Southeast Asia

Thai Union, food giant and leading producer of Thai seafood, has invested in France's Algama algae innovation platform. Thai Union's Corporate Venture Capital Fund joined Algama's recent €13 million Series A funding round to help…
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With more than $10,000 in prize money on the table, young Asian tech teams competed in the ProVeg Food Innovation Challenge APAC. China, Korea, India, Indonesia, and Thailand were all victorious in the 2022 ProVeg Food Innovation…
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Philippines-based plant-based meat manufacturer WTH Foods has launched Umani, a new range of frozen plant-based products drawing on Filipino culture. The mission-driven WTH Foods says its new range of frozen meals is part of its goal of…
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Smita J asks some tough questions. The activist questions our global food systems and their reliance on Big Food's over-processed, industrially farmed commodities, shares her learnings from a visit to a sustainable farming community in…
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Singapore's Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment announced the establishment of the position of Government Chief Sustainability Officer to advance its fight against the climate crisis. On January 1st, 2023, Tuang Liang Lim…
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Singapore's Float Foods is launching a region-wide restaurant push for its plant-based OnlyEg during Veganuary. Just weeks after announcing a meal kit partnership in Hong Kong with DayDayCook, Singapore's Float Foods is teaming up…
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Following its acquisition of plant-based nutrition brand Pro2fit earlier this year, India's leading plant-based dairy brand One Good has added Angelo Vegan Cheese to its portfolio. "One reason we are excited about having Angelo Vegan…
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Singapore is getting its first plant-based mee pok in a partnership between the new Ha Li Fa brand, Eat, Plant, Love, and Bib Gourmand LiXin Teochew Fishball Noodles. A popular Chinese noodle dish, mee pok is one of many Asian dishes…
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Mumbai-based Another Foods says its new plant-based chicken is made specifically for food service to support the demands across the hospitality and restaurant industries. Another Foods says it worked with hospitality and food service…
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There are a fair amount of 'best vegan cities' lists on the interwebs, most of which are all interesting and worth a read. That being said, here at Green Queen, we love data and we love to use data to make decisions. While we did find a…
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Eat Just's Good Meat is now available through a Singaporean butcher shop, Huber's Butchery. Eat Just's cultivated Good Meat is coming to the display case and bistro menu of Huber's Butchery in Singapore, beginning early next year. The…
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A new report by Green Queen Media argues that while plant-based meat sales may be flat in the US and Europe, in Asia Pacific, the alternative protein industry is booming. Green Queen Media has published the 2022 edition of its…
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Following the first-ever dairy-free festival in Jakarta, Indonesia-based Green Rebel Foods has launched into the plant-based dairy category. Green Rebel is a leading producer of plant-based protein across Southeast Asia. Its new…
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Cultivated meat brand Meatable has announced a 'Future of Meat' innovation center in partnership with plant-based meat brand Love Handle in an effort to bring the two sectors together to co-create the future of food. Would you eat vegan…
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Vow says its Series A funding round comes as it expects approval from Singapore to begin selling its cultivated meat in restaurants later this year. Australian cultivated meat producer Vow has closed a record-setting $49.2 million…
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Most mattresses are not vegan, full of toxins, and are a huge letdown to the planet. Meet Heveya, the ethical sleep pioneer. Most of us don’t think enough about one activity we do for almost a third of our lives: sleeping. And…
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Last year was a banner year for agrifood tech companies across Asia Pacific. And 2022 is following with notable achievements, with more than 360 investment deals in the first half of the year totaling more than $5 billion, according to the…
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With its world-class innovation centre, a Scale It Up Innovation Challenge, and pioneering protein aeration technology, leading machinery maker Bühler is helping global meat substitute startups supercharge their production and scaling…
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Beginning early next year, Swees Plant Based Foods Co., a Thai-based dairy-free cheese startup, will begin production in the country's first vegan cheese factory. Expecting to be fully operational in its new facility by 2023, Swees says…
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Leading cultivated meat producer Umami Meats will debut its lab-grown fish cakes and filets, following the debut of its fish ball laksa in August. During Agri-Food Week 2022 held in Singapore later this month, Umami Meats says its…
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The newly launched Singapore-based, Faba, says its vegan meal subscription service delivers the best of plant-based meals classic and new-world. With a pre-seed funding round raised through the Singaporean VC Antler—where the founders…
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