Tag: investment
Ashton Kutcher Joins Growing List of Celebrities Investing in Cell-Cultured Meat
Holywood actor Ashton Kutcher has announced that he is backing an Israel-based cultured meat startup MeaTech through his venture capital fund Sound Ventures. He along...
Indian American Bioengineers Making Milk Protein Without Cows Raise $350 Million
Perfect Day, Inc., a California-based startup making dairy protein without animals, yesterday announced that it has raised $350 million in a Series D funding...
Pune-Based Alt-Protein Company Proeon Raises $2.4 Mn, Eyes Global Expansion
Pune-based food ingredient start-up Proeon, announced it has recently raised US$2.4 million as seed capital in a funding round led by entrepreneur Shaival Desai. The...
Company Looking to “Remove Chickens & Cows from Food System” Raises...
California-based food-tech company Plantible Foods Inc. announced the closing of a $21.5 million Series A funding round led by Astanor Ventures, an agrifood-focused investor. With...
Day After FSSAI’s Jolt to Vegan Milk Producers, Homegrown Startup Goodmylk...
Goodmylk, a leading homegrown vegan dairy startup, has announced it has secured Rs 7.3 crore (USD 1 million) in seed round extension that saw...
Veganuary Co-Founder’s Investment Group Funds British Vegan Pie Company
UK-based non-profit investment group Veg Capital yesterday announced it has funded 35-year-old vegan bakery Clive’s Purely Plants. The new funding will be used by Clive’s...
Rapper Jay-Z Backs Vegan Cheese Company in $3M Seed Funding Round
Rapper and billionaire entrepreneur Jay-Z has invested in a Californian plant-based dairy alternative company, Misha’s Kind Foods, through his firm Marcy Ventures Partners Fund. Others...
India Gets its ‘First’ Venture Fund Focused on Vegan, Sustainable Startups
Today, animal agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to global warming and pollution, and even organisations such as World Economic Forum (WEF) and...
Rapper Post-Malone Invests in Plant-Based Burger Company
Betting big on the future of plant-based foods, American rapper Post Malone has invested in a veggie-only burger company from New York City through...
Indian Alt-Protein Major GoodDot Secures Fresh Investment, Eyes US and European...
Plant-based meat alternatives company GoodDot Foods Pvt. Ltd. recently raised an undisclosed amount of investment from consumer-centric venture capital firm Sixth Sense Ventures. According to...