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Category: Funding

  • May 25, 2023

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    Alternative Protein, Funding

    Prime Roots Raises $30M Series B for Deli Meat Made With Koji Mycelium

    The average supermarket deli is a sad carnival of sulfites, nitrates, and preservatives that go bump in your belly. There have been a handful of upstarts in the plant-based food

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  • Sep 15, 2022

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    Ag Tech, Alternative Protein, Cellular Agriculture, Cultured Meat, Foodtech, Funding, News, Plant-Based

    Israel’s Profuse Technology Raises $2.5M for Technology That Lowers Cost of Cultured Meat

    As the world awaits the arrival of cultured meat, manufacturers and their suppliers strategize to cope with the realities of this potentially mammoth market. Infrastructure and product scaling for growth

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  • Nov 8, 2021

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    Food Waste, Funding, News

    FloWaste Raises a $1.1M Pre-Seed Round To Reduce Food Waste With Machine Learning

    According to the Environmental Protection Agency, more than 85% of greenhouse gas emissions from landfilled food waste can be attributed to missteps that occur before the food ever reaches a

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  • Oct 30, 2021

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    Alternative Protein, Announcements, Around The Web, Featured, Funding, News

    Alt. Protein Round-Up: Smoked Salmon, Funding Rounds, and Brave Robot’s Cake Mix

    Alternative protein news has been dropping in faster than fall leaves, and so we’ve gathered some of this week’s top stories, including Revo Foods’ product launch, Aquacultured and Daring Foods’

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  • Oct 26, 2021

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    Funding, Grocery, News, Robotics, AI & Data

    Dawn of the Robocorn? Micro-Fulfillment Robot Specialist Fabric Raises $200M on $1 Billion Valuation

    Fabric, a maker of robotic micro-fulfillment solutions for grocery and e-commerce retailers, announced today they have raised $200 million in a Series C funding round. The new funding puts the

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  • Oct 25, 2021

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    Announcements, Featured, Funding, News

    Cometeer’s Flash Frozen Coffee is the Best Thing in My Freezer

    Despite my few years of working as a barista in the past, I definitely don’t consider myself a coffee expert of any sort. In fact, I am someone who loves

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  • Oct 18, 2021

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    Alternative Protein, Biomanufacturing, Cellular Agriculture, Cultured Meat, Food Waste, Funding, Restaurant Tech, Week in Food Tech Funding

    The Week in Food Tech Funding: Culture Biosciences & Tufts Nab Funding as Interest in Scaling Cell Ag Grows

    Over the past 12 months, money has poured into cultivated meat startups as venture investors, celebrities, and governments look to get in on what many believe is the next big

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  • Oct 15, 2021

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    Ag Tech, Announcements, Featured, Funding, News

    Supplant is Expanding its Fiber-Based Sugar Throughout the US Following $18M Raise

    Americans have a problem: we consume way too much sugar (about 57 pounds a year on average) and not nearly enough fiber (only about 5 percent of the population ingests

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  • Oct 3, 2021

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    Funding, News, Week in Food Tech Funding

    The Week in Food Tech Funding: Perfect Day’s Big Raise & Gorillas Quits Monkeying Around

    The week’s big news is a $350 million Series D raise by precision fermentation unicorn Perfect Day. There’s a whole lot packed into this announcement, so let’s get right to

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  • Sep 19, 2021

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    Funding, News, Venture Capital, Week in Food Tech Funding

    The Week in Food Tech Funding: Double (Alt) Cheese Funding & Big Money for Misfits

    Fall is upon us in the Pacific Northwest, and alongside autumn colors and windy weather is lots and lots of food tech venture capital. This week’s funding news includes not

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  • Sep 10, 2021

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    Alternative Protein, Cellular Agriculture, Funding, News

    Wild Earth Launches Cell-Based Pet Food As It Raises a Fresh $23 Million

    Plant-based pet food brand Wild Earth has announced plans to expand its product line into pet food made with cell-based meat. The announcement comes on the heels of a new

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  • Sep 9, 2021

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    Funding, Future of Drink, News, Robotics, AI & Data

    Smoothie Robot Blendid Joins The Equity Crowdfunding Crowd With $2 Million Raise

    Blendid, the maker of smoothie-making robots, announced today it had raised $2 million via crowdfunding platform StartEngine. According to the announcement sent to The Spoon, the raise brings the company’s

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