These strategic investors, and the firm's belief in using nutrition for health benefits, makes a large portion
of food tech startups of interest to the investor.
Tyson Ventures, the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods, Inc., has invested
in food tech startup Memphis Meats, a leader in cultured meat produced directly from animal cells.
A new accelerator venture capital fund has launched China's first accelerator programme
for food tech startups tackling food system challenges.
Impossible Foods — the California -
based food tech startup behind a bleeding, sizzling meat alternative — is primed for global expansion after securing US$ 114 million in additional financing.
Alternatively, after funding increased over 5x for North
American food tech startups from 2013 to 2014, 2015 saw fairly minimal funding growth year - over-year, increasing to $ 949M in 2015, led by 2 $ 100M + rounds to Blue Apron and Impossible Foods.
2015 created a perfect storm for
food tech startup funding, as the global shift to on - demand consumption paired with increased investor interest in the massive addressable markets associated with food, drove global funding figures to four straight $ 1B + quarters in 2015.
Overall,
food tech startups raised $ 5.7 B across 275 deals in 2015, up 152 % on a funding basis and 102 % on deals basis year - over-year.
Food tech startup Innit and LG Electronics partnered on a project meant to deliver the next generation of smart kitchen solutions to the market, the two companies announced at the 2018 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.
A VC firm started by OpenTable founder Chuck Templeton has closed its second fund at $ 180 million to invest
in food tech startups.
The food tech startup last slurped down a $ 20 million funding round in January led by Andreessen Horowitz.
For
the food tech startup Dinner Lab, however, having a whole clan of investors does exactly the opposite: It keeps the creative control of the company consolidated, untouched and unfettered by the otherwise omnipotent hand that comes with a big check from a VC deal.
Perfect Day,
a food tech startup, is utilizing a proprietary process to create the same protein found in cow's milk, allowing the company to develop lactose - free milks, cheeses, yogurts, and other such products with the same nutritional benefits of dairy without sourcing from animals.
02 Feb 2018 — Clean meat innovators Memphis Meats has been getting a lot of attention from investors recently with billionaire businessmen Richard Branson and Bill Gates staking their claim in the pioneering company last year — and now the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods has invested in
the food tech startup which lab - grows meat directly from animal cells.
Here's a little bit on what we do: we're
a food tech startup in NYC who have developed a plugin that enables your readers to order the ingredients they need to cook your recipes and have them delivered next day from online grocers like Peapod and Amazon.
Food Loft's website describes it as «the first - ever co-working space dedicated to food and
food tech startups.