In This Issue:
- Food Venture Financing Trends
- CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds
Food Venture Financing Trends
- Post Holdings announced that it has agreed to acquire the assets of Perfection Pet Foods for $235 million.
- Wanda Fish Technologies, a cultivated seafood tech company, announced that it raised $7 million in seed funding.
- Umiami, a plant-based meat startup, announced that it raised 32.5 million Euros in its Series A round.
CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund
This week's featured corporate venture and private equity fund is AF Ventures.
- AF Ventures (formerly AccelFoods, founded in 2013) manages over 30 portfolio brands across the consumer landscape of food & beverage, health & wellness, beauty, personal care, and pet.
- Advocating for emerging brands, AF Ventures offers its portfolio companies a proprietary suite of resources to achieve large-scale impact, improving the health of future generations.
- Portfolio companies include:
- By Heart
- Tractor Beverage Co.
- Wonder Belly
- Skinny Dipped
- Gainful
- Ready.Set.Food!
- Yumi
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