Hatching new ideas – Big Food’s incubator and accelerator programmes
As with in-house venture capital funds, for big food companies looking to gain exposure to new, exciting, potentially faster-growing categories,…
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Spain dairy group Calidad Pascual forms VC unit
Calidad Pascual, the Spain-based dairy business, has joined the ranks of major food manufacturers that have set up an in-house…
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Mission Barns completes funding round to develop cell-cultured fat technology
Mission Barns, a California start-up developing fat from animal cells to be used in plant-based meat products, has completed a…
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US dairy giant Dairy Farmers of America reveals accelerator class
Dairy Farmers of America has revealed the names of businesses taking part in its accelerator programme for 2021. The Kansas…
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Cell-fish firm Bluu Biosciences eyes prototype launch after seed round
Bluu Biosciences, the Germany-based start up that claims to be Europe's first company specialising in cell-based fish, is looking to…
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SPAC vehicle to take vertical farmer AeroFarms public
US vertical-farming business AeroFarms is to list on the stock market through the food industry's latest deal involving a special…
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Unilever in Germany ‘ghost kitchen’ tie-up
Unilever has teamed up with German 'ghost kitchen' operator Vertical Food as the Berlin-based firm looks to expand across the…
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Dutch cell-based meat firm Meatable in new funding win
Meatable, a cultivated meat start-up based in The Netherlands, has closed a US$47m Series A funding round. It takes the…
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Investment in alt-protein food firms “reached record level in 2020”
New research has revealed some US$3.1bn was invested in alternative-protein food businesses globally in 2020, a new record. The figure…
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Pure Harvest Smart Farms completes capital-raising exercise
Pure Harvest Smart Farms, a UAE-based agri-tech business, has raised US$60m from the bond and equity markets. The company is…
