Category: alt protein industry

June 14, 2021

Plant-Based Bacon Owner Hooray Foods Raises US$2M To Develop New Alt Meat Products

2 Mins Read Alternative meat company Hooray Foods, which has made headlines for its plant-based bacon, has raised US$2 million in a seed round that takes the company’s total funding to date around US$4 million. The funds will be used to expand its product range, upgrade its production facility and launch new sales channels. U.S.-based Hooray Foods’ seed […]

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June 9, 2021

Global Food System Carbon Footprint Will Worsen, Transition To ‘Plant-Based Food Inevitable’ Says Credit Suisse Report

5 Mins Read In a new report on the investment case for a sustainable food system, analysts say that the plant-based food transition is “inevitable” and will bring about new opportunities for investors and businesses across the food supply chain. Released by the Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI), the report also identified the wider alternative protein industry, sustainable […]

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June 4, 2021

21 Alt Protein Startups Set To Take The Stage At New Future Food-Tech Summit

9 Mins Read A new Alternative Proteins Summit hosted by Future Food-Tech is set to take place virtually on June 22-23 this year, showcasing some of the most innovative solutions to solve our unsustainable global food system. The organisers at Rethink Events have “scoured the globe” in search of the trailblazers across the plant-based, fermentation and cell-based sectors, […]

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May 17, 2021

Alternative Protein Industry To Unite For The ‘Crucial Conversations We Need’ In New Future Food-Tech Summit

4 Mins Read Bringing together global food leaders and stakeholders, from ingredient suppliers to brands and investors, the upcoming Alternative Proteins Summit hosted by Future Food-Tech is set to “unpack the possibilities” of the industry. Set to take place virtually on June 22-23, conference producer Oliver Katz says the summit will deliver the “crucial conversations we need to […]

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May 3, 2021

10 Things We Learned From Oatly’s IPO Prospectus, With Alt Protein APAC Investor Michal Klar

4 Mins Read The Oatly IPO is one of the most anticipated public listings of the year. We spoke to Asia Pacific alt protein investor Michal Klar of Future Food Now, an ecosystem expert we regularly collaborate with (last November, we published the first APAC Alt Protein funding stats on record together), who did a deep dive into […]

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April 28, 2021

Alternative Proteins ‘Promise Substantial Disruption’ To Conventional Meat, Report Says

4 Mins Read As alternative proteins scale up and reduce costs, they “promise substantial disruption” to the conventional animal meat market, says a new report. The analysts also pointed to changing regulations and fast-growing consumer adoption as key factors propelling the alternative protein industry, and advised conventional protein producers to “consider a more diverse portfolio” as pressure piles […]

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April 23, 2021

Czech Startup Bene Meat Technologies Is Bringing Cultured Meat To Eastern Europe

4 Mins Read While the cell-based protein space has heated up rapidly in Western Europe, the U.S. and Asia-Pacific in recent years, startups tapping cellular agriculture to sustainably produce meat remain few and far between in Central and Eastern Europe. Bene Meat Technologies is changing that. Led by a team of Czech biotechnologists and food scientists, the Prague-based […]

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April 22, 2021

Oatly Could Seek Hong Kong Public Listing After US$10 Billion Nasdaq IPO

3 Mins Read Swedish oat milk giant Oatly has indicated it could be seeking a public listing in Hong Kong, shortly after registering its planned IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Blackstone-backed company says it will pursue a Hong Kong listing in the case of any “material adverse effect” […]

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April 7, 2021

European Food Techs Raised €2.7 Billion In 2020, Propelled By Alternative Protein Funding

4 Mins Read A new report detailing the European food tech landscape has revealed that despite the pandemic, the industry raised a whopping €2.7 billion (US$3.2 billion) in 2020. Much of the investment was driven by the alternative protein sector, with funding recording triple-digit growth. Novel foodservice technologies and experiences also saw a major step up in capital […]

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March 30, 2021

Livekindly Collective Bags US$335M For Global Plant-Based Expansion To U.S. & China

3 Mins Read Livekindly Collective has raised US$335 million in its latest financing round, making the company one of the top three highest-funded plant-based firms globally. The new proceeds will go towards the company’s plant-based acquisitions and investments, as well as its global expansion plans, with the U.S. and Chinese markets as its key targets. Plant-based food group […]

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February 28, 2021

TheVeganKind: U.K.’s Largest Online Retailer Teams Up With THIS To Launch Ready Plant-Based Meal Brand

4 Mins Read U.K.’s largest vegan online retailer TheVeganKind recently collaborated with plant-based meat pioneers THIS to launch its first own 100% plant-based ready-to-eat food brand Love Plants!. TheVeganKind is a 100% plant-based delivery box platform and U.K.’s largest online plant-based retail store with a range of over 5,000 products, that includes more than 200 cheeses, along with having […]

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February 11, 2021

An Alt Protein Transition Course Is About To Launch At This Dutch University

4 Mins Read From food scientists coming up with 3D printing technologies to cell-based startups and big food companies investing in plant-based meat, there has never been more innovation in the alternative protein space. Postgraduate students at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) started to wonder why there wasn’t an official course on this protein transformation we’re seeing. Now, […]

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February 3, 2021

Las Vegas To Open Its First-Ever Vegan Culinary School To Encourage Plant-Based Cooking

3 Mins Read In a first-ever, Las Vegas is about to get its own vegan cooking school and deli, Vegas Vegan Culinary School and Eatery, a women-owned business, aimed at helping interested individuals learn and appreciate plant-based cooking. Hoping to opens its doors in April 2021, for the first time, Las Vegas will have a non-accredited vegan culinary […]

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