Explosion in new firms cements Berlin's status as startup hub
After forming a company and dividing equity amongst the co-founders, a founding team’s next questions are typically about funding. Often among ambitious founders, venture capital first comes to mind. Venture capital is...more
Food Venture Financing Trends - Mondelēz International's SnackFutures Ventures, the corporate VC arm for Mondelēz, participated in a $4.5M funding round for Celleste Bio, a startup that produces cell-cultured cocoa...more
This month we are excited to feature our client Sora Fuel and their recent success in closing a $6 million seed round to expand their Boston-based team, develop commercialization partnerships, and further advance the...more
Formo, a fermentation startup, announced that it raised $61 million in its Series B round. Keurig Dr Pepper announced that it has signed a distribution deal to sell Black Rifle Coffee's new ready-to-drink energy drinks....more
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...more
Food Venture Financing Trends - Alice Mushrooms, a functional chocolate emerging brand, announced that it received funding from L Catterton and Zac Efron. Root Global, a German climate startup focused on sustainability...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 Terrantic, a data platform for modern operations for the food supply chain, announced that it raised $3.5 million in seed funding. Plonts, an alternative dairy startup that raised $12...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
Navigating the expanding defense technology subsector of the emerging company ecosystem requires careful planning and execution. Beyond putting together a trusted team and developing a uniquely marketable product, defense...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
Global venture capital funding for PropTech companies dropped from $32 billion to $19.8 billion in 2022, a decline of 38%, according to a report issued in December 2022 by the Center for Real Estate Technology & Innovation...more
This article is Part B of the fifth alert in our series of alerts focussed on the alternative protein industry. While Part A provided an overview of financing options in the industry, this Part B considers a variety of key...more
Are antitrust concerns a built-in feature of the Metaverse? In two popular science-fiction novels, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, the Metaverse is run by single companies, or "monopolists,"...more
In this latest issue of The Entrepreneurs Report, we’ve compiled a range of data on venture financing transactions in which the firm was involved during the first quarter of 2021, with the objective of identifying relevant...more
Why SAFEs will continue to dominate in early stages - Amidst historic highs for startup investment in 2021, and new records broken every month, one wonders whether we can expect the venture capital boom to continue. ...more
Some interesting links we found across the web this week: From The Editor’s Desk: To Grow a More Diverse Startup Ecosystem, Start At The Seed Stage - Crunchbase’s first Diversity Spotlight Report underscores the extent...more
A Founder's Guide to Y Combinator's Post–Money Safes - In late 2018, Y Combinator released new forms of Simple Agreements for Future Equity (Safes) that were significantly different from the initial forms created in 2013....more
Healthcare companies have raised over $37.5 billion globally in the first three quarters of 2019 in over 3,409 private venture funding rounds according to a recent CB Insights report. Compared to full year 2018, the report’s...more
Some interesting links we found across the web this week: The Few Startups with Female Founders Raise More Venture Cash - After angel investments and seed round funding, studies from the Kauffman Fellows Research Center...more