| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.09.2025 | From sake to spaghetti bolognese: Nosh.bio debuts Koji-based hybrid mince in a Berlin cafeteria | Berlin-based startup Nosh.bio is debuting its Koji-based hybrid mince in partnership with Speisemanufaktur Adlershof, marking the product’s first public showcase.
This week, the hybrid mince is featured in the cafeteria's menu in a variety ... |
| 19.06.2024 | Kale Yeah! 10 startups leading the plant-based food scene in Europe | Not so long ago, veganism was considered an eccentric lifestyle, often associated with tree-hugging hippies and dusty health food stores. It was challenging to find plant-based products, and most restaurants offered little more than chips o... |
| 10.04.2024 | Germany’s Proxima Fusion bags €20M in Seed funding to build first-generation fusion power plants | Read this article in:
Munich-based Proxima Fusion, the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), announced on Wednesday that it has raised €20M in a seed funding round led by redalpine and oversubscribed.
The Ba... |
| 03.04.2024 | ‘It’s Not A Joke’: Pizza Hut France Adds La Vie Plant-Based Ham on All Menu Items for the Same Price | 6 Mins Read French food tech startup La Vie has expanded its foodservice footprint via a deal with Pizza Hut France, which will see its plant-based ham be available on demand for all of the chain’s menu items for 2024.
When Pizza Hut France... |
| 19.03.2024 | Umiami Opens France’s First Commercial-Scale Facility for Plant-Based Whole Cuts | Umiami, the French leader in plant-based whole cuts, announces the opening of its much anticipated first commercial-scale manufacturing plant in Alsace, Eastern France.
The French food tech company states that its plant-based chicken and fi... |
| 12.03.2024 | Swiss startup Planted rolls out ‘first of its kind’ fermented plant-based steak | Swiss plant-based meat startup Planted has made a multimillion-dollar investment in fermentation capabilities creating 30 new jobs at its manufacturing plant in Kemptthal, Switzerland, as it ramps up production of its latest product: a beef... |
| 13.02.2024 | Plant-Based Whole Cut Pioneer Umiami Achieves B Corp Certification | French plant-based whole-cut leader Umiami announces that it has achieved B Corp certification this week. Following a certification process initiated in 2021, the company says it is delighted to belong to the community founded by B Lab, hav... |
| 03.01.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Bean Burgers, Vegan Cheese Tours & No More Oatgurts | 5 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 Burger King’s in-demand veggie burger, Armored Fresh’s vegan ... |
| 09.11.2023 | World Vegan Month Special: Top Ten Inspiring Interviews with Industry Experts | To celebrate World Vegan Month, we are sharing the ten most popular vegconomist interviews from so far this year. Interviews are not only a powerful tool to collect information but also an excellent way to acknowledge the experience and per... |
| 26.10.2023 | Umiami: “We’re the First Company Worldwide That Can Create a True Whole-Muscle Chicken Breast at Scale” | Umiami‘s story is nothing short of a phenomenon, one that we have been following closely since its beginnings in 2020. Along with La Vie, Umiami is effecting a successful plant-based business ecosystem in its home country of France, continu... |
| 20.10.2023 | Umiami Raises $34.7M in Funding | Umiami, a Paris, France-based food tech company specializing in plant-based meat alternatives, raised $34.7M in funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $107M, saw participation from Bpifrance – SPI, French Partners, KIMA Ventu... |
| 05.10.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Umiami raises $34.7m for plant-based whole cuts, Bonsai Robotics bags $13.5m, Blue Apron to sell for$103m | This week, French plant-based meat startup Umiami snagged €32.5m ($34.7m) to take its whole cuts platform to the US; Australian precision fermentation startup Eden Brew raised A$24.4m ($15.3m) to scale up animal-free casein production; and ... |
| 03.10.2023 | Plant-based meat alternatives firm Umiami secures €32.5M in funding for US expansion | French foodtech company Umiami is ramping up its texturising technology, for plant-based food, in Europe and taking it Stateside thanks to its latest Series A funding round top-up. The firm has just raised an additional €32.5 million which ... |
| 15.06.2023 | Umiami Selected for French Tech 2030 in Recognition for its Whole Cuts of Plant-Based Meat | Plant-based whole cut pioneer Umiami has been selected to join the French Tech 2030 program, a governmental initiative to strengthen France’s industrial and technological sovereignty.
The 125 selected participants were required to meet at l... |
| 03.05.2023 | Data snapshot: Agrifoodtech funding in Europe slumped 46% in 2022, but there were some bright spots | Data snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 05.02.2023 | Ovni Capital is a new French VC firm backing startups with global ambitions | If you’re a French entrepreneur, there’s a new venture capital firm in town. Ovni Capital is announcing a first closing of its €50 million fund ($54 million at today’s exchange rate) focused on early-stage investments.
The firm’s two genera... |
| 01.02.2023 | Who were the most active food and agriculture technology venture capital firms in 2022? | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder, a food and agriculture technology venture capital firm.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and ... |
| 13.06.2022 | Umiami Opens New Plant-Based Innovation Center in Europe’s Silicon Valley | French food-tech company Umiami has opened its new production facility to develop its plant-based whole cuts. The new Umiami Innovation Center is based on the Plateau de Saclay, also known as Europe’s Silicon Valley.
Umiami, the vegan chick... |
| 07.04.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Umiami grabs $30m for alt-chicken, funding for forest tech grows | France’s Umiami took a step closer to commercializing its whole-cut vegan chicken breast this week with the close of an Astanor Ventures-led Series A round.
Elsewhere, two startups raised funds for their reforestation-focused tech, while th... |
| 07.04.2022 | Umiami Claims ‘Europe’s Largest Ever’ Series A Funding Round With $30 Million Investment For Plant-Based Chicken | 4 Mins Read
French food tech Umiami has raised $30 million to support its plant-based meat developments. The Series A round was led by Astanor Ventures, with the French Tech Seed Fund, managed by Bpifrance on behalf of the government, and m... |
| 06.04.2022 | Umiami Raises “Largest Ever” $30M Funding Amid Whole Cut Chick*n Scale-Up | Umiami, the French food tech startup, has raised what it claims is the largest ever Series A financing in Europe within the plant-based meat market. Rasing $30 million from investors including the French government, Umiami has also announce... |
| 20.01.2022 | Above Food Partners With Umiami to Develop Plant-Based Whole Cuts | Vertically integrated plant-based marketplace Above Food has announced it will be partnering with French food-tech company Umiami to research and develop plant-based whole cuts.
Umiami has developed technology that allows for the production... |
| 07.01.2022 | What’s Ahead for 2022: Umiami | Paris based Umiami has developed a proprietary technology to create what the company says are the world’s first plant-based whole-cuts. Umiami says that its unique process is the first in the world that can create thick fibrous chicken brea... |
| 26.10.2021 | Plant Based World Offered a Glimpse of How Plant-Based Eating is Becoming Ever More Sophisticated | Alice Grahame, a London-based freelance journalist, Guardian contributor, and ex BBC journalist, here talks about her experience of the recent Plant-Based World Europe Expo, which was Europe’s first plant-based-only trade show, and some of ... |
| 05.10.2021 | Forget Extrusion. Umiami is Here. | Left: a typical chicken substitute produced by high-moisture extrusion. Right: Umiami’s chicken breast made with their proprietary technology. ©Umiami
Ever wondered why whole chicken breasts, tenderloins, or large cuts of fish don’t usually... |
| 14.07.2021 | Umiami and BlueNalu Announced Among Semifinalists of XPRIZE Foundation Challenge – Feed the Next Billion | 28 alt protein innovators from 14 countries have been announced as semifinalists for the next XPRIZE Foundation Challenge – Feed the Next Billion. The multi-year $15 million competition is aimed at reinventing how humanity will feed future ... |
| 02.07.2021 | Paris-based Umiami, creator of new ‘textured’ plant-based meat, nabs €2.3 million | Paris-based Umiami, a creator of a plant-based meat, has completed a seed funding of €2.3 million with the support of Centrale Paris, AgroParisTech and the Technical University of Munich, and Umiami Technologies. The startup has invented a ... |
| 02.07.2021 | Umiami Raises €2.3M For Proprietary Technology That Produces “Thick and Fibrous pieces” of Meat & Fish | Umiami, a French startup specializing in the production of plant-based meat and fish, today announces it has secured 1.5 million euros to finance its pilot production unit in France. According to the company, the manufacturing process devel... |
| 19.04.2021 | Sponsored Post Umiami unveils its unique proprietary alternative to extrusion to produce plant-based whole cuts…
and sells its products as private labels! | Products that Umiami has developed using their proprietary process. From left to right and top to bottom: fish sticks, whole cut of cod, chicken breasts, and chicken nuggets. ©Umiami
Paris-based technology company Umiami just unveiled what ... |
