In This Issue:

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

Food Venture Financing Trends

• Post Holdings announced that it has agreed to acquire the assets of Perfection Pet Foods for $235 million.
• Wanda Fish Technologies, a cultivated seafood tech company, announced that it raised $7 million in seed funding.
• Umiami, a plant-based meat startup, announced that it raised 32.5 million Euros in its Series A round.

CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund

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

• AF Ventures (formerly AccelFoods, founded in 2013) manages over 30 portfolio brands across the consumer landscape of food & beverage, health & wellness, beauty, personal care, and pet.
• Advocating for emerging brands, AF Ventures offers its portfolio companies a proprietary suite of resources to achieve large-scale impact, improving the health of future generations.
• Portfolio companies include:
  • By Heart
  • Tractor Beverage Co.
  • Wonder Belly
  • Skinny Dipped
  • Gainful
  • Ready.Set.Food!
  • Yumi

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