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Royal China Club In London Rolls Out New 100% Plant-Based OmniPork Menu
In collaboration with Hong Kong-based Green Monday’s food tech arm OmniFoods, the Royal China Club in London has launched a brand new standalone plant-based menu. Featuring the startup’s range of OmniPork plant-based analogues, the menu!-->…
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Impossible Foods Partners With VWS To Launch Initiative Celebrating Women Food Tech Leaders
Impossible Foods and Vegan Women Summit (VWS) are teaming up to launch a new initiative aimed at spotlighting women pioneers in the field of food tech and sustainability. Designed as an inclusive program, Women Building the Future is now!-->…
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42% Of Global Consumers Are Flexitarians & Driving Mainstream Plant-Based Shift, New Report Says
The rise of vegan and vegetarian food around the world is being driven by the surge in flexitarianism all over the world, a new report highlights. With more than two-fifths of global consumers actively reducing their meat consumption, many!-->…
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Aussie Shelf-Stable Plant-Based Meat Startup Deliciou Bags Seed Funding To Fuel Global Expansion
Deliciou has raised seed funding to continue expanding global distribution of its line of shelf-stable plant-based meat alternatives to Europe, the U.S. and Asia. The round, which makes Deliciou the first Australia-based startup to join!-->…
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Inspired By Her Own Animal Welfare Investigations Into Poultry Farms, Bengaluru-Based Taanya Ravi Unveils Vegan Dairy Brand Live Yum Foods
After her own personal investigation into how animals are treated in poultry farms, Indian entrepreneur Taanya Ravi founded Live Yum Foods in order to provide her community with vegan and cruelty-free dairy alternatives like cheese and!-->…
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India Has Potential To Become Sustainable Algal Protein Powerhouse, GFI Report Says
India could become a major foundation for the global algal protein industry, a fast-growing sector in the sustainable protein supply chain, according to a new analysis. The report, released by the Good Food Institute India (GFI India),!-->…
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Plant-Based Boxer Claressa Shields Wins Big, Highlights The Benefits Of Animal-Free Diets
Existing titleholder in the middleweight division of professional boxing, Claressa Shields, who recently won again at the junior middleweight division thus becoming the first woman fighter to win an undisputed championship in two weight!-->…
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Fermentation-Based MeliBio Closes US$850K Pre-Seed To Make Real Honey Without Bees
California-based food tech MeliBio has announced a US$850,000 pre-seed round for its fermentation-based technology enabling the production of real honey without bees. The funding comes ahead of its soft launch slated for the end of this!-->…
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First Of Its Kind: Grounded Foods Launches ‘Imperfect’ Cauliflower & Hemp Plant-Based Cheeses
Los Angeles-based vegan startup Grounded Foods has officially launched its 100% plant-based cheese range made from cauliflower and hemp to U.S. consumers. The first-of-its-kind products, which unlike other vegan alternatives do not contain!-->…
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TurtleTree Scientific Partners With JSBio For Commercial Scale Cell Culture Media Production
TurtleTree Scientific, the new venture dedicated to food-grade growth factors launched by Singapore cell-based milk startup TurtleTree Labs, has forged a new strategic partnership with JSBiosciences (JSBio), a cell culture media supplier!-->…
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Livekindly Collective Bags US$335M For Global Plant-Based Expansion To U.S. & China
Livekindly Collective has raised US$335 million in its latest financing round, making the company one of the top three highest-funded plant-based firms globally. The new proceeds will go towards the company’s plant-based acquisitions and!-->…
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Animal-Free Fats Startup Nourish Ingredients Bags US$11M In Li Ka-Shing Backed Round
Canberra-based Nourish Ingredients has closed a US$11 million financing round co-led by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Horizons Ventures and Main Sequence Ventures, the manager of the Australian government’s CSIRO Innovation Fund.!-->…
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108Labs To Launch Cell-Based ‘Whole-Human Infant Formula’ With Antibodies Against Pathogens
Cellular agriculture biotech 108Labs is developing “whole-human infant formula” that contains the biosimilar secretory antimicrobial antibodies from mother’s milk. The discovery, made during the development of its patent-pending!-->…
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Bluu Biosciences Closes US$8.2M Seed To Bring Europe’s First Cell-Cultured Fish
Berlin-based Bluu Biosciences has bagged €7 million (~US$8.25 million) in a seed funding round to fuel its R&D focused on cell-cultured fish. As the only food tech in Europe dedicated to culturing seafood species, the startup joins the!-->…
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Dairy Giant Bel Brands Launches First 100% Plant-Based ‘Nurishh’ Cheese Line
Bel Brands USA, the North American arm of French dairy giant Bel Group, has introduced the company’s first exclusively vegan cheese line. Launching in April, Nurishh will offer a range of cheese alternatives such as cheddar and mozzarella,!-->…
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Project Pollo: This Vegan Chicken Chain Founder’s Business Plan? Take Over 100 Fast Food Locations By 2024
Through Project Pollo, a plant-based chicken fast casual dining chain featuring an entirely vegan menu, entrepreneur and founder Lucas Bradbury aims to make animal-free meat alternatives mainstream by opening 100 shops all across the!-->…
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Oatly Partners With Yeo’s For US$30M Asia Oat Milk Factory In Singapore, First Time Outside E.U. & U.S.
Swedish oat milk maker Oatly is partnering with Singapore-headquartered Asian heritage beverage giant Yeo Hiap Seng – known as Yeo’s – to jointly invest US$30 million to begin producing the brand’s oat milk for the first time outside of!-->…
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SGProtein To Build South East Asia’s First Large Scale Contract Manufacturing Facility For Plant-Based Meat Alternatives
SGProtein, the Singapore-based contract manufacturing platform, has recently announced that it plans to open a large-scale plant-based meat alternative production facility situated at Commonwealth Capital’s Food Hub that will help boost!-->…
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Eat Just Has Sold The Vegan Equivalent Of 100 Million Eggs
Eat JUST, the food tech that launched the plant-based egg JUST, recently announced that in just three years of the vegan egg's launch, the company has sold over 100 million eggs, showing the increasing support and demand of alternative!-->…
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170 Hong Kong Restaurants Launch Plant-Based Impossible Dishes For Earth Month, With ParknShop Debuting Ready Meals
170 restaurant outlets in Hong Kong and the city’s supermarket giant ParknShop will be expanding their plant-based offerings with Impossible Foods as part of Earth Month this April. Marking the second campaign launched by the Silicon!-->…
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South Korea’s Viomix Tech Closes Series A For Global Plant-Based Meat Launch
Viomix Tech, a Seoul-based company who recently entered the plant-based alternative space, has closed its Series A investment to grow its vegan product portfolio and launch in international markets, with the U.S. and Middle East as the!-->…
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