Impossible Foods to make 1 million pounds of plant-based meat per month
In California, Impossible Foods launched its first large-scale production facility to make at least 1 million pounds of plant-based meat per month – enough...
Smithfield Foods invests $25 million in Chef’d to accelerate the online meal kit market
In Virginia, Smithfield Foods, Inc. invested $25 million in Chef’d, an e-commerce meal marketplace. With this investment, the companies will leverage Smithfield’s portfolio of...
Hu Chocolate expands with Sonoma Brands
In New York, Hu Products, makers of organic, paleo and vegan chocolate, closed their Series A round led by a strategic minority investment from...
Have people for dinner: Startup imagines at-home, cultured human flesh kits
In San Diego, cultured meat startup Ouroboros Steak has designed a kit that enables people to grow little human steaks in their own home...
DuPont Nutrition & Health and Inbiose partner to develop novel infant nutrition ingredients
In Missouri, DuPont Nutrition & Health and Inbiose partnered to jointly develop selected fucosylated human milk oligosaccharides for infant nutrition. HMOs are a group...
JUST and Brinc enable Asian food entrepreneurs
In Hong Kong, in partnership with Brinc, a global venture accelerator, JUST launched the Made JUST platform, a first-of-its-kind approach to bring sustainable and...
SuperMeat earns cultivated meat’s first kosher certification
In Israel, cultivated chicken produced by SuperMeat has been granted kosher status by Orthodox Union Kosher, marking the first such certification for lab-grown meat....
Investors back cheesier animal-free mozzarella
In California, startup New Culture has raised $25 million as it works to make good on its promise of putting a better animal-free mozzarella...
Fish for Fido: Corbion launces microalgae fermentation DHA for pet food
In the Netherlands, Corbion has launched AlgaPrime DHA P3 to meet demand for sustainable active nutrition in the pet food industry.
Produced via microalgae...
Human milk protein maker PFx Biotech raises €5 million
In Portugal, a biotech company has raised €5 million (US $5.7 million) to develop and scale its precision-fermented human milk proteins. The funding for...