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London Welcomes the Next Generation of Global Food Innovation: The 2025 FoodTech 500 Unveiling Event Recap
The global food revolution found its focal point in London on April 1 as the industry gathered to celebrate the visionaries of the 2025 FoodTech 500. Co-hosted by Forward Fooding, alongside ScaleSpace White City, and Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein, the evening brought together the founders and investors who are [...]
The FoodTech 500 Is Coming to London on April 1
On March 31, London becomes the global stage for one of the most anticipated moments in the AgriFoodTech calendar: the Official Unveiling of the 2025 FoodTech 500 ranking. Forward Fooding founders Alessio D'Antino and Max Leveau will take the Future Food Stage at IFE Manufacturing 2026 (#IFEM26) at ExCeL London [...]
Revenue Is the New Baseline. What Comes Next? The FoodTech 500 Ambassadors Weigh In On Foodtech Trends
As we prepare to unveil the final rankings of the 7th edition of the FoodTech 500 on 31 March, we asked our Ambassadors operating across every corner of the global food system to tell us what they’re actually seeing out there. What our Ambassadors help illuminate is what comes next. [...]
The FoodTech 500 Alumni News Round-up (March 2026 Edition)
Check out what some of the FoodTech 500 Alumni have been up to lately: MELT&MARBLE | Achieves self-affirmed GRAS status for MeltyMarble, its precision-fermented designer fat, enabling its commercialization in the U.S. as a sustainable alternative for bakery, confectionery, and meat applications. Read more MILLOW | Appoints Fredrik Öhrn as [...]
Buy, Merge, or Die: AgriFoodTech 2025 M&A Trends
Courtesy of Oxfam The venture capital party is over. Or at least, it’s moved to a much smaller venue. AgriFoodTech funding totaled $12.6 billion in 2025, almost equal to 2023 levels. With roughly 80% less funding than in 2021, the sector has entered a new equilibrium: fewer bets, fewer [...]
The $50 Billion Lesson: What FoodTech’s Great Correction Tells Us About What Comes Next
Over the last decade I’ve been fortunate enough to witness and actively contribute to the development of the global AgriFoodTech ecosystem and to this very date I’m still quite shocked about how underfunded this ecosystem is. When we look at the global capital inflow in Fintech companies over the last [...]
