In This Issue:
- Food Venture Financing Trends
- CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds
Food Venture Financing Trends
- Nexus W2V, a sustainable waste-to-value startup, announced that it raised $140 million in investments.
- Planet A Foods, a cocoa-free chocolate emerging brand, announced that it raised $30 million in its Series B round.
- Gavan Technologies, a plant protein-based fat solution foodtech company, raised $8 million in funding.
- Luyef, a Chilean biotech startup that develops cellular agriculture, received $1.25 million in grant funding.
CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund
This week’s featured corporate venture and private equity fund is Nutrition Capital Network.
- Nutrition Capital Network (NCN) connects investors with high-potential growth companies.
- NCN brings together active investors with curated health, wellness, and ingredient companies that are looking for capital, partnerships, or acquisitions.
- NCN hosts five Investor Meetings each year, where selected companies give live presentations about their businesses to a group of active industry investors and mentors.
- Representative NCN Investors include:
- The Coca-Cola Company
- Abbott Nutrition
- Abrams & Company
- Allergy Research Group
- Bimbo Bakeries USA
- NCN uses the following criteria to evaluate potential Presenting Companies (for details, see Selection Criteria | Nutrition Capital Network):
- Novelty and Unique Position
- Insulation
- Economic Potential
- The Management Team
- Tangibles: Good branding or brand name, good quality & taste, unique packaging or presentation
- Intangibles: The “WOW” factor; head turning potential
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