Disruptive tech
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…