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Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 89

01.25.22
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In This Issue:

  • Food Venture Financing Trends
  • CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds
  • Links to Relevant Content

Food Venture Financing Trends

  • Pepsi and Beyond Meat have entered a joint venture to create a vegan beef jerky snack. This is the first product in a line of plant-based products that the companies hope to produce through the joint venture.
  • CPG industry experts predict that while there will be interest in acquiring plant-based companies in 2022, the company valuations are likely to decrease this year.
  • Pluckk, an India-based digital commerce startup that sells fresh produce, announced that it raised $5 million in its seed funding.

CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds

This week's featured CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund is Katjes GreenFood.

  • Katjes Group, the German confectioner formed Katjesgreenfood to invest in emerging food brands focused on innovation and alternative food sources.
  • Key investments include:
    • Veganz, a vegan supermarket chain in Germany (2016)
    • Haferkater, a German porridge business (2017)
    • Caté, a coffee and cherries-based drinks company (2017)
    • Seven Sundays, a U.S. muesli manufacturer (2017)
    • Foodstirs, a U.S. organic baking start-up (2018)
    • Fora, another U.S. firm and supplier of vegan butter (2018)
    • Wild Friends, a U.S. plant-based, nut butter spreads maker (2018)

Links to Relevant Content and Events

Articles


  • Hain Celestial CEO Zeroing in on M&A, With 'A Lot of Firepower' at His Disposal
  • Yumi Raises $67 Million in Female-Led Funding Round
  • Castiron Serves Up a $6 Million Seed Round to Support 'Food Artisans'
  • Kemin Invests in Hemp-Based Ingredient Supplier
  • Food Tech's Newest Unicorn Flipdish Hits $1.25 Billion Valuation After Raising C.$100 Million
  • Cana Technology Raises Glass to New Capital as It Readies Beverage Printer for Market
  • Meatless Bacon From Mycelium Could Come to A Plate Near You as Atlast Food Co. Teams With Whitecrest Mushrooms to Scale Production
  • Beyond Meat and PepsiCo Team Up to Make Plant-Based Jerky
  • Plant-Based Investment Interest Is High Among Large CPG Players, but Valuations, Deal Sizes Are Dropping
  • Foodtech Startup Pluckk Raises $5 Million to Serve the Growing Demand of Lifestyle-Oriented Fresh Produce

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