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| 08.07.2026 | VARM Secures €17.5M to Insulate Europe's Future | VARM secured €17.5M Series A funding. The European startup tackles energy efficiency by scaling building insulation. Its tech-driven approach aims to reduce energy consumption, lower costs, and lessen gas dependence. This investment fuels G... |
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Every unicorn has a beginning. Start yours at... |
| 04.06.2026 | Nestlé schluckt YFood komplett | Im #DealMonitor für den 4. Juni werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor-Arch... |
| 06.08.2025 | 8 aufstrebende Startups, die einen Blick wert sind | Auch in den vergangenen Wochen sammelten wieder etliche Startups, Scaleups und Grownups zweistellige oder gar dreistellige Millionensummen ein. Gleichzeitig gelingt es aber auch vielen jüngeren Firmen erste mittlere siebenstellige Summen ei... |
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| 01.07.2024 | THIS Isn’t Nice: Crowd Investors Angry at Post-Series C Valuation of Plant-Based Meat Brand | 7 Mins Read Crowdfunding backers of UK plant-based meat maker THIS have reacted furiously to a significant drop in the business’s valuation, following its £20M Series C round last month.
In 2022, when THIS closed its Series B fundraise, it ... |
| 21.09.2022 | Portugal’s Barkyn acquires Happets' bowl, makes “quantum leap in innovation” | Portugal-based pet products and wellness provider Barkyn has acquired Spanish rival Happets for an undisclosed figure. While the water dogs wouldn’t release the exact figure, Barkyn representatives did comment that the acquisition of three-... |
| 23.03.2022 | Making natural food affordable, this Berlin-based startup scoops €50 million to its palate | Berlin-based natural food company KoRo has announced a €50 million funding. The Series B round was led by venture capital firm HV Capital, alongside new investors, food tech specialist Five Seasons Ventures, and global investment platform, ... |
| 02.12.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Mr Yum, FJDynamics & Back to the Roots bag big fundings | This week, Aussie startup Mr Yum, which makes QR code-based ordering and payments software for hospitality companies, raised one of the Lucky Country’s biggest Series A rounds ever; while farm robotics company FJDynamics scored big money fr... |
| 11.10.2021 | European Food Tech Investment Heats Up with 2 New Multimillion Funds | 1
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Food tech investment in Europe is heating up, with two new funds dedicated to the sector launched this week. While Eatable Adventures has kickstarted a €50 million fund to support early-stage agri-food tech startups in... |
| 04.10.2021 | Five Seasons Ventures Launches €180M Impact Fund for European Food Tech | European Food Tech VC firm Five Seasons Ventures has announced the final closing of a €180 million second fund. Having already backed promising European plant-based businesses, the Five Seasons new Fund II will focus on fast-growing consume... |
| 04.10.2021 | Five Seasons Ventures pulls in €180M fund to tackle human health and climate via food tech | Food tech is booming in Europe and is growing exponentially. In 2020, €3 billion went into European food tech companies (State of European Tech Report, March 2021), and the pandemic has accelerated demand as consumers have shifted to grocer... |
| 04.10.2021 | Five Seasons Ventures Closes €180M Food Tech Impact Fund | Five Seasons Ventures, a Paris, France-based Food Tech venture capital firm, closes a €180M second fund.
The new Fund II will continue making Series A and B investments into the most promising European Food Tech companies, with an emphasis ... |
| 10.08.2021 | Gourmet dog food maker Butternut Box chows down on £40 million | London-based direct-to-consumer dog food brand Butternut Box has raised £40 million in new funding round. The new funding is expected to add some gravy to existing operations, as well as throw new channels, products, and markets a bone. To ... |
| 21.07.2021 | Female wellness brand her1 raises €5.5 million, eyes further European expansion | Built upon the premise that true health and beauty comes from within, Berlin-based female wellness startup her1 has raised €5.5 million. The company creates a line of ingestible products that are aimed at supporting women’s wellbeing by foc... |
| 23.06.2021 | With two unicorns in two weeks, Draper Esprit is bullish on France | It’s been a mighty good fortnight for Draper Esprit. With two French portfolio companies achieving unicorn status in less than two weeks — not to mention a £111 million raise via another (non-French) portfolio unicorn — I started to wonder ... |
| 02.06.2021 | Technology of the Future: FoodTech | Technology of the Future: FoodTech |
| 02.06.2021 | Технологии будущего: FoodTech | Технологии будущего: FoodTech |
| 28.04.2021 | Portugal’s pet tech Barkyn raises €3 million bones in Series A extension, closes at €8 million | Matosinhos, Portugal-based pet products and wellness provider Barkyn has extended its Series A round to close at €8 million.
The extension saw an additional €3 million arrive via foodtech investors Five Seasons Ventures, as they join existi... |
| 28.04.2021 | Barkyn, a wellness startups for pets in Southern Europe, hits an $9.6M Series A round | Barkyn, a European subscription service for pets that combines food with tele-vet services, has raised a further €3 milion ($3.6M) from FoodTech investor Five Seasons Ventures, extending its previous Series A to €8M, and total funds raised ... |
| 07.09.2020 | Innovative Food startups raised more in H1 2020 than they did in the whole of 2019 | Startups developing innovative food and ingredients, including alt-proteins, raised more funding in the first half of 2020 than all of 2019, according to AgFunder‘s recent Agrifoodtech Mid-Year Investment Review.
Investment into Innovative ... |
| 12.08.2020 | THIS™ Raises £3.6M, Plans to Build “Willy Wonka-esque” Plant-Based Innovation Centre | ©THIS
THIS™, the UK producer of “hyper-realistic plant-based food for meat lovers”, announces a raise of £3.6 million from a Seedrs campaign including investments from Veg Capital amongst others, in what is reportedly the fastest FMCG busin... |
| 12.08.2020 | THIS™ Raises £3.6M, Plans to Build “Willy Wonka-esque” Plant-Based Innovation Centre | THIS™, the UK producer of “hyper-realistic plant-based food for meat lovers”, announces a raise of £3.6 million from a Seedrs campaign including investments from Veg Capital amongst others, in what is reportedly the fastest FMCG business to... |
| 09.07.2020 | 10 Millionen für frisches Babyfood | |
| 09.07.2020 | 10 Millionen für frisches Babyfood | Schon heute werden yamos Produkte von Coop in der ganzen Schweiz geführt. In Deutschland wird yamos Konzept in ausgewählten Edeka- und Rewe-Filialen getestet. Hinzu kommt der Direktvertrieb über den Online-Shop. Die Finanzierungsrunde soll ... |
| 03.06.2020 | Tropic Biosciences banks $28.5m in Temasek-led Series B for gene-editing, RNAi approach | Losing a crop to a pest or disease is a devastating outcome for a farmer. If that farmer is based in a developing country without the promise of subsidies or crop insurance, it’s even direr. And in a pandemic world where food supply chains ... |
| 20.05.2020 | Foodtech will be a vital part of any ‘new normal’ | Editor’s Note: Ivan Farneti is a founding partner at the European early-stage foodtech investor Five Seasons Ventures. Saskia Hoebee is a former analyst at Rabobank who joined Five Seasons this March as a VC associate.
The Covid-19 pandemic... |
| 07.04.2020 | Agri-foodtech VCs assess Covid-19’s impact on the sector and portfolios | From Agfunder, by Jessica Pothering and Louisa Burwood-Taylor |
| 02.04.2020 | Agri-foodtech VCs assess Covid-19’s impact on the sector and portfolios | As we all “shelter in place” and “socially distance” ourselves, we are learning a lot about what we can live without. And what we can’t.
Agri-foodtech investors seem to be collectively counting their blessings in that respect.
“We probably ... |
| 09.01.2020 | This plant-based meat startup called This has just raised £4.7m in seed funding | This, a UK startup making plant-based protein substitutes for chicken and pork drawn mostly from soy and pea, has raised £4.7 million ($6 million) in seed funding. The London-based investment fund Backed led the round, with further investme... |
| 07.11.2019 | The 10 most active investors in food tech in Europe in 2019 | At a time when technology has touched almost everything in our day to day lives, the food industry is one that remains untapped in many markets. However, it has gradually picked up pace just like the other sectors. Several companies have fo... |
| 14.10.2019 | UK wants agriculture to be carbon neutral by 2040. But £20m here and there won’t do the trick | Prodded by rising public concerns about climate change, the UK government wants its agricultural sector to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. This is a bold target. But it is also a tricky one, and the government is still not weighing... |
| 13.02.2019 | 60 AgriFood Tech Startups Nominated for 2019 AgFunder Innovation Awards – Vote Now! | *VOTING EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 1, 9AM ET!*
We’re very excited to open our Third Annual AgFunder AgriFood Tech Innovation Awards, where we recognize the innovators and entrepreneurs driving the agrifood tech sector forward.
Our nomination comm... |
| 12.12.2018 | Why is Europe Behind in Food Tech Investment? | European food tech startups are on course to have raised between €750 million to €1 billion in 2018, according to different estimates. That will be around a 40% decline on 2017 funding levels.
When you take out 2017’s largest deals — includ... |
| 12.12.2018 | Why is Europe Behind in Food Tech Investment?
But wait; European Food Tech Innovation is Thriving?
Later-Stage Funding Challenges
Distinct Startup Investment Ecosystems
Different Cultures, Differe... | European food tech startups are on course to have raised between €750 million to €1 billion in 2018, according to different estimates. That will be around a 40% decline on 2017 funding levels. |
| 31.10.2018 | Food Delivery Startups Might be Boring, But They’ve Returned 7x in Europe in 5 Years | The first wave of European food tech companies has mostly focused on building technology and logistics platforms to deliver food to consumers. And while the plethora of new food e-commerce options across the globe has caused investor fatigu... |
| 16.03.2018 | Five Seasons Ventures Holds First Close of European Food and Agri Tech Fund, at over €60M | Five Seasons Ventures, a Paris, France and Bologna, Italy-based new food and agri tech venture capital firm, held the first close of its first fund, at over €60M.
Supported by InnovFin Equity, with the financial backing of the European Unio... |
| 15.03.2018 | Five Seasons Ventures is a new €60M European early-stage fund investing in food and agriculture tech | More VC money sloshing around Europe, this time with the launch of a new early-stage fund targeting food and agriculture technology. Backed by the likes of European Investment Fund, Nestlé, Fondo Italiano d’Investimento, and Bpifrance, Five... |
| 15.03.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, March 15 | ‘FRAUD IS NOT A TRADE SECRET’
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| 15.03.2018 | Five Seasons Ventures closes €60 million fund to back food and agritech startups | Five Seasons Ventures has announced that it has closed its first VC fund at €60 million to invest in early stage European food and agritech startups.
The new Paris-based firm will target startups working on new food products, processes, and... |
| 14.03.2018 | Nestlé Backs New European AgriFood Tech VC Five Seasons Ventures, Launching with €60m Fund | Five Seasons Ventures, a new European VC focusing on agrifood tech investments has launched its first fund, announcing a first close on €60 million ($74.3m). Backers include Nestlé, the European Investment Fund, Fondo Italiano d’Investiment... |
| - | Five Seasons keeps on seasoning European food tech with second fund | Parisian food tech-focused venture fund Five Seasons Ventures has announced a reloading of the salt and pepper shakers at €180 million. Carrying on with the initial thesis, Five Seasons will continue making Series A and B round investments ... |
| - | Female wellness brand her1 raises €5.5 million, eyes further European expansion | Built upon the premise that true health and beauty comes from within, Berlin-based female wellness startup her1 has raised €5.5 million. The company creates a line of ingestible products that are aimed at supporting women’s wellbeing by foc... |
| - | Mammaly raises €3 million in pre-series A funding | Cologne-based pet health startup mammaly has raised €3 million in a pre-series A funding round. Based on scientific findings, the startup offers up a wide range of pet snacks, giving their human owners the possibility to help maintain their... |
| - | Making natural food affordable, this Berlin-based startup scoops €50 million to its palate | Berlin-based natural food company KoRo has announced a €50 million funding. The Series B round was led by venture capital firm HV Capital, alongside new investors, food tech specialist Five Seasons Ventures, and global investment platform, ... |
| - | Portugal’s pet tech Barkyn raises €3 million bones in Series A extension, closes at €8 million | Matosinhos, Portugal-based pet products and wellness provider Barkyn has extended its Series A round to close at €8 million.
The extension saw an additional €3 million arrive via foodtech investors Five Seasons Ventures, as they join existi... |
| - | Gourmet dog food maker Butternut Box chows down on £40 million | London-based direct-to-consumer dog food brand Butternut Box has raised £40 million in new funding round. The new funding is expected to add some gravy to existing operations, as well as throw new channels, products, and markets a bone. To ... |
| - | With two unicorns in two weeks, Draper Esprit is bullish on France | It’s been a mighty good fortnight for Draper Esprit. With two French portfolio companies achieving unicorn status in less than two weeks — not to mention a £111 million raise via another (non-French) portfolio unicorn — I started to wonder ... |
