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| Jun 27, 2023 | Plantible Foods launches plant-based egg replacer that ‘outperforms eggs’ | Plantible Foods—a startup extracting a highly functional protein from fast-growing aquatic plant lemna—has opened a 140-acre lemna farm in Texas and launched its first product: Rubi Whisk, a plant-based egg replacer it claims can “outperfor... |
| Mar 29, 2022 | Big F&B Invests In Innovation, Funds Emerging Cos | Big F&B companies have the resources and reach to develop their own product advances, and the chance ... [+] to buy into potential breakthrough research. And that’s leading big F&B to venture capital, investing in companies that inn... |
| Sep 2, 2021 | San Diego’s Plantible Secures $21.5M For Alt Meat & Dairy Created From One of World’s Most Sustainable Plant Proteins | Plantible Foods announces it has closed a $21.5 million Series A funding round led by Astanor Ventures, making a total raise of $27 million to date. The startup’s proprietary plant protein Rubi Protein™ harnesses lemna, an aquatic plant com... |
| Jun 17, 2020 | MycoTechnology Raises US$39M Series D From Big Food To Grow Plant-Based Functional Ingredient Platform | 8 1
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Colorado-based food tech MycoTechnology has just raised US$39 million in a Series D funding round, which it plans to use to enlarge its existing platform of functional plant-based ingredients. The investment round a... |
| Mar 19, 2020 | In A Recession, Corporations Can Be Even More Valuable To Startups | Image:Getty |
| Sep 8, 2019 | Kite Hill, co-founded by the creator of Impossible Foods, looks to be gaining traction, too | Before he founded the plant-based burger company Impossible Foods, Patrick Brown, who spent 25 years as a biochemistry professor at Stanford, also co-founded a Hayward, Ca.-based food company called Kite Hill that has developed numerous nut... |
| Mar 20, 2019 | Starbucks will anchor the new $400 million food-focused Valor Siren Ventures fund | Starbucks is serving up a steaming hot $100 million cash commitment to anchor a new food-focused fund in partnership with the consumer and tech-focused focused private equity firm Valor Equity Partners.
The behemoth of burnt-coffee said tha... |
| Mar 13, 2019 | Kuli Kuli Closes $5M Series B Funding to Make Moringa a Household Ingredient | Kuli Kuli, a mission-driven company trading and selling the superfood moringa, announced on March 1 that it has closed its $5M Series B round of obtaining financing to help launch a new moringa ‘super-food’ ingredient business.
Moringa is n... |
| Feb 28, 2019 | Superfood Product Startup Kuli Kuli Closes $5m Series B to Sell Moringa as an Ingredient | Innovative food startup Kuli Kuli has closed a $5 million Series B led by Griffith Foods, a family-owned customized food ingredients business based in Illinois, alongside existing investor eighteen94 capital, Kellogg’s venture capital fund.... |
| Jun 12, 2018 | UCAN Raises $5.75M Series D | The UCAN Company, a manufacturer and distributor of nutrition products powered by SuperStarch, a patented, slow-release energy source, announced that it has completed a new round of financing to propel its growth in endurance sports and wit... |
| Jan 23, 2018 | Cargo Zooms Ahead with New Cash, Plans to Expand to 10 Cities | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Score one for mobile convenience stores.
Cargo, a New York City-based graduate of the Techstars Mobility accelerator, announced Monday it has raised more money from investors,... |
| Dec 12, 2017 | Algae is Poised to Become a Mainstream Food Ingredient if Supply Can Keep Up With Demand | Editor’s Note: Andrew A. Dahl is President and CEO of ZIVO Bioscience, a ag biotech R&D company engaged in the commercialization of nutritional and medicinal products derived from proprietary algal strains.
The competition among large U... |
| Nov 15, 2017 | Women In Agtech: Kuli Kuli CEO Lisa Curtis Is Ready For a Deeper Conversation About Gender and Fundraising | Lisa Curtis is the 29-year-old CEO and founder of Kuli Kuli, the manufacturer and distributor of Moringa-based products. She began her path toward entrepreneurship in the Peace Corps where she was introduced to the moringa tree in Niger.
Ea... |
| Oct 5, 2017 | Innovative Food: Startups Raise $206m to Meet Consumer Demand for Protein & Novel Ingredients | Consumer demands are changing at a faster pace than ever as our understanding of nutrition evolves.
Protein-rich foods are in particular demand, and with the meat industry responsible for more than 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, innovator... |
| Sep 26, 2017 | Hain Celestial is Rewriting the “Rules” of Corporate Venture Capital | Large food corporates know that they can’t get left out of the innovation going on in the world of venture-backed food startups. There are at least 13 food companies with venture capital funds including General Mills’ 301 Inc, Kellogg’s eig... |
| Sep 8, 2017 | Ag Industry Brief: AeroFarms Gets $1m FFAR Grant, Nestle Acquires Plant Burger Company, Impossible Opens Facility, more | AeroFarms Gets $1m Grant From FFAR
New Jersey-based indoor vertical farming company AeroFarms has received a $1 million research grant from The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), a nonprofit organization established throug... |
| Jul 11, 2017 | Toyota launches venture capital fund targeting artificial intelligence startups | Toyota is the latest Fortune 500 company to launch an AI focused venture capital fund. The initial early-stage fund will deploy $100 million and operate as a subsidiary of the Toyota Research Institute. The automaker has strategically posit... |
| Jul 5, 2017 | Food Incubators and Other Ways For Startups To Engage with Corporates | Editor’s Note: Sarah Nolet is founder and CEO of food and agtech consultancy AgThentic. Here she takes a look at how startups can use food incubators to engage with large companies.
There are an increasing number of large food companies see... |
| Jun 18, 2017 | Blu Venture Investors Join $2M Seed Round For Bright Greens | Bright Greens, maker of blender-free, plant-based frozen smoothies, announced that it has raised a seed round led by eighteen94 capital, the venture capital fund of Kellogg Company. Blu Venture Investors, an early stage investment group bas... |
| Jun 18, 2017 | Blu Venture Investors Join $2M Seed Round For Bright Greens | Bright Greens, maker of blender-free, plant-based frozen smoothies, announced that it has raised a seed round led by eighteen94 capital, the venture capital fund of Kellogg Company. Blu Venture Investors, an early stage investment group bas... |
| Jun 15, 2017 | Bright Greens Raises $2M in Seed Funding | Bright Greens, a Battle Creek, Mich.-based maker of blender-free, plant-based frozen smoothies, raised a $2m seed fuding round.
The round, closed through CircleUp, the platform providing capital and resources to early-stage consumer brands,... |
| Jun 14, 2017 | Kellogg's eighteen94 capital leads $2m seed funding round in Bright Greens: 'We are very impressed with the innovative form factor' | Bright Greens makes its frozen smoothie cubes - to which consumers add hot water and shake - in a facility just outside Detroit where it blends fruits and vegetables and flash freezes them. The products are sold in selected Whole Foods stor... |
| Jan 11, 2017 | Kellogg’s VC 1894 Capital Makes First Investment in AgFunder Alum Kuli Kuli | Kuli Kuli, the manufacturer and distributor of Moringa-based products, has raised $4.25m in Series A funding from eighteen94 Capital, in the first investment for the venture investment arm of Kellogg Company.
It is also one of the first inv... |
| Jan 11, 2017 | Kuli Kuli raises $4.25 million to make moringa a mainstay in the US diet | Oakland-based food startup Kuli Kuli has raised $4.25 million in a Series A round of funding to bring moringa, a high-protein plant, to more kitchens in the U.S., according to CEO and co-founder Lisa Curtis.
During her time working in Niger... |
| Dec 6, 2016 | Tyson Joins List of Food Companies with Venture Capital Funds | This week, Tyson Foods joined the growing list of food companies with venture capital funds investing in food and agritech startups.
The company, which earlier this year shocked the sector by making an investment in plant-based meat alterna... |
| Jun 20, 2016 | Kellogg Company Launches $100M Corporate Venture Capital Fund | Cereal company Kellogg Company (NYSE: K) is establishing its own corporate venture capital fund.
eighteen94 capital (1894) will make minority investments in innovative companies and startups pioneering new ingredients, foods, packaging, and... |
| Muito além de um café: Starbucks investirá US$ 100 milhões em startups | *Por Exame.com
A americana Starbucks sabe que, para ser a maior rede de cafeterias do mundo, não basta oferecer café. É preciso ser o mais conveniente, seja abrindo uma unidade a cada esquina ou oferecendo as melhores formas de entrega e pa... |