| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.07.2022 | Meet These 7 Food Techs Making Pig-Free Bacon A Reality | 5 Mins Read
When it comes to the foods that plant-based folk miss, bacon never fails to make it on the list. Let’s face it: who doesn’t love bacon? From topping maple syrup-covered pancakes, to making the perfect breakfast fry-up and simply... |
| 30.03.2022 | MycoTechnology nets $85m Series E funding from Omani sovereign fund, multiple ag & food giants | MycoTechnology, an Aurora, Colorado-based startup using fermentation technology and mushroom mycelia to create novel food products, has closed an $85 million round of funding.
The Series E round was led by an affiliate of Omani sovereign we... |
| 21.01.2022 | Barcelona-Based Startup Blue Hybrid Meat Alternative Might Be The Solution To The Industry’s Blues | The Novameat blue super-hybrid meat alternative combines lab-grown animal cells, plant-based ... [+] ingredients, fungi, algae, and lastly spirulina. Novameat |
| 20.01.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Consumer foodtech players Flipdish, Yumi & La Vie raise large rounds | One of this week’s biggest fundings went to Flipdish — a US startup providing software that powers payments, online ordering, and delivery for foodservice enterprises — which netted a massive $100 million in a round led by Chinese tech gian... |
| 12.01.2022 | Atlast Food Co. Partners with Whitecrest Mushrooms for Mycelium Bacon Boom | Atlast Food’s partnership with Whitecrest Mushrooms will bring MyBacon strips to market over 2022
Atlast Food Co. – the mycelium-based alt meat specialist – has announced a new partnership with Whitecrest Mushrooms Ltd. to produce Atlast’s ... |
| 09.12.2021 | MeaTech 3D : World's largest lab-grown steak unveiled by Israeli firm | The largest lab-grown steak yet produced has been unveiled by the Israeli company MeaTech 3D, weighing in at nearly 4oz (110 grams).
The steak is composed of real muscle and fat cells, derived from tissue samples taken from a cow. Living bo... |
| 24.11.2021 | Novozymes wants your help to accelerate protein’s fungal future | Danish enzyme and microbial technology provider Novozymes is calling on the agrifoodtech community to rally behind the future of sustainable protein. The company recently launched a new business collaboration effort called the Myco-Protein ... |
| 12.08.2021 | Fable raises $4.8m from AgFunder, others for Heston-endorsed mushroom meat | Disclosure: AgFunder, AFN’s parent company, is an investor in Fable Food Co.
Australia’s Fable Food Co has raised A$6.5 million ($4.79 million) in a seed round led by Blackbird Ventures. Other participating investors include VC firms AgFund... |
| 29.07.2021 | Meati must meet manufacturing & scale challenges head on after its $50m Series B coup | The alt-protein segment is bursting with startups hoping to capture growing consumer and investor interest in the space. There’s an ever-growing number of meatless options at the supermarket and on restaurant menus. For Boulder, Colorado-ba... |
| 06.07.2021 | Meat from mycelium: Fungi fueled startup Meati Foods raises $50m make Holy Grail of alt meat: whole cuts | The “significantly oversubscribed” round – which also featured participation from Prelude Ventures, Congruent Ventures, and Tao Capital – will help Boulder, CO-based Meati Foods expand its team and build out its almost-80,000sq ft ‘Urban... |
| 16.04.2021 | Atlast Raises $40M in Series A Funding | Atlast Food Co., a Green Island, N.Y.-based mycelium food company making plant-based meats, raised $40M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Viking Global Investors with participation from 40 North, AiiM Partners, Senator Investment Gr... |
| 15.04.2021 | Brief: Atlast raises $40m Series A to make whole cut plant-based meat from mycelium | Mycelium-focused plant-based protein startup Atlast raised $40 million from Viking Global Investors with participation from 40 North, AiiM Partners, Senator Investment Group, Stray Dog Capital, Footprint Coalition, and others. Also joining ... |
| 15.04.2021 | Meat… from mycelium? Fungi fueled startups Meati Foods and Atlast Food Co raise cash to make Holy Grail of alt meat: whole cuts | Unlike most players in the meat alternative space, who are making processed products such as burgers, sausages and grounds, typically from extruded soy, pea or wheat, Green Island, NY-based Atlast Food Co and Boulder, CO-based Meati Foods... |
| 15.04.2021 | Atlast raises $40m to make mycelium-based whole cuts | US alt-protein startup Atlast has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Viking Global Investors. Also participating in the round were 40 North – an investment fund affiliated with building materials manufacturer Standard Industries ... |
| 14.04.2021 | I can’t believe it’s not meat! Mycelium meat replacement company aims for summer launch of first products | Meati, a company turning mycelium (the structural fibers of fungi) into healthier meat replacements for consumers, is prepping for a big summer rollout.
Co-founder Tyler Huggins expects to have the first samples of its whole-cut steak and c... |
| 30.03.2021 | Ecovative sees a fungal future for fashion, food and foam packaging and has a fresh $60M to make it | Eben Bayer has spent the better part of 14 years proving out the power of the humble mushroom as the world’s truly functional food.
As the chief executive and founder of Ecovative Design, Bayer has made replacements for foam packaging, lamp... |
| 17.03.2021 | Stray Dog Capital’s Lisa Feria: ‘We’re Looking For Founder Teams Thinking In Trillions’ | 12 Mins Read
Lisa Feria is CEO and General Partner at Stray Dog Capital, an impact venture capital firm investing in startups innovating healthier, sustainable and ethical solutions across the food and protein supply chain. After working at... |
| 17.03.2021 | Are Mushrooms The Answer For Everything? Eben Bayer of Atlast Foods and Ecovative Design | CEO of Atlast Food Co and Co-Founder of Evocative Design, Eben Bayer discusses the true power of the mushroom with Elysabeth Alfano on The Plantbased Business Hour. Could leaning into biology create solutions to the world’s largest environm... |
| 01.03.2021 | The Meatless Mafia: Four Companies Revolutionizing The Future Of Food | Lisa Dyson, CEO of Air Protein (top left), Eben Bayer, CEO of Atlast Food (top right) Pat Brown, CEO ... [+] of Impossible Foo (bottom left), Ryan Bethencourt, CEO of Wild Earth (bottom right) Air Protein, Atlast Food Co., Impossible Foods,... |
| 04.01.2021 | Food & Beverage Product Development Trends Driving What You’ll See On Shelves In 2021 | Professional food developers rely heavily on R&D and innovation centers outfitted with lab benches, pilot plant equipment, consumer research facilities (i.e. for focus groups), and a wealth of other physical resources. But that's not al... |
| 22.12.2020 | Elysabeth Alfano’s Top 10 Predictions for 2021 | Every week, Plant-based Business Expert Elysabeth Alfano breaks down the headlines with her review and analysis in the Plantbased Business Minute. In preparation for the New Year, today she brings us her top ten predictions for 2021.
Here a... |
| 21.12.2020 | Atlast Mushroom Bacon Sells All Planned Capacity Through 2023 | US startup Atlast Food Co, a spinoff of Ecovative, has partnered with several businesses that plan to use its mycelium-based meat alternatives as ingredients in their products. Despite only recently launching its first product, Atlast has a... |
| 15.12.2020 | ‘Made from mushrooms, tastes like bacon…’ Atlast Food Co launches consumer product, builds b2b strategy | “We’ve designed our process to fit into existing white button mushroom farms with beds 100 feet long and 10 or 20 feet wide,” said Eben Bayer, CEO at Atlast, which has just launched MyBacon, the first retail product under the MyEats bran... |
| 16.11.2020 | Ecovative Launches Mushroom-Based Bacon Following $7M Seed Funding Round | ©Ecovative
The startup Atlast Food Co, a spinoff of Ecovative, has announced it will be launching its mushroom-based bacon alternative this month. The bacon is made from mycelium, the part of the fungus which is below the ground.
Already, E... |
| 16.11.2020 | Ecovative Launches Mushroom-Based Bacon Following $7M Seed Funding Round | The startup Atlast Food Co, a spinoff of Ecovative, has announced it will be launching its mushroom-based bacon alternative this month. The bacon is made from mycelium, the part of the fungus which is below the ground.
Already, Ecovative ha... |
| 03.11.2020 | Atlast Secures $7M in Seed Funding | Atlast, a Troy, NY-based food company focused on advancing mycelium, secured $7m in seed funding round.
Backers in the round, closed last April, included:
Gary Hirshberg (Stonyfield Farm Co-Founder & former CEO),
Stephen McDonnell (Appl... |
| 14.04.2020 | Ecovative: “Focused on Earth-Friendly Product Solutions for Two Major Industries: Plastics & Animal Agriculture” | Ecovative is developing revolutionary products across multiple categories spanning from bacon to shoes. The miracle material is mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms; a highly sustainable self-assembling microorganism that can provide s... |
| 11.03.2020 | Atlast Food Co plans small-scale launch of 'best in class' meatless bacon from mushroom mycelium | While most meatless bacon uses soy and/or wheat protein, Atlast Food Co grows mushroom mycelium in trays via solid state fermentation to create ‘meaty’ fiber- and protein-rich slabs in a matter of days that can be cut and sliced into mult... |
| 15.01.2020 | 2020 Consumer Packaged Goods Trends Driving Food & Beverage Innovation | After posting our view of the big, transformative changes driving foodservice innovation, here’s Mattson’s innovation-focused take on what’s hot in consumer foods and beverages. |
| 11.09.2019 | Atlast Food Co: Mycelium scaffold can unlock the ‘Holy Grail’ of plant-based meat: whole cuts | Plant-based meat companies typically rely on extruded soy, wheat, or peas to create processed meat products such as burgers and nuggets, but have been unable to create realistic steaks, bacon, chicken breasts, or other whole cuts, said the ... |
