Start-ups are newly emerging businesses established by entrepreneurs in order to bring a unique product Here, FoodBev takes a look at five qualities that can ultimately make a food or beverage start-up a success Incubators Start-up incubators help turn innovative product ideas into viable businesses by offering Think your innovative start-up company is award-worthy? Enter the ‘best start-up’ category in the World Food Innovation Awards now! 

British start-up A Kind Mind has introduced Lion’s Brain, a new premium hand-cooked crisp range infused

The Series A proceeds will fund US commercial deployment, customer scale-up, and expanded production,

Bactolife, a start-up based in Copenhagen, Denmark, has raised over €30 million in Series B funding to Supported by the investment, the start-up plans to launch its first Binding Protein products under the

have been approved for sale in Australia and New Zealand, and will begin appearing at eateries next month The company followed up with the launch of its cultivated quail foie gras in November 2024 , launching Other start-ups that have received regulatory approval include Upside Foods and Eat Just (under its Good It’s the start of something new: a way of creating meat that’s unlike anything you’ve tasted before."

Here’s a closer look at each of the 14 start-ups in the 2025 cohort: Alpine Bio: This venture is engineering Debut Biotechnology: This start-up focuses on fermenting high-value ingredients to create natural colour NuCicer: This venture is breeding new varieties of chickpeas that contain up to 75% more protein than

launched a new Biotech and Biomanufacturing Hub aimed at supporting innovative companies, particularly start-ups The establishment of the hub is expected to streamline the scale-up process for biotech companies and chemicals, food, detergents, paper & pulp and textiles, biotech holds transformative potential for scaling up He continued: "The EU is set to create an optimal environment to support its scale-up, ensuring this available through the hub can assist companies in overcoming common challenges associated with scaling up

Dairy giant Chobani has announced its acquisition of Daily Harvest, a plant-based start-up that delivers the company’s website, products and team would remain the same under the acquisition, while opening up

A new UK start-up, Messyface, is launching its range of better-for-you spreads this month, aiming to

Inghams Group has made a strategic investment in Australian food technology start-up Just Meat Protein Hayes, Inghams' chief growth officer, will join the JMP board, providing strategic oversight as the start-up

The EU has announced that it will invest €50 million in 2024 to help start-ups scale up the production She added: “It’s also very welcome that this funding aims to develop new ways of scaling up production

Biotech start-up TurtleTree has received a ‘No Questions’ letter from the US Food and Drug Administration