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3 Mins Read Swiss retail giant Migros is making a bet on Aqua Cultured Foods’ microbial fermentation seafood alternatives. Aqua Cultured Foods, the startup developing whole muscle cuts of seafood through microbial fermentation, is now teaming up with Migros, Switzerland’s largest retailer. As part of the collaboration, the supermarket giant will be assessing consumer acceptance of Aqua’s novel […]
4 Mins Read Researchers in Denmark will soon kickstart a six-year project to create an entirely new category of climate-friendly plant-based proteins using fermentation technology. Called Proferment, the project is being backed by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and will bring scientists from the University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark and Utrecht University in the Netherlands together. Proferment […]
5 Mins Read Change Foods, the animal-free dairy startup based between the U.S. and Australia, has just announced the closing of its US$2.1 million seed funding round. The capital will be used to fuel its expansion in the San Francisco Bay Area and advance its R&D, with the view to launch real, cow-free cheese made using precision fermentation […]
4 Mins Read The Better Meat Co. has finished building its huge fermentation plant that will churn out “thousands of pounds” of its new superfood mycoprotein ingredient called Rhiza. The new facility will also serve as its R&D and corporate headquarters, as the B2B sustainable ingredients startup begins to offer its animal-free protein to food businesses developing alternative […]
4 Mins Read San Francisco food tech New Culture is gearing up to launch its animal-free mozzarella cheese in late 2023 with partnering pizzerias. In an interview, co-founder Matt Gibson revealed that the company has made “numerous breakthroughs” in recent months to produce large quantities of casein protein using precision fermentation, which will enable it to create a […]
4 Mins Read Imagindairy is the latest to join the animal-free dairy movement, tapping into precision fermentation technology to create “true milk proteins that are indistinguishable from the real thing”. Based out of Tel Aviv, the food tech says through “milking new technology”, it has recreated whey and casein without the cow, and these animal-free proteins can be […]
3 Mins Read Magellan Life Sciences has completed its seed funding round led by Roquette Ventures, the investment arm of the French plant-based ingredient giant. The capital will be used to scale the British startup’s plant protein sweeteners produced using fermentation, and will accelerate its go-to-market plans. British biotech Magellan has bagged seed investment led by the French […]
4 Mins Read Brave Robot, the animal-free ice cream brand made with Perfect Day’s precision fermentation real dairy proteins, will begin displaying its carbon footprint on its packaging. The company claims the move will make it the first dairy ice cream product in U.S. retail to publish its footprint, which according to a life-cycle assessment is 34% lower […]
3 Mins Read In the race to develop new sustainable protein, one startup has honed in on quite an usual source: wood. Based between the U.S. and France, agricultural biotech firm Arbiom is using fermentation to convert timber into protein dubbed SylPro. Having recently demonstrated the alternative protein ingredient, Arbiom is now scaling its solution with the hopes […]
4 Mins Read Delaware startup Superbrewed Food is gearing up to launch a line of animal-free dairy products made with its proprietary microbe-based protein, which was inspired by the gut microbiome of impressively strong herbivores like gorillas and elephants. Having just come out of stealth mode months ago, Superbrewed is planning to debut its nutritious dairy-free milk, cheese […]
4 Mins Read Perfect Day, the makers of animal-free real dairy proteins, has announced the formation of a new Sustainability & Health Advisory Council comprising a star-studded list of founding members including Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio and former UNICEF executive director Ann Veneman. The food tech also revealed the results of the independent life-cycle assessment conducted on its […]
6 Mins Read With advancements in technological innovation and full regulatory support, alternative proteins could take up as much as 22% of the entire global protein market by 2035, a new report reveals. While this “best-case scenario” will require all three pillars in the sector – plant-based, cell-based and fermentation – to reach price parity, researchers’ conservative estimates […]
3 Mins Read The Good Food Institute India (GFI India), a nonprofit organization supporting India’s growing alternative protein ecosystem, recently unveiled the first India Good Food Startup Manual in an effort to scale the country’s innovation ecosystem for the alternative protein sector. Back in 2018, at the inaugural Good Food Conference in the U.S., GFI U.S. launched its […]
5 Mins Read Globally, US$3.1 billion was invested into alternative proteins in what was a record year for the industry in 2020, marking a tripling of the figure in 2019. The data, published by the Good Food Institute (GFI), also showed the enormous growth of the sector in Asia-Pacific, with the capital raised in the region increasing more […]
4 Mins Read Bengaluru-based food startup Vegolution launches ready-to-eat tempeh products with the brand ‘Hello Tempayy’, developed from fermenting soybeans thus offering healthy and tasteful plant-based protein food for Indian consumers. Vegolution was founded by Siddharth Ramasubramanian, who has a background in hospitality and foodservice, and Los Angeles-based Rajit Malhotra, a food and and wellness investor and entrepreneur, […]
3 Mins Read The newly-established nonprofit Association of Alternative Food Producers (AAFPP) has teamed up with ProVeg Incubator to launch Russia’s first-ever food tech accelerator. The partnership will see the two organisations work together to support startups developing sustainable alternatives to animal-based foods using plant-based, cell-based and other related technologies such as 3D bioprinting. Russia will soon see […]
3 Mins Read Biospringer, a biotech unit under French fermentation giant and the world’s biggest yeast producer Lesaffre, has announced the launch of its new yeast protein that has been specifically developed for plant-based cheese and meat alternatives. The product, called Springer Proteissimo 101, is described as a nutrition-rich, vegan and gluten-free ingredient that is versatile and able […]
3 Mins Read Meati Foods, a Colorado-based food tech, has secured US$28 million in its Series A funding round. It follows its earlier secret restaurant trial of its plant-based steaks made from fungi and announcement that it will soon roll out its products to consumers later this year. Meati Foods says that the latest capital will help the […]