In This Issue:
- Food Venture Financing Trends
- CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds
Food Venture Financing Trends
- Chef Robotics, an AI-Robotic systems for meal assembly in food manufacturing plants, announced that it raised $43.1 million in its Series A round.
- Ecovtive, an alternative protein emerging brand, raised $11 million in its latest funding round.
- Vestaron, an agtech company that develops peptide-based crop protection solutions, raised $20 million in its recent funding round.
CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund
This week's featured corporate venture and private equity fund is 1st Course Capital.
- 1st Course Capital ("1CC") is an early stage venture capital firm that was founded in 2019 and is based in Redwood City, California.
- 1CC seeks to create a significant positive impact on human health and the health of our planet and communities.
- Portfolio companies include:
- BlueCart
- FarmShelf
- Gooder Foods
- Kosterina
- Over The Top Foods
- Tori
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