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The Kitchen FoodTech Hub

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Founded in 2015 by the Strauss-Group as a part of the Israeli Innovation Authority incubators' program, The Kitchen is Israel's only FoodTech focused incubator.
The Kitchen addresses global food challenges by harnessing Israel’s renowned innovation eco-system. We strive to make the world’s food chain more productive, affordable, sustainable and healthy by investing in and nurturing cutting-edge technology startups.
Some examples of our areas of interest are: improved agricultural processes, supply chain technologies, efficient food processing, sensors for food safety and quality, prolonged shelf life and reduction of food spoilage, smart packaging, ingredients and products with new health benefits, improved nutritional profiles, reduction of environmental footprint and more.
In addition to a capital investment, the incubator provides the portfolio companies with benefits such as: close mentorship from the incubator's team; access to expertise and know-how from within the Strauss-Group and its partners; connections with global F&B companies and access to international investors.
Our vision is: Better Industry; Better Food; Better World
We believe that technological innovation can overcome the challenges of the food industry and are teaming up with the best FoodTech entrepreneurs to turn our vision into a reality.
More on http://www.TheKitchenHub.com/

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Location: Israel, South District, Ashdod

Employees: 1-10

Phone:+972 3-675-2220

Founded date: 2015

Investment Type: Accelerator

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Date	Name	Website	Total Raised	Location
08.02.2023	Meala Food...	mealafood.com	$1.9M	Israel, Ha...
06.07.2022	MAOLAC	maolac.com	$3.2M	Israel, No...

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28.01.2025	Pluri's Bold Leap into Sustainable Chocolate: A Game Changer for the Food Industry	In a world where sustainability is the new gold standard, Pluri Inc. is making waves. The Israeli biotechnology firm has secured a $6.5 million investment and is acquiring a majority stake in Kokomodo, a company specializing in cell-based c...
27.01.2025	Israeli Cell Ag Innovator Pluri Raises $6.5M, Announces Lab-Grown Cocoa Startup Acquisition	4 Mins Read Israel’s Pluri has secured a $6.5M investment and entered the cell-based chocolate space with the impending purchase of a majority stake in Rehovot-based Kokomodo. After innovating with cultivated meat and lab-grown coffee, Haif...
27.11.2024	Imagindairy's Leap into the Future of Dairy: A New Era of Animal-Free Whey Protein	In a world where sustainability and health are paramount, Imagindairy is carving a niche. This Israeli startup has received the green light from the Ministry of Health to sell its animal-free whey protein. It’s a milestone that signals a sh...
26.11.2024	Israeli Regulator Clears Imagindairy’s Animal-Free Whey Protein for Sale	5 Mins Read Precision fermentation startup Imagindairy has received regulatory approval for its animal-free whey protein in Israel, as it closes in on its latest fundraising round. Israeli startup Imagindairy can now sell its cow-free whey ...
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...
26.10.2024	The Resilience of Israel's Agrifoodtech Amidst Turmoil	The landscape of agrifoodtech in Israel is shifting. Recent conflicts have cast shadows over funding and innovation. Yet, beneath the surface, a different story unfolds. The numbers tell one tale, but the spirit of resilience tells another....
23.10.2024	Israel-Gaza conflict not “the whole story” behind plunge in agrifoodtech funding	It’s perhaps unsurprising that Israel-based agrifoodtech startups have closed just 17 funding rounds since the Hamas attack on civilians that was followed by a protracted war in Gaza. Raising some $161 million since October 7, 2023, the tot...
04.07.2024	Kokomodo Creates Cultivated Cacao, Preserving Climate-Proof Supplies for the Future of Confectionery	Climate change poses a significant threat to the future supply of cacao (the unprocessed version of cocoa), with the majority of farmland predicted to become unfit for production by 2050. Recent severe weather events have negatively impacte...
08.04.2024	Finally Foods Secures Funds for AI-Driven Plant Molecular Tech to Produce Casein for Cheese	Israeli startup Finally Foods Ltd., an AI-driven company focused on revolutionizing the alt-protein sector through plant molecular farming, has secured pre-seed funding from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub (TKH) and the Israeli Innovation Authorit...
02.04.2024	Casein… from potatoes? Molecular farming startup Finally Foods emerges from stealth	Finally Foods—an Israeli molecular farming startup producing dairy proteins in potatoes—has emerged from stealth with pre-seed funding from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub (TKH) by Strauss Group and the Israeli Innovation Authority. Founded by Dr....
25.03.2024	FoodTech World Cup: FoodHack & Givaudan Launch Global Tournament for Industry Disruptors	5 Mins Read Food tech community FoodHack and ingredient and fragrance giant Givaudan have teamed up to launch a FoodTech World Cup, a global competition aimed at finding disruptive technologies and consumer concepts. With investment in the ...
22.02.2024	Israel’s Day 8 Secures Funds for Leaf Protein-Based Ingredient Extracted from Upcycled Crops	Israeli startup Day 8 has secured $750,000 pre-seed funding from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub to introduce a functional ingredient made from the leaf protein Rubisco for plant-based dairy, meat, and other food applications. The young startup wa...
20.11.2023	Methylcellulose: What Is It, Why It’s Used in Plant-Based Meat, and Startups Making Alternatives	7 Mins Read As the meat industry continues to knock the long ingredient lists of certain plant-based meat alternatives, one element pops up more often in the discourse: methylcellulose. But what is this substance, and is it really unhealthy...
11.10.2023	Cultivated Bluefin Tuna Producer Wanda Fish Nets $7M in Seed Funding, Aims for 2026 Launch	5 Mins Read Wanda Fish, the Israeli startup making cultivated whole-cut bluefin tuna, has raised $7M in a seed funding round to accelerate production and scalability. The company is planning for regulatory approval in the US in 2025, and sa...
06.08.2023	NatureGrowth Awarded Landmark Israeli Tax Pre-Ruling: Breakthrough for Foreign Investors	Israel Tax Authority Issues Groundbreaking Pre-Ruling NatureGrowth Incubator Headquarters Nature Growth has achieved a significant milestone with a tax pre-ruling that effectively exempts foreign investors from capital gain taxes in Israel....
20.01.2023	Cultivated meat in focus at Tufts cellular ag innovation day: From bioreactor bottlenecks to a ‘global battle cry’ for government funding	“Talk is cheap,” Dr Uma Valeti, founder and CEO at California-based cultivated meat startup UPSIDE Foods told delegates at the Tufts University Cellular Agriculture Innovation Day. “So let’s prioritize action, and… take the constructiv...
18.11.2022	A letter from Israel: Ecosystem-defining culture and the positive role of government	Editor’s Note: Hello, dear AFN readers. This is the first of a planned monthly column I intend to write to share thoughts on events I’ve attended, conversations I’ve had, and general musings on our agrifoodtech industry. It’s been a while s...
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...
08.10.2020	Israeli startup Zero Egg enters US market with b2b launch of plant-based egg replacement	EGG Basics from Zero Egg is designed for scrambles, omelets, quiches and egg bites; while BAKE Basics is designed for cakes, cookies, pancakes & waffles, pasta, mayo and dressing, reaching parts of the market that Just Egg has yet...
30.04.2020	Sweet Proteins From the Jungle Can Replace Sugar	Amai Proteins, an Israel food tech company, came up with healthy sugar substitutes – Sweet Designer Proteins. The scientists take proteins that grow in the jungle and redesign it by using AI-CPD. We’ve not tried yet, but, reportedly, the fi...
06.02.2020	For Yofix, plant-based yogurt is not enough. It has to be ‘clean label’ too.	Last September, AFN churned out a long-read on Israel’s emergence as “a land of alt milk and AI honey.” That wrapped up with a trip to the Kitchen Hub, a food tech incubator established by the Strauss Group five years ago with support from ...
22.10.2019	Thai Union piles into alt protein with Flying Spark investment, new VC, incubator	Israeli insect farming startup Flying Spark has struck a strategic partnership and investment deal with Thai Union, one of the world’s largest seafood producers. (News of this first buzzed onto our radar at Israel’s AgriFood Week in Septemb...
07.10.2019	One small steak for man, one giant leap for space-grown meat!	In September, rumors were rocketing round Israel’s AgriFood Week that Aleph Farms — a startup designing bio-reactor grown and 3D-printable beef steaks — had been busily turning the International Space Station into, well, an International ‘S...
26.09.2019	The land of alt milk and AI honey: notes from Israel’s AgriFood Week	I tucked into my first ever breakfast in Israel early this Sunday morning faced with a blatantly biblical reminder. On my hotel’s breakfast counter across from me stood an enormous, oozing slab of honeycomb — right next to a whirring milk d...
14.05.2019	Cultured Meat Startup Aleph Farms Raises $12m Series A from VisVires New Protein and Cargill	Aleph Farms, an Israel cell cultured meat startup, has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Singaporean investor VisVires New Protein. Commodities trading and ag products group Cargill participated in a rare venture capital outing ...
09.05.2019	‘We are relentlessly looking for female entrepreneurs, but there aren’t enough’	AgFunder and its collaborators KK&P and The New Food Economy are excited to announce that S2G Ventures has become a sponsor of Money Where Our Mouths Are (MWOMA), an investigation into the funding gaps for female entrepreneurs in the ag...
11.04.2019	‘Over Ten Thousand Times Sweeter Than Sugar’: Meet The Man Making Some of The World’s Sweetest Proteins	Mary Poppins used to sing about how a spoonful of sugar “helps the medicine go down.” She’d perhaps change her tune if she ever met Dr. Ilan Samish, the CEO and founder of Amai Proteins — an Israeli startup lab-designing hyper-sweet, thermo...
20.03.2019	New Report: Israel AgriFood Tech Startups Raise $759m in Five Years	AgFunder and Start–Up Nation Central have released the Israel AgriFood Tech Investing Report 2014-2018. The report reveals $759 million of venture capital investments into Israel’s AgriFood tech sector over five years — an ecosystem that in...
23.05.2018	4 Reasons Why Israel is Now a Developed AgriFood Tech Hub	Two weeks ago, I went to Israel to attend Food and Ag Week including FoodTech IL 2018 hosted by the Strauss Group and incubator The Kitchen, and Agrivest 2018, hosted by accelerator group Trendlines and agrifood tech VC GreenSoil. It had be...
02.05.2018	Tyson Invests in Israeli Cultured Meat Startup Future Meat Technologies	Future Meat Technologies, an Israeli startup manufacturing meat from animal cells in a laboratory, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding, in a round led by Tyson Ventures, the venture arm of the meat giant. Also investing are the Neto Gro...
16.01.2018	EXCLUSIVE: Israeli Foodtech Hub Makes New Investments Aimed at Common Consumer Complaints	Israeli foodtech incubator The Kitchen has made two new investments in food safety device Inspecto and sugar reduction technology Better Juice, both of which are responding to pressing consumers demands. “We are looking for solutions that a...
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...
26.04.2017	The Kitchen FoodTech Hub Preps to Welcome 7th Company as Industry “Leaps Forward” in Israel	“Foodtech wasn’t really a real sector in Israel then.” Amir Zaidman is talking about the years running up to the launch of The Kitchen, a startup incubator sponsored by leading Israeli food company Strauss-Group. “We were already known for ...
-	FOODTECH ACCELERATOR HITS THE HOLY LAND: A STOP IN ISRAEL	As part of the global scouting tour for cutting edge food innovation and technology, the FoodTech Accelerator team had the extraordinary opportunity to visit Israel, home to one of the most rapidly growing and dynamic startup environments i...

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