| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.04.2025 | PeakBridge FoodSparks Expands Portfolio with Investments Across Key FoodTech Sectors | Foodtech venture capital fund, PeakBridge FoodSparks, has recently made four new seed investments in companies that span key areas of food innovation. The investments target plant-based ingredients, functional mushrooms, digital transformat... |
| 14.11.2024 | The Future of Protein: Innovations in Microbial and Cultivated Seafood Production | The quest for sustainable protein sources is more urgent than ever. As the global population swells, so does the demand for food. Traditional agriculture and fishing methods are struggling to keep pace. Enter the innovators: MicroHarvest an... |
| 13.11.2024 | Forsea Achieves “Record-Breaking” Cell Density in Cultivated Eel Prodution | Cultivated seafood startup Forsea Foods announces a significant tech breakthrough for producing cultivated eel at scale.
The Israeli startup claims it has reached a “record-breaking” cell density of over 300 million cells/ml using minimal g... |
| 12.10.2024 | BE WTR: A Wave of Change in Water Sustainability | In a world grappling with water scarcity and environmental degradation, BE WTR emerges as a beacon of hope. This Swiss-based company is not just another player in the bottled water market; it’s a revolution. With a recent CHF 39 million inv... |
| 11.10.2024 | CHF 39 million for BE WTR eco-friendly premium water solutions |
BE WTR is at the forefront of innovation in water purification, distribution, and sustainability, aiming to set new standards for how water is consumed across residential, commercial, and hospitality sectors. The brand innovates in design ... |
| 19.08.2024 | The Fi Europe Startup Challenge: A Launchpad for Innovation in Food Ingredients | The Fi Europe Startup Challenge is back, igniting the spark of innovation in the food ingredients sector. This competition, held annually at the Fi Europe trade fair, showcases the brightest minds in the industry. It’s a stage where young c... |
| 15.08.2024 | Fi Europe Startup Challenge: Competition for Young, Innovative Ingredients Companies Enters Next Round | For the ninth time this year, the Fi Europe Startup Challenge will be held at the upcoming Fi Europe trade fair in November, a competition for young, innovative ingredients companies in the food ingredients sector. This year prizes will be ... |
| 15.05.2024 | Peakbridge closes $187m Growth Fund II, homes in on disruptive potential of AI | Agrifoodtech investor PeakBridge has closed its Growth Fund II at $187 million in partnership with Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity, bringing its total AUM (assets under management) to more than $250 million.
The fund targets series A an... |
| 09.02.2024 | Functional beverage startup Odyssey grabs $6M to accelerate energy drink growth | Odyssey, a mushroom-based functional energy beverage maker, raised another $6 million in an equity investment to give it $14 million in total funding since launching its first drink two years ago.
Odyssey’s products tap into the health bene... |
| 18.01.2024 | Guest Post: Investors Discuss Benchmarks for Funding Alt Proteins in 2024 | Alex Shandrovksy is a strategic advisor to numerous global food tech accelerators and companies, including leaders in alternative proteins and cellular agriculture. His focus is on investor relations and post-raise scale for agrifood tech c... |
| 18.01.2024 | The Mediterranean Food Lab Secures $17M to Make Plant-Based Meat Delicious with Fermented Flavors | The Mediterranean Food Lab (MFL), an Israeli company creating natural and fermented flavors and culinary ingredients to make alt meat and plant-based foods “delicious,” has raised $17 million in a series A investment round.
Gullspång Re:foo... |
| 16.01.2024 | Uganda’s Fiber Foods Secures Investment for Jackfruit Ingredient for Meat Alternatives | Uganda’s Fiber Foods, a pioneer of jackfruit for meat alternatives for food service, has received an undisclosed investment from FoodSparks, a fund for agrifood tech startups launched by PeakBridge and EIT Food, one of the largest agrifood ... |
| 26.09.2023 | Austrian foodtech Kern Tec raises €12M in Series A round to enter the US market | Austrian foodtech Kern Tec raises €12M in Series A round to enter the US market
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Herzogenburg-based Kern T... |
| 25.09.2023 | Stone Fruit Kernel Milk: Austrian Startup Lands €12M Series A, Eyes US Launch in 2025 | 5 Mins Read Austrian food tech startup Kern Tec, which upcycles stone fruit pits into plant-based dairy alternatives, has raised €12M in a Series A funding round. The brand’s co-founder Luca Fichtinger tells Green Queen that it aims to scal... |
| 23.06.2023 | Op Ed: Ali Al Suhail, Associate at DAI Magister, On Alt Protein as a Transformative Force | Disclaimer: The opinions here are those of the author and not necessarily shared by the platform, with respect in particular to the insect proteins.
Ali Al Suhail, Associate at investment bank DAI Magister, discusses the alternative protein... |
| 28.02.2023 | It's time for alt chocolate: London's WNWN picks up $5.6 million | With dairy and meat alternatives increasingly embraced by consumers, London's WNWN is trying to carve out a niche in cocoa-free "alt chocolate" by using legumes, cereals and other plant-based ingredients to emulate chocolate's ric... |
| 17.11.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Muncher grabs $27m for ghost kitchens, Freight Farms lands $17.5m | Besides a major milestone for cultivated meat, this week’s news also includes new fundraising for Colombian ghost kitchen startup Muncher and a Series B round for vertical farming startup Freight Farms. Meanwhile, it’s more bad news for foo... |
| 14.11.2022 | Brief: Vow lands $49.2m ahead of its cultivated quail launch in Singapore restaurants | Australian cultivated meat company Vow has secured $49.2 million in Series A funding to bring cultivated quail to Singapore.
PeakBridge participated in the round alongside Blackbird, Prosperity7 Ventures, Toyota Ventures, Square Peg, Grok V... |
| 16.09.2022 | Dutch-based Rival Foods raises €6M to make next-gen plant-based protein products | Netherlands-based Rival Foods, a company that specialises in producing plant-based culinary whole-cuts, announced on Wednesday, September 14, that it has raised €6M in a Series A round of funding.
Rival Foods says it will use the funds to d... |
| 15.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: PepsiCo. & ADM partner on regen ag, Biden bets on cultivated meat | This week, PepsiCo. and ADM made a major announcement that could boost regenerative agriculture practices in the US, while President Biden signed an executive order impacting cultivated meat. France’s Capagro launched a $200 million agrifoo... |
| 14.09.2022 | BREAKING: PeakBridge Growth Fund II holds first close on €100m, makes first 2 investments | Agrifoodtech investment manager PeakBridge VC has completed the first close in its PeakBridge Growth II fund in partnership with Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity. The fund will start to deploy its first €100 million ($100 million), begin... |
| 14.09.2022 | Where’s the smart money going in food tech? From precision nutrition to enabling tech for alt meat, dairy. In conversation with PeakBridge | Targeting series A and B companies in ingredients innovation, alt protein technologies, digitalization, nutrition & health, and alternative farming systems across Europe, Israel, and the US, four months after launch, PeakBridge Growth I... |
| 18.05.2022 | BREAKING: Imagindairy raises $15m in seed extension, set to launch alt-milk products in 2023 | Imagindairy, an Israeli producer of animal-free milk proteins, has just raised an additional $15 million for its extended seed round.
The initial tranche in November 2021 brought in $13 million, taking the round’s total to $28 million.
Germ... |
| 29.03.2022 | Unlocking food’s dark matter | It is often said that the food system is broken.
It is not broken.
Instead, it was designed over time to effectively and efficiently produce and distribute safe, inexpensive, and highly caloric food. While hunger has been materially reduced... |
| 24.01.2022 | PeakBridge VC Opens Dutch Office At StartLife |
PeakBridge VC is strengthening its European presence by extending its partnership with StartLife, which includes the opening of a Peakbridge office at StartLife on Wageningen Campus. StartLife will assist PeakBridge in building a strong l... |
| 09.12.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: India leads as AgroStar, Ola, WayCool & Samhitha score funding | Online farmer marketplace Agrostar scored $70 million while delivery and transport app Ola bagged $139 million as Indian startups led in the agrifoodtech funding stakes this past week. Elsewhere, the US’s Serve Robotics raised $13 million f... |
| 17.11.2021 | Israel’s Imagindairy closes $13m seed round to commercialize cow-free milk proteins | Israeli alt-milk startup Imagindairy has raised $13 million in seed funding, it announced today.
MoreVC led the round, with participation from Collaborative Fund, Emerald Technology Ventures, Entrée Capital, Green Circle Foodtech Ventures, ... |
| 25.08.2021 | Agrifoodtech Digest: Cargill, Microsoft & Rabobank get in on the ag carbon game | Two of the past week’s biggest stories were AFN exclusives from the ag carbon market, both involving Microsoft: verification platform Regrow’s $17 million Series A round, and agroforestry startup reNature’s successful ‘harvest’ in Brazil. I... |
| 13.04.2021 | Malta-based PeakBridge and EIT Food launch new €30 million seed fund, FoodSparks | Malta-based agritech VC fund manager PeakBridge and EIT Food have launched a new €30 million seed fund. Dubbed FoodSparks, the fund will invest in pan-European seed and early-stage startups focused on addressing food production, supply, and... |
| 27.01.2021 | BREAKING: Anti-allergy startup Ukko scores $40m in Bayer-led Series B | Israeli biotech startup Ukko has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Bayer‘s corporate venture unit, Leaps by Bayer.
Joining the funding were US agrifood conglomerate Continental Grain Company, Malta-based PeakBridge Ventures, Swi... |
| 27.01.2021 | Anti-allergy startup Ukko scores $40m in Bayer-led Series B | Israeli biotech startup Ukko has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Bayer‘s corporate venture unit, Leaps by Bayer.
Joining the funding were US agrifood conglomerate Continental Grain Company, Malta-based PeakBridge Ventures, Swi... |
| 11.01.2021 | Algae rancher Qualitas Health nets $10m to move into alt-protein | The cattle ranches of Texas have a long history of providing protein for hungry consumers in the US and farther afield. Houston-based startup Qualitas Health wants to continue that tradition – but it’s raising algae rather than beeves.
Qual... |
| 11.01.2021 | BREAKING: Algae rancher Qualitas Health nets $10m to move into alt-protein | The cattle ranches of Texas have a long history of providing protein for hungry consumers in the US and farther afield. Houston-based startup Qualitas Health wants to continue that tradition – but it’s raising algae rather than beeves.
Qual... |
| 28.12.2020 | AFN’s top 20 guest articles in 2020 | As we count down the final few days until 2021, we on the AFN editorial team have been taking some time to look back at what has been a momentous year in agrifoodtech.
Our coverage of this cutting-edge industry wouldn’t be complete if not f... |
| 30.04.2020 | Now is the time to invest in foodtech | Editor’s note: Nadav Berger is a co-founder and managing partner at PeakBridge Partners, an investment fund specializing in high-impact FoodTech; Elliot Hool is a co-founder at 2Scots. Here they write about the opportunities that persist in... |
| 25.09.2019 | Tastewise raises $5m Series A for consumer data platform, releases trend report | If food companies had a crystal ball, one of the first things they’d ask is what trends consumers want next. Tastewise is hoping to answer that with something a little more reliable than clairvoyance or even focus groups.
“We talked to CPG ... |
| - | Malta-based PeakBridge and EIT Food launch new €30 million seed fund, FoodSparks | Malta-based agritech VC fund manager PeakBridge and EIT Food have launched a new €30 million seed fund. Dubbed FoodSparks, the fund will invest in pan-European seed and early-stage startups focused on addressing food production, supply, and... |
