Noquo Foods raises €3.25m in seed funding to crack plant-based cheese
Noquo has yet to settle its core ingredient(s), admitting it’s a hard problem to crack, but a list of heavyweight investors clearly thinks the team can go the distance.
Noquo has yet to settle its core ingredient(s), admitting it’s a hard problem to crack, but a list of heavyweight investors clearly thinks the team can go the distance.
Lever VC, a firm specializing in alternative protein investments, led the round, which was joined by Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud’s VC firm KBW Ventures and Silicon Valley investors K2 Global. The investment sums involved were not disclosed on record.
The biotech business uses co-products from the whisky distillation process to produce microalgae, which are high in omega3 and other nutrients.
TechnifyBiz, a digital B2B marketplace for non-perishable food commodities like nuts, seeds, dry fruits, specialty grains, and honey, has raised $2m in seed funding from Omnivore and the Insitor Impact Asia Fund.
New Age Meats just raised $2.7m in seed funding to broaden its product offerings from sausages into bacon and pork belly.
This reporter visited This at their tech hub offices by Portobello Road in London last May to try its plant-based bacon alternative ahead of the launch that summer.
Early-stage life science and engineering investors Longwall Venture Partners led the round, which marks its inaugural agri-food tech investment.
Sufresca, an Israeli startup designing edible fruit and vegetable coating solutions to reduce food waste and curb plastic packaging, has just raised $500,000 seed funding from the agri-foodtech VC Rimonim, the company disclosed to AFN.
Investors included Omnivore and Better Capital, along with Omidyar Network India and Sequoia Capital India’s rapid scale-up program Surge.
Did you know that if America’s cats and dogs were a country, they’d be the fifth largest consumer of meat products globally? Now add the world’s pets into that; that’s a big contribution to the carbon footprint of the world’s meat industry.
The Des Moines-based startup is leveling the playing field by providing all users with comprehensive data about potential farm purchases.
Hint: Jinx isn’t really about dogs. It’s about the people who own dogs.
she1K, the world’s first angel network led by global corporate executive women, has syndicated an early-stage investment into Farmshelf, a New York-based vertical farming startup.
One could be forgiven for questioning why the world needs a robot that can make 300 pizzas an hour. Clayton Wood, CEO of robot making startup Picnic, often has to answer for that.
The Brooklyn-based startup will use the funding to test its microbial traceability prototype in a number of pilot projects starting next year.
Hume met with AFN to discuss how Shiru is leveraging technologies used in therapeutics to make alternative proteins for the food sector.
The UK startup just raised a £3.7 million ($4.77m) venture round for its climate modeling service aimed at decision-makers in business and government.
“Producers, especially in high-value crops, have invested a lot in data gathering. They have a lot of data. But they don’t know what to do with it. They need mathematical insights,” Pedro Carrillo, CEO of ec2ce, tells AFN.
Fasal, a precision agriculture platform, has just raised $1.6 million of seed funding from Omnivore and Wavemaker Partners, AFN can confirm.
The company has raised SFr7 million to support entry into other European markets, launch new products and work towards retail distribution at home.