Alicia Grayeb You hear conversations starting with: “Once everything goes back to normal… “, “I cannot wait to retake my normal life”, and “When are we going back to normal?”. The truth is, what we know as normal or “business as usual” should not be something we aspire to go back to. We need to

By David Postolski from Gearhart Law As sophisticated science makes it possible to produce new products that taste even better than the foods we’ve come to love, alternative protein startups are making their impact around the world.  And of course, with innovation comes intellectual property protection: the only solution in the U.S. and abroad if

By Mia Medicus, Program Manager at Big Idea Ventures We’ve all felt the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on our lives and our economy. While no one can say with certainty how long this “new normal” will last, we can all recognize that adjustments are needed to get us through the near term. The need for

We have exciting news! The past month marks the end of our first cohort in both Singapore and New York. The cohort was made up of 12 different plant-based and cell-based companies across the globe within a variety of sectors including dairy, alternative meat, snacks, beverages, and cultivated meat. Over the course of the program,

By Kevin Eve and Jacob Conway, Co-Founders of Uproot   Plant milk has been around since the middle ages but only became common in the refrigerators of Americans in the late 1990’s. The plant milk movement gained steam after the introduction of oat milk to the US in 2016. You might have heard of this phenomenon