across Asia Pacific with a global reach, and Markus Haefeli, Chairman of Regal Springs, the world’s largest responsible tilapia producer, also participated in the round.
Read ReleaseEat Beyond Global Holdings, an investment issuer focused on the global plant-based and alternative food sector, is announcing that its portfolio company, Nabati Foods, launched its plant-based meat line this month on November 3, and the products are expected to be in stores by January of 2021. This plant-based meat line is also planned to launch in the U.S. in Q1 of 2021, in time for category resets in retail stores that take place in March and April.
Read ReleaseBrooklyn, New York-based We Are The New Farmers, Inc. announced today that it has successfully completed a pre-seed round totaling $335,000 on the Harvest Returns agriculture crowdfunding platform. We Are The New Farmers is a controlled-environment agriculture company that produces spirulina microalgae, one of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet. The climate change and disaster resilient technology the farm utilizes is unparalleled in sustainability and cost-efficiency. The company plans to use the capital raised to build a new facility to increase their production.
Read ReleaseEat Beyond Global Holdings Inc., an investment issuer focused on the global plant-based and alternative food sector, is announcing that it has received approval to list its company’s common shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange. The common shares will commence trading under the trading symbol "EATS" on November 17, 2020. Eat Beyond is the first investment issuer in Canada focused solely on identifying and acquiring equity in diverse global companies in this sector, which includes plant-based proteins, fermented proteins, cultured proteins/agriculture, food tech, and consumer packaged goods as well as cell agriculture and other experimental projects.
Read ReleaseKerry, the Taste & Nutrition company, is pleased to release a research white paper on the exciting emerging topic of protein snack bar development and manufacture. Entitled “Choosing the Right Protein for Your Snack Bar,” the paper examines the rapidly expanding market for snack bars that provide a quality hit of protein and a wide variety of new tastes. In addition, the paper reviews the latest trends in consumer preference in the area of ingredients and bar tastes, important trends and regional regulations in formulation, and the application of plant, dairy and mixed protein in new bar concepts.
Read ReleaseThe Mills Fabrica is partnering with Bolt Threads to launch a new report titled “Synbio Playbook for Techstyle Startups – A Complete Guide for Founders”. The report synthesizes learnings and findings from The Mills Fabrica’s engagement with multiple food/fashion tech startups and portfolio companies as well as Bolt Threads’ expertise and experience in scaling up synthetic biology technologies to go-to market. The report also highlights learnings from case studies of successful innovators such as Impossible Foods, Perfect Day, and Renewcell, sharing industry-related challenges and tips.
Read ReleaseMoolec Science is a newly formed company using molecular farming to introduce a hybrid concept between plant-based and cell-based technologies in the alternative proteins space. With a proof of concept for the cheese market, the team is known for being the first to produce bovine chymosin in safflower, a functional protein commercialized under the SPC brand. A family of international patents currently covers this platform, with SPC events fully de-regulated for cost-effective large-scale production.
Read ReleaseThe growing demand for food and sustainable food production are global challenges. A significant part of the problem is the lack of sustainably produced protein feed. eniferBio has developed a new and sustainable production process for a high-quality fish feed ingredient and recently received funding for its solution from two funds, Nordic FoodTech VC and Voima Ventures.
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