Imagine a world without chocolate. Horrifying, right? But the supply of cocoa is endangered and chocolate is as bad as meat for our planet.
We make future-proof chocolate using precision fermentation. Doing this, our chocolate is 10x more sustainable and 20% cheaper than conventional chocolate. In order to mimic the organoleptic properties of chocolate (tender, smoothly melting taste release) we are working on the flavor itself but also on replacing the cocoa butter.
55 Mio lbs of chocolate are consumed every day. By 2035 we will substitute a big chunk of it through our sustainable chocolate.
Location: Germany, Bavaria, Munich
Member count: 1-10
Total raised: $6M
Founded date: 2021
Investors 5
| Date | Name | Website |
| 17.11.2021 | Fifty Year... | fiftyyears... |
| 03.08.2022 | World Fund | worldfund.... |
| 11.08.2021 | Y Combinat... | ycombinato... |
| - | Tet Ventur... | tet.vc |
| 27.10.2021 | Cherry Ven... | cherry.vc |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors | Deal News |
| 28.10.2021 | Seed | $6M | - | greenqueen... |
Mentions in press and media 10
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 11.05.2022 | Europe’s Largest Climatetech VC Fund Offers Investment Insig... | Danijel Visevic, World Fund Co-Founder World Fund How can venture capital finance be disrupted and ... | forbes.com... |
| 06.05.2022 | BREAKING: Tomorrow Farms lands $8.5m to develop next-gen pan... | Right on the cusp of announcing its first product, New York-based food tech company Tomorrow Farms h... | agfunderne... |
| 06.12.2021 | Cellular agriculture & emerging markets: Just because we... | Saron Berhane is an agrifoodtech entrepreneur based in Sydney, Australia. The views expressed in th... | agfunderne... |
| 28.10.2021 | Germany’s QOA Raises $6M In Seed Funding For Cocoa-Free Ferm... | 3 Mins Read Cocoa-free chocolate maker QOA has raised $6 million in seed funding. The round was led... | greenqueen... |
| 27.10.2021 | QOA brings in seed round to do for chocolate what Oatly did ... | Munich-based QOA is gearing up to be among the first to bring a chocolate product to market that is ... | techcrunch... |
| 26.10.2021 | World Fund is a new €350M climate VC fund incubated by green... | You might have previously thought that Ecosia was a nice-to-have search engine that planted trees wh... | techcrunch... |
| 26.10.2021 | The biggest European climate tech fund launches to invest €3... | Company: World Fund, a €350M climate tech venture fund launches today to become the biggest climate... | therecursi... |
| 31.08.2021 | Here are all the companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 D... | Today Y Combinator kicked off the Demo Day cycle for its Summer 2021 cohort. The collection of early... | techcrunch... |
| 16.08.2021 | Немецкий стартап начал производить шоколад без какао, чтобы ... | Стартап QOA придумал, как производить шоколад без какао. Для этого компания использует прецизионную ... | incrussia.... |
| - | QOA | “The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it Nocoa. You... | fastfounde... |