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| 12.06.2021 | How many opinions does it take to hit the $100M ARR Club? | In a world of talking points and corporate jargon, opinions are refreshing — and Expensify CEO and founder David Barrett is full of them. One of his earliest lessons in life, for example, was that basically everyone is wrong about basically... |
| 03.06.2021 | Nowadays plant-based nuggets boast ‘unparalleled' nutritional profile: 'We don’t just need to remove animals, we need to create better products' | Founded last year by Dominik Grabinski (Kitchentown, Yeap, DSM, Cargill) and Max Elder (Institute for the Future), Nowadays seeks to punch above its weight in the category with frozen plant-based chicken nuggets with an ultra-short ingred... |
| 21.12.2020 | The Top 10 Trends In Plant-Based Food In 2020—And Where We’re Going In 2021 | Plant-based meat was just one of many trends in the vegan category to skyrocket this year.getty |
| 16.12.2020 | ‘Tesla Of Chicken’ Food Tech SIMULATE Launches New Plant-Based Discs | 1
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SIMULATE, the New York startup behind the tech-forward plant-based NUGGS, has just launched its newest product – a vegan chicken patty dubbed DISCS. Known as the “Tesla of Chicken”, the food tech describes its operatio... |
| 07.12.2020 | Plant-Based Founders Feature on Forbes 30 Under 30 Lists | Forbes has released its 2021 lists of honourees, each featuring 30 notable people under the age of 30. The founders of plant-based companies Simulate, daring, and Prime Roots all appear on this year’s lists.
Ben Pasternak — Founder of Simul... |
| 04.12.2020 | Weekly Wrap #31: Deep Thoughts on Slack, Doing Deals and DeepMind AI Solves Drug Discovery | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world. What a week it’s been!
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| 10.11.2020 | The digital shelf: CPG food startups in the era of online grocery | Editor’s note: Josh Hechtman is an analyst intern on AgFunder’s investment team. Atomo Coffee, Black Sheep Foods, Lavva, and SIMULATE appear in this article; all are portfolio companies of AgFunder, the parent company of AFN.
The digital sh... |
| 22.09.2020 | 60 Healthy Snacks And Sips To Stock Up On This Fall | Alpha Foods |
| 22.07.2020 | SIMULATE Raises $11M to Reinvent the Food System | As we reported last week, Nuggs founded a new parent company, Simulate, to go beyond the vegan chicken nugget and innovate further plant-based alternatives. Following a recent article by AlleyWatch, the US company is about to repair a broke... |
| 16.07.2020 | Nuggs Raises $4.1M, Says “Food System is in Need of Complete Reinvention”, is Already Reinventing the Hot Dog | ©Nuggs
According to Food Dive, the plant-based chicken startup Nuggs received $4,1 million in investments and has founded its new parent company Simulate to expand the product range beyond the plantbased chicken nugget. By taking this step,... |
| 16.07.2020 | Nuggs Raises $4.1M, Says “Food System is in Need of Complete Reinvention”, is Already Reinventing the Hot Dog | According to Food Dive, the plant-based chicken startup Nuggs received $4,1 million in investments and has founded its new parent company Simulate to expand the product range beyond the plantbased chicken nugget. By taking this step, Nuggs ... |
| 13.07.2020 | Nuggs Raises $4.1M in Funding | Nuggs, a NYC-based maker of plant-based chicken products, raised $4.1m in funding.
The round was led by Lerer Hippeau.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach.
Founded by serial entrepren... |
| 09.07.2020 | Nuggs rebrands as Simulate with new cash, a new CTO and an expanded line of faux-meat foods | Nuggs, the alternative-meat company founded by serial entrepreneur Ben Pasternak (who previously co-founded the social media app Monkey), has raised $4.1 million and gotten itself a new name and a new CTO as it looks to move beyond chicken ... |
| 19.03.2020 | With $200m fresh funding, Livekindly joins the global plant-based protein peloton | The Livekindly Company — a collective of plant-based brands — lifted the lid this month on a $200-million founders’ funding round, a move designed to help its brands keep pace with an increasingly competitive peloton of global plant-based p... |
| 11.08.2019 | Competition among alternative protein players gets hot as companies beef up with new deals | The competition for control of the burgeoning market for burger replacements (and other alternatives to animal proteins) continues to heat up.
Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, the two leading contenders for top purveyor of plant-based patt... |
| 15.07.2019 | 19-year-old Announces $7M Funding Round Led by McCain Foods for World’s Most Advanced Nugget | NUGGS, the chicken nugget startup, has announced its official launch. Founded by 19-year-old serial tech entrepreneur Ben Pasternak, NUGGS says that it will disrupt the animal-based meat industry with its new nugget technology.
After over a... |
| 12.07.2019 | Alt Dairy and Alt Protein Overwhelmingly Received Most US Funding in 2018 | Foodtechconnect has published its 2018 U.S. Food & Beverage Startup Investment Report, summarising the categories which received the highest levels of investment throughout the year. Dairy alternatives are the top category, hitting $200... |
| 11.07.2019 | The Humble Pea Experiences Explosion Following Beyond Meat Phenomenon | Following the stock market sensation of Beyond Meat, the pea crop is experiencing a massive surge of growth and demand, with farmers in the U.S. and Canada set to plant 20% more pea crops according to Bloomberg, which says that “the tiny le... |
| 10.07.2019 | Can This 19-Year-Old Tech Whiz Make Nuggets — And An Animal-Free Lifestyle — Go Viral With NUGGS? | It was a Wednesday night in late May and I was scrolling through my dog’s Instagram when my attention was arrested by a sponsored post: a perturbed rooster with a bright red comb gazing at what seemed to be a chicken nugget. “Don’t be chick... |
| 09.07.2019 | McCain Foods invests in plant-based nugget start-up NUGGS | The partnership combines NUGGS' textured pea protein technology and R&D process with McCain’s production and commercial expertise to accelerate the brand’s growth and deliver market scale (right now the brand is sold direct to consu... |
| - | SIMULATE Raises $11M to Reimagine Your Childhood Favorite Foods with A Plant-Based Twist | 407SHARES
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The recent disruption of the meat supply chain has resulted in an increase in sales of plant-based meat options, which are traditionally offered as alternatives to animal-meat burgers (eg. Beyond Meat or I... |