We aim to replace environmentally destructive agricultural products with low impact alternatives using biotechnology. Kawa’s first project focuses on the cocoa industry, developing cocoa...
Location: United States, California, Berkeley
Employees: 1-10
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | SPACE-F | space-f.co |
| - | GROW | gogrow.co |
Mentions in press and media 5
| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.04.2026 | 🎥 As cocoa prices swing, Kawa Project offers an upcycled alternative from spent coffee grounds | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Kawa Project] Spent coffee grounds are being used for everything from soil amendments to substrates for mushroom cultivation. But how do they stack up as cocoa alternative... |
| 24.03.2026 | 🎥 Future Food-Tech: Big ideas, hard truths, and the path to scale | At Future Food-Tech in San Francisco last week, we spoke to key stakeholders on everything from crossing biomanufacturing’s valley of death to the Institute of Food Technologists’ new AI-powered CoDeveloper platform to speed up the product ... |
| 14.06.2024 | Mez Foods turns to mesquite as skyrocketing cocoa prices drive interest in choc alternatives | Cocoa prices are currently in the stratosphere, with an imbalance between supply and demand exacerbated by everything from volatile weather to pests and disease, illegal mining and land degradation, aging trees, and investor speculation. An... |
| 09.10.2023 | From on-farm fertilizer production to upcycled coffee grounds to replace alkalized cocoa, two circular economy startups to watch | From sugary wastewater from food production facilities to brewers’ spent grains and used coffee grounds… scores of so-called ‘waste’ streams are now being upcycled into a new generation of products. On the farm, meanwhile, enterprising star... |
| 03.05.2023 | The AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator announces 2023 cohort of agrifoodtech startups | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder. GROW, the Singapore-based agrifoodtech ecosystem builder backed by agrifoodtech investor AgFunder, has unveiled the 10 startups participating in the 2023 AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator. The ac... |