Astanor News

What's new with Astanor:

• Eric Archambeau sat down with AgFunder News for a Q&A episode of the Future Food podcast reflecting on agrifoodtech investing.
• Eric Archambeau shared his views on the transition of the food system for an interview with L'Usine Nouvelle .
• Hendrik Van Asbroeck dived into Astanor's position in a shrinking venture capital market. "The venture capital market is shrinking, but our fund is more attractive than ever".
• Astanor cooked and distributed 170 meals for people in need in Brussels with Operation Thermos Operatie A.S.B.L. . On the menu, French onion soup, plant based hachis parmentier, chocolate mousse, bread, water and coffee. Many thanks to Operation Thermos for allowing us to be part of this great project.

What's new with our portfolio companies:

• Heali was featured in an article of Business Insider to explain how they use "food as medicine" et AI to help users treat their health conditions.
• MeliBio entered the D2C segment with its Mellody plant-based honey, which is available for pre-order.
• MicroHarvest announced the launch of its new?pilot plant, accelerating the path to commercialization of its single-cell protein ingredients.
• Modern Meadow 's CEO, Catherine Roggero-Lovisi was interviewed by Authority Magazine to discuss how the company will make a positive impact on the environment.
• Notpla 's manufacturing director,?Sebastien Bregeaud, sat down with Gulfood Manufacturing to explain how to reshape the industry with nature-derived alternatives to conventional packaging.?
• ProducePay 's CEO, Pat McCullough , shared his insights on revolutionizing the produce industry in an article of Agriculture Dive.
• Standing Ovation 's co-founder and managing director, Romain Chayot , sat down and talked about planet-friendly dairy with Andrew D Ive of Big Idea Ventures on his podcast, #TheBigIdeaPodcast: Food.
• Vivent SA collaborated with VanSchie and Ledgnd to optimize LED settings,?energy saving and climate to improve product quality.
• Wicked Kitchen was featured in an article of vegconomist - the vegan business magazine on the launch its lineup of frozen entrees at nationwide Target stores in the US.
• ?nsect was in the spotlight of The Washington Post's recent feature on the global race for the world's largest insect farm.

Catch us at upcoming events:

• 22/11: Dutch Agrifoood Accelerators United, Wageningen, Netherlands, Arnout Dijkhuizen
• 23/11: Innovate convention, Osnabrück, Germany, Lena Brüggen