The Scale It Up! Innovation Challenge has named Indonesia's Meatless Kingdom as its winner and Australia's Eighth Day Foods as the runner-up, in its inaugural startup accelerator program and pitch contest, aimed at sustainable plant-based protein firms in the Asia-Pacific region.
Led by industry partners Cargill, Bühler Group and Givaudan, and designed to address the food needs of the growing global population, the challenge provided its top five finishers with access to the…