In This Issue:
- Food Venture Financing Trends
- CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Funds
Food Venture Financing Trends
- The Bland Company, a UK-based startup, has raised $2.67 million to functionalize plant proteins from ag side streams.
- Polybee has raised a $4.3 million seed round to scale its pollination and yield forecasting tech.
- Brilliant Harvest has raised a $4 million seed round to solve ag equipment's service bottleneck with AI.
CPG Corporate Venture and Private Equity Fund
This week's featured corporate venture and private equity fund is Rich Products Ventures.
- Rich Products Ventures (RPV), a division of the family-owned Rich Products Corporation, known for its expertise in frozen food, offers a mix of operational, technological, and investment expertise enhanced by its broad network and global footprint with team members across the United States and China.
- RPV is committed to delivering maximum value to their portfolio companies through four key areas of focus:
- Nutrition & Health
- Sustainable Production
- Next Generation of Retail & Foodservice
- Dynamic Supply Chain
- Some of its portfolio companies include the following:
- Good Eggs
- Grabango
- Kitchen United
- Thistle
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