Unlocking the most abundant, natural source of protein on 🌏 Earth, green leaves 🌿
Location: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne
Total raised: $850K
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | SPACE-F | space-f.co |
| - | Big Idea V... | bigideaven... |
| - | Plug and P... | plugandpla... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 12.06.2024 | - | $850K | - |
Mentions in press and media 13
| 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... |
| 01.05.2026 | Former Eat Just exec bets on alfalfa to unlock ‘holy grail’ RuBisCO protein | As former head of sustainability and sourcing at Eat Just, Udi Lazimy became intimately acquainted with myriad plant proteins. But they all came with caveats, he says: “Maybe you find one that’s great on sustainability or cost or emulsifyin... |
| 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... |
| 12.08.2025 | Duckweed to dollars: Plantible Foods now ‘fully operational’ at Texas RuBisCO plant, seeks funding to triple capacity | Plantible Foods—a startup extracting RuBisCO, a highly-functional protein from fast-growing aquatic plant lemna (duckweed)—says its first commercial facility in Eldorado, Texas is now fully operational. The company, which closed a $30 milli... |
| 12.06.2024 | The Leaf Protein Co.: Pioneering Sustainable Protein Solutions in the Food and Beverage Industry | The Leaf Protein Co., an innovative agritech startup hailing from Australia, has recently secured a substantial investment of $850,000 to propel its mission of unlocking the highly nutritious Rubisco protein for the food and beverage indust... |
| 12.06.2024 | Melbourne’s The Leaf Protein Company raises $850,000 to turn abundant foliage into edible ingredients | (L-R) The Leaf Protein Company co-founders Fern Ho and Connor Balfany. Source: Supplied article-article-body Melbourne-based startup The Leaf Protein Company has booked a new $850,000 funding round, helping the innovative firm refine and pr... |
| 12.06.2024 | The Leaf Protein Co. Secures $850K to Unlock the Highly Nutritious Rubisco Protein for F&B | The Leaf Protein Co., an Australian agritech startup extracting Rubisco proteins from green leaves, has raised $850,000 in a pre-seed round to accelerate its growth and propel the commercialization of its sustainable protein solutions for t... |
| 22.02.2024 | Israel’s Day 8 Secures Funds for Leaf Protein-Based Ingredient Extracted from Upcycled Crops | Israeli startup Day 8 has secured $750,000 pre-seed funding from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub to introduce a functional ingredient made from the leaf protein Rubisco for plant-based dairy, meat, and other food applications. The young startup wa... |
| 20.02.2024 | 5 Small Vegan Businesses You May Not Know That Deserve to Be on Your Radar | This week we will introduce ten small vegan businesses you may have never heard of; below are five interesting small businesses from around the world, and stay tuned on Friday for another five that deserve to be on your watch list. From Cha... |
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