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Anay is Green Queen's resident news reporter. Originally from India, he worked as a vegan food writer and editor in London, and is now travelling and reporting from across Asia. He's passionate about coffee, plant-based milk, cooking, eating, veganism, food tech, writing about all that, profiling people, and the Oxford comma.

Funding News

India’s Arboreal Bags $24M to Scale Yeast Proteins, Next-Gen Sweeteners & More

Anay Mridul Aug 3, 2026
Indian food tech startup Arboreal Bioinnovations has secured ₹23 crore ($24.2M) in Series A funding to scale up functional ingredients like yeast and plant proteins, sugar replacers, and fibres. To bring its functional ingredient…
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Alt Protein

Livekindly Collective to Acquire Dutch Meat-Free Player Dalco Food for $7.3M

Anay Mridul Aug 3, 2026
Livekindly Collective has made yet another addition to its portfolio of meat alternative brands, agreeing to buy Hilton Food Group's Dalco Food subsidiary for £5.4M ($7.3M). US holding company Livekindly Collective has signed a £5.4M…
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Green Business

Switzerland’s Capsule Hotel Sets ‘Protein Split’ Target in Favour of Plant-Based Food

Anay Mridul Jul 31, 2026
Swiss chain Capsule Hotel has become the latest hospitality company to set a food sustainability target to increase the share of plant-based proteins on the menu. Globally, hospitality groups are increasingly recognising the significant…
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UK Govt Awards £2.35M for Ponda-Led Project to Scale Wetland-Based Biomaterial Crops

Anay Mridul Jul 31, 2026
The UK's food and environment ministry has awarded £2.35M to a project to build one of the world's largest wetland farming supply chains, led by biomaterials startup Ponda. Ponda, the Bristol-based biomaterials firm known for its…
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Dutch Govt Invests in Project to Bring Fibre-Rich Blended Meat Products to France

Anay Mridul Jul 31, 2026
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency has committed up to €400,000 ($465,000) in funding for a Partners for International Business cluster to help companies develop blended proteins for the meat-reducing French market. As blended meat makes…
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Robertson Foundation Invests $19M to Curb Methane Through Plant-Rich Diets & Food Waste Reduction

Anay Mridul Jul 30, 2026
The Robertson Foundation has invested $19M in six organisations working to lower methane emissions from the food system via plant-forward dietary shifts and food waste reduction. US grant-making organisation Robertson Foundation is…
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Future Foods

Why China is Leveraging Pharma Factories to Establish Its Future Food Leadership

Anay Mridul Jul 30, 2026
China is repurposing its pharmaceutical manufacturing network to produce novel foods for the global alternative protein industry, strengthening its bid to become a leader in this future-friendly space. In China, the path to tech…
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Climate Change

Transfarmation Turns Pig Barn Into Mushroom Farm in America’s Largest Factory Farming State

Anay Mridul Jul 30, 2026
The Transfarmation Project has opened a demonstration hub in Iowa, turning a former pig factory farm into a space for growing specialty mushrooms. At America's "ground zero" for factory farming, one former hog operation has replaced…
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Funding News

French Future Food Fermentation Project Enters Next Phase with $22M in Govt Funding

Anay Mridul Jul 29, 2026
Ferments du Futur, a public-private research initiative to industrialise fermentation technologies for future food production in France, has received a €19.1M ($21.8M) funding boost from a government agency. France is bolstering its…
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Future Food Quick Bites

Future Food Quick Bites: Protein Mac & Cheese, Wildtype Funding & Meat Sales

Anay Mridul Jul 29, 2026
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Daiya's protein mac and cheese, Nueva Pescanova's aborted octopus farm plan, and Wildtype's crowdfunding success. New…
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Funding News

SCO2 Captures $2.7M in Funding to Create High-Value Products from Reclaimed Food Waste

Anay Mridul Jul 29, 2026
US agrifood tech startup SCO2 has secured $2.65M in seed funding to advance its supercritical carbon dioxide extraction tech, which can recover valuable compounds from food waste for use in various industries. SCO2, a Minnesota-based…
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Cell-Based News

ImpacFat Nets Deal to Advance Cultivated Fish Fat with AI-Led Ingredient Discovery

Anay Mridul Jul 29, 2026
Singaporean food tech startup ImpacFat has teamed up with M3triq to use AI-powered ingredient discovery to fast-track the commercialisation of its cultivated omega-3 fish fat. The convergence of food tech and artificial intelligence…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

BMC Ingredients Gets Health Canada Approval for Rhiza Mycoprotein, Targeting 2027 Launch

Anay Mridul Jul 28, 2026
Californian startup BMC Ingredients (formerly The Better Meat Co) has secured a letter of no objection from Health Canada, enabling it to sell its Rhiza mycoprotein in the country. US mycoprotein player BMC Ingredients is expanding its…
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Funding News

With €7M in EU Funding, Salina Project Eyes Seaweed-Based Novel Foods, Cosmetics & More

Anay Mridul Jul 28, 2026
The multinational Salina project has kicked off with €7M in funding from the EU to create scalable macroalgae cultivation systems and develop high-value products for the food, cosmetics, and biomaterial sectors. A new project aims to…
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Alt Protein

Danone Ramps Up Distribution of Kate Farms’s High-Protein Nutrition Shakes Amid GLP-1 Craze

Anay Mridul Jul 28, 2026
As sales expand, Danone’s Kate Farms has launched a new flavour of its plant-based nutrition shake and broadened its distribution to reach more GLP-1 users across the US. A year after being acquired by Danone, Kate Farms is aggressively…
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Alt Materials

Leather’s Emissions 70% Higher Than Previously Thought, Dwarfing Vegan Alternatives

Anay Mridul Jul 28, 2026
The true climate impact of cow-derived leather is 70% higher than previously estimated, and more than 12 times that of vegan alternatives (including plastic-derived materials). Leather is notorious for its environmental impact,…
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Green Business

Canada’s No Meat Factory Closes US Plant-Based Facility, Laying Off Over 120 Workers

Anay Mridul Jul 27, 2026
Canadian plant-based meat startup No Meat Factory has shuttered its $19M facility in Stanwood, US, laying off 123 employees and leaving its British Columbia site as its only production hub. The contraction of the North American…
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Funding News

Hawaiian Startup Bags Multi-Million-Dollar Funding to Scale Fermentation-Derived Astaxanthin

Anay Mridul Jul 27, 2026
US biotech startup Kuehnle AgroSystems has closed a Series B funding round to expand the sustainable production of its algal astaxanthin via dark fermentation for applications including human nutrition. Hawaiian algal biotech company…
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Alt Protein

Estonian Govt-Owned Company to Build $2.3M Synbio Plant for Novel Foods & Materials

Anay Mridul Jul 27, 2026
Estonian state-owned national metrology institute Metrosert and its Applied Research Centre are constructing a €2M ($2.3M) pilot plant to help biotech companies validate alternative protein and material production. The Estonian…
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Policy & Regulation

Experts Highlight ‘Clear Need’ for Government Action to Drive Adoption of Planetary Health Diet

Anay Mridul Jul 27, 2026
A global transition towards healthy diets rich in plant-based foods could bring significant benefits, with scientists calling on governments to "rise to the challenge" and "make difficult decisions" for public and planetary health. …
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Alt Dairy

German Dairy Giant Bauer Opens Production Centre for Plant-Based Milk & Yoghurt

Anay Mridul Jul 24, 2026
Germany's Bauer Group has opened a production and innovation hub for plant-based dairy products in Bavaria to bring its manufacturing in-house. Bauer Group is betting on the strength of Germany's local infrastructure and raw material…
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