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The FoodTech 500 Alumni News Round-up (September Edition)
Check out what some of the FoodTech 500 Alumni have been up to lately: STEAKHOLDER FOODS | Brings its 3D-printed whole-cut meat and seafood to US supermarket shelves, under the Perfecta brand. Retailers across the Northeastern US now stock five of the company's products through a partnership with KeHE Distributors. [...]
Atmonia Scales Distributed Ammonia to Secure Local Fertilizer Supply
The global fertilizer supply chain is incredibly fragile. For over a century, ammonia production has relied on massive, centralized facilities that consume vast amounts of fossil fuels. This leaves rural communities and farmers at the mercy of the global commodity markets, volatile prices, and massive carbon footprints. Stepping up to [...]
Color Without Compromise: Why the Food Industry’s Dye Problem Is Bigger Than You Think
This is Edition 05 of the Forward Fooding Novel Ingredients Series, where we go deep on the ingredients we think will define the next decade of food. If you missed them, Edition 01 covered Rubisco, Edition 02 covered Sugars & Sweeteners, Edition 03 covered Novel Fats & Oils, and Edition [...]
AKA Foods Scales R&D Intelligence with Private AI Architecture
Failed reformulations are the most expensive thing in food. Nobody can see them. They leave no audit trail, no postmortem, and no line item. R&D infrastructure stays structurally underfunded because the cost of being slow or wrong gets buried in next quarter's launch slate. It is why challenger brands keep [...]
Lactoferrin: The Bioactive Going Human-Identical
Welcome to the Forward Fooding Novel Ingredients Series, a new editorial strand where we go deep on the ingredients we think will define the next decade of food. Not hype, not speculation. Just the science, the companies, the data, and the timing. Edition 4: Lactoferrin. Why human-identical milk components are [...]
What’s New in the 2026 FoodTech 500 – Applications Now Open!
The FoodTech 500 Global Ranking by Forward Fooding The FoodTech 500 is back for 2026. This eighth edition arrives at a turning point for AgriFoodTech: capital is more selective, revenue is the new baseline, and the companies leading the sector are the ones proving their impact in the field, not [...]
