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Consumer Trends & Behavior
Bare Beans Raises $2.8M to Scale Ready-to-Eat, Minimally Processed Legumes for High-Protein Shoppers
ByEditorial Team October 11, 2026
Idaho’s Bare Beans closed a $2.79 million seed round from Raven Indigenous Capital Partners and launched five vacuum-packed, preservative-free bean varieties online, aiming at protein- and fibre-focused shoppers including GLP-1 users.
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Industry News & Trends
Vertical Farming’s $1B Wake-Up Call: 80 Acres Collapses as Plantible Lands $35M for Duckweed Protein
ByIndustry News Team August 7, 2026October 5, 2026
The food tech sector just absorbed two opposing data points that, taken together, tell you everything about where this industry is headed in late 2026. On one side: 80 Acres Farms, once valued at over $1 billion and hailed as the future of indoor agriculture, abruptly shut its doors after a last-minute acquisition fell through….
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