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4 Mins Read French food tech HappyVore has raised €35 million in funding led by Invus with the family group Artal, Adrien de Schompré, BPI France and Philippe Cantet all participating. The raise has paved the way for the acquisition of the largest specialist vegan meat factory in France. This comes ahead of a new product development phase […]
4 Mins Read Summer 2022 marks the start of Live Nation partnering with Everything Legendary to offer plant-based burgers to concertgoers. The vegan company rose to fame following a successful pitch on Shark Tank, which saw Mark Cuban invest $300,000 for a 22 percent stake. The Black-owned startup has since found visibility in Publix, Target, Safeway, and Ralphs. […]
4 Mins Read Spanish startup Cocuus has confirmed a successful €2.5 million pre-Series A raise. Big Idea Ventures led the investment with participation noted from Cargill Ventures and Tech Transfer UPV. The news comes shortly after the company completed the Eatable Adventures acceleration programme, also listed as an investor. Cocuus is engaged in the production of technology to […]
4 Mins Read Singaporean food tech startup Dynamic Foodco intends to help secure domestic food security and it says it can start doing so by the end of 2022 when it plans to launch its Dynameat brand, with a focus on plant-based chicken initially. The debut will be supported by a recent seed funding round. The amount raised […]
4 Mins Read Robyn Almodovar, a chef known for her appearances on Hell’s Kitchen and Chopped, has been working with Florida-based Future Foods since 2020. The two joined forces to launch a new vegan meat brand, dubbed PAOW! Standing for “People And Our World”, the range has been developed to help people shift towards plant-based eating, without sacrificing […]
4 Mins Read Chilean unicorn NotCo has made its meat alternative debut in Canada. The company’s NotBurger release was timed to coincide with National Burger Day on May 28. The launch comes after a successful rollout of the company’s NotMilk last year. NotBurger was selected as the first plant-based meat item from the NotCo portfolio to reach Canada […]
4 Mins Read Future Farm, known as Fazenda Futuro in its home country, has confirmed it has welcomed fellow Brazilian singer sensation Anitta onboard as a partner. One of the most influential Latinx artists in the world, Anitta has a 62 million-strong following on Instagram and a fortune of almost $100 million, according to Forbes. No financial details […]
3 Mins Read Beyond Meat has announced reality television superstar Kim Kardashian as its new “chief taste consultant”. Kardashian has lent her ambassadorship to the somewhat embattled brand, citing that she has used the products at home regularly. In her role, she will help devise creative marketing content for the brand and post about Beyond Meat on her […]
4 Mins Read Boston-Based Motif FoodWorks has announced a new range of plant-based meat products. Dubbed Motif MoBeef, MoPork and MoChicken, launches will be staggered from now through to 2023. The products are aimed squarely at foodservice providers, retailers with private label ranges and distributors. MoChicken will be the last release, slated for launch in 2023. MoBeef burger […]
4 Mins Read Neil Rankin, founder of London steakhouse Temper, is entering the plant-based food sphere. The chef claims that he is fed up with alternative protein not quite hitting the right mark and claims he can do better. His gripes include Beyond Meat, which he concedes is a good product but completely unprofitable to produce and sell. […]
4 Mins Read Shanghai’s Haofood has announced distribution partnership with Chinese convenience store giant Lawson that will see its new satay nugget stick product being stocked in 2,300 stores across the country, to give consumers easy access to alternative protein products. Shops in the Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces will be the first cities to get the satay […]
3 Mins Read Coles has debuted a new-to-it plant-based meat brand. The grocery giant has more than 800 locations throughout Australia, all of which will be stocking the Get Plant’d range. Products have been developed to mimic the full experience of eating meat, with focus placed on texture, taste and aroma. Get Plant’d products feature wheat and soy […]
4 Mins Read Y Combinator alumnus Mooji Meats, which specialises in whole cut plant-based meats, has raised £3 million in a seed funding round. The Good Startup, Collaborative Fund, Lever VC and AgFunder all participated in the round. Mooji says the funding will allow it to move away from the ground and sausage analogues common in the space. […]
4 Mins Read San Francisco startup Nowadays has closed an oversubscribed $7 million seed round. Led by Stray Dog Capital, with meat processing operation Standard Meat Co, VegInvest Trust, FoodHack, and others participating, the round will support production scale-up. Total funding to date now totals almost $10 million since the company’s inception in 2020. Nowadays seeks to make […]
3 Mins Read Geneva-based food tech Planetary has announced a $8.1 million in a seed financing round. Astanor Ventures led the investment, with XAnge, Blue Horizon, Nucleus Capital and more participating. The startup is planning to use the money raised to complete the design and construction of a flagship site in Switzerland to build out transplantable industrial-scale microbial […]
3 Mins Read Mzansi Meat has debuted Africa’s first-ever cultivated beef burger. It comes one month after the startup announced it would be showcasing the dish at a special event in Cape Town. Both of Mzani’s co-founders attended, alongside the company’s head of taste. The latter served the dish to Alderman James Vos, a mayoral committee member for […]
5 Mins Read A report from IPES-Food has laid bare what it considers an oversimplification of sustainable food issues. It focuses on the conventional trope of comparing intensive animal agriculture and its resulting products, to plant-based alternatives. Revealing that the move to a viable system is not as simple as adopting alternative proteins, the report claims that zoning […]
4 Mins Read Barcelona-based plant meat brand Heura is launching a new crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube and says it is looking for food activists that want to invest. The ‘Equity for Good Rebels’ investment opportunity is open for pre-registration now, with official launch slated for April 14th. Interested investors can play an active role in shaping the food system […]
4 Mins Read New Zealand’s Sustainable Foods has confirmed it has raised $2.15 million through a combination of private and public domestic investors. Green Fern Industries, Sustainable’s exclusive hemp grower and supplier, also participated. Sustainable has cited plans to use its fresh funding to support product development and marketing. A move into new sales channels and markets is […]
3 Mins Read Israel’s More Foods is making a bold claim. The startup, founded in 2020 by Leonardo Marcovitz, says that realistic plant-based meats can be made from seeds. Specifically, upcycled pumpkin and sunflower seed solids that are used to create “meaty” textures. The company claims that its protein effectively replicates dark animal meats. High in fibre and […]
4 Mins Read Boston-founded plant-based meat startup Tender Food has closed a $12 million seed round. The round was led by Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital. Former investor Rhapsody Venture Partners participated alongside activist and actor Natalie Portman, who recently backed French alt bacon maker La Vie. The startup, founded last year by Harvard engineers, is looking to scale […]