| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.04.2025 | The Future of Sustainable Innovation: Bridging Science and Business | In the race against climate change, innovation is the fuel. The world is witnessing a surge in sustainable technologies, especially in the food and biotech sectors. Startups are emerging like wildflowers after rain, each one promising to ta... |
| 03.04.2025 | Icos Capital & Bühler Hold Accelerating Sustainability Summit, Connecting Dozens of Biotech Companies | On March 28, climate venture tech capital fund Icos Capital held the Accelerating Sustainability Summit at Bühler’s CUBIC Innovation Campus in Uzwil, Switzerland.
The event brought together investors, industry leaders, and startups from the... |
| 13.09.2024 | Abolis Biotechnologies Raises €35M in Funding | Abolis Biotechnologies, an Évry-Courcouronnes, France-based company which specializes in industrial solutions using microorganisms, raised €35M in funding.
Backers included L’Oréal’s venture capital fund BOLD, DeepTech & Climate Fonds, ... |
| 12.09.2024 | French biotech Abolis Biotechnologies raises €35M to boost microbial ecosystem engineering | French company Abolis Biotechnologies has closed a €35 million financing round.
Abolis is a French company delivering high-impact innovations in biotechnologies that supports industries in transitioning to a more sustainable production mode... |
| 16.08.2024 | Investment Climate Podcast: Jose Maria Elorza of MOA Foodtech – How to Get Funded in 2024 | In this podcast series, co-produced by vegconomist, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding Alt Proteins in 2024 and uncovers the investment playbooks of successful Climate Tech CEOs and Leading VCs.
Podcast Host ... |
| 02.07.2024 | eAgronom raises €10M Series A2 round to boost sustainable farming practices | eAgronom, the Estonian agriculture-focused climate tech company helping farmers adopt sustainable practices has secured €10 million in its Series A2 equity round.
Founded in 2016, eAgronom works with over 3,000+ farmers in 14 countries.
Soi... |
| 02.07.2024 | Tallinn-based eAgronom harvests €10 million to help farmers make a profitable transition to sustainable food production | eAgronom, an agriculture-focused climate tech company helping farmers adopt sustainable practices for the health of their soils and the planet, has secured €10 million in its Series A2 equity round. The round includes €4.2 million raised du... |
| 26.06.2024 | MOA Foodtech Raises Funds to Scale AI-Driven Production of Highly Nutritious Microbial Proteins | Spain’s MOA Foodtech, a B2B platform for alternative proteins and sustainable ingredients, announces the closure of a Series A funding round led by the Dutch venture capital firm ICOS Capital. Notable investors ClaveMayor, Viscofan, SODENA,... |
| 25.06.2024 | MOA Foodtech secures €3 Million in Series A funding led by ICOS Capital | MOA Foodtech, a pioneer in the integration of biotechnology and artificial intelligence, has successfully closed a €3 million Series A funding round. The round was spearheaded by ICOS Capital, a Dutch venture capital firm, with additional f... |
| 13.03.2024 | Dutch startup 1-2-Taste closes seed round, aims to simplify ingredient sourcing for F&B companies | Read this article in:
Netherlands-based 1-2-Taste, an online B2B food ingredient platform, announced that it has closed its Seed investment round. The funding amount remains undisclosed.
Rotterdam-based Icos Capital led the round with suppo... |
| 29.06.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Everytable lands $25m, eFishery reels in $20m, Joyful Ventures’ alt-protein fund | This week, prepared meals service Everytable raised new funding along with cultivated fish startup Bluu Seafood and aquatech company eFishery. Outside of funding, Nextbite is facing a lawsuit over its May layoffs and Joyful Ventures launche... |
| 27.06.2023 | Estonian agtech startup eAgronom receives €5.5M | Estonian agtech startup eAgronom receives €5.5M
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| 09.02.2023 | The week in agrifoodtech: JOKR’s back with $50m, Plenty nabs $20m indoor ag grant, Mewery debuts microalgae meat | Despite ongoing setbacks for the instant grocery sector, JOKR returned to the headlines this week with new funding. Vertical farming startup Plenty was also in the news with a new grant for R&D. Czech startup Mewery put a new spin on th... |
| 03.02.2023 | Polish NapiFeryn BioTech receives €2.5M from Dutch Icos Capital | Polish NapiFeryn BioTech receives €2.5M from Dutch Icos Capital
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The Lodz-based startup NapiFeryn, creator ... |
| 08.03.2022 | Wolves Summit Calls Scaleups and Investors to Alpha Wolves in April | Wolves Summit presents a brand new kind of event this April – Alpha Wolves, exclusively for scaleups Scaleups represent a different competitive niche than startups – that’s why they require a separate Summit The event will be both on-site (... |
| 21.02.2022 | Vacancy: Startup Scout at StartLife |
Is foodtech your game and building a better world your aim? Take the next step in your career and become StartLife’s Startup Scout! In this position you will be in the lead for finding and picking Europe’s next heroes in foodtech. And wit... |
| 11.11.2021 | How does venture capital advance eco-innovation: Lessons from sustainability VCs | Company:
For the last fifty years, venture capital has had a pivotal role in discovering, bringing to market, and scaling transformative technology innovations in all economic sectors, from healthcare to transportation. As modern societies ... |
| 17.08.2021 | Vacancy: Foodtech Startup Scout at StartLife |
Is foodtech your game and building a better world your aim? Take the next step in your career and become StartLife’s Foodtech Startup Scout! In this position you will be in the lead for finding and picking Europe’s next heroes in foodtech... |
| 03.08.2021 | Carbon dioxide capture and separation solutions provider Carbon Clean secures $8 million in additional funding | London-based carbon dioxide capture and separation technology solutions provider Carbon Clean has secured an additional $8 million in funding. The capital is an extension of a $22 million Series B round. Since its inception in 2009, Carbon ... |
| 22.04.2021 | Icos Capital and StartLife Unite Forces In Building Agrifood Scale-ups |
Icos Capital, a market-leading collaborative venture capital firm, has joined StartLife as investor partner. The partnership will see Icos Capital tap into StartLife’s sizable ecosystem while addressing the needs of agrifoodtech startups ... |
| 22.04.2021 | Icos Capital and StartLife Team Up to Build Agrifood Companies | Icos Capital, an Amsterdam, the Netherlands-based collaborative venture capital firm, has partnered with StartLife, a Wageningen, Netherlands-based agrifoodtech accelerator to back and build to agrifood companies.
The partnership will enabl... |
| 09.10.2020 | EU-Startups Podcast / Episode 7: European Investors pitching their VC firm/focus to you | For the 7th episode of the EU-Startups Podcast we invited European venture capital investors to come on air and to pitch their VC firm and investment focus. For further information, the links to those firms can be found in the show notes be... |
| 06.07.2020 | Solar and storage venture capital and finance roundup | Here’s a roundup of recent venture funding and project finance in solar, storage and beyond.
SOLshare, a Bangladesh-based off-grid solar company, closed $1.1 million in financing from IIX Impact Partners, a crowdfunding platform for impact ... |
| 22.11.2017 | European ICOs have raised $637 million this year but lag behind the US | Europe has raised $637 million through initial coin offerings (ICOs) this year, which lags behind amounts raised in North America, according to new data from Funderbeam, a blockchain funding platform for startups, but it accounts for a high... |
| 07.08.2017 | ICOs have raised more than $1.3 billion so far in 2017 | It’s not your imagination. Initial coin offerings, or ICOs, have exploded this year.
According to Coindesk, companies worldwide have used the blockchain investment tool to raise an astonishing $1.366 billion in 2017. Between 2014 and the en... |
| 26.07.2011 | BIOACTOR Closes €2M Series A Financing Round | BIOACTOR B.V., a Maastricht, Netherlands-based health ingredients company, has closed a €2m Series A financing round.
Investors include ICOS Capital, Nedermaas Ventures and Limburg Ventures. Hans van der Saag, the Company’s CEO and founder,... |
| - | Carbon dioxide capture and separation solutions provider Carbon Clean secures $8 million in additional funding | London-based carbon dioxide capture and separation technology solutions provider Carbon Clean has secured an additional $8 million in funding. The capital is an extension of a $22 million Series B round. Since its inception in 2009, Carbon ... |