Every week, Plant-based Business Expert Elysabeth Alfano breaks down the headlines with her review and analysis. Here is the rundown from her video for the week ending October 23, 2020.
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Alt Dairy Pioneer Perfect Day Foods Appoints Disney Boss Robert Iger to Board of Directors
Perfect Day, the Bay Area startup utilizing fermentation to create proprietary ‘flora-made’ dairy protein for a range of products from ice cream and milk to cheese and butter, announces the appointment of Robert Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, to its board of directors.
GFI Releases Latest Report, Reveals Perfect Day as Industry Leader & Most Funded Company in Fermented Foods
The Good Food Institute today issues its latest industry report, this time spotlighting the fermented foods industry. Globally in 2019, fermentation companies raised over 3.5 times more capital than cultivated meat companies and close to 60% as much as US plant-based meat, egg, and dairy companies that year.
Perfect Day Expands Production to Berkeley in its Mission to Replace Animal Dairy
Perfect Day, a startup creating real dairy milk proteins casein and whey using fermentation technology, is expanding to Berkeley, California. Perfect Day is intent on creating the greatest positive impact on the global food supply and has the potential to severely disrupt the animal dairy market.
Perfect Day Announces $300M Series C Funding Following Breakthroughs in Animal-Free Dairy Production Capabilities
Bay area creator of animal-free dairy, Perfect Day, today announces the expansion of its Series C to $300 million through a new tranche led by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), following increased interest after production breakthroughs in the company’s proprietary flora-made dairy proteins.
Perfect Day: On a Mission to “Create a Whole New Category of Animal-Free Products — For a Kinder, Greener Planet”
Perfect Day is the innovative dairy alternative brand from California which most of our readers will be familiar with for its real dairy proteins made without the involvement of any animals. The company was valued at $440m during a recent round for its products which the founders said would “revolutionize the dairy industry”. They weren’t wrong.
Perfect Day’s ‘Real Dairy Protein’ is Approved by FDA, Already Available for Consumers at Smitten Ice Cream
Perfect Day, a startup famously using fermentation to create animal-free real milk proteins, has received official approval for its whey protein from the FDA. Now the startup has partnered with Bay Area’s Smitten Ice Cream which is selling pints via in-store pickup and delivery. Click here to see explanatory video of the products.
Animal-Free Dairy Producer Perfect Day Considers IPO: “Every Major Multinational is Talking to Us”
Perfect Day, a company creating vegan dairy products in a manner that produces real dairy without the cows, by making dairy proteins – whey and casein – that are identical to those in cow’s milk,; is working on an epic scale rollout and is in talks with Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s to use the proteins under their own labels.
Perfect Day Secures $140 Million Series C For its “Animal-Free Dairy” Products
Perfect Day today announces the closing of $140 million in Series C funding. According to the FT, Perfect Day has been valued at $440m during this round. This July, the company launched vegan ice creams with a pioneering fermentation process which creates proteins identical to those found cow’s milk.
Perfect Day Debuts World’s First Animal-Free Dairy Ice Cream
Perfect Day, a silicon valley startup and leader in animal-free dairy protein, pioneered a fermentation process which creates proteins identical to those found cow’s milk, giving its products the nutrition, texture, and delicious taste of conventional dairy. Today Perfect Day announces the launch limited edition “vegan dairy” ice cream in three flavours.
Perfect Day Signs Deal to Revolutionise the Dairy Industry
Perfect Day Foods has partnered with Archer Daniel Midlands (ADM) on jointly developing and commercializing animal-free dairy proteins. This will allow the company to begin supplying the world’s first animal-free dairy proteins to the food industry in 2019. According to Perfect Day, this will be the first time in world history that dairy proteins are produced at large scale via fermentation instead of using farmed animals.