Perfeggt readies its chicken-less egg alternative with $2.8m fundraise
The Berlin-based company will launch its liquid egg alternative in Germany and several other European countries early next year.
The Berlin-based company will launch its liquid egg alternative in Germany and several other European countries early next year.
They’ll work together on The Yield LatAm Opportunity Fund, a new vehicle which will invest in roughly 30 companies in the region over the next five years.
“In seeking Series A investors, we were intentional about collaborating with experienced food industry professionals,” says CEO Matt Gibson.
“Given we are operating in crops like palm, coffee, [and] pepper, we see the Southeast Asia region as a massive opportunity,” says co-founder Shailendra Tiwari.
The San Francisco-based company will use the Series A funds to grow its team and further develop its “proprietary” food preparation platform.
An ADM spokesperson told AFN that it was “the first major food and ag company to have been invited to invest in FBN.”
The category continues to evolve as digital tools blur the lines between mealkits, virtual restaurants, and dark grocery stores.
Cooperative Ventures will seek out startups in three core investment areas: crop production, supply chain, and sustainability.
It’s on a mission to help India’s 100 million dairy farmers and workers get access to formal banking and other financial services.
The Ghanaian startup allows crowdfunders – which it calls ‘digifarmers’ – to invest in African smallholdings, and then digitalizes the ag value chain end-to-end.
The Shanghai-based firm has also signed Adisseo, Temasek, and UAE government-linked investor ADQ as LPs for its new China-focused fund.
The Series B funds will be used to scale up the Irish company’s platform, which aims to unlock additional health benefits for food and beverage products.
It leans on the community group-buying model popularized in China, allowing consumers to form teams in order to make bulk buys on its platform.
The Kenyan fund’s CEO talks about its own hard-learned lessons in everything from promoting tech as a tool, to fighting climate change on the continent.
The US startup brings work-from-home to the gig economy, giving drive-thru restaurants a virtual, on-demand workforce, writes AgFunder partner Manuel Gonzalez.
US-based Robigo engineers plant microbiota into ‘molecular vigilantes,’ according to co-founder Connor Sweeney.
The St Paul, Minnesota-based startup will continue to build out its technology that connects lenders and farmers, giving the latter improved access to working capital.
The Chilean startup is building what it says is Latin America’s first large-scale sustainable vertical farming plant, powered completely by renewables.
The Patna-based startup says it serves 650,000 smallholders and collaborates with 3,000 rural micro-entrepreneurs.
It aims to “get cell-cultured meat onto the tables of Chinese consumers, providing them with healthier, safer, and lower-carbon meat products,” according to co-founder Ding Shijie.