The founders of RXBar and Orgain have teamed up with the well-known ‘VitaminWater lawyer’ to launch Humble Growth, a founder-led growth equity investment firm focused on scaling up disruptive brands that empower consumers to lead healthier lives.
CoLab Tech is is designed to build a venture pipeline of early-stage snack brands focused on ideas that address tech-driven processes, sustainability and other priority areas for the Oreo maker.
BeyondSKU CPG Accelerator has announced the five startups for its upcoming Fall ’23 track, including woman-owned Dam Good English Muffins that’s committed to revolutionising the English muffin market and Pinsa Love, which provides pizzeria-quality pizza...
Applications are now open for EIT Food’s latest Proof of Concept Call, which aims to foster a positive impact on society through public engagement initiatives that enhance consumer trust, improve health outcomes and reduce the environmental impacts of...
For the first time in its history, the snacking giant’s Greenhouse Accelerator Programme is focused on supporting emerging Hispanic businesses that have the potential to bring forth transformative solutions to improve consumer experience, sustainability...
The Scottish Government has outlined a new approach to turn research into successful products, encourage more businesses to innovate and improve productivity.
BeyondSKU - a New York-based accelerator for consumer-packaged goods (CPGs) - has issued a callout for F&B startups to apply for the next programme in in September.
The Lay’s, Doritos and Cheetos maker has issued a shout out to Hispanic-owned startups with disruptive ideas to join the Juntos Crecemos Edition of its successful Greenhouse Accelerator Programme.
EIT Food has launched its 2023 Entrepreneurship Programmes, designed to offer support to entrepreneurs to scale up their agrifood startups working to solve global food system challenges and deliver new innovations worldwide.
Kind Snacks founder Daniel Lubetzky and the team that helped to build his brand into a multi-billion dollar realisation have formed Camino Partners, an investment platform committed to help build the next generation of entrepreneurs.
The Guild of Fine Food has launched a new bursary that will see 50 micro F&B producers – including the world’s most innovative bakery and snack startups – punt their products to an expert panel of judges for Great Taste 2023 for free.
In part two of our gallery of highlights from FoodNavigator-USA's recent trip to Israel, we profile startups exploring everything from upcycled yeast proteins and carob to antimicrobial proteins. Best viewed on a laptop!
Torr FoodTech - an Israeli startup deploying an intriguing new approach to creating snack bars by deploying pressure and ultrasonic energy instead of sugary binders to ‘weld’ natural ingredients together - has raised $12m in a series A round as it expands...
The 45 startups selected to participate in the FoodBytes! By Rabobank food and ag innovation program in 2022 provide a neat snapshot into trending topics in food and agriculture, from personalized nutrition and upcycling to robotics and farm biologics.
Growing Kent & Medway – a research, innovation and enterprise cluster – has launched a Business Innovation Voucher scheme, providing 75% funding towards projects with leading research organisations.
Europastry's acceleration programme has opened applications for its second edition; enlisting Google Cloud and Eatable Adventures as collaborators to find the startups with potential to disrupt the bakery sector.
To mark National Jefa Day (31 March), PepsiCo has sent a call out to Latina-owned small businesses in the F&B sector to apply for the personalised business building support services under its Juntos Crecemos (Together We Grow) platform.
Women entrepreneurs Julie Koch Fahler and Ida Boesen stepped up as market disruptors with a commodity trading platform for Danish farmers in 2018 – evolving it into one of Europe’s first international accredited certification programmes in soil carbon...
For its first edition, SNX – SNAC International’s all-new education and networking forum for industry stakeholders taking place on 29 March in Phoenix, Arizona – has scheduled an impressive line-up of speakers, opening with a fireside chat with Steven...
Ten US-based, mission-driven brands have won a coveted spot in Mondelēz International’s CoLab engagement programme (now in its second year), each supported with a $20,000 grant, mentorship and hands-on collaboration with industry experts.
CEREAL – Europastry’s main R&D centre – is on the search for its inaugural class of Baking the Future, the bakery sector’s first ever dedicated accelerator programme.
SnackFutures, Mondelēz International's innovation and venture hub, has selected nine well-being snack brands to participate in its inaugural CoLab startup engagement program.
The Good Food Group – a Nottinghamshire-based consultancy firm that connects suppliers with buyers – has launched a unique subscription service to help bakery and snack brands land their products on retailers’ shelves.
Even through 2020 brought large CPG food and beverage companies record sales growth – often in the high double digits – over 2019 as consumers flocked to well-established, trusted brands, IRI research found smaller and extra-small consumer brands and...
Occupyd is an online ‘property’ marketplace that connects businesses and individuals looking to rent an inexpensive workspace with those looking to maximise their income during downtime.
The economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus has pushed many investors into a protective mode that precludes new deals, but raising capital during the pandemic still is possible – it just requires entrepreneurs to more clearly define their value...
PepsiCo Frito-Lay and Stacy’s are again calling for applications for the Rise Project incubation initiative that mentors female-founded startups like Stacy's.
