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From agricultural robot dogs to drinking straws made from food waste: the New Food Festival Stuttgart at the University of Hohenheim showcases trends and innovations from the field to the fork.
06-Mar-2025
Whether it's vegan organic pizza cheese, agricultural robots, snacks made from food waste, smart sales forecasts in gastronomy and retail or functional drinks - visionary ideas and creative approaches are changing the food system. They offer answers to the challenges of recent years, caused by ...
Berlin-based food tech company develops fermentation processes to produce cheese alternatives
16-Jan-2025
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing a €35million loan to German food tech company Formo. This EIB quasi-equity venture debt loan will enable Formo to further develop and scale up its fermentation processes for producing alternatives to dairy and egg-based products. Founded in Berlin ...
Zymofix secures €2 million to scale microbial solutions for sustainable agriculture and beyond
13-Nov-2024
Zymofix, a pioneer in industrial biotechnology, has secured €2 million in funding led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), with participation from The Nest Family Office and VP Capital. This strategic investment will fuel Zymofix’s efforts to scale its proprietary fermentation technology, turning ...
Innovations and expertise for the food tech industry
29-Jul-2024
On September 3, 2024, the New Food Conference will once again bring together the international alternative protein industry in Berlin - established manufacturers and innovative start-ups, forward-thinking investors and future-oriented suppliers, application-oriented scientists and committed ...
20-Jun-2024
Mycorena, a pioneering Swedish foodtech start-up in the mycoprotein segment, announces the discontinuation of its large-scale factory project in Sweden for scaling Promyc, one of Mycorena’s proprietary mycoprotein ingredients. The company is pivoting their business model to focus more on a ...
Using precision fermentation to produce sustainable, bio-based materials and ingredients
14-Jun-2024
Two major French industrial leaders Danone and Michelin, the American start-up DMC Biotechnologies and Crédit Agricole Centre France, a key investor in the region, have agreed to create the Biotech Open Platform to bolster the development of advanced fermentation processes, particularly precision ...
The better steak: 97% less CO₂e than its animal counterpart
18-Mar-2024
Planted, the Swiss FoodTech trailblazer for clean label plant-based meats, proudly introduces its latest culinary innovation: the planted.steak, a game-changing fermented steak from plants, now available across numerous foodservice outlets in Europe. The launch of planted.steak as the first ...
Munich-based B2B foodtech startup uses fermentation technology to produce ChoViva
12-Feb-2024
Planet A Foods, the next-generation ingredient champion delivering sustainable and nutritious ingredients to the food industry, announced it has closed a $15.4 million Series A funding round. Funds will be used to fuel further mass-market expansion following a landmark FMCG partnership announced ...
OLIPI Receives €1.8 Million Seed Funding for Further Development of CO2-Neutral Climate Oil
01-Feb-2024
The conclusion of the Seed funding round marks a significant success for the Hamburg-based deep-tech startup COLIPI GmbH as it embarks on the year 2024. Investors include the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), the Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg (IFH), Nidobirds Ventures GmbH, and Stefan De Loecker. ...
The new facility will have a production capacity of 3 million kilograms a year of sustainable, locally sourced protein
24-Jan-2024
Business Finland has conditionally approved a recycling and reuse investment grant of more than €12 million for biotech startup Enifer to build its first commercial-scale PEKILO® mycoprotein ingredient factory. The funding comes from the European Union NextGenerationEU recovery instrument. It ...
