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| 11.03.2021 | Stand-Up Burgers: Veggie Grill To Debut Second Plant-Based Dining Concept Due To Consumer Demand | 4 Mins Read
Leading plant-based fast-casual eatery Veggie Grill has announced that it will open its second food concept, Stand-Up Burgers, a plant-based burger restaurant owing to increasing consumer demand for animal-free foods.
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| 11.01.2021 | Plant-Centered Meal Delivery Service Thistle Raises $10M in Series B Funding Round | San Francisco-based healthy meal delivery service Thistle has raised $10.3M in its Series B funding round. The round was led by previous investors PowerPlant Ventures, with contributions from others including Alumni Ventures Group and Siddh... |
| 11.01.2021 | Plant-Centered Meal Delivery Service Thistle Raises $10M in Series B Funding Round | © Thistle
San Francisco-based healthy meal delivery service Thistle has raised $10.3M in its Series B funding round. The round was led by previous investors PowerPlant Ventures, with contributions from others including Alumni Ventures Group... |
| 27.11.2020 | Q&A w/ Veggie Grill’s T.K. Pillan “Awareness Of Vegan Diets Today A Quantum Leap Forward” | 9 1
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In 2006, T.K. Pillan co-founded Veggie Grill as a fast-casual eatery in California serving only 100% plant-based food. Now, today is it the largest vegan restaurant chain in the United States with 37 locations acr... |
| 11.11.2020 | Plant-based startup Zero Egg raises $5m to support US expansion; brand is a 'gamechanger,' says Powerplant Ventures | The company – which claims to blow rivals out of the water in terms of taste, versatility and affordability – has two products: EGG Basics (designed for scrambles, omelets, quiches and egg bites); and BAKE Basics (for cakes, cookies, panc... |
| 24.04.2020 | The Collaborative Announces $7 Million Series A Funding For US Expansion | ©The Collaborative
UK based The Collaborative, previously The Coconut Collaborative, has announced it has secured a $7 million Series A investment from PowerPlant Ventures. The Collaborative, founded in 2014 by brothers Edward and James Ave... |
| 24.04.2020 | The Collaborative Announces $7 Million Series A Funding For US Expansion | UK based The Collaborative, previously The Coconut Collaborative, has announced it has secured a $7 million Series A investment from PowerPlant Ventures. The Collaborative, founded in 2014 by brothers Edward and James Averdieck, makes luxur... |
| 23.04.2020 | PowerPlant Ventures partner on valuations (‘falling by the minute’), the coming shakeout, and plant-based in a recession | Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA after PowerPlant Ventures invested $7m in plant-based dairy brand The Collaborative, co-founder and partner Mark Rampolla said:
“The funds that I know that are dedicated to this space are not going away, but... |
| 02.08.2019 | PowerPlant Ventures Announces Closing of $165M Fund II | © lovelyday12 – stock.adobe.com
PowerPlant Ventures (PowerPlantVC.com), investors in Beyond Meat, Thrive Market, Ripple Nutrition and Apeel Sciences, has announced its second fund to grow plant-based food and food-tech companies. Fund II, w... |
| 02.08.2019 | PowerPlant Ventures partner: ‘The plant-based milk market didn’t take off until they solved the taste issue; the same applies to plant-based meat’ | Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA after the plant-centric venture fund – an early investor in Beyond Meat - closed a $165m fund (four times the size of its original fund), partner and co-founder Kevin Boylan said next generation products had ... |
| 02.08.2019 | PowerPlant Ventures Announces Closing of $165M Fund II | PowerPlant Ventures (PowerPlantVC.com), investors in Beyond Meat, Thrive Market, Ripple Nutrition and Apeel Sciences, has announced its second fund to grow plant-based food and food-tech companies. Fund II, which closed at 165 million, is m... |
| 01.08.2019 | PowerPlant Ventures Closes Fund II, at $165M | PowerPlant Ventures Partners (from left to right) Dan Gluck, Mark Rampolla, Kevin Boylan, and T.K. Pillan – Photo courtesy of Tom Cocking (www.fmtsphotography.com)
PowerPlant Ventures, a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm investing in p... |
| 31.07.2019 | PowerPlant Ventures Raises $165M Fund To Keep Betting On Plant-Based Nutrition | 34 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Turns out you have to get some green to go plant based.
PowerPlant Ventures announced today that it has closed an oversubscribed fund to invest in plant-based food technology companies. The fund, th... |
| 31.07.2019 | PowerPlant Ventures Raises $165M Fund To Keep Betting On Plant-Based Nutrition | 37 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Turns out you have to get some green to go plant based.
PowerPlant Ventures announced today that it has closed an oversubscribed fund to invest in plant-based food technology companies. The fund, th... |
| 01.01.2018 | What Happened in Plant-Based Protein in 2017? | The plant-based protein startups using technology to create and mass produce their products have traditionally received support from a small, but dedicated group of investors, which is increasingly being joined by major food and agriculture... |
| 05.10.2017 | 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... |
| 27.04.2017 | Nutriati Raises $8m Series A from PowerPlant, Tate & Lyle for Plant-Based Ingredients | Plant-based ingredients foodtech startup Nutriati has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Tate & Lyle Ventures, a London-based firm focusing on food science startups.
PowerPlant Ventures, the relatively new, vegetarian food fun... |
| 20.04.2017 | Chickpea protein in the spotlight as high-profile investors pump $8m into Nutriati | The products will be manufactured by Nutriati and co-packers using its patent-pending technology, while New Jersey-based health ingredients specialist PLT Health Solutions, an early investor in Nutriati, will be the exclusive sales and ma... |
| 19.04.2017 | Mark Rampolla: Beanfields could be a $20-30m snack business before you even think about brand extensions | Speaking to FoodNavigator-USA after teaming up with PowerPlant Ventures and media investor Bruce Friedman to acquire Beanfields, Rampolla said several factors made the L.A.-based brand stand out from the crowd, from its high dollar sales ... |
| 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... |
| 15.02.2017 | Ozobot raises $3 million for toys that teach kids coding basics off-screen | There are many toys on the market today that promise to teach kids programming skills, and a good percentage require the use of a connected tablet or smartphone. At a time when parents are already struggling to keep kids’ screen time to a m... |
| 15.12.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Clear Labs Raises $13m Series B from GV, Khosla, Soros-Linked Fund Invests in Arya Collateral, more | Clear Labs, a food analytics startup, raised a $13 million Series B from a series of venture capital heavyweights including Google’s venture arm GV, early-stage and angel funders Felicis Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Chinese internet, mobi... |
| 27.10.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Habit Raises $32m from Campbells Soup for DNA Testing Nutrition Kit, Eaze Raises $13m Series B, more | Habit, a personalized nutrition startup set to launch in 2017, received a $32 million investment from Campbell’s Soup Company, making the food giant the company’s sole investor. Based in San Francisco, Habit will use data from an at-home te... |
| 30.09.2016 | How does Thrive Market make money? | Part organic grocery store, part online marketplace, part wholesaler—Thrive lives off memberships
Editor's note: Our 6th Annual Vator Splash LA conference is coming up on October 13 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. Speakers include Mark ... |
| 10.08.2016 | Powerplant Ventures Raises Largest Animal-Free Food Fund to-date with $42m Close | Powerplant Ventures has closed a $42 million fund aimed at funding plant-centric companies. The fund’s goal is to leverage technologies that tap into plants’ benefits and various applications to support what it describes as the “next wave o... |
| 03.08.2016 | Powerplant Ventures closes $42 million fund to back “plant-centric” food and tech startups | In recent years, venture capital has poured into food companies, from meal kit and grocery delivery services to the makers of environmentally sustainable, or health-promoting food products.
Now, investors and entrepreneurs from tech, food a... |
| 03.08.2016 | Powerplant Ventures Closes $42M Venture Capital Fund | Los Angeles, CA-based venture capital firm Powerplant Ventures closed a $42m fund aimed at improving the global food system by investing in emerging plant-centric companies.
Founded in 2015 by Mark Rampolla, Kevin Boylan, T.K. Pillan, and D... |