Rebellyous Foods raises $9.5M to build its plant-based chicken tech
Rebellyous wants to take a bite out of the processed chicken comfort and convenience food market — products including frozen…
Molecular farming: the newest trend among foodtech investors
Molecular farming basically consists of engineering plants to make animal proteins. For example, the technology can be used to make…
From Meat to Plant-Based, One Factory at a Time
Karell thinks the current plant-based products are still not good enough to convert over most hedonistically motivated meat consumers. But…
Alt-meat fever has cooled. Here’s why.
Sofía De La Parra, an analyst at the investor network FAIRR Initiative, anticipates cultivated meat will reignite interest in plant-based…
Black Sheep Foods raises $12.3m for plant based meat
Black Sheep Foods has raised $12.3 million in finance from Unovis, Bessemer Venture Partners, AgFunder, and Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed’s…
Beyond Meat factory riddled with mold, other dirty conditions: leaked…
A leaked internal document revealed Beyond Meat products manufactured at the plant had tested positive for the harmful bacteria Listeria…
Are meat substitutes really better for the environment than meat?
Meat substitutes let people reduce the impact of their diet without radical changes to the meals that they eat. Swap…
Beyond Meat Launches Vegan Steaks at 5,000 Grocery Stores Nationwide. Will You Try It?
Beyond Meat vegan steak is officially hitting stores nationwide. But what is a plant-based steak made of anyway? Source: Beyond…
Faux Leather, Real Money: Fabric Funding Sizzles As Startups Spin Out Cell-Grown Leather And More
This week was a case in point, with Silicon Valley-based VitroLabs, a developer of cell-cultivated leather, closing on $46 million…
Growing meat instead of raising animals for food
In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Josh Tetrick, CEO and cofounder of Eat Just. Founded…