Never miss a beat 🎶 with FoodHack's weekly recap:
📈 What’s up? Oatly exceeded its revenue expectations in Q1 2024, with an increase of 1.8% year-on-year.
📉 The HEINEKEN Company has felled a 300-acre orchard full of trees planted in 1997, blaming slowing demand for cider.
🏆 Meet the 47 Semi-Finalists of the FoodTech World Cup in collaboration with Givaudan - Taste & Wellbeing
🥛 A new study from the FDA has found traces of the bird flu virus in one in five samples of retail milk.
🎈Interesting: Frenchman Vincent Farret d'Astiès is building a balloon to take people to “near space”, high enough to be able to observe the Earth’s curve, and will serve Michelin-starred in-flight food to those lucky enough to afford the €170,000 ticket.
☕️ Specialty coffee company Wakuli secured €5.2 million Series A funding.
🔬 Caladan Bio, based in the US, raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by Twelve Below.
🇳🇬 Nigerian startup Chowdeck, which is backed by Y Combinator, raised $2.5 million seed funding to scale its food delivery service.
🍄 Canada’s Maia Farms secured CAD2.3 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Joyful Ventures, PIC Group, and Koan Capital Corp.
🧬 Shiru launched an ‘Amazon for proteins’, the “world’s first” AI-powered protein discovery platform, designed to allow companies to find and buy sustainable proteins for product development.
🐖 German startup MyriaMeat announced that it has successfully developed a 100% cultivated pork fillet, without scaffolds for support or plant proteins for shape.
🦐 A new study from Enifer reveals that shrimp fed with its PEKILO®Aqua mycoprotein lived longer and healthier, in spite of their natural susceptibility to diseases.
🍄 Swiss startup Nectariss is making natural truffle flavour concentrates via fermentation.
🇩🇪 Berlin-based omami GmbH debuted a chickpea-based tofu made with just three ingredients: chickpeas, water and a natural coagulant.
🧀 Why vegan cheesemaker Climax Foods was abruptly disqualified from the Good Food Awards on the eve of the awards ceremony.
🏩 Hilton has rolled out zero-waste menus at four of its hotels in the UK.
🛒 Walmart launched a new private label line, Bettergoods, of approximately 300 products in categories such as frozen food, dairy, snacks, beverages, pasta, soups, coffee and chocolate, with a focus on creating culinary experiences, plant based and “made without”.
➕ Good reads from Maya Benami, Steve Molino, ProVeg Incubator, Nicola Spalding, David Burrows
💡 HackTrends writeup on blockchain for biodiversity and food supply chains incl. Connecting Food, ripe.io, SeafoodChain
🎤 HackSummit speaker Founders incl Jasmin Hume, Gregor Tegl, James Petrie, David Brandes, Maricel Saenz, Stéphane Chen, Jan Wilmking
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