The Week In Food Tech: CHKN Not Chicken Raises $4.5M, MILKLAB Launches Oat Milk
4 Mins Read This week in food tech news, a new plant-based player raises Series A, MILKLAB launches oat milk, and a vegan tradeshow comes to the UK.
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4 Mins Read This week in food tech news, a new plant-based player raises Series A, MILKLAB launches oat milk, and a vegan tradeshow comes to the UK.
4 Mins Read Australian startup All G Foods just bagged $16 million in seed funding ahead of its vegan meat launch. Now, it’s developing animal-free dairy.
4 Mins Read Aussie food techs Vow and Nourish are teaming up to merge cell-based meat and precision fermentation fat—a new type of hybrid alt-protein.
5 Mins Read A new meat industry-funded survey claims that Australian consumers are being “duped” by plant-based meat products. How true is this?
3 Mins Read Australian mushroom meat startup Fable Food Co has announced an AU$6.5 million (US$4.8 million) seed funding round led by Australian VC Blackbird Ventures, who famously backed no-code design sensation Canva as well as alt protein pioneers Sunfed Meats (plant-based chicken) and Vow (cell-based exotic meats). The young company, which was founded in 2019, has ambitious […]
4 Mins Read Grill’d has added four new plant-based burgers to its menu, one of them the Heston Fable Burger made by celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal.
4 Mins Read Australian plant-based food tech v2food will now accelerate its global expansion, after closing AU$72 million (US$54 million) in a Series B Plus round. The round, led by European VC Astanor Ventures, attracted a number of Asian investors, as the company gears up to enter the lucrative mainland Chinese market. Sydney-based v2food has announced today (August […]
4 Mins Read UNESCO has decided to keep Australia’s Great Barrier Reef off the “in danger” list, despite environmentalists and scientists urging otherwise.
3 Mins Read Hello Fresh, one of the largest meal-kit brands in Australia has added carbon-neutral vegan ‘Veef’ mince from homegrown company Fenn Foods.
4 Mins Read Australian startup Harvest B has raised $4.5 million to scale its “smart ingredient system” for healthy vegan meat alternatives.
4 Mins Read Australian vegan protein startup Harvest B secured US$3.5 million, along with a US$1 million grant from the government.
5 Mins Read An Australian court stated that the government has a duty of care for young people and protect them from climate change.
3 Mins Read The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission rejected labeling animal-based products as ‘Certified Humane’.
3 Mins Read Plant-based meat firm v2food partnered with Neil Perry to develop a sustainable vegan menu for his new restaurant, Margaret in Double Bay.
4 Mins Read Australia’s vegan meat industry is pushing back against a senator aiming to block labelling terms like “meaty” on plant-based products.
3 Mins Read Australian startup Magic Valley has launched as the first Australian food tech cultivating lamb meat. Based in Melbourne, it wants to be the leading provider of slaughter-free cultured lamb mince, chops, strips and even lamb steaks, grown directly from cells and without the use of FBS or animal-based products. Founded by Paul Bevan, Magic Valley […]
3 Mins Read Sprout Organic, which develops and produces plant-based nutritional products for children, is now taking pre-sale orders and is set to launch its plant-based organic infant formula at two trade shows – the Australian Pharmacy Professional Conference and the Naturally Good Expo, in an effort to enter the formula sales channels in the Pacific country. Though […]
2 Mins Read Women-owned business YAY! Foods is bringing its plant-based marinated feta to New South Wales (NSW) by debuting in select Woolworths stores, the Australian chain of supermarkets owned by the Woolworths Group across the state. Founded by Australian Turkish sister duo Nalin and Nergiz, YAY! Foods first unveiled its handcrafted marinated alternative dairy feta product in […]
3 Mins Read Impossible Foods has is gearing up to enter Australia and New Zealand, posting a job advertisement for a regional role as the plant-based industry in these markets report a record year of sales. The much-anticipated introduction of its famous heme-filled patties in the fast-growing plant-based market in Australasia comes amid talks of its US$10 billion […]
3 Mins Read A new representative group for Australia’s alternative protein sector, dubbed the Alternative Proteins Council (APC), has launched last week on March 31st, as reported on by Food & Drink Australia. in an effort to prioritize the sector in national policy discussions as well as act as a unified voice working on major issues surrounding this […]
6 Mins Read By: Jenni Downes, Monash University; Kim Borg, Monash University, and Nick Florin, University of Technology Sydney To start dealing with Australia’s mounting plastic crisis, the federal government last week launched its first National Plastics Plan. The plan will fight plastic on various fronts, such as banning plastic on beaches, ending polystyrene packaging for takeaway containers, […]