Eat Just, best known for plant-based eggs and cultivated meat, has made its first foray into plant-based meat.
This week also saw funding announcements from alt-silk-maker AMSilk, wasabi vertical farming company NextAGE, and biotech startup BoobyBiome, which is engineering a breast milk alternative and wins the award this week for best company name.
In regenerative agriculture, PepsiCo and National Geographic jointly launched a new program to heighten awareness around the concept, while the Rainforest Alliance announced a new regen ag certification for coffee.
Funding news
🇩🇪 AMSilk raises EUR 52M in funding to scale industrial production of silk-based biomaterials Vegconomist
🇺🇸 Nitricity bags $50m to meet surging demand for organic fertilizer from upcycled almond shells AgFunderNews
🇵🇹 BRAINR raises record €11m to drive digital transformation in food manufacturing New Food Magazine
🇬🇧 Messium scores £3.3M to revolutionise how the world feeds itself Startups Magazine
🇬🇧 London biotech rethinking breast milk raises £2.5m UKTN
🇺🇸 Good Agriculture raises $1.5M seed round to help farmers spend less time on back-office work Good Agriculture
🇯🇵 NEXTAGE, a wasabi farming company using AI to automate its operations, raises additional ¥200 million in Series A funding The Bridge
🇫🇮 Finnish Perfat Technologies raises €1M seed for its novel healthy fat solutions Arctic Startup
M&A, IPOs & partnerships
🇺🇸 National Geographic Society and PepsiCo Launch Food for Tomorrow Program iGrow News
🇺🇸 Invaio Sciences joins forces with The Coca-Cola Company and MIT to Save the Orange Invaio
🇺🇸 Edacious and Regenerative Organic Alliance launch project showcasing the nutritional value of regen ag AgFunderNews
🇮🇱 🇨🇭 Aleph Farms signs MoU with The Cultured Hub to establish our first European production base LinkedIn
🇵🇱 PepsiCo, Mars, ADM team up for regenerative agriculture project in Poland AgFunderNews
🇳🇿 🇯🇵 Leaft Foods takes RuBisCO protein to Japan with new partnership AgFunderNews
People moves
🇺🇸 Driscoll’s appoints Jiunn Shih as chief marketing officer Business Wire
🇺🇸 Fruitist Appoints New CFO, Board Members The Packer
Other news
🇺🇸 Eat Just brings Just Meat plant-based chicken alternative to market in Texas, US The Plant Base Mag
🇺🇸 Rainforest Alliance launches new regenerative agriculture certification ESG Today
🇲🇽 Mexico bans 35 pesticides to boost sustainable agricultural practices Fresh Plaza
🇸🇪 This startup is launching Scandinavia’s first cultivated meat factory Green Queen
🇺🇸 Final MAHA report backs voluntary industry action over stricter rules on food, pesticides AgFunderNews
🇬🇧 Tesco trials in-store avocado scanners to check ripeness Grocery Gazette
🇮🇱 Strauss Group launches ‘cow-free’ range featuring animal-free whey from Imagindairy AgFunderNews
🇮🇳 UnCrave quietly shuts down Alt Meat
🇺🇸 Cocoa, coffee among new US tariff exemptions Just Food
🇮🇱 Groundwork BioAg announces first commercial insetting deployment of durable carbon removal Groundwork BioAg
🇺🇸 Eliminating self-affirmed GRAS? FDA advancing proposals to amend food ingredient regulations Nutra Ingredients
