PepsiCo adds Health Warrior to the family
In New York, PepsiCo, Inc. acquired Health Warrior, Inc., a nutrition-forward company that makes plant-based products including nutrition bars and on-trend offerings. Health Warrior...
Perfect Day raises $350 million, plans to add tech development arm
In Berkeley, California, animal-free milk protein producer Perfect Day has closed a $350 million Series D investment round. The company says it will use...
BlueNalu makes seafood with cellular aquaculture
In California, BlueNalu, a pioneer in the field of cellular aquaculture, launched its business with funding by New Crop Capital.
Lou Cooperhouse, President & CEO...
Future Meat raises $347 million to build US cultivated meat facility
In Israel, cultivated meat maker Future Meat has raised a whopping $347 million in a Series B funding, which it will use to build...
All about that (lab-grown) bass: Lisbon spin-out targets cultivated fish
In Portugal, University of Lisbon spinout Algae2Fish has received funding to advance cultivated seabass. The unspecified funds from the Good Food Institute will be...
Junk food pictures are twice as distracting as health food pictures
In Maryland, a new Johns Hopkins University study has verified that junk food images are almost twice as distracting as health food pictures when...
Animal-free cheese maker raises $50 million for “dairy revolution”
In Berlin, a startup producing cheese without animals has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round. Formo uses precision fermentation to produce...
Nuritas collaborates with BASF for on-demand discovery of new peptides
In Ireland, Nuritas announced a collaboration with BASF Human Nutrition that grants BASF an exclusive, royalty-based license to commercialize one of Nuritas’s existing peptides...
Not enough fish in the sea: Start-up works to culture sushi-grade salmon
In San Francisco, Wildtype is working to grow sushi-grade salmon in a lab amid dangerously depleted ocean populations and factory farming beset with pest...
Don Lee Farms’ organic plant-based raw burger sizzles like beef
In California, Don Lee Farms, a family food company based in California, launched Organic Plant-Based Raw Burgers. The burger “bleeds” organic beet juice and...