| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.07.2026 | Maia Fertility Raises Funding | Maia Fertility, a Rehovot, Israel-based biotechnology startup specializing in mammalian reproductive health and biological delivery systems, secured an undisclosed strategic funding round.
The investment was co-led by Mercantile Life Scienc... |
| 23.07.2026 | Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein Kicks Off Equity-Free Future Food Accelerator | 4 Mins Read The Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein and Imperial College London have launched a future food accelerator to help startups reach commercial scale, connecting them with Danone, Mars, Cargill and Kerry.
Bezos Earth Fund is exte... |
| 26.05.2026 | Can plant cell culture escape the biopharma cost trap? Rheaplant nets new funds | Plant cell culture is pricy and difficult. But new food-grade facilities without biopharma cost structures could unlock unit economics that broaden its application well beyond pharmaceuticals to a wide range of food and nutraceutical ingred... |
| 21.05.2026 | Saku Biosciences bets on tiny “PicoShells” to solve a big biomanufacturing problem | Developing an optimized production host in biomanufacturing takes time and money, two things most startups lack. Saku Biosciences is on a mission to dramatically speed up and improve this process via high-throughput screening of cells in en... |
| 13.05.2026 | Big Idea Ventures and Mars Petcare Launch 2026 Global Pet Food Innovation Program in Collaboration with AAK, Buhler, Givaudan, and Ingredion | Delhi, India
An Innovation Powerhouse: The initiative unites world-class experts in FoodTech, pet care, and ingredients to accelerate the transition toward a more sustainable pet food supply chain.
Seeking New and Scaling Ventures: The prog... |
| 03.04.2026 | Standing Ovation: €30M Fuels Global Dairy Protein Revolution | Standing Ovation secured €30 million in Series B funding. This capital fuels global scaling of its precision fermentation dairy proteins. The French company's patented technology transforms low-value whey permeates into high-quality casein.... |
| 02.04.2026 | Standing Ovation: $34.2 Million Raised For Precision Fermentation Dairy Protein Scale-Up | Standing Ovation has raised $34.2 million (€30 million) in a Series B funding round to accelerate the commercialization of its dairy proteins produced through precision fermentation. The round includes $28.5 million (€25 million) in equity ... |
| 31.03.2026 | Standing Ovation raises €30M to scale precision fermentation dairy proteins globally | French precision fermentation company Standing Ovation has announced a €30 million Series B financing round, including €25 million in equity, led jointly by the Ecotechnologies 2 fund — managed on behalf of the French government by Bpifranc... |
| 19.12.2025 | How Alternative Protein Startups Can Access Funding and Strategic Support | The plant-based and alternative protein sector continues to offer immense opportunity, but turning a promising innovation into a scalable business takes more than passion and a great product. Access to funding, mentorship, and strategic net... |
| 04.12.2025 | UpTerra: New CEO Appointed And Investment Secured From Generation Food Rural Partners Fund | UpTerra has appointed Stephen Birch as its new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and has also secured a strategic investment from Big Idea Ventures’ Generation Food Rural Partners (GFRP) Fund. The announcement marks a significant step f... |
| 29.10.2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Cultured Quail At Home, Beyond Meat Packaging & Zero-Sugar Oat Milk | 4 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Vow’s retail debut of cultivated meat, Beyond Meat’s new European packaging, and India’s plant-based dairy launch... |
| 13.10.2025 | Perfat Technologies Fuels Fat Revolution with €2.5M for Healthy Oleogel Innovation | Perfat Technologies, a Finnish food deep-tech pioneer, has secured €2.5 million in Series A funding. The company leverages proprietary oleogel technology to create healthy, functional fat alternatives. Their fiber-reinforced gelled vegetabl... |
| 10.10.2025 | Investment Climate Podcast: Jyrki Lee-Korhonen of Perfat Technologies, How to Get Funded in 2025 | In this podcast series, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding Alt Proteins in 2025 and uncovers the investment playbooks of successful Climate Tech CEOs and Leading VCs.
Podcast Host Alex Shandrovksy is a strate... |
| 24.09.2025 | Cultivated Meat Startup Mewery Secures Pivotal Funding Amidst Industry Downturn | Mewery, a Czech cultivated meat startup, defied a brutal investment market. The company secured €3 million from the EIC Accelerator and Horizon Europe, pushing its total funding past €4 million. Their proprietary co-cultivation technology, ... |
| 19.09.2025 | Investment Climate Podcast: Roman Lauš of Mewery, How to Get Funded in 2025 | In this podcast series, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding Alt Proteins in 2025 and uncovers the investment playbooks of successful Climate Tech CEOs and Leading VCs.
Podcast Host Alex Shandrovksy is a strate... |
| 12.09.2025 | Perfat Technologies Raises €2.5M to Replace Saturated Fats With Healthy & Functional Alternatives | Perfat Technologies, a Finnish food deep-tech company developing healthy and functional fat alternatives, has secured €2.5 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by Newtree Impact and Beyond Impact, with continued participation f... |
| 08.09.2025 | Argentina-based BioBlends taps bacterial VOCs for clean-label shelf-life extension in baked goods | Bread goes moldy fast, but consumers don’t want chemical preservatives on product labels. So how do you keep loaves fresher for longer without compromising taste or texture?
One of seven startups recently joining Big Idea Ventures’ Global F... |
| 06.08.2025 | Thai Government Agency Food Innopolis Facilitates Food Tech Research in the ASEAN Region | In 2016, the Thai government created a new agency called Food Innopolis to serve as a global food innovation hub.
Located at Thailand Science Park in Pathum Thani Province, the agency works to facilitate and promote food-related research, d... |
| 28.07.2025 | Krokos Bio enters plant cell culture arena with saffron tech as cracks emerge in botanical supply chains | In some cases, plant cell culture might enable the production of novel bioactives. In most cases, however, it’s about ensuring a consistent supply of high-value botanicals with supply chains increasingly threatened by unpredictable weather,... |
| 15.07.2025 | Seven Startups Chosen for Big Idea Ventures’ Latest Global Food Innovation Fund Cohort | Big Idea Ventures (BIV) has announced the addition of seven new startups to its Global Food Innovation Fund II (GFIF II). These companies are focusing on various aspects of food technology, including sustainable ingredients, new preservatio... |
| 10.07.2025 | They Started a Side Hustle Producing an 'Obvious' Food Item. It Hit $300,000 Monthly Revenue Fast — On Track for Over $20 Million in 2025. When Jason Rosenbaum and Hailey Swartz couldn't find the prod... | This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Jason Rosenbaum and Hailey Swartz, co-founders, with Alex Swartz, of veggie burger brand Actual Veggies. Responses have been edited for length and clarity.
Image Credit: Courtesy of Actual Veggies... |
| 04.07.2025 | Brazil’s Future Cow Raises R$4.85M to Advance Production of Animal-Free Dairy Proteins | Brazilian precision fermentation startup Future Cow has secured R$4.85 million (around $0.9 million) to make its animal-free dairy technology scalable and ready to be licensed by the food industry.
The company initially raised R$1.27 millio... |
| 05.06.2025 | Big Idea Ventures and Mars Petcare Launch 2025 Global Pet Food Innovation Program in Collaboration with AAK, Buhler, and Givaudan | Delhi, India; New York, United States
Building on the success of last year's program, the second round aims to find the next cohort of trailblazers who can deliver innovation in the sustainable pet food space.
Startups from around the world... |
| 04.06.2025 | Pioneering the Future: Innovation in Pet Food and Travel Industries | Innovation is the lifeblood of progress. In the realms of pet food and travel, two recent initiatives are stirring the pot, promising to reshape their respective industries. Big Idea Ventures and Mars Petcare are back with their Next Genera... |
| 03.06.2025 | Big Idea Ventures and Mars Petcare Launch Global Next Generation Pet Food Program | For the second year running, Big Idea Ventures and Mars Petcare have joined forces to launch the Next Generation Pet Food Program. This year’s program will take place in collaboration with AAK, Bühler, and Givaudan.
The initiative aims to a... |
| 21.05.2025 | Nexture Bio Launches Suite of Services to Support Customers with Biomaterials Fabrication and Cell Culture Development | Nexture Bio Launches Suite of Services VACAVILLE, CA, UNITED STATES, May 21, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Nexture Bio, a leading provider of animal-component-free (ACF) microcarriers, scaffolds, and other adherent cell culture solutions, has ... |
| 20.05.2025 | Big Idea Ventures Acquires Investment Platform Vevolution | Vevolution, the platform connecting startups and innovators in the bioeconomy with impact investors and corporate partners, has been acquired by Big Idea Ventures.
Claiming to be the world’s most active investor in food technology, Big Idea... |
| 14.02.2025 | Future Food-Tech San Francisco 2025: 61 Startups to Showcase the Future of Food | The upcoming Future Food-Tech Summit, set to take place in San Francisco on March 13-14, 2025, will feature 61 startups and scale-ups presenting innovations in food technology. The event, recognized as a hub for investment and collaboration... |
| 05.02.2025 | Kiki Milk Maker PlantBaby Raises $4M As Healthy Kid Drink Segment Heats Up | 5 Mins Read US food tech startup PlantBaby has secured $4M to expand the reach of its plant-based Kiki Milk for kids and launch new products, including a grain-free option this year.
Following several years of continuous revenue growth, Pla... |
| 04.02.2025 | PlantBaby Closes Seed Financing Round | PlantBaby, a Marin, CA-based company dedicated to creating solutions in the plant-based nutrition space, raised an undisclosed amount in Seed funding.
The round was led by B2 Partners, at a post-money valuation of $20 million. with particip... |
| 19.01.2025 | Nexture Bio Acquires Matrix Food Technologies, Inc. to increase offerings of animal-component-free enabling technologies | Nexture Bio has acquired Matrix F.T. XENIA, OH, UNITED STATES, January 19, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Nexture Bio, the third Generation Food Rural Partners (GFRP) portfolio company, has acquired Matrix Food Technologies (Matrix F.T.). The f... |
| 26.12.2024 | The Better Butchers Teams Up With Student-Led Cultivated Fat Startup to Produce Hybrid Meat | 4 Mins Read Meat analogue maker The Better Butchers has signed a letter of intent with Genuine Taste, a student-founded cultivated fat startup, to develop hybrid meat.
Ahead of its impending acquisition by Canadian cellular agriculture grou... |
| 20.12.2024 | New Wave Biotech: Pioneering the Future of Sustainable Food Production | In a world grappling with climate change and food insecurity, innovation is the lifeline. New Wave Biotech, a London-based startup, is at the forefront of this revolution. With a recent funding boost of €1.2 million, the company is set to t... |
| 20.12.2024 | New Wave Biotech Secures €1.2 Million in Latest Funding Round to Expand AI Bioprocess Simulation Platform | New Wave Biotech, a company specializing in AI-driven bioprocess simulation software, has raised €1.2 million in a new funding round. The investment, which includes contributions from Innovate UK and EIT Food, will support the company’s eff... |
| 19.12.2024 | New Wave Biotech raises €1.2 million to transform R&D in synbio and alt protein production | London-based AI bioprocess simulation software startup New Wave Biotech has raised €1.2 million in its latest funding round through a mix of equity and grant funding to expand its existing team and explore new markets and customers.
Investo... |
| 02.12.2024 | SeedBlink and Mewery Invite to an Extended Presentation Event | Another edition of SeedBlink’s Fire Pitch of the Week will take place on December 2nd As usual, the pitching event will take place online via Zoom The pitching company of the day is Mewery
On December 2nd, the famous Romanian co-investment ... |
| 07.10.2024 | 🎥Foodtech investing: ‘You can’t escape the fundamentals. You have to produce something that adds significant value’ | It’s been a grim couple of years for foodtech investment, with the whole segment, fairly or unfairly, often judged by the performance of some high-profile alt protein players that have burned through huge amounts of money with little to sho... |
| 16.09.2024 | Standing Ovation Raises €3.75M in Series A+ Round, Appoints New CEO to Begin Animal-Free Casein Sales in 2025 | 4 Mins Read French precision fermentation startup Standing Ovation has raised €3.75M in a Series A extension and appointed a new CEO to begin selling its Advanced Casein next year.
Parisian food tech startup Standing Ovation is gearing up f... |
| 06.09.2024 | EIT Food, Mars Petcare introduce Open Innovation Challenge | LEUVEN, BELGIUM — EIT Food and Mars Petcare have partnered to launch an Open Innovation Challenge, which seeks to identify innovative solutions to transform fiber into protein and sugar. The goal of this is to work with organizations to dev... |
| 05.09.2024 | The Future of Pet Food and Seafood: Innovations Shaping Sustainable Choices | The world of pet food and seafood is evolving. Two industries, both crucial to our diets and lifestyles, are now facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities. As consumers become more conscious of sustainability, companies are stepping... |
| 04.09.2024 | August's top 10 pet food headlines | 10. Mars Petcare, Big Idea Ventures launch sustainable pet food program (August 26)
The Next Generation Pet Food Program aims to drive innovation in pet food and engage with the startup ecosystem to develop more sustainable solutions.
9. Mu... |
| 03.09.2024 | Marinexcell: “Our Vision Is To Create a Sustainable and Reliable Source of Seafood Products” | Led by Professor Buganim, a globally renowned scientist in stem cell research, MarineXcell uses stem cells to cultivate shrimp, lobster, and crab meat. MarineXcell’s unique technology “addresses a significant bottleneck in the cultured seaf... |
| 22.08.2024 | Big Idea Ventures Partners with Key Industry Players to Launch Next Gen Pet Food Innovation Program | Big Idea Ventures, in collaboration with Mars Petcare, AAK, and Bühler, has announced the launch of the Next Generation Pet Food Program. This initiative seeks to foster innovation in the pet food industry by engaging human food startups to... |
| 25.04.2024 | Cultimate Foods Revolutionizing Alt Meat Industry with Innovative Cultivated Fat Ingredient | German startup Cultimate Foods has secured €2.3 million in seed funding to scale up production of its functional ingredient, CultiFat, and expand operations. Led by High-Tech Gründerfonds, the round also included investors like Life Science... |
| 24.04.2024 | Cultimate Foods raises €2.3M to develop fat ingredient for alternative meats | Cultimate Foods, a biotech startup based in Berlin's Biocube and Hannover, has closed its €2.3M seed round.
The funding will be used to to scale up production processes and expand commercial collaborations and operations.
The round was led ... |
| 24.04.2024 | Cultimate Foods Secures €2.3M to “Deliver the Meaty Flavors Consumers Crave” Via Cultivated Fats | Despite the difficult fundraising environment, German startup Cultimate Foods, a B2B cultivated fat supplier for the alt protein industry, has secured €2.3 million in seed funding to scale the production of its functional ingredient, CultiF... |
| 14.03.2024 | Brief: Orbillion raises new capital for predictive modeling platform to de-risk cultivated meat scaleup | Berkeley-based startup Orbillion has raised fresh capital that brings its cumulative funding to $15 million. The round follows a successful 200-liter production run which the company claims validates its predictive modeling platform for “de... |
| 12.03.2024 | UMAMI Bioworks & Shiok Meats Merge to Commercialize Cultivated Seafood | Two cultivated seafood pioneers from Singapore — UMAMI Bioworks and Shiok Meats — have merged to establish a combined entity that will bring cultivated seafood closer to commercial viability.
The strategic merge, believed to be the first in... |
| 01.02.2024 | GFRP acquires edible packaging startup DisSolves as it embarks on pilots with ‘some of the largest food producers’ | Generation Food Rural Partners I, LP (GFRP), a fund created by early-stage investor Big Idea Ventures, has acquired edible packaging startup DisSolves as it gears up to run pilots with leading CPG companies.
Founded by chemical engineer Jar... |
| 31.01.2024 | Generation Food Rural Partners Acquires Edible Packaging Company DisSolves, Inc | Big Idea Ventures announces the acquisition of Pittsburgh-based edible packaging company DisSolves as a part of its Generation Food Rural Partners Fund portfolio (GFRP).
DisSolves, Inc. uses patented technology to create biodegradable and e... |
| 26.01.2024 | Czech Government Supports Mewery with €200K Grant to Cultivate Pork | Mewery, a Czech biotech developing cultivated pork using microalgae, has been awarded a non-dilutive grant of almost €200,000 by the Czech government through the CzechInvest Technological Incubator.
“The CzechInvest’s investment is a signif... |
| 20.12.2023 | Future Food Quick Bites: Oat Milk Soap, New TiNDLE CEO & Plant-Based Diplomas | 8 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Beyond Meat’s giant Costco partnership, a new CEO for plant-b... |
| 05.12.2023 | Nexture Bio Enters US Market to Pioneer Scaffoldings for Cultivated Whole-Cuts | Big Idea Ventures (BIV) announces the launch of Nexture Bio, Inc., a new biomaterial company developing novel scaffoldings for whole-cut products and other technologies to support the cultivated meat industry.
Nexture Bio is the third compa... |
| 20.11.2023 | Crunch time for cultivated meat: ‘Probably 70-90% of players will fail in the next year’ | On paper, cultivated meat might seem like a no-brainer. Unlike plant-based options, which still don’t quite hit the spot for many consumers, it promises the allure of ‘real’ meat without the ethical and environmental baggage that comes with... |
| 16.11.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Delivery startup Crisp bags $38m, ‘mindful drinking app’ Sunnyside lands $11m, Bowery layoffs | Announcements from this week suggests foodtech funding rounds are slowly gaining speed again. Crisp bucked the downward trend of food delivery startups with a Series C raise, Sunnyside raised funds for its alcohol monitoring app, and Le Fou... |
| 13.09.2023 | 🎥 AgFunderNews round table: Foodtech investing in focus, from ‘tourist capital’ to a ‘return to fundamentals’ | Two or three years ago, investors were throwing bucket-loads of cash at foodtech companies, particularly those in so-called “alternative proteins.”
Since then, funding has started to dry up, sales of meat alternatives have moved into negati... |
| 01.08.2023 | TerraSafe Materials taps IP from multiple universities to launch ‘disruptive renewable materials platform’ | TerraSafe Materials, the first startup to secure funding from Big Idea Ventures’ Generation Food Rural Partners (GFRP) fund, will license IP from multiple universities to develop novel materials to reduce the amount of plastic waste enterin... |
| 19.07.2023 | Big Idea Ventures Announces First New Protein Fund II Investments | Alt protein venture capital firm Big Idea Ventures has announced the first investments made as part of its New Protein Fund II. Ten early-stage startups have been chosen to receive pre-seed funding through the firm’s biannual accelerator pr... |
| 28.06.2023 | Mewery Unveils “First-Ever” Cultivated Pork & Microalgae Burger | Today Czech food tech Mewery announces what it claims is the “first-ever” cultivated burger made with pork and microalgae cells. The food tech startup is developing slaughter-free meat products before seeking approvals in international mark... |
| 29.05.2023 | Big Idea Ventures Raises Initial Funds for $75M New Protein Fund II | Food tech investor Big Idea Ventures (BIV) has announced a first close for its New Protein Fund, which aims to raise $75 million within the next 12 months to support new food tech and protein innovators. This new raise brings its total asse... |
| 06.04.2023 | BREAKING: Aqua Cultured Foods closes $5.5m seed round to expand fungi-fueled alt seafood platform | Chicago-based Aqua Cultured Foods has raised $5.5 million in a seed round led by Stray Dog Capital to expand its low-cost production platform for whole cuts of fungi-based seafood as it gears up to enter the market this year.
The round was ... |
| 05.04.2023 | Impossible Materials raises $3.8m to develop titanium dioxide alternative ‘bio-inspired’ by beetles | Swiss startup Impossible Materials has raised CHF 3.4 million ($3.8 million) in seed funding to help commercialize its first product, a cellulose-based alternative to titanium dioxide (TiO2), a white pigment recently banned in the EU for us... |
| 05.04.2023 | CHF 3.4 million to accelerate Impossible Materials market entry | |
| 30.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Local Bounti lands $145m, Momofuku Goods bags $17.5m, Vow’s ‘mammoth’ meatball | This week, indoor farming startup Local Bounti raised additional funding, as did the Momofuku restaurant group’s spinoff company, Momofuku Goods. Indoor mushroom startup Smallhold expanded thanks to a retail partnership, and cultivated meat... |
| 02.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Shef cooks up $75m, Futura Gaïa lands $11m, Asuene closes $22.8m | This week, US-based Shef, which runs an online marketplace for home-cooked meals, announced new funding, as did France’s Futura Gaïa, for its soil-based vertical farms. Climate tech startup Asuene closed a $22 million round and several comp... |
| 24.11.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: a $60m raise for Modern Milkman, ‘ultrasonic’ snack bars & food delivery layoffs | This week, craft beer company Bira landed new funding to expand its geographic reach while Torr FoodTech grabbed $12 million for its unusual and tech-centric approach to snack bars. In agtech, Clarifruit also raised $12 million while more l... |
| 17.11.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Muncher grabs $27m for ghost kitchens, Freight Farms lands $17.5m | Besides a major milestone for cultivated meat, this week’s news also includes new fundraising for Colombian ghost kitchen startup Muncher and a Series B round for vertical farming startup Freight Farms. Meanwhile, it’s more bad news for foo... |
| 19.10.2022 | Data snapshot: Climate-related agrifoodtech in majority of upstream African investment, but more funding needed | Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events... |
| 15.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: PepsiCo. & ADM partner on regen ag, Biden bets on cultivated meat | This week, PepsiCo. and ADM made a major announcement that could boost regenerative agriculture practices in the US, while President Biden signed an executive order impacting cultivated meat. France’s Capagro launched a $200 million agrifoo... |
| 12.09.2022 | ‘There’s going to be a lot of burnt capital…’ Navigating the ‘hand-wringing phase’ of alt meat investment | So what is the mood in the market amid weakening US retail sales of meat alternatives, grim P&L figures from a couple of high-profile publicly listed brands, and mixed messages from big CPG players (Kellogg says it remains bullish about... |
| 06.09.2022 | Cultivated Biosciences closes seed round | |
| 02.09.2022 | 5 African alternative protein startups innovating to meet 3-fold increase in meat & dairy demand by 2050 | As we’ll soon report in our upcoming Africa AgriFoodTech Investment report in collaboration with FMO and BII, the trend for alternative protein products — those that offer consumers the experience of eating meat and dairy without the use of... |
| 18.08.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Oatside secures $65m for Singapore’s first oat milk, input supplier iProcure scores $10m | Singapore’s first-ever oat milk brand Oatside made headlines this week with news of its sizable Series A round while iProduce landed funds to expand its input distribution tech across Africa. Fashion designer Stella McCartney is helping lau... |
| 01.07.2022 | Meet the Founder: Evolved Meats on making cultivated meat identical to the real thing | Scaffolding is a critical component in cultivated meat, responsible for elements like texture and structure. But it’s still a fairly under-researched area and new developments in scaffolding tech remain few and far between, as many companie... |
| 23.06.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: WayCool bags $40m, Rohlik raises $231m despite e-grocery woes | Indian farmer-to-business marketplace WayCool landed another round of funding this week, as did Czech e-grocery startup Rohlik. Elsewhere, France’s HappyVore secured nearly $40 million to open a facility for plant-based meat, and cereal gia... |
| 22.06.2022 | Nutrition Company PlantBaby Raises $4 Million Seed Round with Big Idea Ventures and The Fund LA, Among Others | PRESS RELEASE: Nutrition Company PlantBaby Raises $4 Million Seed Round with Big Idea Ventures and The Fund LA, Among OthersMajor players in entertainment, sports, and wellness also joined this round including Actor Daniella Monet, Athletic... |
| 09.06.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Brevel’s microalgae protein bags $8.4m, Brazil’s Agrotools closes $21m, CHONEX raises $6m | This past week, alternative protein raised more funding including Brevel’s seed round to further develop its microalgae-based protein ingredient, SCiFi Foods’ rebrand and major VC backer, and Cocuus’ 3D printing alt-protein tech. In agtech,... |
| 26.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Stable raises $60m, Galley gets $14m, World Bank’s $30bn food crisis response | Multiple restaurant tech companies made headlines this week, from Galley Solutions’ sizeable Series A fundraise to TRAY’s multi-year deal with IHOP. Meanwhile, a carbon initiative in Africa nabbed its first tranche of funding to restore lan... |
| 19.05.2022 | Cultivated Meat Startup Evolved Meats Raises $2 Million in Seed Round, Led by Funders Maple Leaf Foods and Big Idea Ventures | Evolved's novel and proprietary cultivated meat platform enables the sustainable creation of functional tissues that are structurally and biochemically similar to conventional meat
New funding will support Evolved's further product developm... |
| 11.05.2022 | Czech Foodtech Mewery Becomes “The First European” Cultivated Pork Startup Using Microalgae | The Czech startup Mewery holds the claim of being the first European foodtech startup developing cultivated pork on a proprietary microalgae base. The Brno-based foodtech has now received backing from US accelerator Big Idea Ventures to dev... |
| 02.05.2022 | Big Idea Ventures Accelerator Reveals Fifth Cohort, Including Leaf Protein & Kabocha Milk Startups | The Big Idea Ventures accelerator program has revealed the 15 alt-protein startups in its latest cohort. BIV will make pre-seed investments in the companies through its offices in New York, Singapore, and Paris.
The startups are as follows:... |
| 14.04.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: eGrocer BigBasket bags $131m, Choco lands $111m to fight food waste | This week, India’s BigBasket raised more than $100 million for online grocery delivery, as did Germany’s Choco to curb food waste by connecting restaurants to suppliers. New Zealand’s Leaft closed funding to make alt-protein from leaves. In... |
| 08.03.2022 | IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 166
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The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them... |
| 07.03.2022 | Meet the Female Founder: The Mushroom Meat Co’s Kesha Stickland on what it takes to make clean-label protein | Editor’s Note: To mark International Women’s Day this week, we’re publishing a series of Meet the Founder interviews with female founders we’ve never spoken to before. Here’s the first.
Like other founders of plant-based food startups, Kesh... |
| 22.12.2021 | The Truth About Being An Entrepreneur with No Evil Foods’ Mike Wolianskhy and Sadrah Schadel | No Evil Foods…a plant-based classic! Usually, on The Plantbased Business Hour, Elysabeth Alfano talks about the great strides made by plant-based companies and the huge amounts of monies raised. Today, however, she pulls back the curtain to... |
| 30.11.2021 | Beyond Burgers and Plant-Based Chicken: A Look at the Growth of New Meat | Since the emergence of COVID-19 and in the context of climate change, consumers are increasingly aware of the health, ethical, and environmental concerns of industrial meat.
Further, in 2020, the pandemic led to closures of meat processing ... |
| 28.10.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Daring, Fabric & World Fund raise big money; Sweetgreen files for IPO | Farmer marketplace DeHaat made headlines this week with India’s biggest-ever agtech round. Elsewhere, fulfillment robotics company Fabric and online produce platform GrubMarket pulled in sizable financings, as did plant-based players Daring... |
| 27.10.2021 | Aqua Cultured Foods closes $2.1m pre-seed round for fungal alt-seafood | Aqua Cultured Foods, a US company that makes seafood analogs via a fermentation process, has raised $2.1 million in pre-seed funding.
Investors in the round included Supply Change Capital, Big Idea Ventures, Aera VC, Sustainable Food Ventur... |
| 21.09.2021 | Aqua Cultured Foods breaks new ground in alt-seafood space with fermentation-based whole cuts | The Chicago-based company – which was founded last year by Anne Palermo and Brittany Chibe – has filed a series of patents (not yet public) covering the method of production, its usage in the food system, and the fungi strain itself, which ... |
| 16.09.2021 | EcoWorth Tech and Volt14 proceed to Startup Arena Pitch Battle 2021 finals | EventsStartup ArenaTIA Partnership
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| 21.07.2021 | BREAKING: Shiok Meats adds Asian food industry giants to cap table in latest funding round | Shiok Meats has closed a bridge financing involving several major food companies. While the cell-cultured seafood startup didn’t disclose how much it has raised, it said the round takes its total funding to date to $30 million.
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| 21.07.2021 | Shiok Meats adds Asian food industry giants to cap table in latest funding round | Shiok Meats has closed a bridge financing involving several major food companies. While the cell-cultured seafood startup didn’t disclose how much it has raised, it said the round takes its total funding to date to $30 million.
AFN estimate... |
| 07.05.2021 | Big Idea Ventures Raises US$50M In Bühler & Tyson-Backed Alternative Protein Fund | 3 Mins Read
New York and Singapore-based accelerator and venture capital firm Big Idea Ventures (BIV) has raised US$50 million in its final close of its debut fund dedicated to alternative protein innovators. The New Protein Fund I, which w... |
| 05.05.2021 | The Shifting Food Supply System According to Tom Mastrobuoni | Tom Mastrobuoni of Big Idea Ventures (and former CFO of Tyson Ventures) is on The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano to discuss a shifting food supply system.
They discuss the shifting landscape of farming, the innovations in pl... |
| 31.03.2021 | MeliBio Raises $850,000 to Launch Real Honey Made Without Bees | US startup MeliBio has raised $850,000 in its pre-seed funding round. The funding will allow it to further develop and soft-launch its bee-free honey. Investors in the round included Big Idea Ventures, Joyance Partners, 18.ventures, and oth... |
| 24.03.2021 | ‘Alternative’ proteins could account for 11% of global protein market by 2035, predicts report | VIDEO: Courtesy of Boston Consulting Group and Blue Horizon Corporation.
'Base case' scenario: Alt proteins (plant-based proteins, microbial, cell-cultured) get 11% share by 2035:
In the core, 'base-case' scenario, two metaphorical dom... |
| 17.03.2021 | Big Idea Ventures Partners With AAK To Push Alternative Protein Ingredient Innovation | 3 Mins Read
New York and Singapore-based venture capital firm Big Idea Ventures (BIV) and AAK, the Swedish-Danish specialty oils and fats giant, has forged a new partnership to speed up the development of alternative protein ingredient solu... |
| 08.03.2021 | IWD 2021: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 15 Mins Read
Editor’s Note: This list is the result of hours of work, and no doubt we have missed some amazing queens. We will do our best to keep adding. On the startup side, we focused on founders, but many of these startups have incredib... |
| 18.02.2021 | Big Idea Ventures Launch Fund To Support Rural U.S. Economies Through Alt Protein Innovation | 4 Mins Read
New York and Singapore-based venture capital firm, Big Idea Ventures recently launched a fund to strengthen rural economies across the U.S. through alternative protein innovation and other agricultural technologies.
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| 12.02.2021 | Dairy Giant Bel Group Partners With Big Idea Ventures To Support Plant-Based Innovation In Europe | 1
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Collaborating with Big Idea Ventures, Bel Group looks to support the former’s new protein fund that is dedicated to encourage seed and early-stage investments in plant-based and cell-based innovation and companies.
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