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STARFIELD: Mainstreaming Plant-Based Foods Through Integrated Innovation
The global food system faces a pressing need for sustainable, healthy, and delicious alternatives that can nourish a growing population without compromising planetary health. Stepping up to meet this challenge is STARFIELD, China's leading plant-based food technology company. Since its founding in 2019, STARFIELD has established a vertically integrated [...]
Forward Fooding at Gulfood 2026: Curating the Startup and Investor Program and the Latest FoodTech 500 Reveal
Forward Fooding proudly announces the programming of The NXT Stage at Gulfood 2026: the world's largest food and beverage sourcing event. Over five days (January 26-30), we will be at the epicenter of the world's most ambitious gathering of food changemakers, shaping the future of the industry. Join us as [...]
Fresh Inset Revolutionizes Produce Freshness with Vidre+™ Active Packaging
The global food system faces a monumental challenge: reducing the staggering amount of food wasted each year. With nearly one-third of all food produced globally lost, the need for innovative solutions is more urgent than ever. Enter Fresh Inset, a Polish FoodTech company that has innovated its patented Vidre+™ technology [...]
Tasting Tomorrow: Future Food Sampling at the Dubai Future Forum 2025
Max Leveau (Founding Partner & COO, Forward Fooding) The world's largest gathering of futurists came to Dubai this year, confronting big questions about AI, space exploration, and human progress. But one fundamental challenge also took center stage: how will we feed humanity's future? At the Dubai Future Forum 2025, held [...]
The FoodTech 500 Alumni News Round-up (December 2025 Edition)
Check out what some of the FoodTech 500 Alumni have been up to lately: GREEN-ON & YEAP | Win Nexture's Generate Program 2025, securing 12-18 month partnership programs with access to cutting-edge facilities and industrial scale-up applications. Read more JUICY MARBLES | Enters the Italian market through an exclusive partnership [...]
The Invisible Revolution: How PolyNatural’s Shel-Life® Natural Coatings Are Quietly Dismantling Big Agriculture’s Chemical Dependency
This article is part of “FoodTech Without Borders,” a series of case studies from Forward Fooding data analyst Ali Sulun that examines AgriFoodTech startups across East Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America—three regions grappling with food insecurity, rapid urbanization, and climate volatility. Through in-depth case studies, the series explores how [...]
