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כנס ביטחון במזון - חיים גבריאלי יור קבוצת תנובה

Tnuva Chairman: "The war highlighted Israel's national security Achilles heel, but it has also underscored the critical importance of food security"

31.07.24|Tomer Hadar

Haim Gavrieli, speaking at the Food Security Conference, stressed that the state must ensure permanent supply chains and local production.

Rocketed out but rising: Foodtech startup Blue Tree raises $2.26M despite Hezbollah attacks

30.07.24|CTech

Despite having to relocate from its facilities in Kiryat Shmona due to the war in the north of Israel, Blue Tree attracted fresh funding, including from French giant Sucden.

Hezbollah wreaks havoc on northern Israel’s foodtech dream

22.07.24|Meir Orbach

Dozens of startups in the fields of food and agriculture that operated in Kiryat Shmona and its surroundings migrated south when the fighting began. Despite the jump in costs and only partial government support, entrepreneurs remain hopeful and continue to promote their activities. However, without a change in policy, it is difficult to see how the vision of blossoming the north through high-tech will be realized even after the war ends.

Cultivated meat startup Aleph Farms lays off 30% of staff

05.06.24|Shani Ashkenazi

The difficulty in securing significant investment over the past year, coupled with a marked decrease in investor interest in alternative protein and cultivated meat, led to the layoffs

Sodexo's innovation SVP highlights the need for value-driven solutions

26.05.24|James Spiro

Neta Meir outlined some of the ways Israeli companies can work with global food and FM companies.

Oshi dives into “the new blue ocean of opportunity” with its plant-based salmon

22.05.24|James Spiro

Co-founder and CEO, Ofek Ron, spoke to CTech about its alternative salmon offering - marking a fishy difference from traditional foodtech companies

Qortein's Quest: Turning jellyfish into a global food solution

05.05.24|CTech

The company has raised a total of $400,000 to create multiple functional applications based on jellyfish biomass

Day 8 taps into “the holy grail of proteins” to enhance agriculture efficiency

09.04.24|CTech

The company has raised a total of $750,000 for its taste-neutral plant-based proteins

Who will ensure food security?

05.04.24|Haim Gavrieli

The Iron Swords War sparked discussions on Israel's food security strategy, highlighting vulnerabilities in production and supply chains, prompting industry responses and civil society support. Israel is now transitioning towards a more proactive approach, integrating food security efforts and rebranding the Ministry of Agriculture to address this critical issue with urgency

Cultivated meat startup Aleph Farms gets historic approval to sell lab-grown steaks in Israel

17.01.24|Shani Ashkenazi

The Israeli startup, which has raised $140 million to date, collects sample cells from a living animal and then grows more in a cultivator that mimics conditions in the animal's body

Foodtech startup Imagindairy receives FDA approval for animal-free milk proteins

04.01.24|Meir Orbach

Imagindairy creates animal-free milk proteins from microorganisms via proprietary precision-fermentation technology that allows the production of a broad spectrum of dairy analogs, from raw milk to cheese, without involving animals

Wanda Fish raises $7 million in Seed funding to develop bluefin tuna outside of the ocean

10.10.23|CTech

The foodtech startup has developed technology to form a 3D filet structure using bluefin tuna cells, differentiated into both muscle and fat tissues

Israeli foodtech leading the way in alternative protein innovation

02.10.23|Maya Nahum Shachal

Ahead of the final of Calcalist and Tnuva Ventures' 2023 FoodTech competition, we discussed industry trends with Anat Gross-Shon, CEO of the dairy division at Tnuva

שי כהן מנהל החדשנות וקרן ההשקעות של הקבוצה ו פנינה סברדלוב מנהלת המו"פ של קבוצת תנובה

"Global food security depends on the development of alternative proteins"

12.09.23|Maya Nahum Shahal

FoodTech 2023, a competition sponsored by Calcalist and Tnuva Ventures, seeks game-changing developments for the food industry

The Winest is here to help us stop whining about wine

04.09.23|CTech

The company has raised a total of $800,000 to become a digital sommelier for wine lovers

Brevel completes $18.5 million Seed round to develop alternative protein from microalgae

25.07.23|Meir Orbach

The Israeli startup’s technology combines sugar-based fermentation of microalgae with high light concentrations at industrial scales to produce a protein that will be incorporated by food manufacturers into plant-based products

YDLabs selected by Innovation Authority to establish microorganism fermentation labs for Israeli foodtech industry

18.06.23|CTech

The Israel Innovation Authority will invest up to $14 million in infrastructure to serve all foodtech companies using fermentation for research, development, and production of their products

“We are constantly looking for growing foodtech companies and to bring their potential to Israel and the world"

16.03.23|CTech

Shay Cohen, Managing Director at Tnuva's corporate venture capital fund Tnuva Ventures, and Pnina Sverdlov, Tnuva’s Chief R&D Officer, spoke with Calcalist ahead of this week’s Future Food-Tech conference in San Francisco, which will deal with the challenges facing the foodtech world in the areas of investments, R&D and commercialization

Tnuva building industrial cultured meat manufacturing facility

02.03.23|Shani Ashkenazi

Israeli company Plurinuva, which is rebranding under the name Ever After Foods and is owned by Tnuva and Pluristem, is building the plant that is meant to lead to lower production prices, one of the main barriers currently holding back the industry

Israeli foodtech startups rank second in the world in terms of investments

19.02.23|CTech

While the slowdown in the markets hurt Israeli tech and led to a decrease of approximately 42% in investments between 2021 and 2022, investments in foodtech companies decreased by only 18%