Wildtype, the startup making lab-grown salmon, is opening up a pre-order list for select chefs. Although the company is as much as five years out from commercial production, according to founders, the company is looking to partner with select chefs around the country who want to incorporate their sushi-grade salmon product into their menus.
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The Plant Based Seafood Company, a new seafood analog product venture formed by the owners of the Van Cleve Seafood Co., has nabbed significant pre-seed funding and purchased a new production facility to grow distribution of its Mind Blown brand.
After folding earlier this summer due to its sole reliance on foodservice accounts and the COVID-19 pandemic, plant-based seafood analog brand Ocean Hugger Foods is planning a re-launch sometime next year.
Ocean Hugger Foods, a New York City-based manufacturer of plant-based alternatives to tuna and eel, that closed its doors in June when its foodservice-focused sales faltered amid restaurant closures is working on its second act.
Shiok Meats, a homegrown start-up, plans to set up its first manufacturing plant in Singapore after its latest fundraising exercise in June brings it closer to the goal of commercializing the business in a couple of years.
Plant-based seafood firm Ocean Hugger Foods – which announced it was ceasing operations in late June as COVID-19 ravaged the foodservice industry (its primary market) – now says it is “ exploring paths to relaunch bigger and better than ever.”
President Donald Trump wants to dramatically expand aquaculture production in the United States, but a coalition of environmentalists believes his plan would be bad for the oceans, unnecessary for food security and difficult to implement.
Feeding wild fish to farmed fish is threatening marine ecosystems. Researchers and entrepreneurs believe they’ve found solutions. Here at Enterra Feed Corporation’s research facility near Vancouver, British Columbia, they don’t grow flowers or vegetables. Instead, they farm soft-bodied, legless consumers of decomposing matter. My guide, Andrew Vickerson, prefers that you not call them maggots.
Nestle SA is adding faux tuna to its growing plant-protein portfolio as the world’s largest food company expands beyond plant-based burgers. The tuna alternative, based on pea protein and wheat gluten, will first be sold in Nestle’s home market of Switzerland, under its Garden Gourmet brand, at the end of August.
Van Cleve Seafood's plant-based coconut shrimp product, sold under its Mind Blown brand name, has been declared "the Most Disruptive Product of 2020 in Prepared Foods" by the US trade media site Prepared Foods. Under the newly created The Plant Based Seafood Corp., the company has launched a branded line of existing and new plant-based seafood alternative products. The company’s Mind Blown Coconut Shrimp is part of a new line of soy-free, plant-based seafood products that mimic the look and taste of real seafood.
Seed2Growth Ventures (S2G), a Chicago-based agriculture and food venture capital group, is looking to revolutionize the seafood and oceans space -- all it needs is one big hit. The fund, backed in part by Lukas Walton, the billionaire grandson of Walmart founder Sam Walton, is just seven years old, and began its life with less than $150 million (€126.6 million) under management. Since that time, however, the fund has racked up a string of successes that has emboldened the group to extend the size of its fund to $750 million.
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The Plant-Based Seafood Co.
Plant-Based Seafood
United States 2020
Alliance for Meat, Poultry and Seafood Innovation
Cultivated Meat Seafood Nonprofit
United States 2019
Legendary Vish
Plant-Based Seafood
Austria 2020
Berkeley Alt Meat Lab
Cultivated Plant-Based Algae Fungi Meat Dairy Eggs Seafood Ingredients Research
United States
Happy Ocean Foods
Plant-Based Seafood
Germany 2019
Trophic
Algae Meat Seafood Ingredients
United States 2018
Growthwell Group
Plant-Based Meat Seafood
Singapore 1989
Prime Roots
Fungi Meat Seafood
United States 2017
Cell Ag Tech
Cultivated Meat Seafood
Canada 2018