In This Issue:

• Food Venture Financing Trends
• CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds

Food Venture Financing Trends

• TreeHouse Foods announced that it will acquire a coffee facility and business from Farmer Brothers Company for $100 million in a deal that is expected to close in the next 60 days.
• MyForest Foods, a foodtech startup that develops mycelium bacon, announced that it raised $15 million in its Series A-2 round. Ecovative Design, the parent company of MyForest Foods, led the new financing.
• Uncommon (formerly known as Higher Steaks), a cultivated meat foodtech company based in the UK, announced that it raised $30 million in its Series A round.
• The Green Coffee Co., a consolidated arabica coffee farming company with operations based in Colombia, announced that it raised $25 million in its Series C round.

CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund

This week's featured corporate venture and private equity fund is Better Food Ventures.

• Better Food Ventures (“BFV”) is a venture capital firm that was founded in 2013 and is based in Menlo Park, California.
• BFV seeks to invest in early-stage, scalable, game-changing technologies across the food and agriculture sectors.
• Portfolio companies include:
  • Milk Moovement
  • Bountiful
  • Breedr
  • Four Growers
  • Edifice Health
  • Afresh Technologies
  • Byte Technology

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