New Food Invest 2022

Dear valued NFI EMEA participant,

On behalf of co-host ProVeg and organizer Beyond Animal, we would like to send you our most sincere thank you note for your participation and valuable contribution to the New Food Invest EMEA virtual conference which took place on 27 October 2022.

The feedback on the event has been very positive and reflects the high quality of the speakers and their thorough and impactful panel discussions. We are grateful for our Key Conference Supporter ‘Beyond Impact’.

We hope you also enjoyed the event and its tremendous networking opportunities.  While we are evaluating our event, we always embrace constructive feedback and welcome your ideas which allows us to further shape the NFI format. We are grateful for your feedback and contribution for our NFI EMEA Survey: Here is the link to the survey:
https://survey.proveg.com/index.php/443645?lang=en


After the NFI means for us before the next NFI: We look forward to welcoming you to our New Food Invest APAC in February 2023. Should you have colleagues or business contacts who missed the event, we introduced special post-event viewing tickets for only EUR 89. For all our speakers and past participants, you can obtain the recordings and slide decks complementarily.

Our networking opportunity, connections, and funding platform are designed to be of service to the sector and industry of plant-based, alternative protein, cruelty-free, and innovative-sustainable food solutions, and we want you all to succeed and thrive in your endeavors.

If Beyond Animal or ProVeg can be of further assistance to you, please get in touch!

Sincerely,
Your Beyond Animal and ProVeg Team

Overall Attendance
Approximately 200 participants
International Participation
The NFI EMEA focused specifically on the European, Middle Eastern and African region with various countries represented
Presenters & Speakers
Over 40 Speakers contributed to the programme and different panels
All speakers 2022
Full programme
5 hours of programming and networking opportunities
Download programme
Pitching Start-Ups
10 innovative startups joined
Post-Event Viewing Ticket Special
Access the post-event materials:
Get it here!

We are grateful to have such informed panellists covering the range of topics that startups and investors need to hear about in order to venture into the alternative protein sector. It is so important to promote this sector as a response to humanity’s efforts to tackle climate change.

Sebastian Joy
President of ProVeg

It is important to be nuanced, the sales growth is different in different geographies and is still massive in Europe.

Jens Tuider
International Director, ProVeg International

A movement from basic products to more sophisticated products is evident. These provide better functionality, nutritional value and sensory properties. Seafood alternatives have greater potential than meat alternatives, which is well covered.
It was great to have the opportunity to show how startups can succeed in the alt protein sector through the provision of funding and training at ProVeg headquarters in Berlin. We envisage many more companies coming through to take advantage of the Incubator scheme to latch onto this booming market.

Antje Raeuscher
Co-Head/Senior Innovation and Partnerships Manager at ProVeg Incubator

The realisation that foodtech is a tech that involves physical products and has capacity constraints has been startling to some pure tech investors that arrived as a result of the hype. Climate tech funds are now entering the space and becoming more active, seeing food system transformation as a climate solution, as well as more strategic investors attracted by the value.

Claire Smith
Founder of Beyond Investing at Beyond Animal

Most markets don't fully understand how quickly the average investor, Millennials and Gen-z are seeing their investment portfolio as being an extension of their own values. The environmental impact of animal agriculture, particularly when it comes to net zero, is completely overlooked, and especially Scope 3 emissions. We also note better managed companies, less tax avoidance, more diverse teams, in companies among companies that avoid the use of animals.

Antti Savilaakso
Partner & Head of Research at Impact Cubed

In terms of measuring animal suffering, egg, fish and chicken products are at the top of the list, whereas from an environmental standpoint, ruminants are higher, but this reflects that these animals have smaller bodies so the numbers are necessarily higher. Invertebrates like shrimp are even larger numbers in terms of lives and days of suffering.

Jo Anderson
Research Director at Faunalytics

The ESG risks that are most material to animal agriculture are greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation and biodiversity loss, water use and scarcity, waste and pollution, antiobiotic resistance, animal welfare, working conditions, food safety and governance. The opportunity primarily relates to dietary transition, affordability, accessibility, economies of scale, better sourcing, greater sustainability, diversifying plant-based sources, recognising regional variations among consumers, and shifts in consumption towards fruits, vegetable and fibre and a reduction in protein consumption in some parts of the world.

Sofia De La Parra Saravia
Senior ESG Analyst at FAIRR

From an investor's perspective it is important that relevant information is readily available and it is good to know that people are working in this area and data is available to support investors active in transition of the food sector.

Lee Coates
ESG Accord at Beyond Investing

Despite of the current economic downturn and the decreases we've seen in stock markets for some of the plant based brands it seems like the investor interest and dedication towards alt proteins just continues to rise.

Malte Clausen
Partner and Associate Director at Boston Consulting Group

Biomass fermentation and mycelium have the potentiality of lower [production] cost than any protein source.

Robert Lawson
Managing Partner at Food Strategy Associates

We believe that the current slowdown in sales is due to the need for the (taste) technology to improve further, which we are confident will happen. As a result adaptation of plant based meats will grow and by 2035, they (plant based meats) will take a dominant market share of the protein market.

Christian S. Patiño
UBS

There is no one single protein solution. In the area of precision fermentation and cultivated meat, in some instances there is low likelihood of profitability. Also the investors in these sectors often lack food industry expertise and one might question their due diligence.

Rodrigo Hortega de Velasco
Head of Investments at Döhler Ventures

Outside taste and price, the key aspect for us is naturality - methyl cellulose is dead!

Ludovic Reysset
Head of Plant-Based Platform at Sonae

Affordability is one of our core propositions, products need to be versatile and diverse solutions are necessary.

Caroline Cormier
VP - Corporate development (Inorganic Strategy/Global M&A/Partnerships/IR) at Upfield

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