Explosion in new firms cements Berlin's status as startup hub
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....more
Food Venture Financing Trends - De Novo, a startup that creates protein-based functional ingredients using microbial fermentation, to accelerate commercialization of NanoFerrin, the company’s flagship product, following a...more
Food Venture Financing Trends - Ai Palette, a Singapore-based AI-powered food innovation startup, announced that it has raised $5.7 million in Series A1 funding. Umaro Foods, a producer of seaweed-based bacon,...more
Food Venture Financing Trends - Oishii, a US-based vertical farming company, announced that it has raised $134 million in Series B funding. PawCo, a plant-based dog food brand, announced that it has raised $2 million...more
Venture capital can be a vital source of funding and support for emerging companies in the healthy food and beverage space. In addition to providing capital, venture capitalists may offer strategic guidance, networking...more
The moniker “venture capital” is believed to have originated from the financier John Hay Whitney. Having served in World War 2, Whitney returned to the United States with a new mission: to spread American ideals of free...more
Mark Koulogeorge is the managing general partner of MK Capital, an early and growth-state venture capital firm that primarily invests in disruptive business-to-business software and technology companies in their A and B...more
Venture capital is a unique asset class. In this episode, Jason Shuman, General Partner at Primary VC, gives us a window into his world of early-stage venture capital investing and discusses the multitude of stars that must...more
After years of increasing acceptance of and reliance on convertible note financings as a mechanism for funding early-stage companies, we have noted a clear emerging trend away from such transactions (and others like them,...more
Buzzwords from the last few months of 2015 included unicorpse, bubble and contracting market, juxtaposed with new and bigger funds being raised, more money being invested, more unicorns being born and the number of...more