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KPMG administrators took control of ProForm Foods, the company behind the Meet brand, and the piece recalls earlier raises at v2food and All G Foods as the plant-based sector cools.
All G Foods spins its Love Buds plant-based range into a merger with Fenn Foods' vEEF, forming a new entity; All G pivots to fermented dairy, with both companies' earlier raises recapped.
Plant-based meat maker V2food has closed a large Series B with Asian backers to finish a Wodonga factory and enter Asian markets, following an earlier round the year before.
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Conference report from Melbourne where plant-based and conventional protein advocates debated. Fable Foods' funding round closed, and Michael Fox's earlier shoe startup Shoes of Prey is recalled as collapsed.
Shoes of Prey co-founder Michael Fox's mushroom-based meat alternative startup Fable has raised $1.5 million from Blackbird and Grok Ventures, with chef Heston Blumenthal to serve its products in his restaurants.
Fast food billionaire Jack Cowin has launched v2food, a plant-based meat joint venture with CSIRO's innovation fund Main Sequence Ventures, seeded by his Competitive Foods Australia and led by ex-PepsiCo research director Nick Hazell.
Roundup covering Australian angel investing awards, Peloton's US listing, CEO departures at WeWork, eBay and Juul, a McDonald's Beyond Meat pilot, and open banking permissions for fintechs.
NSW government grants $25,000 to Western Sydney cellular agriculture startup VOW, which grows meat from animal cells including kangaroo, co-founded by Tim Noakesmith and George Peppou.
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A quiz-platform startup announces a new name reflecting its wider engagement tools, and the piece recalls the seed funding that underpinned its recent team and client growth.