Start-up spotlight
Start-up spotlight: Koppie
This time, we speak to Daan Raemdonck, CEO and co-founder of Koppie, a company making coffee alternatives from fermented pulses.
Start-up of the month: Mottainai Food Tech
We speak to Daryl Pek, co-founder of Mottainai Food Tech, parent company of Jiro Meat, about the company's recent expansion and its mission to valorise food waste.
Start-up spotlight: Sly Foods
In our final 'Start-up spotlight' feature for 2025, we speak to Sly Foods: a producer of freeze-dried plant-based meals designed to fuel adventurous, outdoors-loving consumers in the most demanding of conditions.
Start-up spotlight: Lasso
This month, our start-up spotlight is on Lasso, the newly launched broader food-tech company from the team behind plant-based meat brand Tender Food. Mike Messersmith, Lasso's CEO, tells us more about the company's journey so far.
Start-up spotlight: Summ Ingredients
This month, our start-up spotlight is on Danish food-tech innovator Summ Ingredients, a producer of multifunctional fermented protein ingredients.
Start-up spotlight: Leaft Foods
This month, the spotlight is on Leaft Foods: a New Zealand-based food-tech innovator developing functional ingredients and consumer products made from green leaf protein.
Start-up spotlight: Ibis Rice
This month, we speak to Ibis Rice – a Cambodia-based rice company on a mission to reduce deforestation and protect endangered species while providing organic rice products to UK supermarkets.
Start-up spotlight: High Time Foods
In this instalment of Start-up spotlight, we speak to High Time Foods – an India-based developer of shelf-stable plant-based protein mixes for food manufacturers and foodservice providers.
Start-up spotlight: Urban Farm-It
This time we speak to Elliot Webb, founder of Urban Farm-It, a business offering a range of mushroom cultivation supplies.
Start-up spotlight: Surreal
In this instalment of Start-up spotlight, we speak to Jac Chetland, co-founder of plant-based, high-protein and zero-sugar cereal brand Surreal.
Start-up spotlight: Actual Veggies
This month, we speak to Actual Veggies: a US food brand that makes clean label veggie burgers and fries that 'celebrate vegetables instead of trying to mask them'.
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