Successful Alternative Protein Fund First Close Announced for New Protein Fund II by Big Idea Ventures
AAK, a multi-oil ingredient house specialized in plant-based vegetable oils and fats, and Bühler, a solution partner for the food processing industry, have joined other investors for the initial funding round. Both companies also invested in Big Idea Ventures’ first…
Tidetron Secures Award for the Fastest Growing Agrifood Biotech Startup in China at Future Food Asia 2023
The 7th edition of the Future Food Asia (FFA) conference wrapped up in May, culminating in a resounding triumph for Tidetron Bioworks Technology Co., Ltd. The company’s exceptional performance in the Agrifood biotech industry earned them the coveted title of…
TurtleTree Debuts First-ever Animal-free Lactoferrin In World-first Tasting
TurtleTree, a global leader in animal-free functional dairy proteins, will today debut the world’s first precision fermentation-produced lactoferrin —LF+—a high-value bioactive milk protein and one of the most powerful parts of cow’s milk, with great functional benefits for immunity, iron…
Haofood Launches Asia’s Free-from-extra Added Artificial Additives And Preservatives Plant-based Meat
Haofood, the world’s pioneer in the development of plant-based chicken from peanuts, announces their latest innovation: Carefree Pulled Chickless, a clean-label plant-based chicken that is available in China starting today. Clean-label products are made without extra added artificial additives, preservatives, thickeners, water retention…
Talkwalker partners with the Good Food Institute APAC and NUS Business School to accelerate consumer insights into the plant-based foods category
Talkwalker, a leading consumer intelligence and deep listening company, has partnered with alternative protein thinktank Good Food Institute Asia Pacific (GFI APAC) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School to run student research projects on the plant-based consumer…
Next Meats, Dr. Foods And ImpacFat Ink MOU To Propel The Development Of Environmentally Friendly Foods
photo credit: Next Meats Next Meats Holdings, Inc. (Next Meats), Dr. Foods, Inc. (Dr. Foods), and ImpacFat Pte. Ltd. (ImpacFat) announced today their collaboration to advance the development of alternative protein products in both Japan and Singapore. The parties inked a memorandum of…
SuperMeat Reimagines Famous Moist Maker Sandwich with First Ever Cultivated Turkey
SuperMeat, a foodtech company working to supply the world with high-quality cultivated meat, today announced that it has made the first ever cultivated turkey, introduced via the most famous Thanksgiving leftovers sandwich in the world, the Moist Maker. The sandwich…
Ba-kawk! UPSIDE Foods Pens Open Letter to Chickens to Mark Historic US FDA “Green Light” for Cultivated Meat
To commemorate a groundbreaking regulatory milestone for UPSIDE Foods and for the future of food, UPSIDE Foods founder and CEO Uma Valeti published an open letter in today’s New York Times to those who will benefit most from the news: chickens. UPSIDE Foods…
More Than Four in Ten Consumers Globally Think Eating Plant-Based Food will Replace Meat in the Next Decade
Forty-two percent of consumers worldwide think most people will likely be eating plant-based food instead of meat in the next ten years, according to a new global consumer research study conducted by GlobeScan, a global insights and advisory consultancy, and…
Umami Meats files patent for single-stem cell technology capable of building muscle and fat for cultivated seafood
Umami Meats, a Singapore-based cultivated seafood startup, has filed a patent for its unique method of establishing mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) lines from fish. What this means is that Umami Meats can use a single fish stem cell to build…
