Browsing Category
Alt Dairy
Alternative Dairy breaking news, interviews, startup features, lifestyle guides & more from our award- winning impact & sustainability media platform.
NotCo Enters US Foodservice Sector With Dairy-Free Shake Shack Collaboration
Chilean food tech NotCo has partnered with U.S. fast casual burger chain Shake Shack. The two have developed a dairy-free chocolate custard and a chocolate shake to be tested in ten restaurant locations. The plant-based offerings will be!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Animal-Free Cheese Maker Change Foods Awarded Second Government Grant In Less Than A Month
The Australian Commonwealth Government has named Change Foods as a key partner in a new AUD$164 million Trailblazer Universities Food and Beverage Accelerator led by the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Imagindairy Closes $28 Million Seed Round Following Successful Funding Extension
Tel Aviv-based precision fermentation startup Imagindairy has confirmed a $15 million seed extension round following its November 2021’s $13 million raise. Funding will be used for accelerated R&D efforts alongside new personnel hires.!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Willicroft’s Vegan Bean Cheese Nets $2.1 Million To Expand Across Europe
Dutch bean-based plant-based cheese startup Willicroft has closed its pre-seed funding round, securing €2 million. The round was led by PINC and Rockstart with Döhler and Feast Ventures participating. Funding has been raised to support!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
This Dairy-Free Milk Is Made By An American Beer Giant
American beer giant Molson Coors has a new barley-based product. It's not beer, though, it's dairy-free milk.
That's right, the company behind Miller Light and Coors Light is using barley grains—a key ingredient in beermaking—to create!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
James Cromwell Stages ‘Glued-In’ Protest At Starbucks Over Plant Milk Surcharge
Actor and activist James Cromwell, best known for his roles in Succession and Babe, superglued himself to a Starbucks counter in New York City earlier this week. The act was a form of protest against the coffee chain’s continued!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Change Foods Scoops $1 Million Grant To Turn Sugarcane Waste Into Animal-Free Cheese Feedstock
US-Australian food tech Change Foods has secured a $1 million grant from the Australian Commonwealth Government to create a platform for upcycling sugarcane fibre waste that will be processed to offer a low-cost and accessible feedstock!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Tomorrow Farms Raises $8.5 Million for Sustainable ‘Next-Gen’ Foods
Closing an $8.5 million Seed Round led by Chris Sacca's Lowercarbon Capital, Maveron, Valor Siren Ventures, Simple Food Ventures, and SV Angel, Tomorrow Farms says it's gearing up to fuel the "sustainable food revolution."
New!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Lindt Brings Its Creamy Vegan Oat Milk Chocolate To the U.S.
At the start of the year, Swiss chocolatier Lindt released two vegan chocolate bars in the U.K, to coincide with Veganuary. Canada followed in February and now, the U.S. is getting a taste of the original and salted caramel incarnations.!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Fermify Closes Pre-Seed Round To Accelerate Proof-Of-Concept Cheese Debut
Vienna’s Fermify, which has created a digital platform that can produce casein proteins via precision fermentation, has concluded a pre-seed undisclosed funding round led by Übermorgen Ventures and Backbone Ventures, with participation!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Israel’s Remilk to Build the World’s Largest Animal-Free Dairy Factory in Denmark
Hot on the heels of a $120 million Series B raise in January, Israel’s Remilk has announced ambitious construction plan: the precision fermentation dairy startup will create a full-scale factory on a recently acquired 750,000 square foot!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Animal Free Dairy Maker Perfect Day Acquires 3 New Manufacturing Plants In India, Announces New U.S. Hub
California’s Perfect Day has been confirmed as the winning bidder in an auction for Mumbai-based Sterling Biotech. The reported final figure was Rs 638 crore, with the reserve set as Rs 548.46 crore. Sterling entered into the liquidation!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Paul McCartney Urged Outgoing Starbucks CEO To Stop Charging More for Dairy-Free Milk
Sir Paul McCartney has made a personal request to outgoing Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson. In a letter published by Billboard, the Beatles co-founder and activist asked Johnson to drop the U.S. dairy-free milk surcharge before he left his!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Sunscoop Secures $2 Million For Continued Allergen-Free Dairy-Free Ice Cream Innovation
Los Angeles- based allergen-friendly ice cream brand Sunscoop has raised $2 million seed financing round led by Vibrant Ventures. H/L Ventures, Torch Capital and early angel investors also participated. The fresh capital will be used to!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
The Week In Plant-Based: “NFPs” From Meatless Farms, Impossible Sausage Links, Vegan Butterbeer
The latest initiative around food-focused non-fungible tokens (NFTs) comes courtesy of vegan meat brand Meatless Farm, which is currently offering fans a pea farm allotment through the tokens. Elsewhere, Impossible has launched new sausage!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
This French Biotech Is Aiming To Be Europe’s Answer To Perfect Day
Lyon-based Bon Vivant has announced its intention to bring cow-free dairy protein to the European market. The precision fermentation biotech has recently scooped €4 million to progress its R&D. Alliance for Impact, High Flyers Capital,!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
The Week In Plant-Based: Andrew Zimmern Joins TiNDLE, Willicroft & InnovoPro Launch Fondue
Andrew Zimmern recently threw his chef's hat in the plant-based protein ring when he joined Next Gen Foods' TiNDLE brand as an advisor. Elsewhere in news this week, Willicroft teamed up with InnovoPro to launch vegan fondue and new!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Milked Documentary Exposes ‘Whitewash of New Zealand’s Dairy Fairytale’
Milked, a new feature documentary film debuting next month, is set to uncover the disturbing reality of New Zealand’s dairy farming industry.
Read More...
Read More...
‘We Need To Find Solutions That Work For Everyone’ – A Chat with Chris Huriwai and Amy Taylor of ‘Milked’ Documentary
Vegan Māori activist Chris Huriwai and director Amy Taylor talk about the film 'Milked' and how it exposes New Zealand's multibillion-dollar dairy industry, the ongoing cover-up of its environmental and ethical track record. and where!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
The Week in Plant-Based: Enkla Kassen Raises €1M, Mr. Charlie’s Veganizes McDonald’s
From a popup vegan chocolate store to a vegan version of McDonald's to blind tastings at a meat festival, this week's news items are full of alternative protein companies's unusual and sometimes wacky ways to turn more consumers onto!-->…
Read More...
Read More...
Molecular Startup Miruku Gets $2.4M To Disrupt Global Dairy Industry With ‘Plant Factories’
Founded in 2020 by a former New Zealand dairy executive and an Israeli food tech innovator, molecular farming startup Miruku has unveiled its animal-free dairy mission as part of a $2.4 million seed round announcement.
Miruku, which!-->!-->!-->…
Read More...
Read More...