Funding News

Alternative protein startups in Europe raised 56% more capital in the first half of 2026 than the same period a year ago, dominating the global investment landscape for this sector. After a dismal year in which investment in the…
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The Estonian government has pumped nearly €2M in funding for Äio and TFTAK to build a digital biomanufacturing platform that can turn food and wood industry waste into planet-friendly fats. Estonian biotech company Äio and applied…
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Belgian food tech firm Maash has secured €12.15M ($14.2M) in funding to launch its new demo facility and prepare for industrial production of its mycoprotein ingredient for blended meat and pet food. Maash, a Brussels-based scale-up…
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Canadian plant-based wellness brand Organic Traditions has raised $10.5M in funding to accelerate its US expansion and advance the innovation behind its new Fiber Flow line. As the GLP-1 boom ushers in a new era for fibre-packed foods,…
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Food processing giant ADM has received $2.23M in tax credits from the Iowa state government to convert an underutilised space at its Clinton facility into a precision fermentation hub. A month after securing a contract to produce The…
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Canadian startup Mid-Day Squares has raised $8M in debt financing to expand production of its high-fibre, high-protein vegan snack bars ahead of launching at major US retailers. Mid-Day Squares, the viral snacking company that took on…
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Swedish food tech startup Millow has secured €2M ($2.3M) in funding to expand production of its low-water oat and mycelium protein, which it will initially launch in the Nordic foodservice channel. Growing mycelium on oats to produce a…
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Australian precision fermentation startup All G has welcomed Xeraya Capital, owned by Malaysia's state-owned Khazanah Nasional fund, to its list of pre-Series B investors, a month after launching its bovine lactoferrin in the US. All G,…
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Indian food tech startup Inaara NeoFoods has raised ₹21 crore ($2.2M) to advance its AI-powered "farm to formulation" platform for producing plant-based proteins, fibres, fats, and functional starches. Seeking to leverage India's crop…
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Californian startup Plantible Foods has secured $35M in USDA-backed loan and equity funding to quintuple the manufacturing capacity for its duckweed-derived Rubisco protein. A funding effort supported by the US government will help San…
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Israeli 3D-printed meat startup Steakholder Foods has secured $3.5M in private placements, with another $7M potentially available through warrants, to broaden the distribution of its Perfecta consumer brand in the US. Weeks after…
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US startup Mitti Labs has secured $9.5M in Series A funding to scale its AI-led technology that reduces water use and methane emissions on rice farms in Asia, converting savings into verified carbon credits. A particularly destructive…
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Indian food tech startup Arboreal Bioinnovations has secured ₹23 crore ($24.2M) in Series A funding to scale up functional ingredients like yeast and plant proteins, sugar replacers, and fibres. To bring its functional ingredient…
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The UK's food and environment ministry has awarded £2.35M to a project to build one of the world's largest wetland farming supply chains, led by biomaterials startup Ponda. Ponda, the Bristol-based biomaterials firm known for its…
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The Netherlands Enterprise Agency has committed up to €400,000 ($465,000) in funding for a Partners for International Business cluster to help companies develop blended proteins for the meat-reducing French market. As blended meat makes…
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The Robertson Foundation has invested $19M in six organisations working to lower methane emissions from the food system via plant-forward dietary shifts and food waste reduction. US grant-making organisation Robertson Foundation is…
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Ferments du Futur, a public-private research initiative to industrialise fermentation technologies for future food production in France, has received a €19.1M ($21.8M) funding boost from a government agency. France is bolstering its…
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US agrifood tech startup SCO2 has secured $2.65M in seed funding to advance its supercritical carbon dioxide extraction tech, which can recover valuable compounds from food waste for use in various industries. SCO2, a Minnesota-based…
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The multinational Salina project has kicked off with €7M in funding from the EU to create scalable macroalgae cultivation systems and develop high-value products for the food, cosmetics, and biomaterial sectors. A new project aims to…
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US biotech startup Kuehnle AgroSystems has closed a Series B funding round to expand the sustainable production of its algal astaxanthin via dark fermentation for applications including human nutrition. Hawaiian algal biotech company…
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Canadian firm Phytokana Ingredients has secured C$25M ($17.8M) in equity funding to construct a dry fractionation facility for the production of plant-based proteins. Having already obtained hundreds of millions worth of offtake…
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