Organisation / Brand: Next Gen

TiNDLE Next Gen Vegan Fried Chicken Burger

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Company News

Next Gen Foods Appoints Jenny Lee & Mathys Boeren as Board Members

Next Gen Foods, producer of TiNDLE plant-based chicken, announces the appointment of two new board members: Jenny Lee, Managing Partner at GGV Capital; and Mathys Boeren, CEO of the Asia Sustainable Foods Platform at Temasek Holdings. At GGV Capital, Lee has been instrumental in guiding early-stage companies to IPO, with 18 unicorns under her belt. She has been recognized by the Forbes Global 100 VC Midas list and was the first woman to break the Top 10 in 2015. Lee has been applauded for being one of the top venture capital investors worldwide, receiving recognition from Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Fast Company and Business Times. Lee comments: “Food tech innovations and developments in alternative protein will help us drive sustainability and mitigate climate change. …

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Interviews

Rachel Konrad: “The Plant-Based Meat Market Will Quickly Morph Into the Entirety of the Meat Market”

As one of Asia’s leading food-tech startups, NextGen Foods has been in the vegan news frequently following its $20 million fundraise as well as the US launch of its flagship TiNDLE plant-based chicken. The Singapore based brand also named former Tesla and Impossible Foods executive Rachel Konrad as its first independent board member. vegconomist took the opportunity to speak with Konrad a few months into her new role and to find out more about why the future of meat is already here. Could you tell us what first drew you to the plant-based industry? I spent more than half of my professional career in the automotive industry, accelerating the industry’s shift to zero-emission transportation. I had an amazing run in the early days of the …

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Andre Menezes, Next Gen

Andre Menezes, ©Next Gen
Interviews

Next Gen: “The Reception From Chefs & Early Consumer Tests in the US Has Been Outstanding”

Singapore’s Next Gen Foods has spoken with vegconomist previously about its plant-based TiNDLE chicken and plans for widespread expansion. Since our last chat, the brand has appointed Rachel Konrad, previously of Impossible Foods and Tesla, so it was time to catch up again and find out more from Andre Menezes about Next Gen’s plans in the US market.

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Interviews

Kuleana: “Alternative Seafood is a Sleeping Giant, and We Have the Product and the Team to Put it On the Map”

Next-gen seafood company Kuleana has enjoyed a wave of recent success as alt seafood continues at the forefront of consumer minds, investor interest, and innovation. The young San Francisco brand recently launched its plant-based tuna into Poké Bar restaurants across North America and was even named semifinalists of the XPRIZE Foundation Challenge. “We’re creating #thenewschooloffish” Kuleana takes its name from the Hawaiian word for taking responsibility for balancing what we give and take from the earth and honors it by producing sustainable, plant-based seafood in the US. It entered the US seafood market at the perfect time, just last September, with its debut product being a raw tuna, as part of its mission to “create next generation seafood with plants and biotechnology.” We were fascinated …

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Andre Menezes Next Gen

Andre Menezes ©Next Gen

Interviews

Next Gen Foods: “We’re Confident That TiNDLE is the Only Plant-Based Chicken Versatile Enough to Be Used Across a Multitude of Cuisines & Dishes”

Next Gen, a fresh young brand founded by Timo Recker of Germany’s LikeMeat and Andre Menezes of Country Foods Singapore, this February announced a seed round of $10M which was reportedly the largest ever seed round in the plant-based sector, for its vegan chicken brand TiNDLE. “We are in the business of creating new food experiences” Last month, the seed round was extended for a total raise of $20M as it prepared to launch into the USA, and truly create the next generation of plant meats for a new generation of consumers. We spoke with Menezes, formerly COO and newly instated as CEO, about the young brand’s lofty ambitions for worldwide domination and what makes TiNDLE unique amongst an increasingly busy plant-based chicken space. Can …

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Andre Menezes Next Gen

Andre Menezes ©Next Gen

Investments & Finance

Next Gen Foods Announces $20M Extended Seed Round & US Launch of ‘TiNDLE’ Plant-Based Chicken

Following its $10 million seed round this February which the company claimed at the time was the largest ever seed round in the plant-based sector, Singapore based startup Next Gen today announces an extension of $20 million to make a total of $30 million, which will be invested to launch TiNDLE, its new plant-based chicken brand, into the US. “Following our March 2021 TiNDLE launch, we have expanded to three key markets, and we expect to be in more than five by end-2021″ Founded by Timo Recker of LikeMeat, and Andre Menezes, Next Gen’s chicken product with the interesting name TiNDLE is currently sold in over 70 restaurants in Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau, including ADDA by four-time Michelin Star Chef Manjunath Mural and two …

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Fashion, Design & Beauty

State of the Industry Report: Next-Gen Materials – a Deep Dive With Industry Expert Allen Zelden

Last week, The Material Innovation Initiative published a first-of-its-kind paper named State of the Industry Report: Next-Gen Materials, revealing some impressive figures on the trends within sustainable materials: $1.29 billion was invested in the category between 2015 and 2021 with $504 million invested in 2020 alone, almost as much as in the four previous years combined. The report also revealed that there are 74 Next Gen companies in operation, with 49 in the category of vegan leather; that there are 95 unique investors in the industry; and that, interestingly, 38 out of 40 leading fashion brands are “actively seeking” Next Gen materials. The data is certainly extremely encouraging, and we were keen to delve further, so we took a deep dive with sustainable materials expert …

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Market & Trends

Has Singapore Firmly Established Itself as the World Epicentre of Alt Protein?

Last March we published an article discussing Singapore as an emerging food tech capital, with its government investing US$72 billion in climate crisis preparation and creating methods to be to be self-sufficient and battle food insecurity. In the year that has followed, not least this past week, there have been so many further developments that it cannot be ignored that the city-state has effectively established itself at the very forefront of global alt protein. Here is our roundup of recent and most impressive Singaporean news in the past 12 month. This week alone has seen the following three significant Singapore advancements in foodtech / alt protein as follows: Avant Chinese cell-cultured company Avant, the first cell-cultured meat company in China and the first cell-cultured fish …

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Investments & Finance

Next Gen Secures $10M in Highest Ever Plant-Based Seed Round  

Following its recent regulatory approval for cultured meat, Singapore has rapidly become a leading centre of innovation for food-tech startups. One such company is Next Gen, which reveals today it has closed what it says is the largest seed round ever in the plant-based sector at $10 million, and also announces the launch of TiNDLE, its new plant-based chicken brand.

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