Plant-based seafood company Good Catch closed a series A funding round of $8.7 million. Founded by New Crop Capital, conscious agency BeyondBrands, and The Good Food Institute, Good Catch will bring fish-free tuna and crab-free cakes to market by December 2018.
Mosa Meat Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Mark Post (who also happens to be a GFI advisor since our founding and co-host of our Good Food Conference) spoke with us about the exponential potential of and the limits on clean meat production.
Clean meat startups, traditional meat producers, investors, NGOs, and innovative food professionals gathered in Tel Aviv to discuss advancing clean meat product development in the Israeli innovation ecosystem.
We caught up with GFI Senior Marketing Manager Caroline Bushnell for a crash course on how to sell plant-based products—and eventually clean meat—to the mainstream consumer.
Lav Varshney spearheaded IBM's Chef Watson initiative to create new recipes using artificial intelligence. He'll be discussing cross-disciplinary R&D and plant-based meat at our Good Food Conference in September.
One of Europe's largest poultry producers, the PHW Group, is appointing a board member for alternative proteins. The industry leader is giving "special emphasis to the field of alternative sources of protein both in-house and externally."
GFI Director of Innovation Brad Barbera is inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs in the plant-based and clean meat sectors. Brad leads the Innovation Team, GFI's brain trust of analysts and veteran entrepreneurs, in supporting good food companies with market intelligence, business plan reviews, branding, recruiting, and more.
