In This Issue:

• Food Venture Financing Trends
• CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds
• Links to Relevant Content and Events

Food Venture Financing Trends

• Meati Foods, a fungi-based alternative meat company, announced that it raised $150 million in its Series C round. The company plans to use a portion of the funds to open a new production facility that will expand its footprint nationally.
• Cargill and Continental Grain Company purchased Sanderson Farms for $4.53 billion. The parties plan to combine Sanderson Farms with Wayne Farms, a subsidiary of Continental Grain, to create a new poultry business.
• Hivery, an SAAS-based AI tool that assists brick-and-mortar stores and CPG manufacturers with optimization product placement, announced that it raised $30 million in its Series B round. The round was led by Tiger Global.

CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds

This week's featured CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund is Farm2050.

• Farm 2050 was co-founded by Innovation Endeavors and Finistere Ventures in California. Farm2050 is a collective of diverse partners - a complete ecosystem. It is committed to advancing the future of food through supporting AgTech entrepreneurs and startups.
• This VC fund has established a successful track record investing in some of the most innovative and fastest-growing early stage food and beverage companies.

Links to Relevant Content and Events

ARTICLES

• Portland Pet Food Company Expands Management Team
• Regenerative Ag Seen as Key by General Mills Exec
• Whole Earth Brands Carves Out Its Sweet Spot in Alternative Sweeteners
• An Airbnb for Appliances, the Fermentation Frenzy
• Caribou Coffee, Just Egg Partner on Plant-Based Offering
• Sargento Foods Acquires String Cheese Producer Baker Cheese Factory

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