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| 01.06.2026 | Europe's Brewing Revolution: Mycelium Protein Transforms Industrial Assets | Pacifico Biolabs secured €7 million Series A funding. The company scales mycelium protein production. It repurposes underutilized European brewery infrastructure. This innovative model offers sustainable, cost-effective alternative protein.... |
| 29.05.2026 | Pacifico Biolabs: €7 Million Series A Raised To Scale Mycelium Protein Production | Pacifico Biolabs announced that it has raised €7 million in Series A funding to accelerate the scale-up of its mycelium protein production platform and support the company’s commercial launch strategy. The financing marks a significant mile... |
| 27.05.2026 | Pacifico Biolabs raises €7M to turn brewery infrastructure into protein production | PacificoBiolabs, a mycelium fermentation protein company, has raised €7 million in a Series A funding round backed by Stray Dog Capital, TGFS, Sprout & About Ventures, Simon Capital, FoodLabs, and a regional brewery partner.
Pacifico Bi... |
| 27.05.2026 | Pacifico Biolabs nets $8m, targets alt-meat cost parity with brewery retrofit model | Pacifico Biolabs—a German startup making whole-cut alt-meat from mycelium by tapping into idle infrastructure from the brewing industry—has closed a €7 million ($8.1 million) Series A round and says products could reach retail shelves via b... |
| 21.05.2026 | Boulder library trustees appoint new member | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The Boulder Public Library District Board of Trustees swore in Lisa Feria as its new member during its Tuesday meeting.
Feria is the CEO of Stray Dog Capital, a venture capital firm that focuses on... |
| 12.09.2025 | Cascade Bio: $6 Million To Advance Cell-Free Biomanufacturing | Cascade Bio, an industrial biotechnology company based in Denver, has closed $6 million in funding to accelerate the transition from petrochemical processes to enzyme-driven manufacturing. The funding includes a $2.8 million seed round led ... |
| 06.08.2025 | NuCicer Raises $11.5M in Series A Funding | NuCicer, a Davis, CA-based company which specializes in chickpea breeding and sustainable ingredient solutions, raised $11.5M Series A funding.
The round was led by Rhapsody Venture Partners, with participation from Leaps by Bayer and a ser... |
| 29.07.2025 | 4AG Robotics Raises $40M Series B Funding | 4AG Robotics, a Salmon Arm, BC, Canada-based autonomous mushroom harvesting company, raised $40M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Astanor and Cibus Capital, with participation from new investor Voyager Capital and existing investor... |
| 29.07.2025 | 4AG Robotics Raises $40 Million Series B to Accelerate Global Adoption of Autonomous Mushroom Harvesting | SALMON ARM, BC, July 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- 4AG Robotics, the global pioneer in fully autonomous mushroom harvesting, today announced the close of its $40 million CAD Series B financing, led by Astanor and Cibus Capital, with support from... |
| 31.05.2024 | A New Chapter for Impact Investment: GlassWall Syndicate Now Powered by Brinc | HONG KONG, May 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GlassWall Syndicate (GWS), the world's largest alternative protein investor network, announces that it is now hosted by Brinc, a global venture capital and accelerator firm headquartered in Hong Kong.... |
| 02.11.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Beyond Meat does layoffs, Fibmold lands $10m for alt plastic, Athian & Elanco team up | Beyond Meat announced this week it will cut 19% of its workforce after a weak third quarter. In agtech, sustainable materials company Fibmold raised funds for a plastic alternative and Bioomix announced a raise for its microbial ag solution... |
| 30.10.2023 | Triplebar raises $20m to expand bioproduct design engine ‘running evolution at hyper-speed’ | Emeryville, CA-based biotech startup Triplebar has raised $20m in a funding round led by Synthesis Capital to expand its tech platform for optimizing biomanufacturing.
The round, which takes the firm’s cumulative funding up to $25 million, ... |
| 13.09.2023 | 🎥 AgFunderNews round table: Foodtech investing in focus, from ‘tourist capital’ to a ‘return to fundamentals’ | Two or three years ago, investors were throwing bucket-loads of cash at foodtech companies, particularly those in so-called “alternative proteins.”
Since then, funding has started to dry up, sales of meat alternatives have moved into negati... |
| 03.08.2023 | BREAKING: Plant-based chicken startup Nowadays ceases operations, in ‘active conversations’ over selling IP | San Francisco-based plant-based chicken startup Nowadays has ceased operations, two years after launching its first products, “due to an inability to raise ventures funds in this market,” AgFunderNews has learned.
The team has been laid off... |
| 07.07.2023 | Op Ed: Lisa Feria, CEO Stray Dog Capital, on Boosting Consumer Sentiment Around Alt Meats | Lisa Feria, as a good deal of our readers will know, is CEO and managing partner of Stray Dog Capital, a prolific US-based venture capital fund focused on the plant-based market, investing in early-stage food, food-tech, and biotech compani... |
| 21.06.2023 | VFC acquires Meatless Farm brand: ‘Our immediate priority is to get much-loved products back on the market’ | UK-based alt meat brand VFC (Vegan Fried Chick*n) has acquired distressed meat-free brand Meatless Farm, which laid off most of its staff earlier this month after a key investor expected to provide a capital injection backed out.
Under the ... |
| 12.06.2023 | Brief: Meatless Farm exec: ‘The business has unfortunately made all the teams redundant’ | Loss-making UK-based plant-based meat startup Meatless Farm has laid off most of its employees after failing to secure additional funds to help it stay afloat, according to messages posted by former team members on LinkedIn.
One of multiple... |
| 12.06.2023 | VCs remain confident alternative protein has a real future despite public-market woes | How well have alternative-protein companies done in the past year? It depends on who you ask.
The industry has had an interesting go of it between the U.S. getting comfortable with cultivated meat production, layoffs and countries banning p... |
| 06.04.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Hardee Fresh grabs $56m, Upward Farms shuts down, Wine that tastes like climate change | Vertical farming saw good and bad news this week, as Hardee Fresh raised new funds, Upward Farms ceased operations and Kalera filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Elsewhere, digital-first burger delivery service VICIO secured new cap... |
| 06.04.2023 | BREAKING: Aqua Cultured Foods closes $5.5m seed round to expand fungi-fueled alt seafood platform | Chicago-based Aqua Cultured Foods has raised $5.5 million in a seed round led by Stray Dog Capital to expand its low-cost production platform for whole cuts of fungi-based seafood as it gears up to enter the market this year.
The round was ... |
| 29.03.2023 | Crunch time for cultivated meat, some early-stage players ‘could be in real trouble’ – Future Food Tech investors | 2023 will be a pivotal year for cultivated meat, as a handful of well-capitalized startups hit the market and early-stage players wait with bated breath to see if consumers are sufficiently enthused to motivate anxious investors to keep fun... |
| 26.01.2023 | The week in agrifoodtech: Drive-thru grocery Addie’s bags $10m, Bill Gates invests $12m into methane reduction | The US state of Massachusetts got its first drive-thru grocery store with the launch of Adie’s, which also raised $10 million. In agtech, Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures pumped $12 million into methane-reduction tech and AgFunder l... |
| 08.01.2023 | Plant-based foods investor says her focus is more on teams than taste | If you’ve been seeing a slew of new alternative meat and animal products popping up in your grocery store, Lisa Feria is at least partially to thank.
Feria has spent the last seven years investing in startups in the sector. She and her part... |
| 01.12.2022 | Meet Lisa Feria, Managing Partner and CEO at Stray Dog Capital | Stray Dog Capital is an early stage venture capital funds in the plant-based food market
Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed! While there are... |
| 16.08.2022 | Stray Dog Capital: ‘Truly astonishing’ innovations afoot in alternative proteins, after you sort through me too products | “I think a lot of people have seen what's happened with Beyond Meat and Oatly and the downward revisions of the financials, and they're wondering if plant-based and alternative proteins are here to stay,” says Johnny Ream, partner at S... |
| 21.04.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Israel & Netherlands beef up cell ag funding, Microsoft joins $225m Udaan round | Two countries this week announced government grants for cell ag to foster more development of cultivated meat and dairy analogs – and in doing so, build up food security and sovereignty. Elsewhere, Microsoft joined a major debt financing ro... |
| 08.03.2022 | IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 166
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The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them... |
| 25.11.2021 | Perfeggt readies its chicken-less egg alternative with $2.8m fundraise | Germany’s Perfeggt has raised an initial funding round of $2.8 million for its egg alternative made from fava beans.
Investors in the round included EVIG Group, Stray Dog Capital, Good Seed Ventures, E2JDJ, Tet Ventures, and Shio Capital.
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| 20.09.2021 | Miyoko’s Creamery CEO on $52m funding, federal court victory & vegan cheese fails | “Vegan cheese has been the laughing stock of the food industry because it has been crap,” Miyoko Schinner tells AFN. “It’s fake food for the most part and we need to turn that around. We need to make real cheese out of real food ingredients... |
| 30.04.2021 | Israeli Company Chunk Foods Raises $2M to Develop Whole Cut Alt-Meat Products | Israeli startup Chunk Foods has raised $2M in a pre-seed funding round led by venture fund Stray Dog Capital. The startup uses fermentation technology to produce whole-muscle meat alternatives.
While there now exists a large number of alt-m... |
| 15.04.2021 | Atlast raises $40m to make mycelium-based whole cuts | US alt-protein startup Atlast has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Viking Global Investors. Also participating in the round were 40 North – an investment fund affiliated with building materials manufacturer Standard Industries ... |
| 06.04.2021 | Stray Dog Capital Invests in Australian Plant-Based Startup Deliciou | US-based venture capital fund Stray Dog Capital has invested in the seed funding round of Australian startup Deliciou. It marks the first time the VC firm has invested in an Australian company.
While there are now hundreds of alt-meat brand... |
| 17.03.2021 | Stray Dog Capital’s Lisa Feria: ‘We’re Looking For Founder Teams Thinking In Trillions’ | 12 Mins Read
Lisa Feria is CEO and General Partner at Stray Dog Capital, an impact venture capital firm investing in startups innovating healthier, sustainable and ethical solutions across the food and protein supply chain. After working at... |
| 08.03.2021 | IWD 2021: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 15 Mins Read
Editor’s Note: This list is the result of hours of work, and no doubt we have missed some amazing queens. We will do our best to keep adding. On the startup side, we focused on founders, but many of these startups have incredib... |
| 03.12.2020 | 6 Alt Protein Female VCs Who Are Changing The Future Of Food | 128
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Faced with the challenge of feeding a planet of 10 billion people in the midst of a climate crisis, it’s never been more crucial for the world to shift towards a more sustainable food system. Making it their missi... |
| 18.09.2020 | Should You Quit Your Job to Become A Vegan Entrepreneur? | “Of late, several people have reached out to me after watching the Plantbased Business Hour stream live on Linkedin, all with the same question – How can I shift my career to become a part of the vegan economy?” Says our own Elysabeth Alfan... |
| 13.07.2020 | BREAKING: Grounded Foods Co. Closes Oversubscribed Seed Round Led by Stray Dog Capital | ©Grounded
Grounded Foods Co, producer of unique first-to-market cheeses created with cauliflower, today announces to vegconomist the closing of its first Series Seed round which was led by Stray Dog Capital. The round brought in $1.74M with... |
| 13.07.2020 | BREAKING: Grounded Foods Co. Closes Oversubscribed Seed Round Led by Stray Dog Capital | Grounded Foods Co, producer of unique first-to-market cheeses created with cauliflower, today announces to vegconomist the closing of its first Series Seed round which was led by Stray Dog Capital. The round brought in $1.74M with participa... |
| 09.07.2020 | Stray Dog Capital Leads a $2M Investment Round For Plant-Based Barbecue Innovators Barvecue | Stray Dog Capital, a VC fund focusing on the investment of young plantbased brands, announces it has led an investment round for North Carolina-based producer of plant BBQ meat, Barvecue®, bringing a total in this round to USD $2 million.
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| 21.04.2020 | Elysabeth Alfano’s Plant-Based Business Hour With Lisa Feria of Stray Dog Capital | Lisa Feria of Stray Dog Capital joins Elysabeth Alfano on the Plantbased Business Hour to discuss plant-based bacon, vegan foods tasting better than their counterparts and the most important skill for an entrepreneur.
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| 16.03.2018 | Ag Industry Brief: More Exec Churn at Chipotle, EU Changes Protocol on GMOs, TechAccel Funds New Grants, more | Top Marketing Executive at Chipotle Steps Down
In the latest in a series of executive transitions at Chipotle Mexican Grill, the company’s chief marketing officer Mark Crumpacker announced he would step down. Chipotle has long struggled to ... |
| 02.01.2018 | Israeli Cultured Meat Startup SuperMeat Raises $3m Seed Round | SuperMeat, an Israeli cultured meat startup, has raised a $3 million seed round to develop its cultured chicken product in the first of what will likely be several funding rounds in the area of cellular agriculture this year.
Cellular agric... |
| 01.01.2018 | What Happened in Plant-Based Protein in 2017? | The plant-based protein startups using technology to create and mass produce their products have traditionally received support from a small, but dedicated group of investors, which is increasingly being joined by major food and agriculture... |
| 10.10.2017 | Cultured Meat Will Cost Startups $150m-$370m (and Take At Least 4 More Years) to Bring to Market | There is a reason that high profile investors and entrepreneurs — and therefore media outlets globally — are getting increasingly excited about alternative protein-based food sources.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates tha... |
| 28.09.2017 | Stray Dog Capital CEO on Alternative Meat Startups, Deal Flow, Entrepreneur Alarm Bells, & Hampton Creek | Stray Dog Capital is a small venture capital firm investing in food products and services that take animals out of the equation. Launching in 2013, the business accelerated in 2015 as the number of startups broaching alternatives to animal ... |
| 12.05.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Agrilyst Scores $1m Seed Round During a Busy Week for M&A | Agrilyst Raises $1m Ahead of Cannabis Platform Roll Out
Disrupt SF 2015 winner Agrilyst has raised $1 million in seed funding in a round led by New York seed stage investors Brooklyn Bridge Ventures with participation from NYC early-stage t... |
