A Taste of Omnipork, The First Meat Alternative Developed Specifically for Asia
Last week I visited Kind Kitchen in Hong Kong and got to taste a special type of pork gyoza that was juicy, tender, and delicious — and also happened to […]
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Good Catch Hooks $10M in Funding for its Plant-Based Tuna
Yesterday Gathered Foods, the company behind Good Catch plant-based seafood, announced that it had closed a $10 million convertible note round. According to Forbes, the round was led by animal-free […]
Wild Type Debuts New Cultured Salmon in Largest Tasting of Lab-Grown Meat
Last week Wild Type, the West Coast startup growing salmon in a lab, had the first large-scale taste test of its new product. In a Medium post, the company detailed […]
Future Food: Beyond Impossible, Investment is Heating Up Throughout the Alt-Protein Space
This is the web version of our weekly Future Food newsletter. In it we cover the alternative protein landscape, from plant-based meat to cellular agriculture to insects. Subscribe here! Who’s investing […]
Hybrid VC Firm Big Idea Ventures Wants to Scale the Alternative Protein Revolution
We hear a lot about plant-based startups raking in big funding dollars — cough, Impossible Foods, cough — but not a lot about the companies investing in them. One such […]
Future Food: How Big a Deal is Beyond Meat’s IPO, Really?
This is the web version of our weekly Future Food newsletter. In it we cover the alternative protein landscape, from plant-based meat to cellular agriculture to insects. Subscribe here! Unless […]
GFI: Investment in Plant-Based Meat, Eggs, and Dairy Hits $16 Billion, No Sign of Slowing
Today the Good Food Institute (GFI), a nonprofit promoting alternatives to conventional animal agriculture products, released a report on the state of investment in plant- and cell-based meat and dairy […]
Singapore to Invest $535 million in R&D, including Cultured Meat and Robots
Cell-based meat is about to get another big shot in the arm. Yesterday the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore announced the RIE2020 plan, which will allocate S$724 million ($535 million) to […]
Newsletter: Nigella Lawson’s Instagram Competitor and the Coolest Foodtech Startups at Y Combinator
This is the post version of our weekly newsletter. If you’d like to get the Weekly Spoon in your inbox, you can subscribe here. If you’re a food tech polymath — interested […]
These 10 Food Tech Startups from Y Combinator’s Latest Cohort are Ones to Watch
If you want a hint about what cool new startups and innovations are coming around the corner, look to Y Combinator. Twice a year, the accelerator, which has helped launch […]
Cultured Meat Will Likely Debut in Asia, Not Silicon Valley. Here’s Why.
It’s no longer a question of whether or not we can make meat without the animal. We can, and there are taste tests to prove we can do so and […]
