In This Issue:
- Food Venture Financing Trends
- CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds
- Links to Relevant Content and Events
Food Venture Financing Trends
- Meati Foods, an alternative protein foodtech company that utilizes mycelium, raised $22 million in its extension round. The company used the funds from the extension and funds raised last year to open a new production facility.
- Former executives of Kind launched an incubation and investment firm named Camino Partners.
- Milo's Tea Company plans to invest $130 million to open a fourth production facility in the US.
CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund
This week's featured CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund is 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 growth brands.
- AF Ventures offers its portfolio companies a proprietary suite of resources to achieve large-scale impact, improving the health of future generations.
- AF Ventures invests in visionary founders building authentic, next-generation consumer brands driving omnichannel innovation.
- Portfolio companies include:
- By Heart
- Cirkul
- Gainful
- Ready.Set.Food!
- Hello Cake
- Tea Drops
- Yumi
Links to Relevant Content and Events
ARTICLES
- Metropolitan Market Joins The Shelf Technology Movement: The Pacific Northwest Grocer Will Use AI to Track On-Shelf Availability
- Former Kind Execs Launch Incubation and Investment Firm Camino Partners
- Meati Opens Up ‘Mega Ranch’ Production Facility, Plans to Produce “Tens of Millions of Pounds” of Fungi-Based Meat
- Ridgemont Recapitalizes Worldwide Produce
- SJW Robotics Raises $2 Million as It Eyes Launch of Autonomous Robotic Restaurants This Spring
- The ISH Company Raises Over $5 Million in Oversubscribed Round to Accelerate Plant-Based Shrimp and More
- Rumin8 Raises US$12 Million Seed Funding From Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy and Harvest Road
- Milo’s Tea Company to Invest $130 Million in Fourth U.S. Production Plant
- Guayaki Raises $75 Million, SEC Filing Shows
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