In This Issue:
- Food Venture Financing Trends
- CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds
Food Venture Financing Trends
- Agtonomy, a California-based ag robotics company, closed an $18 million Series B round.
- Chobani, a food company specializing in Greek yogurt, raised $650 million, to grow production and support innovation.
- Keurig Dr Pepper has landed $7 billion in capital from private equity firms to finance its $18 billion purchase of JDE Peet's.
CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund
This week's featured corporate venture and private equity fund is BRF S.A.
- BRF S.A., based in Brazil, is one of the largest global food companies. It has nearly 100,000 employees working out of 120 countries.
- With global performance, BRF builds brands considering the particularities of each market.
- BRF offers more than 3 thousand products with emphasis on flavor and quality.
- Some of the portfolio companies include:
- Calybom
- Banvit
- Deline
- Borella
- Qualy
- Sadia
- Bom Sabor
- Confidence
- Kidelli
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