In This Issue:
- Food Venture Financing Trends
- CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds
Food Venture Financing Trends
- Zbiotics, a startup that develops genetically engineered probiotics, announced that it has raised $12 million in its Series A round.
- New School Foods, a plant-based seafood emerging brand, has raised $6 million in a seed extension.
- Sunswap, a cleantech startup focused on cold chain logistics, confirmed that it has raised over 20 million Euros in its latest round of funding.
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:
- Tractor Beverage Co.
- Wonder Belly
- Skinny Dipped
- Ready.Set.Food!
- Yumi
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