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Finless Foods’s Pokè-Style Plant-Based Tuna Now Available Across U.S.
California’s Finless Foods, one of the early players in the cultivated seafood space, is ready to debut its plant-based tuna analogue nationwide across the United States. Its pokè style product, which the company claims i minimally!-->…
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Seafood Reboot Nets $3.3 Million To Launch A New Wave Of Plant-Based Fish
Paris-based alt fish startup Seafood Reboot has closed a €3.2 million pre-seed funding round led by Demeter Investment Managers with participation from Senseii ventures, Founders Future and Beyond Impact. New funding has been secured to!-->…
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Biotech Brightseed Scoops $68 Million For Bioactive Compound Mapping
California-based AI phytonutrient detection startup Brightseed has closed a successful Series B funding round led by Singapore-based Temasek, with added participation from both existing and new investors, the raise garnered $68 million.!-->…
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v2food Enters The Ready Meal Category With Four Plant-Based Classics
Australian plant-based meat leader v2food is diversifying its range with ready meals to offer consumers fast and convenient access to prepared vegan dishes. The company is debuting four options including spaghetti bolognese, lasagne, penne!-->…
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KFC Sets Its Sights On Vegan Chicken Buckets For European Restaurants
Following on from its original recipe Vegan Burger, KFC is looking to create a range of new products with Quorn including vegan chicken buckets. The first confirmed item is an animal-free tender. U.K.-based Quorn has been chosen as the!-->…
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OmniPork Honors AAPI Month With Plant-Based Collaborations
Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Month will be celebrated in meat-free style this year. OmniFoods is partnering with a bevvy of chefs from the AAPI community and offering up its OmniPork products for them to develop limited edition!-->…
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China’s CellX Announces $10.6 Million Series A To Make Cultivated Meat
Shanghai-based cellular agriculture startup CellX has secured a $10.6 million Series A funding round with funding earmarked for recruitment efforts and optimizing the company's platform technologies to achieve scale while decreasing unit!-->…
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Evo Foods Announces New Partnership With Ginkgo Bioworks For Next-Gen Egg Products
Indian plant-based egg startup Evo Foods has announced it is partnering with Ginkgo Bioworks to create new ingredients for its products. The latter offers an established cell programming platform which will be leveraged to develop!-->…
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Unlimeat Crowdfunds To Launch Sold-Out Plant-Based Jerky In The US
Korea’s leading plant-based meat company is leveraging the power of crowdfunding to launch its jerky line in the U.S. A pre-launch campaign on Kickstarter allows global backers to participate. The official launch is scheduled for May!-->…
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Cargill And Cubiq Team Up To Take On The U.S. Alternative Fats Market
Barcelona’s Cubiq Foods has been developing its omega-3-rich smart fats since 2020 and now, the startup has announced a $5.75 million funding round from Moira Capital Partners, SGEIC and Newtree Impact to help it bring its developments to!-->…
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Marco Pierre White Doubles Down On Redefine Meat Partnership With UK-Wide Menu Updates
Award-winning chef Marco Pierre White has developed two new recipes using Israel’s Redefine Meat’s New-Meat plant-based innovation. The Redefine Ragu alla Bolognese and Redefine Mr Lamb’s Shepherd’s Pie will both be rolled out across!-->…
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‘Beef But Better’: Kerry Identifies What Australia Consumers Are Looking From Plant-Based Beef Burgers
Consumers across the globe are adopting flexitarian diets, motivated by health and environmental factors. Newly published research by Kerry, the global leader in taste and nutrition, suggests the move towards alternative proteins starts!-->…
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Haofood Partners With Lawson To Bring Plant-Based Chicken To 2,300 Stores
Shanghai’s Haofood has announced distribution partnership with Chinese convenience store giant Lawson that will see its new satay nugget stick product being stocked in 2,300 stores across the country, to give consumers easy access to!-->…
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TiNDLE Maker Next Gen Foods Appoints 2 New Board Members To Strengthen Food System Disruption
Singapore’s Next Gen Foods, which owns the vegan TiNDLE brand, has welcomed two new board members to help cement the young company's position as a global plant-based leader: Jenny Lee, a managing partner at GGV Capital, and Mathys Boeren,!-->…
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Q&A w/ AgFunder’s Louisa Burwood-Taylor, AgriFood Expert & Journalist
Green Queen founder Sonalie Figueiras recently chatted with Louisa Burwood-Taylor, AgFunder's Head of Media & Research, about what makes an interesting story, covering portfolio company competitors, the rise of angel investing, and!-->…
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21-Time Michelin-Starred Chef Alain Ducasse Brings Vegan Burgers to Paris
French culinary superstar Alain Ducasse has unveiled a vegan burger kiosk in the Bastille region of Paris. Burgal is the latest meat-free innovation from the 21-time Michelin-starred chef known for his openness to plant-based dishes.
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Coles Pledges To Cater To Flexitarians Across Australia With Get Plant’d
Coles has debuted a new-to-it plant-based meat brand. The grocery giant has more than 800 locations throughout Australia, all of which will be stocking the Get Plant’d range. Products have been developed to mimic the full experience of!-->…
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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!-->…
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‘It Flakes Like The Real Thing’: Irish Startup Debuts Whole-Cut Vegan Cod
Irish startup Sea & Believe recently unveiled its newest development: a vegan whole-cut cod fillet. The company considers the breakthrough to be its biggest to date. It follows the commercial release of seaweed goujons and seaweed!-->…
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Slutty Vegan Gets $25 Million in Funding Led By Shake Shack Founder To Open 20 New Burger Restaurants
Atlanta’s Slutty Vegan burger chain has closed a $25 million Series A funding round, led by New Voices Fund and restauranteur Danny Meyer’s Enlightened Hospitality Investments. The funding will be used to open 10 new restaurants in 2022!-->…
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Scientists Claim Swapping 20% Of Beef For Microbial Protein Will Halve Deforestation Demand
According to new research published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature swapping 20 percent of all beef eaten globally for microbial protein, such as the type used to make Quorn, would halve deforestation over the next 30 years, Further,!-->…
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