Unovis Asset Management is the global leader in the alternative protein sector. Our investment firm partners with entrepreneurs developing innovative plant-based and cultivated replacements to animal products, including meat, seafood, dairy and eggs. Through our inaugural and world-renowned fund, New Crop Capital Trust, and now The Alternative ProteinFund, our goal is to transform the global food system by investing in solutions that facilitate sustained behavioural change and eliminate the consumption of animal protein products.
We provide seed to growth funding to entrepreneurs developing plant, fungi, fermented, and cultivated replacements to animal products. We support our founders by sharing our culinary knowledge, understanding of consumer habits, experience in food manufacturing, and global network to catalyze investments and build lasting companies.
We provide seed to growth funding to entrepreneurs developing plant, fungi, fermented, and cultivated replacements to animal products. We support our founders by sharing our culinary knowledge, understanding of consumer habits, experience in food manufacturing, and global network to catalyze investments and build lasting companies.
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2016
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Portfolio 24
Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
- | Sunfed Mea... | sunfedfoods.com | $10M | New Zealan... |
- | SuperMeat | supermeat.com | $5M | Israel |
- | NUMU Vegan... | numuvegan.com | - | United Sta... |
- | Beyond Mea... | beyondmeat.com | $295M | United Sta... |
- | Fora Foods | forafoods.com | - | United Sta... |
- | Kite Hill | kite-hill.com | $73M | United Sta... |
- | Lighter | lighter.world | - | United Sta... |
- | Dao foods | daofoods.com | - | China |
- | Good Dot | gooddot.in | - | India, Raj... |
- | Upside Foo... | memphismeats.com | $580.75M | United Sta... |
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12.09.2024 | Novameat's €17.4M Funding: A Leap into the Future of Plant-Based Meat | In the bustling heart of Barcelona, a culinary revolution is brewing. Novameat, a pioneering plant-based meat startup, has secured €17.4 million in a Series A funding round. This investment, led by Sofinnova Partners and Forbion via its Bio... |
12.09.2024 | Novameat Secures €17.4M in Oversubscribed Round, Launches Improved Shredded Plant-Based Beef | Barcelona’s Novameat, a B2B company specializing in different cuts of plant-based chicken, beef, and turkey, announces it has raised €17.4 million in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Sofinnova Partners and Forbion via its BioEconomy ... |
12.09.2024 | Novameat raises $19.2m to expand next-gen plant-based meat texturizing tech: ‘We have a clear path to profitability’ | Barcelona-based plant-based meat startup Novameat has raised a €17.4m ($19.2 million) series A round. Sofinnova and Forbion BioEconomy led the round, supported by existing investors Praesidium, Unovis Asset Management and Rubio Impact Ventu... |
12.10.2023 | Heüra Foods unveils plant-based cold cuts made with ‘simple, scalable’ novel texturizing tech, aims for profitability by 2025 | Spanish startup Heüra Foods has unveiled its first product manufactured using patent-pending technology it claims is cheaper and more effective than extrusion at texturizing plant proteins, and can also be used for plant-based cheese produc... |
13.09.2023 | 🎥 AgFunderNews round table: Foodtech investing in focus, from ‘tourist capital’ to a ‘return to fundamentals’ | Two or three years ago, investors were throwing bucket-loads of cash at foodtech companies, particularly those in so-called “alternative proteins.” Since then, funding has started to dry up, sales of meat alternatives have moved into negati... |
08.12.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Grocery startup Oda bags $158m, new rounds for alt meat & restaurant tech | Despite losing its unicorn status, Norwegian online grocer Oda bagged a sizable round this week. Restaurant tech company MarginEdge and AgFunder portfolio company Black Sheep Foods also raised money, as did forest tech platform Gaia AI and ... |
27.10.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Trigo’s $100m, Dutch gov’t backs cultivated meat, Bill Gates wants to decarbonize rice | This week, foodtech startup Trigo landed funds for its automated checkout system that lets shoppers purchase goods without waiting for a cashier. The Dutch government is allocating new funds to cultivated meat initiatives, and Bill Gates an... |
12.09.2022 | ‘There’s going to be a lot of burnt capital…’ Navigating the ‘hand-wringing phase’ of alt meat investment | So what is the mood in the market amid weakening US retail sales of meat alternatives, grim P&L figures from a couple of high-profile publicly listed brands, and mixed messages from big CPG players (Kellogg says it remains bullish about... |
18.03.2022 | Plantish raises $12M to take 3D printed seafood to fine dining restaurants | Israeli 3D printing seafood start-up Plantish has raised $12.45 million in seed funding to bring its alternative seafood products to restaurants within the next two years. The firm’s first plant-based seafood product is its Plantish Salmon,... |
15.03.2022 | Spinning alt-meat like cotton candy, Tender Food banks $12m seed capital | US alt-protein startup Tender Food — previously known as Boston Meats — has raised $12 million in seed funding for its “cotton-candy machine” technology that can be used in the production of both plant-based meat analogs and cell-cultured p... |
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