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Melt&Marble teams up with Valio to create ‘next-gen’ food products
Melt&Marble teams up with Valio to create ‘next-gen’ food products

Finnish dairy company Valio has partnered with Swedish precision fermentation start-up Melt&Marble, to create ‘next-generation’ food...

Partnerships
UK alt-protein centres sign MoU to drive innovation and address scale-up challenges
UK alt-protein centres sign MoU to drive innovation and address scale-up challenges

Four UK alt-protein centres have come together under an MoU, aiming to drive innovation and tackle common challenges for the sector.

Partnerships
Start-up spotlight: Maia Farms
Start-up spotlight: Maia Farms

This month, we put the spotlight on Maia Farms, a Canadian start-up that produces high-protein food ingredients using mushroom mycelium.

Exclusives
Hochland partners with Those Vegan Cowboys to test cow-free casein in cheese development
Hochland partners with Those Vegan Cowboys to test cow-free casein in cheese development

Dairy giant Hochland has teamed up with Those Vegan Cowboys, to test the start-up’s cow-free casein in semi-hard and hard cheeses.

Plant-based dairy
Heura Foods inaugurates new innovation lab, plans to file six new patents
Heura Foods inaugurates new innovation lab, plans to file six new patents

Heura Foods has inaugurated a new innovation laboratory in Barcelona, and plans to file six new technology patents this year.

Food
Edible Garden reveals plans to acquire Narayan Group
Edible Garden reveals plans to acquire Narayan Group

Edible Garden has signed a non-binding letter of intent to acquire Narayan Group, a producer of organic coconut and superfood products.

Mergers & Acquisitions
Formo receives €35m in funding from EIB to expand animal-free cheese production
Formo receives €35m in funding from EIB to expand animal-free cheese production

German food-tech start-up Formo has received a €35m loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB).

Funding & investments
Standing Ovation and Ajinomoto forge partnership to advance alt-protein production
Standing Ovation and Ajinomoto forge partnership to advance alt-protein production

Standing Ovation, a French biotech company, has announced a partnership with Ajinomoto Foods Europe to advance alt-protein production.

Technology
Tate & Lyle and BioHarvest partner to develop plant-based molecules for sweeteners
Tate & Lyle and BioHarvest partner to develop plant-based molecules for sweeteners

Tate & Lyle and BioHarvest Sciences have joined forces to develop plant-based molecules for next-generation botanical sweeteners.

Partnerships
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