In This Issue:
- Food Venture Financing Trends
- CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds
Food Venture Financing Trends
- Key, a zero-sugar ketone-based energy drink founded by former PepsiCo and Coca-Cola executives, announced that it raised $4 million in seed funding.
- Cultimate Foods, a cell-cultivated fat ingredient emerging brand, announced that it raised 2.3 million Euros in its seed round.
- Edonia, a microalgae-based protein ingredient startup, announced that it raised 2 million Euros in a seed round.
CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund
This week's featured corporate venture and private equity fund is Better Food Ventures.
- Better Food Ventures is a venture capital firm that was founded in 2013 and is based in Menlo Park, CA.
- The firm seeks to invest in early-stage, scalable, game-changing technologies across the food and agriculture sectors.
- Portfolio companies include:
- Milk Moovement
- Four Growers
- Edifice Health
- Afresh Technologies
- DecisionNext
- Byte Technology
- Better Food Ventures is affiliated with The Mixing Bowl, a forum for thought leadership and information exchange.
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