2024

German food tech startup Formo has closed a $61M Series B fundraise and launched animal-free cheeses made from microbial fermentation in supermarkets. If you're in Germany or Austria, you can now walk to one of 2,000+ Rewe, Billa and…
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Australian startup Algenie has come out of stealth with early funding for its photobioreactors that can create sustainable fuels, plastics and feed from algae. Armed with helix-shaped photobioreactors that can dramatically reduce the…
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More than two in five Australians are reducing meat or don't eat it at all, with health a major consumption driver. But taste and price remain key challenges for plant-based meats. Australians are cutting back on meat due to health and…
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Motif FoodWorks, the Boston-based startup known for its Hemami ingredient for meat analogues, is shutting down, days after it settled a long-running IP dispute with Impossible Foods. Last week, Motif FoodWorks announced it had sold off…
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Beyond Meat will soon launch a fermentation-derived mycelium steak to address consumer demand for clean-label products, with a likely launch through a health-focused restaurant chain. One of the world's most famous meat analogue makers…
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Australian startup Carbonaught has received financing from Better Bite Ventures for its low-emission agriculture tech, which sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen and increases production through basalt. Carbonaught, an Australian agtech…
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Two years after the IRA passed, a new report found that states have only captured a tiny fraction of the funding available. By Syris Valentine When President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, into law two…
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Timo Recker, CEO of plant-based startup TiNDLE Foods, talks evolving consumer attitudes, sales and funding declines, the importance of taste, and his admiration for Beyond Meat. It's been nine months since Timo Recker took over the…
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A Swiss canton has banned the sale of contaminated meat and dairy with high levels of 'forever chemicals', calling for intervention on a national level too. St Gallen, the canton in northeastern Switzerland, has implemented a ban on…
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Impossible Foods has settled its patent infringement dispute with Motif Foodworks, taking over the latter's heme business. Plant-based meat maker Impossible Foods and food tech company Motif Foodworks, a spinoff of Boston-based Ginkgo…
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Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures has led a $33M Series B investment for US startup Galy, which makes lab-grown cotton. Boston-based Galy has secured $33M in an oversubscribed Series B investment round led by Bill Gates'…
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The Bezos Earth Fund has inaugurated its third Centre for Sustainable Protein at the National University of Singapore, labelled as an "absolute powerhouse" of alternative proteins. Biomass fermentation, microalgae innovations, and…
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An EU-funded report by agrifood lobbies has recognised the need to eat less meat and shift towards more sustainable diets, asking the EU Commission to create a plant-based action plan by 2026. We're eating too much meat, and we need to…
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In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers a first-of-its-kind alt-butter, the popularity of Silk plant-based milk,…
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Danish bioproduction company 21st.Bio has secured self-determined GRAS status for its animal-free beta-lactoglobulin in the US, paving the way for market entry. Labelling itself as a "launchpad for proteins produced with precision…
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Months after first announcing the move, Ferrero has at last launched a vegan version of Nutella, starting with Italy, Belgium and France. Milk powder is out in the vegan iteration of the world's most popular chocolate spread, with…
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US fast-food chain Shake Shack has added the Veggie Shack burger to the menu at all Hong Kong and Macau stores for a limited time. The Veggie Shack is coming to Hong Kong and Macau, as Shake Shack continues to roll out the whole-food…
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Researchers at UC Berkeley are betting on fungi strain Neurospora intermedia to turn food destined for the bins into haute cuisine. Who knew mould could be the secret to saving food waste? In a new research paper, that's what…
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Japanese startup IntergriCulture has announced five new projects under its CulNet Consortium, with its CEO emphasising the importance of knowledge-sharing. If we're to commercialise cultivated meat on a mass scale at affordable prices,…
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Finland's Solar Foods, which makes Solein protein from air, has obtained self-affirmed GRAS status in the US, taking it a step closer to commercialisation in the country. Solar Foods is inching closer to bringing its Solein protein to…
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The culture wars over cultivated meat continue, with a House Representative in Illinois introducing a bill to ban these foods in the state. And it goes on. Two months after Florida's ban on cultivated meat came into effect, and a…
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