AQUA Cultured Foods

AQUA Cultured Foods wins 2024 Industry Disrupter Award!! 🏆 🎉 This achievement is a true testament to the hard work our team is doing every single day to bring the future of food to reality. I'm so lucky to build alongside our incredible team with Stephanie Bernstein, Nelcy Latorre Barrios, Branden Wolner, PhD, Marcus Williams, Sam Jackson, and Kaline Langley. Thanks to the team at 1871 led by the fabulous Betsy Ziegler, and the entire Chicago tech community for recognizing AQUA as a leader and disrupter in the industry. We're taking Chicago from a meatpacking town to a future of food hub! #futureoffood #chicagotech #momentumawards #celebratethewins

We're headed to #ClimateWeekNYC 🛫 Brittany Chibe and Stephanie Bernstein will be repping AQUA at some of the week's exciting, energizing events! Let's connect 🤝 #FoodTech #Sustainability

Tomorrow is the last day to vote for AQUA for the 2024 Industry Disrupter Award! 🗳 https://lnkd.in/gFsidKmG No sign-in required. Help us win! 🙌

We are so honored to be a finalist for The Industry Disrupter Award for the 2024 Momentum Awards hosted by 1871! 🎉 This award will be presented to a company that has developed an innovative product that has significantly disrupted the industry. Decisions come from a combination of judge score and public vote. 🤞 Help us win by casting your vote! 🙏https://lnkd.in/gFsidKmG #Innovation #Tech #Entrepreneurship #Leadership #Startups #ChicagoTech

Big news! AQUA has achieved self-affirmed generally recognized as safe ("GRAS") status for our fish-free seafood made through fermentation. This is a huge milestone for our team and the alternative protein industry. Now, we're ready to make a splash on restaurant menus in the U.S.!

Please join me in October for the Bridge2Food North America summit where I'll be presenting AQUA's insights on “What's The Positioning of Alternative Seafood to Consumers?”, and also speaking on “What Role Do Chefs Play in the Uptake of Alternative Protein?” panel with Philip Saneski, John Van House and Erik Jones. Drop a comment below if you'll be there! AQUA Cultured Foods Charlotte Neher Stephanie Bernstein #foodtech #alternativeproteins #alternativeseafood #sustainablefoods

💙 Hope in the Water 🌊 Last night, I had the honor to attend the screening for the new docuseries 'Hope in the Water,' a 3-part series coming to PBS on June 19 that takes a closer look at the blue food technology solutions that can feed our growing global population while saving our oceans. The series doesn't shy away from the stress we're putting on our seas to supply seafood, nor from the impact that industrial fishing is having on our oceans. It features that great work that innovators in aquaculture and fishers are doing to lessen the impact on our oceans, but I feel a key component is missing from the conversation -- the work that alternative seafood companies are doing to offer a solution to this problem. At AQUA, we're not trying to replace seafood, nor tell consumers what they should or shouldn't eat. We exist to offer a seafood solution without compromise. A solution that satisfies your seafoodie cravings with the added benefit of making a more sustainable choice. We won't change consumer behaviors by preaching, blaming or shaming; but for consumers looking for healthful, sustainable swaps, we can offer endless helpings of hope through delicious seafood that is neither fished nor farmed. I believe it will take all parties - traditional fishing, aquaculture and seafood alternatives - working together if we're to achieve the lofty goal of reviving our oceans. The key takeaway of the night for me was said best by the series executive producer Andrew Zimmern, "It is the stories of hopefulness that inspires." I couldn't agree more. My hope is that we continue to have broader conversations about the health of our oceans and inspire change through the great work of all innovators offering blue food tech solutions. https://lnkd.in/gcK-EQuQ AQUA Cultured Foods Shedd Aquarium Jaclyn Wegner Walton Family Foundation WTTW/Chicago PBS Future Ocean Foods #foodtech #alternativeproteins #sustainability

We're exhibiting for the first time at the National Restaurant Association Show this weekend! Drop by our booth in Startup Alley to meet our team and sample our products every day from 11:30am — 1:30pm. We think tasting is believing! 🍣

Wahoo! 🐟 Our fish-free seafood made through fermentation has been recognized as an honoree in Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas list! #FCWorldChangingIdeas