In This Issue:
- Food Venture Financing Trends
- CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds
Food Venture Financing Trends
- Daring Foods, a vegan chicken brand, announced that it has been acquired by V2food, a large Australian plant-based meat producers.
- TerraBlaster, an agtech startup, raised a $4 million pre-seed round.
- BioConsortia, Inc., an agricultural biotech firm, raised $15 million in funding.
CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund
This week's featured corporate venture and private equity fund is AgFunder.
- AgFunder is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California.
- The firm invests in the agri-tech, food tech, robotics, big data, and life sciences sectors.
- Portfolio companies include:
- Brightseed
- Alpha Foods
- GreenLight Biosciences
- IntegriCulture
- AgFunder's mission is to invest in technologies to rapidly transform the food and agriculture system. It has leveraged technology, media and research to build a global ecosystem of over 85,000 members and subscribers.
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