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The Mediterranean Food Lab (MFL)
https://www.med-food-lab.com/Last activity: 28.01.2025
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Bottom line: Alternative protein will never take off if it is not incredibly delicious. We are a totally new kind of flavor company. We work with food producers to make meat replacements, people actually want to eat. Natural. Sustainable. Radically Delicious. Flavor 2.0
Location: Israel, Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $17M
Founded date: 2019
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | PeakBridge... | peakbridge... |
| - | AgriFoodTe... | venture.ba... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 18.01.2024 | Series A | $17M | - |
Mentions in press and media 8
| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.01.2025 | Chefs and Scientists Join Forces to Bring Fine-Dining Fermentation to Every Kitchen | SHO concentrated dark stock - Radically Delicious. Made from fermented plants. By cooks, for cooks. MFL unveils SHO, a range of 100% natural, fermented, additive-free culinary ingredients, designed to be the new staple for any professional ... |
| 26.10.2024 | The Resilience of Israel's Agrifoodtech Amidst Turmoil | The landscape of agrifoodtech in Israel is shifting. Recent conflicts have cast shadows over funding and innovation. Yet, beneath the surface, a different story unfolds. The numbers tell one tale, but the spirit of resilience tells another.... |
| 23.10.2024 | Israel-Gaza conflict not “the whole story” behind plunge in agrifoodtech funding | It’s perhaps unsurprising that Israel-based agrifoodtech startups have closed just 17 funding rounds since the Hamas attack on civilians that was followed by a protracted war in Gaza. Raising some $161 million since October 7, 2023, the tot... |
| 20.05.2024 | GUEST ARTICLE Scaling up foodtech, the investor’s take: ‘The real potential of the space has gotten muddled’ | Editor’s Note: Agrifoodtech investor PeakBridge funds startups from seed stage to series B in five categories in the US, Europe and Israel: ingredients innovation, alt protein technologies, digitalization and food systems 4.0, nutrition &am... |
| 22.01.2024 | Bridging the Flavor Gap: 7 Solutions to Enhance the Taste of Plant-Based Meat for Maximum Consumer Satisfaction | Today, we are looking into the companies and latest research trying to bridge the flavor gap between plant-based and animal meat with different solutions, including fermented onions, yeasts, chlorella, fermented ingredients, and heme protei... |
| 18.01.2024 | The Mediterranean Food Lab Secures $17M to Make Plant-Based Meat Delicious with Fermented Flavors | The Mediterranean Food Lab (MFL), an Israeli company creating natural and fermented flavors and culinary ingredients to make alt meat and plant-based foods “delicious,” has raised $17 million in a series A investment round. Gullspång Re:foo... |
| 17.01.2024 | Mediterranean Food Lab raises $17m series A to scale up AI-powered solid state fermentation tech | Israeli startup Mediterranean Food Lab (MFL) has raised a $17 million series A round to scale up novel solid state fermentation technology to create flavor ingredients it claims can transform the sensory experience of eating plant-based foo... |
| - | The Mediterranean Food Lab | “The Mediterranean Food Lab” |