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Plant Meat Startup Heura Introduces Recyclable Packaging That Reduces Plastic Use by 80%
Barcelona’s plant-based meat company Heura has launched its brand new packaging, which will reduce plastic use by 80% and is 100% recyclable. According to the company, the move will slash plastic consumption by 12.85 tons each year and!-->…
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Venture Studio Green Planet Foods Launches To Bring ‘Affordable Wellness’ To Mainland China
Green Planet Foods, a Singapore-based venture studio focused on plant-based food and advanced farming technologies, has just launched its venture studio. It will act as both a product innovator and an incubator that invests in solutions!-->…
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Plant-Based Pioneer Green Monday Raises US$70M In Record Breaking Round
Green Monday, the Hong Kong-headquartered plant-based group, has just announced it has raised US$70 million in financing, marking the largest of its kind to date in Asia. It has also recently been named on Fortune Magazine’s annual Change!-->…
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Impact Snacks: World’s First Carbon Positive Plant-Based Superfood Bars With Compostable Packaging
Impact Snacks is the newest plant-based startup in town and is the world’s first snack company that reclaims 100% of its carbon footprint. Based in Boston, the company will launch this month its first product, a plant-based superfood bar!-->…
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Pervasive Inequality In Food Tech: New Survey Shows Gender Bias Still Too Common
The Vegan Women Summit (VWS), an organisation dedicated to break the gender bias and discrimination in the food tech world, recently published a report on the extensive investment inequities in the burgeoning alternative protein sector.!-->…
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Australia’s First Vegan Halloumi Startup Hello Friend Launches Crowdfunder To Expand
Hello Friend Foods, the first food tech in Australia to offer vegan halloumi cheese, has launched a crowdfunding campaign. The dairy-free cheese startup says that the money raised will be used to scale-up its distribution, grow its new!-->…
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The Juicy Details: 10 Revelations Made By Impossible Foods At Their Latest Media Conference
We recently tuned into an invite-only virtual media conference featuring Impossible Foods’ most senior executives including CEO & Founder Pat Brown, CFO David Lee, CCO Rachel Konrad and Senior VP of International Nick Halla, where they!-->…
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Study: Australian Gen Zs Not Ready For Cultured Meat, But Concerned About Environment & Animals
A new Australian study has found that Generation Z – the younger generation born between 1995 and 2015 – are not ready to accept cultivated meat, but are greatly concerned about environmental and animal welfare issues. Despite their!-->…
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Plant-Based Incubator NEW FOOD Startup 2020 Launches In Indonesia
Launched by Singapore-based plant-based food startup Float Foods in partnership with Ultra Indonesia, a food incubator, the NEW FOOD Startup 2020 will target plant-based food innovators and entrepreneurs in Indonesia. The initiative aims!-->…
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Wildtype: Cell-Based Sushi-Grade Salmon Startup Now Taking Pre-Orders From Chefs
Wildtype, a cell-based food tech, is starting to take pre-orders from chefs as it looks for partners to feature their cultivated sushi-grade salmon on menus. While the San Francisco-based startup is still a while away from fully launching!-->…
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Dutch Plant-Based Brand Vivera To Invest Over US$35M For Expansion
Vivera, the largest producer of plant-based meat alternatives in the Netherlands, is planning to invest at least €30 million (US$35.5 million) over the next three years to expand its product line, machinery and workforce as demand!-->…
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Australia’s Fenn Foods To Launch Carbon-Neutral Plant-Based Veef
Fenn Foods, an Australian plant-based meat brand, is set to launch its first carbon-neutral beef alternative before the end of this year. Its product, dubbed “veef”, aims to be the most delicious and sustainable plant-based meat product on!-->…
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Brazil’s Beyond: Plant-Based Meat Startup Fazenda Futuro Secures US$21.5M For Global Expansion
Brazilian vegan startup Fazenda Futuro recently secured US$21.5 million in investment, which the company says it will use to expand its line of plant-based meats and accelerate the launch of its burgers, meatballs and sausages to more!-->…
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Cultivated Meat Research At UC Davis Awarded US$3.5M U.S. Government Grant
The National Science Foundation (NSF) in the U.S. has just awarded UC Davis a US$3.5 million five-year grant for cultivated meat research, marking the first major government grant in the country for research into cellular agriculture for!-->…
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Bond Pet Foods Creates World’s First Animal-Free Chicken For Dogs & Cats
Bond Pet Foods, Inc., a biotech startup making animal-free proteins for pet food, has announced that it has developed the world’s first animal-free cultured chicken meat protein for cats and dogs. The Boulder, Colorado-based company also!-->…
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Mzansi Meat: Africa’s First Cell-Based Meat Startup
Founded this year, South Africa-based Mzansi Meat Co. is the first cell-based food tech to arrive in the continent. Using cellular agriculture technology, the company hopes to produce cruelty-free cell-cultured protein products, including!-->…
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First Alt Protein Industry Acquisition: Israel’s Meat-Tech 3D Set To Purchase Cell-Cultured Fat Company
Meat-Tech 3D, an Israeli cultivated meat food tech, has just signed a letter of intent to acquire a company developing cultured fat products. The company to be purchased by Meat-Tech has come up with a proprietary stem-cell-based!-->…
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Plant-Based Review App abillionveg Announces US$3 Million Pre-Series A Round & Partnership With Impossible Foods
Singapore based plant-based review and discovery app abillionveg has closed a pre-Series A funding round totalling US$3 million with injections by Hong Kong's Nan Fung Group, CloudKitchens and York Capital. In addition, Twitter’s head of!-->…
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Impossible Sausage Makes Its First International Debut At All Stores In Hong Kong
During an invite-only virtual media conference featuring the company's most senior executives attended by Green Queen, Impossible Foods has officially announced today (September 10) the launch of its Impossible Sausage Made From Plants in!-->…
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Beyond Meat: First Foreign Plant-Based Company To Develop Production Facility In China
Beyond Meat has just announced an agreement with Jiaxing Economic & Technological Development Zone (JXEDZ) to design and develop its manufacturing footprint in the area with a new facility with ready access to Shanghai. This will make!-->…
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5 Things I Learnt While Writing My Book On Agrifood Tech & Alt Protein
By: Shen Ming Lee
Hungry For Disruption offers a futuristic vision for embracing the scientific and technological advances in food for the coming decades. The book explores how breakthrough innovations in smart agriculture, novel!-->!-->!-->…
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