In This Issue:
- Food Venture Financing Trends
- CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds
- Links to Relevant Content and Events
Food Venture Financing Trends
- Reshape, a Danish biotech startup that develops lab automation robots, announced that it has raised $20 million in Series A funding.
- Weenat, a French agtech company that aims to use data to combat water scarcity and climate change, announced that it has raised €8.5 million in Series C funding.
- Windfall Bio, a California-based climate solutions startup, announced that it has raised $28 million in Series A funding.
- Peptobiotics, a biotech startup that provides an alternative to antibiotics in commercial use, announced it has raised $6.2 million in Series A funding.
CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund
This week's featured corporate venture and private equity fund is McCain Foods.
- McCain Foods is based in Toronto, Canada and is the world’s largest manufacturer of frozen potato products. It also produces other quality products such as appetizers, vegetables and desserts that can be found in restaurants and retail stores in more than 160 countries around the world.
- McCain Foods has a significant food production network with a total of 49 production facilities globally - Canada (7), USA (9), Latin America (4), Europe (20 - 5 of which are in the UK), South Africa (2), Australia and New Zealand (5), India (1), and China (1).
- Some of its foodservice and retail brands include the following:
- Pickers
- Brew City
- Welten Snacks
- Moore’s
- CelaVita
- Hebro
- Mora
Links to Relevant Content and Events
ARTICLES
- Consumers Trading Down to Less Expensive Meat: Survey
- Red Baron Pizza Owner Looks to Korean Food for its Next $1 Billion Offering
- Glanbia Acquiring Flavor Producers for $300 Million
- Ginkgo Bioworks and Novo Nordisk Expand Alliance to Collaborate Across R&D Value Chain
- Global Food Properties Merges with Cresa
- TerraClear obtains $15 Million, Advancing Ag-Tech Capabilities
- Israel’s Greeneye Technology Raises $20 Million to Expand Precision-Spray Tech Across the US
- Mosa Meat Raises €40 Million From Investors Including Poultry Producer PHW Group
UPCOMING EVENTS
Naturally Los Angeles
April 2024 Mixer
Tuesday, April 23 | 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. PT
Location: Melrose Umbrella Co., Melrose Avenue 7465, Los Angeles, CA
Spring is in the air, and what better way to celebrate the season of renewal than by connecting with fellow nature and wellness enthusiasts? This is your perfect opportunity to mingle with like-minded individuals who share your passion for all things natural and sustainable. Whether you're looking to make new friends, find potential collaborators, or simply enjoy a relaxing evening filled with good conversation, our April Mixer is the place to be!
Naturally Boulder
Networking Collision Series at Sanitas Brewing Company
Wednesday, April 24 | 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. MT
Location: Sanitas Brewing Company, Frontier Avenue 3550, Boulder, CO
Join Naturally Boulder for their low-key, relaxed series of no-registration-required connection opportunities where you'll run into old friends and connect with new contacts. Want a chance to meet more folks in the natural and organic products industry? This is a free event; pre-registration is available but not required. Refreshments will be available to purchase at the venue on your own tab. Keep an eye out for our board hosts, Jenna Fitch and Randy Gilbride!
Naturally New York
How to Fly Off the Shelf: Tips & Tricks From GNGR Labs
Thursday, April 25 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET
Learn all that and more on this upcoming webinar featuring Namik Soltan and Ivan Khymych, entrepreneurs who know the struggles of effective sales and marketing as the Co-Founders of GNGR Labs.
- How to convince retailers to sell your product.
- How to be visible when there are hundreds of other products on the shelf
- How to win against the competition with a startup budget
- Marketing hacks to spend less than $100 on merchandising marketing materials
- Why merchandising can be more effective than any digital ad
Naturally San Diego
Pitch Slam
Thursday, April 25 | 4:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. PT
Location: Building 177, 2875 Dewey Rd, San Diego, CA
5 emerging brands pitch live on stage in a Shark-Tank style pitch competition.
Naturally San Diego's in-person Pitch Slam will give natural products entrepreneurs the stage to pitch their up-and-coming companies to a panel of experts and audience members, ultimately winning a suite of prizes from our local San Diego community to help propel their industry growth!
Naturally North Bay
Aligning the Dots... The Secret to Grow Any Business
Friday, April 26 | 7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. PT
Location: Hotel E, Old Courthouse Square 37, Santa Rosa, CA
One of the most vexing challenges many businesses face is how to grow. Dr. Philippe Bouissou's talk introduces a new universal, simple, prescriptive methodology to grow any business. This new way of cutting the Gordian growth knot emerged from Dr. Bouissou's discovery a few years ago. The breakthrough came from earning his Ph.D. in non-linear physics in chaos theory, working directly for Steve Jobs at Apple, and learning valuable lessons from his time as a successful Venture Capitalist. That discovery profoundly changed how he looks at any business and how he changes its growth trajectory.
Speaker:
- Philippe Bouissou, CEO of Blue Dots Partners, LLC