At Leaft Foods, we’re innovating from the ground up. We’re tackling the challenges that New Zealand’s food and fibre sector are facing. Our paddock to product solution meets the needs of global customers and changing diets, providing real options to diversity farming and supporting the changes needed to reduce the environmental issues caused by excess agricultural nitrogen.
We’re doing this by producing a high-quality plant-based protein that will allow thousands of other companies create sustainable, amazing tasting food products. Our innovative approach extracts this protein straight from ordinary green leaves, a highly abundant and sustainable source.
Because we’re here to create a sustainable future for New Zealand, we’re also integrated with existing farming systems, producing a high-quality silage feed for farming operations and forage cropping options that together reduce the total nitrogen loading in the farming system.
The time is now. Get in touch with us to learn more.
We’re doing this by producing a high-quality plant-based protein that will allow thousands of other companies create sustainable, amazing tasting food products. Our innovative approach extracts this protein straight from ordinary green leaves, a highly abundant and sustainable source.
Because we’re here to create a sustainable future for New Zealand, we’re also integrated with existing farming systems, producing a high-quality silage feed for farming operations and forage cropping options that together reduce the total nitrogen loading in the farming system.
The time is now. Get in touch with us to learn more.
Location: New Zealand, Canterbury, Lincoln
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $15M
Founded date: 2019
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Agnition | agnition.v... |
| 17.04.2022 | Khosla Ven... | khoslavent... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 16.05.2022 | - | $15M | - |
Mentions in press and media 14
| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.08.2026 | Plantible Foods Secures $35M: Propelling Sustainable Protein Innovation | Plantible Foods secured $35 million in debt and equity funding. This capital fuels a rapid five-fold expansion. Its Eldorado, Texas facility will boost Rubi Protein production. Annual output will now exceed 1,000 metric tons. Funds also tar... |
| 06.08.2026 | Plantible raises $35m in debt, equity, to increase RuBisCO protein production fivefold | Plantible Foods—a startup extracting RuBisCO, a highly-functional protein from fast-growing aquatic plant lemna (duckweed)—has raised $35 million in debt and equity funding to expand operations at its site in Eldorado, Texas. The package in... |
| 06.08.2026 | USDA-Backed Loan Helps Plantible Foods Raise $35M to Scale Up Rubisco Protein Fivefold | 4 Mins Read Californian startup Plantible Foods has secured $35M in USDA-backed loan and equity funding to quintuple the manufacturing capacity for its duckweed-derived Rubisco protein. A funding effort supported by the US government will h... |
| 11.06.2026 | AgriFood Signals: EIF commits $29m to Irish agrifoodtech, Aphea.Bio and Bayer team up, GLP-1 pills | AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news 🇪🇸 Samsung backs industrial robotics startup Theker in €85m round Sifted 🇫🇷 Innovafeed raises $59m, ... |
| 29.12.2025 | Foodtech at a crossroads: recalibration, regulation, and harsh reality | “Two years ago we were talking about the winter being over in the next summer, but it feels like we are entering the ice age,” observes Plantible cofounder Tony Martens in this year’s AgFunderNews festive vox pop. “M&A and exit pathways... |
| 09.09.2025 | Leaft Foods Partners with Lacto Japan to Introduce Revolutionary Leaf Rubisco Protein to Japanese Market | Strategic partnership leverages Lacto's market expertise to bring next-generation protein to Japan's innovation-driven food manufacturers ROLLESTON, New Zealand and TOKYO, Sept. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Leaft Foods, a company that harnesses ... |
| 09.09.2025 | Leaft Foods takes RuBisCO protein to Japan with new partnership | New Zealand-based Leaft Foods, a startup scaling the production of RuBisCO protein from alfalfa, has announced a strategic partnership with Tokyo-based Lacto Japan, an ingredients distributor that works with leading players in the Japanese ... |
| 15.08.2025 | Leaft Foods Unveils Leaft Blade, Performance Nutrition from Green Leaf Protein | Leaft Foods, a company based in New Zealand, has made a significant development in protein extraction, successfully commercializing Rubisco protein sourced from green leaves. The company claims that this breakthrough addresses a challenge t... |
| 12.08.2025 | The planet’s most abundant protein is ready for prime time, says Leaft Foods | One of the most abundant proteins on the planet with digestibility and functionality rivaling animal proteins such as egg and whey protein isolate, RuBisCO is found in every green leaf, from duckweed to sugar beet. Despite its ubiquity, how... |
| 21.02.2024 | ‘World’s Most Abundant Protein’ Cheap Enough to Replace Soy: Upcycled Rubisco Protein Startup Day 8 Nabs $750K Pre-Seed | 5 Mins Read Israeli startup Day 8, which produces upcycled plant-based proteins from Rubisco, has secured a pre-seed investment of $750,000 from food tech incubator and investor The Kitchen Hub. Day 8 has closed a $750,000 pre-seed financin... |
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