Seven impact-driven startups join the ProVeg Incubator
Summary
Seven pioneering, impact-driven startups, hailing from Canada to Colombia to Germany to Israel to India, have joined the ProVeg Incubator for the latest edition of its world-renowned alt-protein accelerator programme.This new cohort has a strong focus on unique ingredients and revolutionary technologies, with the companies developing numerous innovative products, including mushroom-based ingredients grown on vegetable waste, cultured fat, microalgae-based seafood, and a plant-based alternative to the protein found in egg whites.The eighth round of the ProVeg Incubator accelerator programme kicked off on Monday, 4 April, and will run online for 12 weeks. Based in Berlin, theProVeg Incubator is the worlds first alt-protein accelerator, exclusively supporting companies that are transforming the global food system. OceanTastes Inc. (USA) aims to produce cultured seafood using proprietary technologies in cell-line isolation, cost-effective serum-free media, and plant-based scaffolding. Fabumin (Israel) is developing a plant-based substitute for albumin, the protein in egg white, which is a major raw material in the global food industry.Albrecht Wolfmeyer, Head of the ProVeg Incubator, said: Our latest cohort of startups leverages cutting-edge ingredients like microalgae and fungi and creates novel ingredients like heme and cow-free dairy proteins for the alt-protein industry. More information can be found at None The ProVeg Incubator works with investors and strategic partners including Unovis, VegInvest, Veg Capital, Good Seed Ventures, Zintinus, Vegconomist, Beyond Advisers, NX-Food, and Humane Society India.