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Legume is the New Coffee: Meet the Belgian Startup Making Your Latte Without the Bean
Belgian startup Koppie, which makes a single-ingredient coffee alternative using legumes, has emerged from stealth with a pre-seed funding round.
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Future Food Quick Bites: Supreme Cheddarton, Vegan Dog Food & Nestlé Layoffs
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Violife's protein-packed Cheddar alternative, Petaluma's plant-based dehydrated dog food, and the EU's vegan labelling war.
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Denmark’s Cellugy Gets €8M EU Funding for Fossil-Free Skincare Materials
Danish biotech firm Cellugy has secured €8.1M via an EU grant to scale up its bio-based alternative to fossil-based skincare ingredients.
To rid the cosmetics industry of its fossil fuel dependence, Danish startup Cellugy has received!-->!-->!-->…
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Rival Foods: Plant-Based Meat Startup Lands $11.5M for Clean-Label Whole Cuts
Dutch food tech firm Rival Foods has secured €10M ($11.5M) in funding to scale up its suite of whole-cut plant-based meats, which contain minimal ingredients and high amounts of protein.
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EU Backs 16 Future Food Startups Tackling Climate Crisis
The EU has extended its track record of investing in climate-smart food tech startups amid rising inflation and environmental threats in the region.
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Future Food Quick Bites: Protein Lattes, Food Tech Hubs & Tempeh Innovation
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers a host of protein lattes, Better Nature's tempeh rollouts, and Meatable's presentation at a Wall Street Journal forum.
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This Startup Got $4.6M To Turn Food Waste & Fungi Into Plant-Based Meat Flavourings
France's Fungu'it has secured €4M ($4.6M) in funding to scale its technology that turns food waste into natural flavours for meat and cocoa alternatives.
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Israeli Startup Unveils AI-Powered ‘Natural’ GLP-1 Peptide to Rival Ozempic
As Americans embrace Ozempic and food-as-medicine innovations, a new startup has created a bioactive peptide to activate the body's GLP-1 hormone.
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Tastewise Raises $50M to Scale AI Platform That Helps Food Companies Cut Waste
Tastewise has secured $50M in a Series B round to scale its AI platform for food companies across the globe, part of which includes tackling food waste.
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Future Food Quick Bites: Oatly Lookbook, Kraft Heinz NotCo & McDonald’s Jackfruit Burger
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oatly's recipe lookbook, Villareal CF's tofu seminar, and People Magazine's plant-based awards.
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Portugal’s PFx Biotech Raises €5M for Precision-Fermented Human Milk Proteins
Portuguese startup PFx Biotech has secured €2.5M in seed funding, matching a recent EU grant for its recombinant human milk proteins.
Making breast milk alternatives from yeast, Porto-based firm PFx Biotech has bagged €2.5M ($2.85M) in!-->!-->!-->…
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Vegdog: German Plant-Based Dog Food Firm Raises $10M After Sales Grow by 66%
Munich-based vegan pet food startup Vegdog has raised €9M ($10.2M) in Series A funding to expand its European presence, after seeing sales hike by 66% in 2024.
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Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan RXBar, NotMilk Avena, Pre-Frozen Tofu
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Kellanova's plant-based RXBars, Vivera's pre-frozen tofu, and a cultivated seafood tasting event.
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Just 7% of Climate Finance Goes to Food Systems, Despite Huge Emissions Impact
The food and agriculture industry requires 12 times more finance than current levels to reduce its environmental impact in line with global climate goals, a new analysis suggests.
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What Do 2025’s Investment Trends So Far Tell Us About Alternative Proteins?
After a decline in alternative protein investments in 2024, funding further fell by 28% in Q1 2025 compared to the same period a year ago. Analysts blame AI, high costs, and low sales.
There's no other way to put it: 2024 was a bleak!-->!-->!-->…
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Future Food Quick Bites: Quorn x Tom Cruise, Impossible Chicken & Cultivated Meat at Indy 500
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Impossible Foods' new vegan chicken, Quorn's Mission: Impossible collab, and a new kind of tempeh.
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Future Food Quick Bites: Oatly x Chris Parnell, Vegan Nutella & Forbes 30 Under 30
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Nutella Plant-Based's UK launch, Oatly's collab with Chris Parnell, and Nestlé's new biotech centre.
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Muu: Thai Animal-Free Dairy Startup Muu Bags Investment by Southeast Asian VC A2D Ventures
Bangkok-based Muu has secured a strategic investment from VCs and a Japanese food conglomerate to advance its precision-fermented dairy proteins.
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Future Food Quick Bites: Massive Attack, Blonde Chocolate & A Price Freeze
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Massive Attack's vegan concert, Beleaf's plant-based meat price freeze, and the FDA's labelling guidelines.
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Swedish Farmers Take 10% Stake in Pea Milk Startup Sproud
Swedish agrifood company Lantmännen has become a part-owner of Malmö-based pea milk maker Sproud, as part of its larger pea protein push.
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Spain’s Plant-Based Meat Leader Bags €20M EU Bank Investment & Promises Q4 Profitability
Spanish food tech startup Heura Foods has received a €20M ($22.2M) loan from the European Investment Bank to move beyond plant-based meat, and expects to become profitable by the end of this year.
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