Tag: investment

  • Nutriati gets $12.7 million investment

    Nutriati gets $12.7 million investment

    Manna Tree Partners, who invest growth capital in companies that produce, process and distribute healthy food, has closed a growth investment in Nutriati, a developer and manufacturer of plant-based ingredients, including protein, flour and oil. Terms of the investment were not released. In this $12.7 million Series C funding round, anchor investor Manna Tree was joined by Open Prairie, an…

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  • BASF leads investment in seed startup

    BASF leads investment in seed startup

    BASF Venture Capital is the lead investor in a funding round for Israeli AgTech startup Equinom. Equinom’s computerized breeding technology is said to provide optimized seeds for the food industry to help it meet growing demand for plant-based products used as ingredients, clean label packed goods and healthier lifestyle cuisine. The investment is said to promote BASF’s strategy of applying…

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  • Raisio Group ramps up global production of gluten-free oat products with US$8.9m investment

    Raisio Group ramps up global production of gluten-free oat products with US$8.9m investment

    Raisio Group is targeting the expansion of its international oat business, with investments of €8 million (US$8.9 million) funneled into increasing capacity at the company’s oat mill in Nokia, Finland. This will allow the company capability to produce gluten-free oat products at its mill. The popularity of oats is notably sustained by a burgeoning consumer appetite for plant-based proteins. The…

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  • FrieslandCampina ups annual sustainability investment

    FrieslandCampina ups annual sustainability investment

    FrieslandCampina will make an additional annual investment of €24 million to stimulate sustainable development on the dairy farms of its farmer members. The higher dairy farmers score within the company’s Foqus Planet sustainability programme, the higher the financial contribution they receive. Foqus Planet measures, among other things, the environmental impact of a dairy farm, greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen soil balance,…

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  • Plant-based seafood manufacturer gets $32m investment

    Plant-based seafood manufacturer gets $32m investment

    Gathered Foods, makers of Good Catch plant-based seafood products, has announced the closing of an oversubscribed Series B funding round, which includes two key strategic industry investors: Greenleaf Foods and 301 INC, the venture arm of General Mills. Led by Stray Dog Capital and Rocana Ventures and including several prominent impact investors such as Almanac Investments, CPT Capital and New…

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