AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Improved Nature , a Raleigh, NC-based protein and meat alternative innovator, has raised $3 million in a convertible note round led by Concentric Capital. The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Improved Nature , a Raleigh, NC-based protein and meat alternative innovator, has raised $3 million in a convertible note round led by Concentric Capital. The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The crops will allow Heck Foods to "continue creating unique and interesting flavours" for its recently-launched plant-based meat-alternative range, which includes vegan sausages and burgers, the company said. Micro-nutrients will also provide fantastic health benefits as well as giving us a unique selling point," Keeble added. "We

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2021

If investing in reusable tableware isn’t an option for your company, there are plenty of ways to make single-use tableware more eco-friendly. Investing in reusable cups that can be collected at the end of events and washed for future use is another option. Switch to Electric or Sustainable Fuel.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

A recent survey from Morgan Stanley found that 85 per cent of individual US investors are interested in sustainable investing , while by next year, consumers are projected to spend $150bn on sustainable products. Pressure is mounting and firms are being judged on how they respond," she adds.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In many major economies, plant-based options and meat-alternatives are growing in popularity, leading to rising sales of veggie food and milk in supermarkets and restaurants. Lab-grown meat, too, is attracting increasing interest, and is expected to start appearing on consumer plates in the coming years.

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2021

This week a campaign group of food industry founders, including Pipers Farm, Arthur Potts-Dawson and Doug McMaster are calling on the government to think carefully about its strategy for meat alternatives. Yet still, the report suggested we fund the fake meat industry.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2020

Venture investments in plant-based proteins have already reached $1.1bn in 2020, double that of the whole of last year. The global alternative protein market is expected to grow to $17.9bn by 2025. In total, the research finds, seven of these 15 retailers now sell, or plan to sell, plant-based meat alternatives.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

If you establish a hatchery, you don't just use what's there at the start and then let it go to rot - you invest in maintaining it," says Essam Y Mohammed, head of blue economy at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The same mentality is needed for marine resources.".

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 7, 2020

The statistics on plant-based proteins are eye opening: Beyond Meat’s shares have more than tripled in value since its IPO in May, Impossible Foods can now be found in about 10,000 restaurants, and the market for meat substitutes is expected to reach $2.5 billion by 2023.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

To ensure sustainable food production for a growing global population, significant capital investment is required, writes Peter Bachmann from Gresham House. For example, soy, which is used in animal feed and many meat-alternative products, is responsible for widespread deforestation and has a high carbon footprint.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Also tackling dairy is Ripple Foods , which launched a milk alternative earlier this year and counts GV and Khosla among its investor base. Beyond Meat , another plant-based burger company has raised a total of $17 million and has various meat alternative products on sale in Whole Foods, Target, and other retailers.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Also tackling dairy is Ripple Foods , which launched a milk alternative earlier this year and counts GV and Khosla among its investor base. Beyond Meat , another plant-based burger company has raised a total of $17 million and has various meat alternative products on sale in Whole Foods, Target, and other retailers.

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Grist

OCTOBER 23, 2019

They found that more than 250 firms have raised $2 billion in combined investments to capture and use carbon, or permanently store it underground. Extavour said that total investment is likely higher, because of the survey’s limited regional focus. . “Compared to the scale of the challenge, it’s a small number,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

While the industry promotes meat as a solution to world hunger, it has simultaneously sought to undermine the concept that significantly reducing meat in diets, or replacing animal products with non-meat alternatives, is an effective emissions reduction strategy.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 15, 2019

Motif will use Ginkgo’s fermentation technology to provide food companies with ingredients for alternative protein product lines in the plant-based and meat alternatives space. The company has also formally identified the animal-free sector as its main area of focus.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

With consumers willing to pay up to 10 per cent more for meat alternatives and an astonishing 91 per cent of millennials willing to switch to a new product from a purpose driven company, this industry is expected to be worth $8.3bn by as soon as 2025.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 7, 2020

The statistics on plant-based proteins are eye opening: Beyond Meat’s shares have more than tripled in value since its IPO in May, Impossible Foods can now be found in about 10,000 restaurants, and the market for meat substitutes is expected to reach $2.5 The post Plant-based foods are booming, but we need sustainable meat, too.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 24, 2019

Similar assumptions are often made when considering economies of scale: more investment means more production means cost-reduction. . While sales of plant-based meat increased 23% from 2018, the actual volume of plant-based meat on the market still makes up a minuscule one-fifth of one percent of the entire meat industry.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The rise of fake meat With all of this in mind, it’s no wonder that food scientists have been investing copious research and development time, money and energy into finding meat alternatives. Some have already been around for decades, while new alternatives are consistently hitting the market.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 5, 2019

Despite all this investment, two companies have been hogging the plant-based protein spotlight lately. Impossible Foods alone has raised $750 million, including a recent $300 million round , while Beyond Meat’s IPO raised $240 million for the company in a blockbuster debut that saw the company’s valuation soar over $10 billion.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 18, 2021

This approach can increase return on investment for the entire value chain, while reducing organic waste and plastics pollution. Paragon Pure (New Jersey, United States) creates ingredients to replace palm oils while delivering desirable appearance, melting performance, flavor, and mouthfeel of meat analog products.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Still, estimates are wide and varied on the level of growth of the alternative protein market, with some anticipating it to reach 22 per cent by 2035 and others as high as 62 per cent by 2050, according to Ingrid Kukuljan, head of impact investing at Federated Hermes. "It Meat is risky business for companies.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Unilever recently set out its plan to significantly expand its plant-based range, with a view to securing €1bn in annual sales from alternative meat and dairy products within the next seven years.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 10, 2019

(If you include seafood in your definition of meat — jury out over here at AgFunder! T he CEO of major meat alternative producer Monde Nissin, Henry Soesanto , also invested alongside Chinese agri-foodtech VC Bits x Bites, Tyson Ventures, and Manta Ray Ventures, a UK-based venture capital firm.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

Governments have been reluctant to date to encourage people to eat less meat or introduce policies such as meat taxes. Mandates for EVs, green ammonia, and plant-based foods sound relatively simple, but such policies still face considerable opposition from vested interests and would require significant investment.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

Late last year, Quorn, the world's biggest meat alternative brand, started putting 'farm to shop' carbon footprint data on packs of its top selling 30 products. Amid growing corporate interest, Hugh Jones of the Carbon Trust considers the history and future for product carbon footprinting.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2022

New report reveals how retailers are committed to increasing their volume of sales of meat and dairy alternatives. Overall, the number of investors setting targets to increase their investment in plant-based products was found to have increased.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Editor’s Note: Rob Leclerc is a Founding Partner at venture capital firm AgFunder where he co-leads the investment team with Founding Partner Michael Dean. And so despite the size of the opportunity, investment in this sector comes with significant risks and challenges. Invest now or learn more here.

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 1, 2022

What do year-over-year trends within our key investment sectors tell us about the future of climate tech? And 3) New funding sources, including $50B from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, can help startups working to improve access to clean water, especially in frontline communities. Sector Trends and Future Predictions.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

I think it's about the quality and I think it's about getting people back to the raw ingredients and natural whole foods… If you just talk about taking meat out of the diet, I don't think it explains the underlying issues.". Meat alternatives and plant-based proteins.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 27, 2020

Hurdles to jump moving forward There are hurdles to scaling and applying science to soil — from lack of regulations and investment to upending the status quo — but it’s essential we address them as soil health has vast implications, above and below ground. According to the latest AgFunder Agri-FoodTech Investing Report, $19.8

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Development of new plant proteins is one way to shift consumer diets to meat alternatives and meal substitutions (Costa et al., To promote practices that are less cost effective, public dollars can be strategically invested in private ventures to reduce initial risks of early adoption and scale up carbon markets. Wollenberg, E.,

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2021

Buoyed by the success of red-meat mimics from the likes of Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, a growing number of companies is angling to capture their share of the early market for animal-free seafood. Overall, businesses creating all sorts of meat alternatives raised $3.1

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Worst Offender’ We found that 16 leading international finance institutions together invested $3.33 And just two percent ($77 million) went towards non-industrial animal farming projects, which invest in small-scale agriculture and more sustainable practices. billion in animal agriculture in 2023. Over two thirds (68 percent or $2.27

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

Norwegian CCS R&D hub, Technology Center Mongstad (TCM) has signed a contract with OGCI Climate Investments - the $1bn investment fund from the industry-backed Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) - to test carbon capture technology at TCM's facilities from March 2020.

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