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| 13.02.2020 | Alpha Foods Secures US$28M In Funding, Eyes Further Asia Expansion | 2
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Los Angeles-based plant-based startup Alpha Foods has just completed their Series A round with US$28 million in funding, led by early-stage venture investment firm AccelFoods. With the fresh injection of capital, the ... |
| 12.02.2020 | Alpha Foods Raises $28 Million to Expand Frozen Plant Meat Products | Plant-based producer Alpha Foods announced Tuesday it has secured $28 million in a round led by AccelFoods, with existing partners New Crop Capital, Green Monday, and Blue Horizon. This puts the brand’s current value at $41 million.
The Cal... |
| 10.10.2019 | Scramblers, Cerebelly, and Kashi by Kids to take center stage at the FoodNavigator-USA FOOD FOR KIDS summit as our 2019 trailblazers | The three brands picked by the FOOD FOR KIDS team and the editorial staff at FoodNavigator-USA to take center stage on the opening night (November 18) of the FoodNavigator-USA FOOD FOR KIDS summit in Chicago this year are: Deliciously... |
| 01.03.2019 | AccelFoods Adds Five New Operating Partners | AccelFoods, the investment fund known for backing high-growth food and beverage startups, announced today the addition of new Operating Partners. The new partners will provide expert counsel and support to the venture fund’s portfolio brand... |
| 01.02.2019 | AccelFoods on investing on food, red flags in pitches, and CBD: ‘This could be a $20bn category by 2021' | “Is it a fad? No, we don’t think CBD is going anywhere," co-founder and managing partner Jordan Gaspar told FoodNavigator-USA.
"We’re going to see huge growth in CBD [which most firms are supplying via hemp extracts as the FDA s... |
| 22.01.2019 | ROAR Organic Closes New Financing Round | © ROAR Organic
ROAR Organic is a manufacturer of vegan, low-calorie, low-sugar and organic electrolyte beverages. The ROAR Organic brand achieved a sales growth of almost 300% in 2018. It recently completed a US$ 5.6 million financing round... |
| 22.01.2019 | ROAR Organic Closes New Financing Round | ROAR Organic is a manufacturer of vegan, low-calorie, low-sugar and organic electrolyte beverages. The ROAR Organic brand achieved a sales growth of almost 300% in 2018. It recently completed a US$ 5.6 million financing round led by AccelFo... |
| 23.07.2018 | RETHINK Brands Secures $6.7 Million Investment Round Led By AccelFoods | RETHINK Brands, the innovative boxed water company disrupting the children's beverage industry with the creation of RETHINK Kids Water, the first zero calorie, zero sodium, and zero sugar boxed water line for kids, announces today it has re... |
| 26.06.2018 | Ditch the bag! Tea Drops raises $1.9m in seed round led by AccelFoods | The brainchild of tea enthusiast Sashee Chandran, Tea Drops are finely ground tea leaves compressed into tablets that can be dropped into boiling water for a cup of tea. The tea disintegrates in the water, but as it is not 100% soluble li... |
| 07.06.2018 | Soozy’s raises $2.5m: ‘We’re not sure what the shelf-life of the Paleo trend will be, but the philosophy behind it is here to stay’ | Soozy’s uses a gluten-free flour blend (almond, arrowroot, coconut), combined with eggs, coconut cream, coconut sugar and coconut oil, to create its super-moist, dairy-free muffins, which are sold in the frozen case in 500 stores including ... |
| 07.06.2018 | Soozy’s Raises $2.5M Seed | NEW YORK, June 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Soozy's, a manufacturer of affordable gluten-free, paleo and non-GMO baked goods made with nutrient dense ingredients and unique flavor profiles, announced that it has closed on $2.5 million of seed ca... |
| 17.10.2017 | Who are the Leading Insect Farming Startups? | You can tell that the public is captivated by a particular food, when its mere existence on a menu makes the news. Insects are one such ingredient. Cricket ice cream, cricket granola, cricket meatballs, cricket bars, cricket pasta, cricket ... |
| 05.07.2017 | 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... |
| 25.04.2017 | Emil Capital-backed Kidfresh Raises Series B Funds | Kidfresh, the fast-growing brand of better-for-you frozen kids meals announced today that it has closed on its Series B equity round of funding led by Monogram Capital Partners, alongside existing institutional investors Emil Capital Partne... |
| 25.04.2017 | Emil Capital-backed Kidfresh Raises Series B Funds | Kidfresh, the fast-growing brand of better-for-you frozen kids meals announced today that it has closed on its Series B equity round of funding led by Monogram Capital Partners, alongside existing institutional investors Emil Capital Partne... |
| 08.03.2017 | AccelFoods Expands Second Fund to $35M | AccelFoods, the investment fund known for curating emerging food and beverage brands, announced today the expansion of its second fund to $35M. Created in partnership with several leading corporates, the newly expanded fund will further dri... |
| 08.03.2017 | AccelFoods fund for food and beverage innovators reaches $35 million | AccelFoods, an accelerator and fund that backs innovative food and beverage companies, has added $15 million to its second fund, according to founding partners Jordan Gaspar and Lauren Jupiter.
AccelFoods has backed brands making products t... |
| 27.10.2016 | Crunchsters secures financing to bring sprouted mung beans to the US snacks aisle | A dietary staple in India and China laced with protein, fiber, magnesium, iron, folate and potassium, mung beans are actually widely available to Americans in the form of beansprouts (which are typically made from mung beans), although most... |
| 07.10.2016 | Ag Industry Brief: Damian Marley Launches Cannabis Farm in Cali Prison, Terravion Partners with Pasture Map, WHO Recommends Antibiotic-Free Meat, more | Agritech startup news…
Aussie Agritech Startup Takes Top IBM Prize
Melbourne-based SenseAg, an IoT-focused big data startup, won first prize at the global Apache Spark Makers Build by IBM competition, which invited companies from around the... |
| 05.10.2016 | AccelFoods has a new cohort of food-focused startups | With food technology and startups becoming a greater focus for an increasing number of investors, AccelFoods, the investment fund focused on new food brands, has announced its latest cohort of companies. Brami: A New York-based company that... |
| 25.08.2016 | A Complete Guide to Startup Resources in Agriculture and Food Technology Innovation | Editor’s Note: Today, AgFunder, AgThentic, and Ag Innovation Development (AgIDG) Group release a new report entitled: A Guide to Startup Resources in Agriculture and Food Technology. The report details the 77 startup resources available to ... |
| 20.06.2016 | Kellogg’s creates a new fund, 1894, to back food and related startups | Instead of two scoops, here’s one big one– the Kellogg Company is launching a corporate venture arm called Eighteen94 Capital (1894) to invest in food and food-related tech startups.
The name is a nod to the year that Dr. John Harvey Kellog... |
| 07.03.2016 | Exo raises $4M Series A for cricket protein bars | Investors betting cricket-flour protein bars, which are surely delicious, will be the future of food
If we, the human species, are going to get serious about addressing the climate disaster unfolding all around us, one thing (among many) ha... |
| 07.03.2016 | Exo Closes $4M Series A Funding | Exo, a New York, NY-based developer of insect-based protein food, closed a $4M round of Series A funding.
The round was led by AccelFoods, with participation from existing and new investors Collaborative Fund, Tim Ferriss, Start Garden, mus... |
| 07.03.2016 | Cricket Bars Are the Next Trendy Food—And You Might Start Seeing Them In Rap Videos | Crickets are the new kale, and rapper Nas just invested in them. (Photo: Exo)
You may have heard your especially environmental and health-conscious hipster friend talking about how crickets are a totally efficient way to get protein. The nu... |
| 09.02.2016 | AccelFoods Launches $20M Second Fund; Adds 6 Startups to Portfolio | AccelFoods, a NYC-based accelerator for packaged food and beverage companies, has launched its $20m second fund.
The accelerator has also added six startups to its portfolio as a part of its fourth class, which will be the first to be backe... |
| 26.01.2016 | AccelFoods: Successful food entrepreneurs are 'relentless and resourceful strategic thinkers' | In addition to seed capital, Accel Foods has provided mentoring and support to high-profile early stage brands from EXO (cricket protein bars) and Four Sigma Foods (mushroom-fuelled foods/beverages), to Bandar Foods (Indian inspired condi... |
| 22.12.2015 | JicaChips to bring potato chip alternative beyond farmer’s markets | When you type in "jicama chips" (pronounced hee-ka-mah) into a search engine, you get several pages of recipes, accompanied by photogenic shots of the hand-prepared snack in elaborate presentations. One New York couple, avid snac... |
| 25.09.2014 | Exo Secures $1.2M in Seed Funding | Exo, a New York-based cricket protein bar startup, secured $1.2m in seed funding.
Backers included Collaborative Fund, Start Garden, and Tim Ferriss.
The company intends to use the funds to scale production, make key hires, and expand its p... |
| 10.06.2014 | Food Startups Are Riding A VC Gravy Train | Investments in food-related startups, from delivery services to new restaurant chains to new types of foods and additives, have raised unprecedented amounts of cash in the most recent quarter, as investors dug in to the food business.
Food ... |
| 22.01.2014 | Startup Rundown: Catchafire Has Spread to LinkedIn, and Now You Can Take Bitcoin Class | All the cool bars use DASHboards. (Dash)
Dash goes deeper No, we don’t mean the Kardashian store. We mean the other Dash—the one that lets restaurant and bar patrons pay for their food and drinks through their phones, at designated establis... |
| 11.11.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (ON:Bitcoin, Digital Health, Uncubed, Columbia Women in Business, TimesOpen Hack Day, NYU Hacks) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 04.11.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Next Billion, FinTech Hackathon, Capital On Stage, StrategyHack, NY Tech, DevPong, Engadget Expand) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 28.10.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Building The Digital City, NYC Television Week, NYC Data Week, Intel Codefest, Data Driven) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
