- Food Venture Financing Trends
- CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds
Food Venture Financing Trends
- Vow, a cultivated meat maker startup, announced that it raised $49.2 million in its Series A round.
- An analysis by the Good Food Institute found that alternative protein companies raised $420 million in Q3 of this year, down from $833 million in Q2 and $911 in Q1.
- Although investments in foodtech companies have decreased this year, investors in the sector believe that foodtech companies will continue to attack investment due to the appeal of healthy, alternative protein options and commitment to sustainability.
CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds
This week's featured CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund is Inventages.
- Inventages is an investment arm of Nestle S.A. and is based in Nassau, Bahamas.
- Inventages is one of the world's first strategic life-sciences, nutrition and wellness focused venture capital fund managers. It invests in early-stage companies operating in the life sciences, nutrition, and wellness sectors.
- Portfolio companies include:
- Accera®
- AM-Pharma
- Atonomics
- Steaz
- VELLE®
- Vital Foods
- XO®
- Horizon Science
- Inventages pursues opportunities for preventing and managing chronic diseases through diagnostics, drugs, OTC, medical and functional foods, nutraceuticals and enabling technologies that would address these major disease areas: cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, brain health, metabolic and bone health.
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