RFK Jr’s attack on the self-affirmed GRAS pathway could shake up the fermentation protein sector, as the FDA prioritises safety while retaining support for food tech.

We speak to future food investor Martin Davalos, partner at McWin Capital Partners, about alternative proteins and the venture capital landscape.

Food prices are skyrocketing in the US, and President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China will hit the alternative protein sector hard.

Climate change is already disrupting food supplies across the world, causing shortages and raising prices for consumers – here are six staples under threat.

With Robert F Kennedy Jr becoming the US health secretary under Donald Trump, alternative protein leaders exhibit optimism and caution over food policy.

While the U.S. scrambles with the rising costs of eggs thanks to inflation and bird flu, Arturo Elizondo is growing his eggs in a lab. And he’s got $240 million to do it.

In our weekly column, Future Food Quick Bites, we round up the latest developments in the alt-protein and sustainable food industry.

Aisprid secures funds for farm robotics while plant-based cheese maker Willicroft closes its doors after six years.

In our weekly column, Future Food Quick Bites, we round up the latest developments in the alt-protein and sustainable food industry.

The EVERY Company (EVERY), a biotech firm specializing in fermentation-based protein ingredients, has been awarded a European Union patent for its recombinant

SAN FRANCISCO, December 17, 2024–The EVERY Company (“EVERY”), a leader in crafting highly functional protein ingredients, has been granted yet another seminal patent for its recombinant Ovalbumin ingredient, expanding its coverage to the European Union.

In our weekly column, Future Food Quick Bites, we round up the latest developments in the alt-protein and sustainable food industry.

Food-tech business The EVERY Company recently secured a patent for ovalbumin produced via precision fermentation, which has potential to introduce a “new class of product applications,” and “expand the size of the overall egg market,” CEO and Co-Founder Arturo Elizondo told FoodNavigator-USA.

Bored Cow has launched its animal-free milks into Target stores nationwide with a new limited-edition pumpkin spice flavour.

Grupo Empresarial Palacios Alimentación, which claims to be the world’s largest producer of Spanish omelets and string chorizo, has announced a commercial

The Vegetarian Butcher, part of Unilever, is partnering with The EVERY Company to enhance the texture and nutritional profile of its plant-based meat

A new podcast focuses on how alt-protein careers can help people who are climate quitting find meaningful careers and make tangible impact.

TIME Magazine together with Statista, a leading statistics portal, recently unveiled America’s Top GreenTech Companies in 2024, recognizing 250 firms leading

The Precision Fermentation Alliance and Food Fermentation Europe have announced a refined definition of the tech after recent advancements.

The EVERY Company will be launching with multinational food companies this year as it ramps up manufacturing capacity to meet demand.

With a mission to expand access to nutritious food worldwide, The EVERY Company’s CEO, Arturo Elizondo explained to FoodNavigator-USA how its B2C partnerships allows for its products to appear “more broadly” in the market, from retail products to food service.

Company is using precision fermentation to create egg proteins.

Top experts share their 2024 predictions for food and agtech innovation and investment in 2024. These are the themes that stood out.

Arturo Elizondo, CEO of precision-fermented egg maker EVERY opens up about the Eleven Madison Park and a key regulatory achievement.

Food tech investors discuss another consecutive quarter of decline in VC investments into areas like plant-based meat alternatives.

How are new foods created and marketed, like protein-infused coffee, or eggs created without chickens? “Sunday Morning” introduces you to companies that help shape what and how you eat.

The Every Co CEO Arturo Elizondo and partnerships head Nick Toriello talk precision fermentation, egg prices, retail focus and future collabs.

The Every Company Cofounder Arturo Elizondo sat down with Forbes Reporter Zoya Hasan to discuss The Every Company’s new protein product they’re calling ‘Liquid Gold’ that Elizonda thinks could be a major “paradigm shift”.

Technology has always been a powerful force in the fight against climate change. In the world of FoodTech, ten companies are reshaping the future of food production with their innovative approaches to sustainability. These companies

EVERY has designed a novel approach to creating animal protein equivalents without the need for traditional livestock. Its precision fermentation platform has

The EVERY Company is focused on growing and scaling alternative proteins, specifically egg white proteins, while also educating customers and the public on sustainable, nature equivalent proteins, Sarah Ham, chief operating officer, The EVERY Company explained to FoodNavigator-USA.

California-based lab-grown meat company Upside Foods said Thursday that it has hired Sean Edgett, a former general counsel at Twitter, as its chief legal officer.

Egg protein specialist The EVERY Co. announces it has appointed food and fermentation veteran Scott Hine as Chief Production Officer. In Hine’s new role, he

Animal-free protein startup The EVERY Company is partnering with Alpha Foods to bring its expertise in flavor and texture to the plant-based brand, as it anticipates future growth from the category, company CEO Arturo Elizondo told FoodNavigator-USA.

Precision fermentation is enjoying a moment. It’s even been hailed as the future of sustainable food, but what actually is it?

The new trade group, formed by nine leading companies in the space, is the latest industry coalition formed to promote an up-and-coming food technology.

Perfect Day and Remilk, animal-free dairy protein start-ups, are among nine firms to form the Precision Fermentation Alliance.

Actress Anne Hathaway’s investment in food-tech startup The Every Co., announced yesterday, brings more than capital – it also brings star power that the company’s CEO says he hopes will raise consumer awareness – and acceptance – of animal-free proteins ‘brewed’ through precision-fermentation.

Food tech startup The EVERY Co. announces actress Anne Hathaway has invested in its animal-free egg platform for an undisclosed amount. The backing marks

As the world rethinks animal consumption and supply-chain gaps, celebrities Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway back EVERY’s fermented nature-based proteins.

While scientific processes and developments are core to what food tech companies do, they need employees who can turn the science into a successful business.

Fundraising and understanding a realistic timeline are high barriers for these companies as they face R&D and regulatory challenges.

A new line of hard juices from Pulp Culture features The Every Company’s precision fermentation egg protein in a first for the alcohol and precision fermented egg categories.

Perfect Day – which pioneered the production of ‘animal-free’ dairy proteins using microbes instead of cows – has announced a new brand identity for its enterprise biology business, nth Bio, and unveiled its first publicly-announced partner: Finnish startup Onego Bio, which makes egg proteins… without chickens.

What does making beer have to do with vegan ribs? California company Planetarians is working with beer giant AB InBev to turn its spent brewer’s yeast into zero-waste plant-based meat.

This crisis serves to highlight our total dependence on plant crops and animal farming, and how the stability of our food system is essential. Could precision fermentation provide a viable alternative to today’s production processes?

Picky pet parents are on the lookout for sustainably sourced products. How are ingredients stepping up?

Israeli start-up Fabumin has developed a cost-competitive, vegan alternative to egg protein from legume wastewater. FoodNavigator hears how.

Global Vegan Alternatives Market Status, Trends and COVID-19 Impact Report 2021, Covid 19 Outbreak Impact research report added by Report Ocean, is an

Cellular agriculture investor Agronomics has led the founder’s round of Liberation Labs, it announced on Monday, through an initial investment of $0.63m (£0.51m) for a 47% equity stake.

Wealthier nations must slash their meat consumption by at least 75 percent in order to meet climate goals, researchers at the University of Bonn advise.

On March 24th, over 100 guests from journalism, finance and the alt-protein industry gathered at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills for Taste the Future: an

Need egg whites but can’t eat chicken? There’s now a solution for that — at least, in theory.

The EVERY Co. has unveiled the world’s first animal-free egg white in the form of delicious French macarons.

One of the first products made using a novel animal-free egg white is now available in the United States. The unique macarons are the first to be made with an egg white protein that comes from engineered yeast, designed to be indistinguishable from what is found in chicken eggs.

The EVERY Co just revealed the world’s first animal-free egg white, teaming up with Chantal Guillon to launch fully vegan macarons using the innovative ingredient.

Miruku is breeding and engineering plant crops to turn their cells into dairy proteins using energy from the sun.

/PRNewswire/ — We’re thrilled to announce that Arturo Elizondo, founder, and CEO of The EVERY™ Company (formerly Clara Foods Co.), has joined Michroma’s Board…

Evo Foods has unveiled what it claims is the world’s first heat stable vegan boiled egg to consumers in Mumbai.

Better Dairy is using precision fermentation to produce cheeses that are molecularly identical to traditional dairy.

Libre Foods has closed a seed funding round to support the launch of its flagship product, fungi-based bacon.

Formo and Brain Biotech are joining forces to make animal-free milk a reality as soon as possible, with scaled production appearing imminent.

Following the success of its first vegan venture capital fund in 2018, Beyond Impact has launched a second fund to invest in early-stage companies producing

From precision fermentation to plant-based diversification and cultivated meat regulatory approval, the Good Food Institute (GFI) shares its predicted trends across the alternative protein landscape.

A research team in Finland has developed a fungi-based egg white alternative to address environmental impacts of chicken farming.

Budweiser’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, is working to develop alternative protein sources using the grains leftover from the beer-making process.

The company launched its first animal-free egg protein in November, called EVERY ClearEgg, making its retail debut via a partnership with cold-pressed juice brand Pressed.

Illinois based Ingredion is one of the most important players in the plant-based ingredients industry, …

A series of “future food” dinners in San Francisco showed off high-tech vegan…

Plant-based foods and alternative protein products are often associated with a reduced carbon footprint. This week, the government of Denmark hopped on board with this ideology: the government will…

The global vegan egg substitutes market is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 5% until 2026, when it will be worth $2.1 billion.

06 Oct 2021 — Clara Foods has rebranded as The Every Company, in a move coinciding with the launch of its “world’s first animal-free, nature-equivalent egg protein” – Every ClearEgg. The San Francisco, US-based food-tech company’s first egg protein offers a highly soluble, “nearly invisible” protein boost for use in food and beverage products. “In launching Every ClearEgg, we have surpassed what is possible with plants and animals, to create a groundbreaking new protein that offers brands culinary functionality and versatility they’ve never seen before,” remarks Arturo Elizondo, CEO and founder of The Every Company.

ClearEgg is a tasteless, odorless egg protein meant to boost the nutritional content of other food and beverage items.

‘Animal-free’ protein startup Clara Foods has rebranded as The EVERY Company and unveiled EVERY ClearEgg, a highly soluble, “nearly invisible” functional egg protein, its second product produced via precision fermentation using genetically engineered microbes to produce animal proteins… without animals.

ClearEgg, an odorless, tasteless and soluble substance that is naturally found in small quantities, is now available to amp up the nutrition in beverages and other products.

Fund joins other investors including Matrix Partners China, New Crop Capital, IronGrey, Rock Investments and more. Shanghai, China – September 29, 2021 –

One of the fastest-growing funds on the ASX at the forefront of investing in sustainable industries has put its weight behind deep tech investment fund and CSIRO spin-off Main Sequence. Australian Ethical Investment Fund (ASX: AEF) has become a strategic investor in Main Sequences second fund, with the partnership set

Three new missions from CSIRO will grow Australia’s agriculture and food sectors targeting $20 billion by 2030.CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall said the three missions together aim to capture a

The Bimbo bear’s on an investment tear, looking beyond its core business of baked goods by investing in companies developing alternative sources of protein.

Persuading others to adopt a completely plant-based diet can be one of the most difficult parts of moving to a sustainable, abuse-free food system. Riverdale Leader with actress Madelaine Petsch Reduction movement Brian Kateman collaborated in a new documentary to investigate the challenges that prevent people from moving to a plant-based diet. Meet Me Half …

Fermentation innovations are spurring the creation of unique proteins.

US-based alternative proteins startup Provenance Bio has created gelatin without the use of animal proteins.

Pioneering investor in vegan, cruelty-free and animal-replacing products and services Beyond Impact (part of the …

Plant-based food tech company Motif FoodWorks has raised a whopping $226 million in Series B funding, according to an announcement sent to The Spoon. The round was co-led by Ontario Teachers’ Pensi…

San Francisco food tech New Culture is gearing up to launch its animal-free mozzarella cheese by late 2023 with partnering pizzerias.

Biotech companies in the animal-free meat, egg, and dairy space may start with single molecules – but they have grand visions.

Two Bay Area companies are making real animal proteins without the animals.

Startup Clara Foods has developed vegan eggs that function like chicken eggs through precision fermentation, which is similar to beer-brewing.

Israeli food tech SavorEat has established a new subsidiary venture called Egg’n’up to focus on developing plant-based egg alternatives.

OsomeFood launches plant-based hard-boiled eggs, in an effort to provide consumers superfoods without compromising on immunity benefits.

As cofounder of Clara Foods and Perfect Day, and now the Executive Director of New Harvest, Isha Datar has been working at the forefront of the cellular agriculture industry for a good part of the …

Animal-free protein producer Clara Foods is to work with ZX Ventures to produce animal-free egg proteins on a larger scale.

Legendairy Foods, the Berlin-based food tech using precision fermentation to develop animal-free dairy, has announced its rebrand to Formo.

This partnership is the first for ZX Ventures’ new BioBrew division, which will help precision fermentation companies make enough of their products to compete with those from traditional agriculture.

Bay area startup Clara Foods has teamed up with ZX Ventures, the innovation arm of the world’s largest brewer AB InBev – which knows a thing or two about large-scale fermentation – to help realize its dream of making ‘animal-free’ egg proteins using microbes instead of chickens on an industrial scale.

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apr 20, 2021–

Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) (“Horizon,” “We,” “Our” or the “Company”), a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries, today provided its portfolio update for the first quarter ended March 31, 2021.

The company, which reverse engineers alcoholic beverages and replicates them from their molecules, will use the funds to increase R&D and distribution, as well as accelerate its B2B platform.

Firms are using fermentation to produce honey and milk and say they can match the taste of the real thing.

Ingredion has added pea protein and starch ingredients to its Nebraska-based pea protein factory to capitalise on the plant-based trend.

The enzyme, which is being distributed by Ingredion, offers the same functionality as the pig-derived variety. It also provides a vegan option with greater price stability and sustainability.

In the past, pepsin has always been obtained from pig stomachs, but now Clara Foods has developed a variety that’s completely animal-free.

Clara Foods – one of a new wave of startups using ‘precision’ microbial fermentation technology – is announcing what it claims is the world’s first commercial launch of ‘animal-free’ pepsin, an enzyme traditionally sourced from pig stomachs that’s used in everything from digestive health supplements to the preparation of plant-based protein hydrolysates.

Brazilian meat major Minerva Foods is eyeing a potential acquisition in Australia in partnership with a Middle Eastern state fund.

Clara Foods is leveraging precision fermentation technology to develop animal-free egg proteins. While first concentrating on the North American market, Chief Technology Officer Ranjan Patnaik says the start-up intends to commercialise in Europe.

Clara Foods, the food tech that makes eggs without chickens, has recently received a US$8 million venture loan facility.

Horizon Technology Finance provided an $8 million venture loan facility to Clara Foods, Inc. (“Clara Foods”), of which $5 million has been initially funded. Clara Foods is a food technology company that is developing animal-free proteins as ingredients for food and beverages, including egg proteins that will match the taste and texture and unique…

In 2020, alternative protein went from niche to mainstream. In 2021 it might become dominate.

Atlast Food Co., a U.S.-based producer of mycelium-based alternative meat products, announced today that it has partnered with a variety of undisclosed businesses that will use the company’s …

Ingredion Incorporated has taken another step in its mission to become a leading supplier of consumer-preferred plant-based proteins by acquiring the remaining stake of Verdient Foods Inc.

The study also found that the cut in animal meat consumption would lead to enormous savings in terms of water and carbon emissions.

Ingredion has signed an agreement to acquire the remaining portion of ownership in Verdient Foods in Vanscoy, Saskatchewan, increasing its investment in the plant-based proteins space from $185m to more than $200m over the last two years.

Brazilian meat major Minerva Foods has initiated its first investment under a newly-launched venture capital fund, picking a plant-based business in the US.

“Lab-grown meat will be a part of everyday life in a surprisingly short time,” predicts alt protein investor and food scientist Ron Shigeta.

In a recent interview with Elysabeth Alfano on the Plantbased Business Hour, thought leader, founder of Wild Earth pet food and investor, Ryan Bethencourt, shares his newest endeavor Sustainable Food Ventures. For the full interview, […]

The authors of a 2019 report from RethinkX predicting that the US dairy and cattle industry would collapse by 2030 as microscopic microbial protein factories disrupt the food system as we know it were dismissed by some as living in a ‘vegan fantasyland.’ But their prediction is not as crazy as it sounds, delegates at the 2020 Alt Protein conference were told.

5 Mins Read 3 1 4SharesThe plant-based and cultivated meat sectors are widely recognised in the alternative protein world, but there’s now a third category emerging – fermentation. Food scientists and companies are now innovating new ways to apply fermentation technology to create novel sustainable proteins as well as to enable the further development of both plant-based and cultivated meat […]

New applications are creating a wave of alternative protein products.

LETTERS: The Covid-19 pandemic is a wake up call to reinforce our country’s food supply system. We should take this opportunity to rethink the way we produce, distribute and eat food for a healthier and sustainable planet.

CEO Rich Kelleman of Bond Pet Foods explains how pooches can get protein without the slaughter.

Below, we introduce 6 startups that are disrupting the way we produce dairy with their game-changing microbial fermentation technologies.

JUST Egg contacts vegconomist to inform us, “We’ve sold the plant-based equivalent of 50 million eggs” – this is not insignificant, and to celebrate we decided to take a look at JUST as well as […]

Plus, GreenBiz 30 Under 30 honorees chat up the value of patience and the rewards of prioritizing racial justice and equity within the food system.

Cell-based cultured protein is an industry still in its infancy. Food makers should look at the emerging field as an opportunity to collaborate and invest in the sector’s development, according to experts speaking at IFF’s Plantful Virtual Festival.

The London and Berlin-based business raised £2.5m from impact food investor Blue Horizon Ventures

Evo Foods’ co-founder Shraddha Bhansali shares with Green Queen how the investment came about and what future plans are in the pipeline.

A new vegan egg product from Oggs, finalist in The Grocer Gold Award Start-up of the Year, is created with aquafaba from organic chickpeas. The brand, which has a UK following for its cakes, launches […]

When California announced a statewide lockdown, Tony Martens and Maurits van de Ven decided to stay put instead of heading home to Amsterdam. So, the co-founders of Plantible bought two trailers and started living at their HQ: a two-acre duckweed farm in San Diego. Plantible uses duckweed, a tiny a…

Michael Kleindl is the co-founder and managing partner of Blue Horizon Ventures, a Swiss-based Venture Capital Fund seeking to disrupt the existing supply chain of food with technology, innovation and best in class entrepreneurs. Plant-based […]

The dairy and egg industries are being disrupted by plant-based foodtech and the implications are huge. Phenomenal advances in food science are happening as consumers realise the benefits of plant-based both to themselves and to […]

The pandemic has prompted Clara Foods, the manufacturer of animal-free egg whites, to narrow its research efforts and could delay partnerships the company forges with CPGs to use its product.

Clara foods has announced that the launch of its chicken-free egg whites is in sight and it expects the product to be available later this year, initially as an ingredient for protein drinks and supplements […]

After five years of work, the California company expects its fermented ingredient to be used in protein drinks and supplements in 2020 before it launches an egg replacer next year.

News that investors have just pumped $80m into a firm growing protein-packed food from microbes with a fraction of the environmental footprint of meat or dairy, serves as a reminder that the fundamental challenges facing the food industry – how to feed the world more sustainably – will still be there when the COVID-19 curve flattens.

What came first, the chicken or the egg? Arturo Elizondo is trying to make the age-old conundrum irrelevant. His Clara Foods has developed a fermentation technology that uses yeast to convert sugar directly into egg proteins—the same way brewers make beer. The animal-free proteins are a cheaper and greener replacement for the vast quantities of […]

Giddy teams of brilliant scientists promising the next generation of this or sustainable that often fail to deliver, but this company aims to use Internet-connected lab equipment to reduce overhead and speed up bio-manufacturing for businesses around the world.

Can 60% of current meat consumption be replaced by novel vegan meat replacements and cultured meat in the next 20 years? That is what AT Kearney has recently projected, but the analysis does not outline a path for achieving the forecast. Is reaching the target possible?

Which trends will impact the food and nutrition industry in 2020?

We sat down with the Forbes 30 Under 30 listed entrepreneur and founder of Clara Foods, the startup making eggs without a single chicken.

The recent poll from Charleston|Orwig, Maeve Webster of Menu Matters and Confidential Consumer also found about a fifth of millennials think this kind of product is the future.

Today, the 2020 Forbes Under 30 lists were released, leaving most of us wondering where we went wrong? Here are some names that you might know.

Clara Foods is working to make egg proteins using a yeast fermentation process that bypasses the chicken entirely. The company has raised over $45 million so far from major food companies and investors, and will release its first product in 2020.

Food manufacturers and consumers alike are scrambling to enter the next frontier in cruelty-free substitutes: Eggs.

Speaking at last week’s SingularityU South Africa Summit, Elizondo highlights the strides his company is making in creating animal-free protein.

With Halloween coming up, there’s a chance you might find yourself snacking on some brightly-colored gummy candies (my personal weakness) over the next few weeks. Though the candies may be de…

There are companies going well beyond plant-based burgers or creamy milks made from nuts.

From food to beauty to hotels, companies across industries are adding plant-based products and services to cater to sustainability-focused consumers.

RethinkX said as technology to produce these products in a lab gets better and less expensive, demand for items from cows will plunge 70% by 2030.

“By 2030, the US dairy and cattle industry will have collapsed,” as ‘precision fermentation’ – producing animal proteins more efficiently via microbes – disrupts food production as we know it, predicts think tank RethinkX, which critics argue is living in “a vegan fantasyland.”

San Francisco based New Culture announced that it raised $3.5 million in a seed round of funding to disrupt the dairy industry.

New Culture, a San Fran start-up pioneering animal-free dairy cheese, has raised $3.5 million in seed round funding to help disrupt the dairy cheese sector.

The first three proteins from Motif FoodWorks’ fermentation-based food ingredient platform will be ready for launch in early 2021, says the company, one of a new breed of synthetic biology companies using microbes as microscopic factories capable of producing animal proteins… without animals.

Consumers are clamoring for cleaner, healthier, and sustainable meat alternatives

Disruption is one of those words in the tech world lexicon that is used as both a noun and verb. It’s also perhaps one of the most overused. It should be used to denote a true breakthrough in a technology or process that could upend an entire industry. A handheld ultrasound device for your smartphone is one example of a disruptive technology. 3D bioprinting organs is another tech that could change the world. So it probably seems a bit odd to be talking about disruption and the dairy industry, but Elsie the Cow is in big trouble these days. Since

Some startups are making synthetic versions of animal proteins for use in foods from smoothies to baked goods. The goal: to reshape the food supply without the environmental footprint of livestock.

“Biotechnology is the next big solution for planetary and human health.” Food biotech Insights and examples from Jun Axup, Scientific Director and Partner at IndieBio.

11 Jun 2019 — Ingredion is seeking to accelerate the production of plant-based protein growth globally with a string of strategic investments, totaling US$140 million. The investments aims to enable total turnkey solutions for consumers to grow in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, as the plant-based protein trend is still at its early onset in this part of the globe, according to the company.

05 Jun 2019 — Ingredion is looking into Clara Foods’ innovative pipeline that encompasses solutions that address several platforms beyond chicken-less egg proteins. Clean label preservatives, clean proteins, nutritionals for improved digestibility, as well as albumin replacement are all platforms being proposed to customers, with a 2020 market rollout for initial products being considered. This is according to Joseph Light, VP, Global Development & Ingredient Technology at Ingredion, which led a Series B funding round in the San Francisco-based biotech start-up in April 2019.

The animal-free protein revolution is just getting started.

Egg alternatives are rising in popularity. Food brands like Clara Foods and JUST are in a billion-dollar race to create the perfect vegan egg.

Ingredion Incorporated, a leading global provider of ingredient solutions, is inviting food and beverage manufacturers to IFT Booth 2035 to learn more about Clara Foods’ protein portfolio. Clara’s proteins have the superior taste and functionality of animal proteins but with the sustainability and vegan-friendly profile of plant proteins.

Have you checked what’s in your hamburger recently? It might be plant-based, made with “bloody” heme, or even grown in a bioreactor. (Just kidding — that last one isn’t here…

Mexican baking giant Grupo Bimbo has taken part in an investment round for a California-based protein business through an affiliate.

For those who love eggs in all of their permutations, there’s no real wrong way to go. From fried eggs to scotch eggs, from poached eggs to deviled eggs, whether they’re on a sandwich or a key ingredient, eggs are beautifully versatile. That is, unless you’re eating vegan, in which case you’re constantly reminded of just how many recipes require eggs.

Clara Foods, a South San Francisco, CA-based market leader in engineering, manufacturing and formulating animal-free, animal proteins as ingredients for the global food and beverage industry closed its Series B financing

South San Francisco food-tech company Clara Foods will use new financing to introduce an egg white substitute made through yeast-based fermentation by 2020.

Have your cake and eat it, too. One of the world’s most powerful ingredients just got a whole lot greener and cleaner.

World changing ideas are a dime a dozen, so what makes on startup more likely to succeed than another? The founder. Here are some traits that can help making a great idea exceptional.

Yesterday on National Ag Day, AgGrad announced winners of the first ever AgGrad 30 Under 30 Awards, a program created to celebrate the young professionals shaping the future of agriculture.

Fourteen judges selected winners from peer and self nominations based on contributions in their career, com

Tech firm Geltor is aiming to crack the code for lab-grown gelatin and create a real alternative to the traditional pork-based product

Clara Foods is creating the world’s first animal-free egg white. Arturo Elizondo, Clara Foods’ CEO, gave this illuminating overview of how they are making an animal-free egg white, how they map out functionality, and what Clara Whites are all about at ABLC Global 2018 in San Francisco – and it’s ready for you now at…

Clara Foods is bringing the world’s first animal free eggs to the market. San Francisco-based food technology startup raised $1.75 million in investments to fund its groundbreaking product. The animal free eggs are made by brewing yeast and sugar to reproduce proteins without the use of chickens. The product is

The Clean Meat Conference is the first event focused around the burgeoning technology solution for the environmental burden of livestock agriculture: growing animal meat from cells.

Sales of vegan and plant-based egg products are seeing an uptick as the chicken egg industry battles an outbreak of Avian flu.

Other startups in the U.S. and countries like Japan and Israel have also tapped into the lab-cultured protein sphere. These companies have primarily been focusing on lab-cultured meat production, but there is one that is tackling the egg industry — Clara Foods. Based out of San Francisco, Clara Foods is creating the world’s first lab-cultured egg white, and they plan to debut their groundbreaking product by 2019!

Why will cellular agriculture succeed? “Because people don’t want to stop eating meat, they just have an issue with the process beforehand,” says the founder and president of the Cellular Agriculture Society (CAS).

Startups are using science to bring us food and drink that were once only produced by animals, and author Paul Shapiro explains how it will change the industry.

Bay Area companies aim to steer the industry in a new direction with sustainable animal agriculture and the next generation of bioengineered “clean meat,” while activists and health-conscious consumers take issue with the status quo in the meat industry. Marin county farms are reviving wholesome agriculture practices from the past to reconnect consumers’ plates with local farms. Simultaneously,…

Startup companies are racing to find alternatives to livestock and what we eat, according to The Guardian Monday. Startups want to change the food industry by providing alternatives to meat and dairy

Lab-grown meat and food-tech companies in the US are showing that applying science to what we eat can save the world and make money

On the face of it, the terms ‘vegan’ and ‘plant-based’ might appear to be interchangeable (they both involve avoiding animal products), but consumers do not view them in the same way, reveals new research from food development specialist Mattson.

Why Fermentation Is the Future of Food Tech

Ever feel guilty about eating animals but can’t give up bacon? Synthetic biology startups are brewing plant-based foods that imitate the real thing.

Startup NotCo used machine learning to create a plant-based mayo, and that’s just the start

A common theme in science fiction movies is a dystopian future where food is scarce. If you watched the recent Harrison Ford movie, Blade Runner 2049, you’d have noticed that in the near future humans will have to turn to eating grubs for their source of protein.

A longtime vegan is betting big on food tech from Impossible Foods, Hampton Creek and Memphis Meats to save animals — and human health.