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| 03.09.2026 | Women In Tech: Top 10 Women In ClimateTech In 2026 | It’s easy to get the impression that climate tech is just solar panels and lithium batteries. The founders on this list are building across a far wider spectrum. They’re solving key problems in energy storage, critical materials, forest int... |
| 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... |
| 09.04.2025 | 🎥 Synthesis Capital: ‘We avoided the plant-based CPG blood bath’ | It’s fair to say that investor sentiment in foodtech has soured somewhat in recent years, but specialist investors are in it for the long haul, says Synthesis Capital.
AgFunderNews (AFN) caught up with cofounder Costa Yiannoulis (CY) to tal... |
| 12.06.2023 | VCs remain confident alternative protein has a real future despite public-market woes | How well have alternative-protein companies done in the past year? It depends on who you ask.
The industry has had an interesting go of it between the U.S. getting comfortable with cultivated meat production, layoffs and countries banning p... |
| 12.06.2023 | Plant-Based. The Death Knells of an Industry, or the Calm After the Storm? | Today in the UK, the unfortunate news regarding Meatless Farm’s mass redundancies arrived, as sadly predicted over the past week. And right on cue, conventional media was ready and waiting, sharpening its knives, eager to assign the now tri... |
| 06.02.2023 | Lobbies, Food Tech & Neophobia: In Conversation with George Monbiot About How To Feed The World Without Devouring The Planet | 15 Mins Read
It’s hard to think of someone who holds truth to power as effectively and as committedly as George Monbiot. The multi-award-winning British thinker, journalist, activist, and long-time environmentalist has been speaking out on ... |
| 12.10.2022 | Forget Recent Sales, Widespread Vegan Meat Adoption Is Inevitable, Says Report | 5 Mins Read
New analysis suggests alternative protein and vegan meat is in the early phase of an “S” adoption curve. And by the next decade, there will likely be a tipping point.
The new findings come as plant-based meat sales have waned; a... |
| 02.06.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Synthesis Capital closes $300m foodtech fund, e-grocer Astro bags $60m | Though many “instant” grocery delivery startups are in the midst of layoffs, one company in Indonesia bagged a healthy Series B round this week.
Elsewhere, US ag robotics specialist FarmWise teased a new weeding implement along with its lat... |
| 30.05.2022 | Synthesis Capital Secures $300 Million For Food Tech Investment Opportunities | 4 Mins Read
London’s Synthesis Capital has closed its first fund, scooping more than $300 million in capital pledges. According to the company, this is the largest dedicated food tech VC of its kind. The year-old investor, Led by Costa Yian... |
| 26.05.2022 | Synthesis Capital launches $300M+ foodtech fund | Synthesis Capital has raised over $300 million for its foodtech fund. The vehicle will be used to target around 15 startups across the globe with average ticket sizes of $15 million. The firm's portfolio includes cultivated meat startup Ups... |
| 26.05.2022 | Synthesis Capital Unveils Largest Ever FoodTech VC Fund: $300M For the Food System Unicorns of Tomorrow | Synthesis Capital, a global food technology and alternative protein investor with operations in the UK, US, and Guernsey, today announces Synthesis Capital Fund I (“Fund”) which it says represents the largest fund ever raised for the sector... |
| 26.05.2022 | Synthesis Capital raises £238m fund to back foodtech startups | London-based Synthesis Capital, a foodtech and alternative protein investor, has launched a $300m (£238m) fund to back technology solutions that will help with global food system challenges.
Average investments from the fund will be $15m an... |
| 25.05.2022 | Synthesis Capital synthesises $300 million to support sustenance | London’s Synthesis Capital has assembled a $300+ million fund aimed squarely at supporting approximately 15 food technology and alternative protein-focused startups across the globe with an average ticket size of $15 million. According to t... |
| 25.05.2022 | Synthesis Capital closed its first fund with $300M, giving boost to food tech’s future | Synthesis Capital, the one-year-old London-based food technology and alternative protein investor, closed its first fund with over $300 million in capital commitments.
The firm is led by former CPT Capital investors Costa Yiannoulis and Ros... |
| 21.04.2022 | Brief: UPSIDE Foods bags $400m in cultivated meat’s largest funding to date | US-based UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) has closed a $400 million Series C in the largest funding round for a cultivated meat company to-date. Temasek and Abu Dhabi Growth Fund (ADG) led the round with participation from “a broad coa... |
| 08.04.2022 | Four emerging plant proteins to watch: Pongamia, hemp, barley, and chickpea | “The Holy Grail [for food formulators] is often to have a neutral, clean flavor and color, and I think that is on the horizon for all of these [emerging] proteins, including duckweed," said Dr Justin Shimek, CEO at innovation and pr... |
| 08.04.2022 | Four emerging plant proteins to watch: Pongamia, hemp, barley, and chickpea | “The Holy Grail [for food formulators] is often to have a neutral, clean flavor and color, and I think that is on the horizon for all of these [emerging] proteins, including duckweed," Dr Justin Shimek, CEO at innovation and product... |
| 06.04.2022 | BREAKING: Alternative proteins ‘will not save the planet,’ report warns | Alternative proteins have been touted as a key answer to greening emissions-heavy food systems and attracted billions in investment over the past years, but a new report published today warns they “will not save the planet”.
Cultured and pl... |
| 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... |
| 13.10.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Rebel Foods raises $175m, Culture Biosciences banks $80m (UPDATED) | Editor’s note: Culture Biosciences’ $80 million fundraise was announced at 3 pm ET on Thursday, October 14. AFN has added the news as an update to this roundup.
There was news of two major funding rounds in India this week, with cloud kitch... |
| 26.07.2021 | Can food systems really get to ‘net zero?’ | Around the world, achieving ‘net zero’ emissions by the middle of this century has become a rallying cry to keep climate change in check and avoid its worst impacts.
Over 120 countries — from highly industrialized nations like Canada, Germa... |
| 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... |
| - | Synthesis Capital synthesises $300 million to support sustenance | London’s Synthesis Capital has assembled a $300+ million fund aimed squarely at supporting approximately 15 food technology and alternative protein-focused startups across the globe with an average ticket size of $15 million. According to t... |
