We craft products we feel good about. Good for planet, people and animals. Our plant-based whole-cuts deliver unprecedented texture, taste and juiciness. We bring true culinary plant-based alternatives to traditional products such as meat and fish, without compromising on taste and experience.
Location: Netherlands, Utrecht, Amersfoort
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $17.6M
Founded date: 2019
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| 09.10.2022 | PeakBridge... | peakbridge... |
| - | StartHub W... | starthubwa... |
| 13.08.2025 | ROM Utrech... | romutrecht... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 19.06.2025 | Series B | $11.6M | - |
| 21.09.2022 | Series A | $6M | - |
Mentions in press and media 21
| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.02.2026 | Future Food Quick Bites: Picard x La Vie, Vegan Stracciatella & McDonald’s Veggie | 4 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Picard Surgelés’s La Vie collab, Compass Group’s plant-forward hospital menu, and McDonald’s veggie breakup. New ... |
| 11.12.2025 | The biggest European foodtech deals in H1 2025 | The first half of 2025 showed continued momentum across Europe’s foodtech landscape, driven by growing demand for sustainable, scalable and resource-efficient food solutions. Investment activity reflected a maturing ecosystem in which innov... |
| 24.06.2025 | The Future of Food: Innovation and Sustainability in Plant-Based and Dairy Industries | The food industry is evolving. It’s a race against time, a quest for sustainability, and a battle for consumer hearts. Two players are making waves: Rival Foods in the plant-based sector and Yili Group in dairy. Both are harnessing innovati... |
| 19.06.2025 | Rival Foods: Plant-Based Meat Startup Lands $11.5M for Clean-Label Whole Cuts | 5 Mins Read Dutch food tech firm Rival Foods has secured €10M ($11.5M) in funding to scale up its suite of whole-cut plant-based meats, which contain minimal ingredients and high amounts of protein. If there are three things consumers want ... |
| 18.06.2025 | Rival Foods raises $11.6m Series B to scale shear cell tech for plant-based whole cuts | Dutch startup Rival Foods has raised €10 million ($11.6 million) in a Series B round to expand its shear cell technology, a novel approach to texturizing plant-based proteins that can create whole cuts at scale. The round was led by pension... |
| 18.06.2025 | Rival Foods Raises €10M to Scale Production of Clean-Label Plant-Based Whole Cuts | Dutch food-tech scale-up Rival Foods has raised €10 million in a Series B funding round led by pension investor APG on behalf of ABP. PYMWYMIC and ROM Utrecht Region also participated, while existing shareholder PeakBridge provided follow-o... |
| 21.03.2024 | Rival Foods: “We Believe the Whole Cut Segment Will See a Similar Evolution as Plant-Based Meat” | Rival Foods develops and uses new technologies to create next-generation plant-based whole-cuts with “unprecedented” size, texture, and juiciness. We speak with the Netherlands based company which has very recently signed a lease for its fi... |
| 01.02.2023 | Who were the most active food and agriculture technology venture capital firms in 2022? | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder, a food and agriculture technology venture capital firm. Click here for more research from AgFunder and ... |
| 21.09.2022 | Rival Foods Raises a €6 Million Series A to Improve on Plant-Based Meat Development | 3 Mins Read Rival Foods, the Wageningen University & Research spinoff working since 2019 to replicate animal meat with plants, has announced the closing of a €6 million Series A funding round. PeakBridge and Roquette Ventures led the fu... |
| 16.09.2022 | Dutch-based Rival Foods raises €6M to make next-gen plant-based protein products | Netherlands-based Rival Foods, a company that specialises in producing plant-based culinary whole-cuts, announced on Wednesday, September 14, that it has raised €6M in a Series A round of funding. Rival Foods says it will use the funds to d... |
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