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| Sep 22, 2025 | The Protein Brewery raises $35.6m Series B to scale mycoprotein: ‘Our process is less capital intensive’ | Dutch startup The Protein Brewery has a raised a €30 million ($35.6 million) Series B round to scale its fungi-based food ingredients platform ahead of a commercial launch in the US and Singapore.
The round, which comes hot on the heels of ... |
| Sep 22, 2025 | The Protein Brewery Secures €30M to Advance Its Proprietary Mycoprotein | The Protein Brewery, a Dutch company producing fungi-based food ingredients, has secured €30 million in Series B funding.
The round saw participation from new investors Invest-NL and the Brabant Development Agency (BOM), alongside existing ... |
| Sep 12, 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... |
| Sep 12, 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 ... |
| Sep 12, 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... |
| Oct 12, 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... |
| Sep 13, 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... |
| Dec 8, 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 ... |
| Oct 27, 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... |
| Sep 12, 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... |
| Mar 18, 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,... |
| Mar 15, 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... |
| Mar 8, 2022 | IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 166
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The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them... |
| Feb 21, 2022 | Spanish startup Novameat raises €5.27M to scale its plant-based meat alternatives production | Barcelona-based Novameat, a company that develops proprietary technology solutions to create plant-based meat alternatives, announced that it has raised $6M (approx €5.27M) in its pre-Series A round of funding.
The investment was led by Lux... |
| Feb 18, 2022 | Novameat Closes $6 Million Pre-Series A Fund To Scale Its Plant-Based Whole Cuts Production | Novameat's latest plant-based beef steak NOVAMEAT |
| Jan 26, 2022 | Unovis Asset Management Closes Oversubscribed €146M Fund | Alt-protein-focused venture capital firm Unovis Asset Management has closed an oversubscribed €146 million ($166 million) second fund. Participants included Fuji Oil, Credit Suisse, and Invest-NL.
Known simply as Fund II, the fund is over t... |
| Sep 7, 2021 | Brooklyn’s NUMU Secures Series A Funding For “Revolutionary” Vegan Mozzarella | New York vegan cheese brand NUMU has announced its Series A funding, co-led by Unovis Asset Management and Clear Current Capital. The funding will be used for marketing, product development, and increased distribution.
NUMU’s first product ... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | Plant-based cheesemaker Nobell Foods nets $75m from a16z, AgFunder & Breakthrough Energy | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company AgFunder is an investor in Nobell Foods.
Alt-protein startup Nobell Foods has raised $75 million in a Series B round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) – the climate-focused investment group founded b... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Brief: Indonesia’s Green Rebel unveils ‘Asia’s first’ plant-based whole cuts | Disclosure: AgFunder (our parent company) has invested in Green Rebel through the GROW Impact Accelerator.
Green Rebel has released what it claims are Asia’s first plant-based protein products that imitate whole-muscle cuts of meat.
The Jak... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | Green Butcher: Indonesia’s First Plant-Based Meat Producer Finalises Seed Round Investment | Leading alternative protein venture capital firm Unovis Asset Management has announced the closing of its investment in Indonesia-based startup, Green Butcher. Located in Jakarta, the company claims to be the first plant-based meat producer... |
| Nov 11, 2020 | The Protein Brewery raises $26m from pea protein maker Roquette, Novo Nordisk affiliate | The Protein Brewery, a Netherlands-based fermentation tech company working on replacements for animal proteins, has raised €22 million ($26 million) in its Series A round.
Novo Growth led the round. It’s the VC arm of Novo Holdings, a Danis... |
| Oct 27, 2020 | Impossible Foods enters Asia’s supermarkets to take on Beyond Meat, regional upstarts | Impossible Foods is making its products available to home cooks in Asia for the first time, with the debut of its Impossible Beef range in select supermarkets in the region.
The plant-based beef alternative can now be purchased off the shel... |
| Sep 18, 2020 | Should You Quit Your Job to Become A Vegan Entrepreneur? | “Of late, several people have reached out to me after watching the Plantbased Business Hour stream live on Linkedin, all with the same question – How can I shift my career to become a part of the vegan economy?” Says our own Elysabeth Alfan... |
| May 27, 2020 | Nestlé enters Asian plant-based protein market with $103m China investment | Asia’s plant-based protein space seems to be growing more competitive by the day, with a multitude of startups, investors, and major food corporates announcing plays in the region.
Another giant has just thrown its hat in. Nestlé has unveil... |
| Dec 9, 2019 | Unovis Invests in Evolution Meats | American investment company Unovis Partners has announced it is taking an interest in the Dutch vegan startup Evolution Meats. Evolution Meats develops, produces and sells vegan meat substitutes and snack products to customers worldwide.
Ev... |
| Nov 25, 2019 | Purple Carrot Enters Into Venture Capital With The Garden Incubator | Vegan meal kit provider Purple Carrot has announced the formation of a plantbased incubator in order to assist early-stage plant-based companies in scaling their operations. The Garden Incubator will serve as an investor, an incubator and a... |