The fund manager will work with Hungry Jack’s to devise a plant-based version of the latter’s flagship burger, the Whopper, based on Csiro research.
Main Sequence Ventures, the Australia-based manager of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Csiro)’s Innovation Fund, is to partner fast food chain owner Competitive Foods Australia to develop a plant-based burger product, Business Insider Australia has reported.
Main Sequence Ventures and Competitive Foods’ fast-food burger retail subsidiary, Hungry Jack’s, will establish a jointly-owned spinout, dubbed V2Food, to formulate a vegetarian iteration of Hungry Jack’s flagship product, the Whopper, based on Csiro’s food science expertise.
Hungry Jack’s is the…