Beta Hatch Insect Entrepreneurs
Total raised: $24.4M
Investors 6
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Frontier A... | frontieran... |
| - | Old Silver... | oldsilverv... |
| - | Cavallo Ve... | cavallovc.... |
| - | Innova Mem... | innovamemp... |
| - | Lewis &... | lewisandcl... |
| - | Envest | envest.ear... |
Funding Rounds 4
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 18.08.2021 | - | $10M | - |
| 10.12.2020 | Series A | $9.3M | - |
| 21.05.2020 | - | $3M | - |
| 05.04.2018 | Seed | $2.1M | - |
Mentions in press and media 23
| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.04.2022 | Insect food for pets: Univ. of Washington students developing sustainable dog treats | Chelsea Fletcher, Presley Sweeney, Sophia Hamilton, Mallory Morse, and Jaime Shimamoto of Just Right Bite. (Photo courtesy of Matt Hagen / Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship) You may have heard of insect-based food for humans. Now the sustai... |
| 25.08.2021 | Agrifoodtech Digest: Cargill, Microsoft & Rabobank get in on the ag carbon game | Two of the past week’s biggest stories were AFN exclusives from the ag carbon market, both involving Microsoft: verification platform Regrow’s $17 million Series A round, and agroforestry startup reNature’s successful ‘harvest’ in Brazil. I... |
| 19.08.2021 | Robinhood just became a crypto company. If it does things right, it won’t be for long | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. In the midst of cryptocurrency’s first Great Mainstreamification of 2017, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tene... |
| 19.08.2021 | Robinhood just became a crypto company. If it does things right, it won’t be for long | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Paid Content Change your marketer experience and unleash growth for your business From Optimizely... |
| 18.08.2021 | Mealworm farming company Beta Hatch raises $10M | Last time I was in Hong Kong, a startup gave me a jar of mealworms as a snack. They were crunchy and a bit odd looking (as one might expect from a jar full of baked larvae). They really didn’t offer much in the way of flavor, though, so may... |
| 18.08.2021 | Insects-as-feed startup Beta Hatch raises another $10M as it builds out the ‘future of farming’ | Beta Hatch founder and CEO Virginia Emery poses in front of a mural at an old Beta Hatch facility near Seattle showing the mealworm life cycle as well as the bucolic farm setting she dreams of creating. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser... |
| 14.01.2021 | The EU just approved mealworms for human consumption. Will Ÿnsect take the bait? | On Wednesday, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) announced its approval of mealworms for human consumption. The ruling opens the gateway for the growing startup industry around insect protein to tap into a new market. The EFSA conduc... |
| 11.12.2020 | Insect farming startup raises $9.3M, builds North America’s largest mealworm facility east of Seattle | Beta Hatch CEO Virginia Emery, center, wields a shovel during a ceremonial groundbreaking in September with officials from the city of Cashmere, Wash., U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier, right, and Malachi Salcido, second from right, whose next-door cr... |
| 10.12.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Beta Hatch banks $9.3m Series A, breaks ground on US’s largest insect farm | Mealworms may be the last critter that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘ranch,’ but Beta Hatch is hoping to change that perception – and a global pandemic presents the perfect opportunity. “Some of our customers have reported as much a... |
| 06.10.2020 | Ÿnsect extends Series C to $372m, targets pet food & aims for carbon-negative status | French insect farming startup Ÿnsect has raised an additional $224 million in Series C funding, bringing the round to $372 million in total. It had announced a first Series C close of $148 million in February last year. According to Ÿnsect,... |
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