The article focuses on the general Israeli food tech scene, but also highlights our friends at Hargol FoodTech. They farm edible grasshoppers, and have won numerous startup competitions including a recent $360,000 prize from WeWork.
Click here to listen to our interview with Hargol FoodTech CEO Dror Tamir.
…the solutions they’re serving are turning heads among investors and companies from overseas. One, called Inno-Bev, has created a plant-based drink that keeps El-Al pilots awake during long flights. Another one, SuperMeat, develops lab-made chicken meat, has raised $3 million, and it’s only in its seed phase of funding. To respond to the needs of this emerging community of innovators, in 2015 the Strauss Group opened in the city of Ashdod The Kitchen, an incubator for food-tech start-ups. Many food-tech companies are busy researching new proteins. The demand for alternative protein sources has skyrocketed, and experts have been looking for them virtually everywhere.
