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Nourish Ingredients Closes USD$28.6 Million Series A for Microbial Fermentation Fats
With backing led by Hong Kong-based billionaire Li Ka Shing's VC Horizon Ventures, Australian food tech startup, Nourish Ingredients, has raised more than AUD$45 million (USD$28.6 million) in a Series A.
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Dairy in the Desert: Change Foods To Bring the First Precision Fermentation Facility to the UAE
Alternative dairy maker Change Foods has signed an agreement with the KEZAD Group to design the first-of-its-kind commercial manufacturing plant in the UAE, helping to solve one of the industry's biggest pain points: the fermentation!-->…
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India’s ‘Smart’ Protein Sector Poised for Rapid Growth
The Good Food Institute India, in partnership with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, held its first in-person Summit in New Delhi last week since the pandemic, taking a look at the smart protein industry and how!-->…
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Thailand Just Got Its First Vegan Cheese Factory
Beginning early next year, Swees Plant Based Foods Co., a Thai-based dairy-free cheese startup, will begin production in the country's first vegan cheese factory.
Expecting to be fully operational in its new facility by 2023, Swees says!-->!-->!-->…
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Synonym Announces $6.3M Pre-Seed Round for Biomanufacturing Development
Synonym, a financing and development platform for biomanufacturing, has raised a pre-seed round of $6.3 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz, Giant Ventures, Blue Horizon, Siddhi Capital, FJ Labs and Global Founders Capital among others.
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Umami Meats Expands Its Cultivated Seafood Offerings With Fish Cakes and Filets
Leading cultivated meat producer Umami Meats will debut its lab-grown fish cakes and filets, following the debut of its fish ball laksa in August.
During Agri-Food Week 2022 held in Singapore later this month, Umami Meats says its!-->!-->!-->…
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Beyond Meat Cuts 19% of Workforce As Sales Lag
In an expected move as sales continue to miss targets, U.S.-based Beyond Meat has announced layoffs affecting 200 employees including their recently suspended COO.
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Faba Is Redefining Vegan Meal Subscription for Singapore
The newly launched Singapore-based, Faba, says its vegan meal subscription service delivers the best of plant-based meals classic and new-world.
With a pre-seed funding round raised through the Singaporean VC Antler—where the founders!-->!-->!-->…
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These 10 Startups Will Change How We Grow and Eat Food
These food startups selected as finalists in Thought For Food's 2021 Challenge are set to sustainably change the way we grow and eat food.
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Precision Fermented Egg Protein In Your Cocktail? Say Cheers to Pulp Culture’s ‘Build’
A new line of hard juices from Pulp Culture features The Every Company's precision fermentation egg protein in a first for the alcohol and precision fermented egg categories.
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Meatable Moves Closer to Becoming the World’s First Cultivated Pork Producer to Earn Regulatory Approval
Dutch cultivated meat producer Meatable says it's poised to bring cultivated pork to Singapore through an exclusive partnership with the only approved contract cultivated meat manufacturer, ESCO Aster.
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India’s Licious Adds Veggie Chicken and Lamb As It Moves to Take Over the Category
Licious, the Temasek-backed Indian meat company, has announced the launch of UnCrave, its first foray into vegetarian meat.
The new launch will see Licious work directly with consumers on the UnCrave products, focusing on Delhi, Mumbai,!-->!-->!-->…
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Forget Recent Sales, Widespread Vegan Meat Adoption Is Inevitable, Says Report
New analysis suggests alternative protein and vegan meat is in the early phase of an "S" adoption curve. And by the next decade, there will likely be a tipping point.
The new findings come as plant-based meat sales have waned; a recent!-->!-->!-->…
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Thailand’s Ambitious Plan to Become the ‘Silicon Valley of Food’
Thailand's National Innovation Agency (NIA) SPACE-F project is aimed at bringing investment opportunities to the Thai food tech sector and creating the Silicon Valley of food for Southeast Asia.
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New Partnership Will Grow Micro Meat’s Cultivated Meat In Outer Space
Heading to outer space anytime soon? You may be dining on cultivated meat, thanks to a new partnership between alternative protein pioneer, Mexico's Micro Meat, and U.S.-based Orbital Assembly, developer of space-based business parks with!-->…
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Vegan Meat Leader Impossible Foods Lays Off 6% of Staff Despite Steady Growth. What’s Next?
Impossible Foods, the Bay Area vegan meat brand behind Burger King's Impossible Whopper, says it recently laid off six percent of its workforce. Is it a sign of more cuts or more growth ahead?
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Umami Meats Patents Novel Single-Cell Tech to Bring Down Cultivated Seafood Costs
Singapore-based Umami Meats has filed a patent for a novel single-stem cell technology that it says can build both muscle and fat in cultivated seafood.
The new patent for mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) lines from fish is aimed at helping!-->!-->!-->…
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These 16 Food Tech Startups Are Revolutionising India’s Food Ecosystem
These 19 food startups are leading India’s emerging alternative protein space, developing 100% plant-based and cell-based alternatives.
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‘It’s Scary For Businesses To Take Risks’: Britty Mann of Planted Society on Vegan Menu Activism
This November, the City of Austin's Office of Sustainability is launching a month-long plant-based restaurant campaign and it's all thanks to Britty Mann. Green Queen's Sonalie Figueiras talks to the Austin, Texas-based food educator and!-->…
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BlueNalu Demonstrates Scalability and 75% Profit Margin for Cultivated Seafood
Cultivated seafood company BlueNalu says it has 'cracked the code' to significant profitability with 75 percent gross margins achieved through breakthrough technology.
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Is High Protein Bread the Next Big Plant-Based Trend?
Food tech startup Equii has closed a $6 million seed funding round for its proprietary microbial protein-based bread. Is this a new frontier for plant-based food?
The seed funding round was led by Khosla Ventures, which also supported!-->!-->!-->…
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