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We back and support promising ideas and growing companies that are aligned with our values and mission. Our network extends from creative, early-stage ideas, right through to emerging global businesses.
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Experience
Experience with mission-aligned founders working at the intersection of biology, technology and agriculture.
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abillion
Social media for social good. Discover the best vegan food, sustainable beauty and ethical fashion products, anywhere.
Invested at: Seed
AgBiome
Improving the world through microbial solutions. Isolating microbes from environmental samples from across the globe, then fully sequencing each microbe’s genome.
Invested at: Venture and Growth
Algama
Engineering sustainable food solutions for all. As a food-tech company, Algama harvests the potential of algae to create food that's good for both people and the planet.
Invested at: Venture
alpha
A different kind of delicious. Alpha's craveable meatless meat products are exactly what a meat eater would eat if a meat eater didn't eat meat.
Invested at: Seed and Venture
Apparo
Developing the process and market knowledge to upcycle existing crop biomass creating a more sustainable food supply. By extracting unique functional, nutritious proteins, flour and antioxidants from sunflower meal, we provide food developers with new innovative ingredients for plant-based foods.
Invested at: Seed
Arkeon
Arkeon’s proprietary technology is fully independent from agricultural land and directly converts CO2 into a range of clean label ingredients that are GMO-free and 100% vegan. The company holds the key to unlock a food system without resource constraints, without geographical restrictions and free from animal suffering.
Invested at: Seed
Atomo
Atomo is refreshing coffee lovers with great tasting beanless coffee that does great things for the planet. It’s coffee that loves us back, brewing a brighter future for all of us.
Invested at: Seed
Basecamp Research
London-based Basecamp Research discovers and optimises proteins for all sectors of the bioeconomy using its unique ability to understand real-world relationships between proteins. With a team spanning Antarctic ice divers to machine learning graph scientists, Basecamp Research is building the largest, most sophisticated, entirely ethically sampled graph database of natural biodiversity – a knowledge graph of life on earth.
Invested at: Seed
Beyond Meat
Feed a better future. Beyond's mission is to create delicious, nutritious, sustainable protein so that you can Eat What You Love™, no sacrifice required.
Exited: Seed
BIOMILQ
Human milk for babies. Unlocking human potential with breakthrough mammary biotechnology.
Invested at: Venture
Bosque Foods
Bosque Foods is on a mission to create the next generation of meat alternatives, starting with whole-cut products grown naturally from Mycelium.
Invested at: Seed
Bramble
Feed your pets the way you feed yourself: healthy, clean and sustainable.
Invested at: Venture
California Cultured
We are a team of chocoholics who are dedicated to protecting the planet. Chocolate is an irresistible indulgence to be enjoyed by all. But the harsh reality is, the chocolate we know and love causes harm. That’s why…we are making a better chocolate.
Invested at: Seed
Change Foods
Change Foods is creating animal-free dairy foods by leveraging precision fermentation technology, starting with cheese.
Invested at: Seed
Chromologics
Natural colors for a better world. Chromologics is a biotech spin-out who has developed a fungal biotech platform for the production of novel, natural colorants.
Invested at: Venture
Core Biogenesis
Core Biogenesis uses plants as biofactories to scale the production of high-value bioproducts. Our Ultra-scalable bioproduction as a service (UBaaS) platform accelerates mass production and increases yields, while driving down costs.
Invested at: Seed
CUBIQ FOODS
CUBIQ FOODS leads the way in sustainable, tasty and clean nutritional profiles for industrial food producers worldwide.
Invested at: Venture
Cultivated Biosciences
Plant-based dairy alternatives fail to provide the same sensory journey as animal dairy products. Yeast fermentation can solve this problem. Cultivated Biosciences offers an ingredient that gives consumers the creamy experience they crave.
Invested at: Seed
Eat Just
It starts with really good eggs, from plants. And leads to a healthier world.
Invested at: Seed
Eat Virgin
Just eat better. Eat Virgin crafts organic and plant-based ambient and frozen meals, while fuelling a culture of creators, athletes, and hustlers.
Invested at: Seed
EV Biotech
EV Biotech is a Netherlands-based start-up offering a solution to the issue of pollution-heavy manufacturing methods by harnessing the power of fermentation combined with state-of-the-art computational methods. EV Biotech is currently developing four Microbial Chassis for the production of Vanillin, Spider Silk, Terpenes and PHAs.
Invested at: Seed
Finless Foods
Finless Foods is plant-based and cell-cultured seafood that changes how the world eats… and supports a thriving ocean.
Invested at: Seed
Gathered Foods
United by a love of good food, plant-based eating and animal welfare, Gathered Foods has a calling to raise consciousness, reduce harm and preserve our precious and delicate environment, all while delivering a great culinary experience.
Invested at: Seed
Geltor
Geltor is the conscious biodesign company creating the world’s most advanced designer proteins by exploring nature’s tree of life and combine biology, protein optimisation, and fermentation to create sustainable, high-performance consumer proteins with optimal functionality and benefits.
Invested at: Seed and Venture
Green Monday
To be a global change maker for a sustainable future.
Invested at: Seed
Hail Merry
Clean, fresh, healthy ingredients can provide an indulgent experience - "have your cake and eat it too".
Invested at: Seed
Happy Ocean Foods
Happy Ocean Foods is founded with the mission to replace animal seafood in the human diet and help nurture seafood populations in the oceans.
Invested at: Seed
Heartbest Foods
En Heartbest desarrollamos alimentos plant-based de una from a sustentable, responsable y llena de amor. Alimentos deliciosos y funcionales para que disfrutes y contribuyas a salvar el mundo.
Invested at: Venture
Human Food
Human Food is whole food health benefits with snack bar convenience. One of their delicious, organic bars provides over half your recommended daily intake of 13 essential micronutrients, all in their natural, most health-giving form.
Invested at: Venture
Hyfé Foods
Hyfé makes low-carb, protein-rich fungi flour. They do this by leveraging fermentation to upcycle water used in food manufacturing
Invested at: Seed
Impossible
Impossible Foods develops plant-based substitutes for meat products with the aim to give people the taste and nutritional benefits of meat without the negative health and environmental impacts associated with livestock products.
Invested at: Seed
Jay & Joy
Jay & Joy manufacture alternatives to cheese made from almond milk and cashew nuts.
Invested at: Venture
Kern Tec
Kern Tec is a B2B company based in Austria that has developed a unique process to upcycle fruit pits into high-value raw materials. The company uses discarded pits from apricots, cherries, and plums in order to develop new ingredients for the food and beverage industry. Kern Tec’s raw materials are processed in order to produce a range of new products, including specialty oils, protein powders, and plant-based dairy alternatives.
Invested at: Seed
LettUs GROW
LettUs GROW's mission is to reduce the waste and carbon footprint of fresh produce by empowering anyone, anywhere, to grow delicious food near its point of consumption.
Invested at: Seed
Lighter
Lighter is intelligent, personalised meal planning & tracking technology that bridges the gap between advice and action.
Invested at: Seed
LoveRaw
LoveRaw is on a mission to bring you awesome vegan chocolate, not only for vegans but for unvegan vegans too.
Invested at: Venture
Mosa Meat
Mosa Meat is a food technology company that’s helping everyone take a bite out of a better future – starting with the world’s kindest beef burger.
Invested at: Seed and Venture
Mosa Meat
Motif makes plant-based food better by analysing, discovering and designing differently. The result? Crave-worthy food that’s better tasting, more nutritious and sustainable.
Invested at: Growth
New Roots
Creating the traditions of the future - crafting a plant-based alternative to cheese.
Invested at: Seed
New Wave Foods
Small bite. Big Impact. Delicious plant-based shrimp. It's sustainable, vegetarian and kosher.
Invested at: Seed
Next Gen Foods
The next generation of plant-based foods is here. See it. Taste it. Believe it.
Invested at: Seed
No Evil Foods
No Evil Foods makes meat from nothin’ but plants. We are makers driven to help hungry mouths everywhere recognise the connection between food, kindness to self and others, and environmental impact.
Invested at: Seed
NuCicer
NuCicer’s proprietary, non-GM chickpeas with dramatically increased protein content cut the cost of production for chickpea protein nearly in half, transforming opportunities for food and beverage products.
Invested at: Seed
Outstanding Foods
Addictively delicious plant-based foods. Ditch the guilt, snack with benefits.
Invested at: Seed
planetary
Planetary is a fermentation CDMO providing R&D services, industrial-scale bioprocessing capacity, and finished food product formulations to fermentation front-runners.
Invested at: Seed
Plantable
Plantable is the first clinically-supported lifestyle program that combines plant-based nutrition and behavioural psychology.
Invested at: Seed
Planted
Planted brings delicious meat alternatives to your table. Our planet is very important to us. Therefore, we have no animal suffering, only great taste.
Invested at: Seed and Venture
Polybion
Polybion is the next gen biomaterials company that brings performance and possibility to 21st century designers and materials engineers.
Invested at: Venture
Proeon
Proeon is an ingredient innovation company working on creating next-gen plant protein ingredients with a mission to make food that is good for people, planet and the conscience.
Invested at: Seed and Venture
Rebellyous Foods
At Rebellyous Foods, we believe everyone should have access to delicious plant-based food. Meatless for all is our mission. Let’s get rebellyous.
Invested at: Seed
RedSun Hortitech
We strive to lead the international macadamia nursery industry in achieving Reliability, Quality and Integrity.
Invested at: Seed
Shaka Harry
We are as delicious as meat and we replicate the sensory experience that you love. Our products are packed with delicious plant-based goodness for foodies that serve as a healthier option to meat products. Better for you, better for the planet. Try our Just-like-meat nuggets, samosas and kebabs made from plants – we know you’ll love it!
Invested at: Seed
Synonym Bio
Synonym is a financing and development platform for essential biomanufacturing infrastructure.
Invested at: Seed
Sunfed meats
Boasting premium yellow pea protein, Sunfed meats cook, feel and taste just like animal meat but are healthier, both for you and the planet.
Invested at: Seed
SuperMeat
SuperMeat’s mission is to bring the world the highest quality chicken meat, grown directly from cells, in a sustainable and animal-friendly process.
Invested at: Seed
Syocin
Syocin is revolutionizing the way in which plant bacterial diseases are treated and cured. Syocin is pioneering the development of a proprietary Synthetic Biology Platform capable of designing and building high-precision bactericidal proteins to develop each biobactericide solution in a very short period of time taking months instead of years.
Invested at: Seed
Tagger Media
Tagger is the all-in-one influencer marketing platform and social listening tool (that's actually easy to use).
Exited: Seed
Tropic Biosciences
Tropic Biosciences develops high-performing commercial varieties of tropical crops which promote cultivation efficiencies, enhance consumer health, and improve sustainable environmental practices, using cutting edge genetic editing technologies.
Exited: Growth
The EVERY Company
We unlock powerful proteins designed for the future of every human, every animal, everywhere.
Invested at: Seed and Venture
Tomorrow Foods
Tomorrow Foods delivers sustainable plant-based protein systems to the F&B industry, thus enabling consumer brands to launch new plant-based products that are tasty, healthy and sustainable in a simple and agile way. To do so, the company is vertically integrated from regen farm to fork.
Invested at: Seed
uFraction8
uFraction8 enables Biotech and Cleantech trends and focuses on simplifying industrial processes that use cell cultures for the production of food, bio-pharmaceuticals and other bio-based products and chemicals.
Invested at: Seed
Veestro
We believe eating healthy can be as easy as showing up. On your doorstep. To put a smile on your face. We’re here to please. With plants.
Invested at: Seed and Venture
YES Cacao
Wild harvested from old growth trees in the Ecuadorian jungle. Nourished by nature, bird songs, and a bajillion microorganisms.
Invested at: Seed
roll-ups
Supporting the creation of world-leading platforms through growth and consolidation.
LikeMeat
At LikeMeat we believe in doubling our pleasure. Making great tasting food that feels good, and does good too.
Invested at: Roll Ups
No Meat
Here at No Meat, we believe that food can bring people together, still taste great and be good for the planet.
Invested at: Roll Ups
OUMPH!
We believe in mouth-watering food. Food that’s delicious, easy to cook, and crazy good for the environment. And that’s Oumph!
Invested at: Roll-Up
The Dutch Weed Burger
Radically Delicious. Plant-based food full of protein and enriched with Dutch seaweed.
Invested at: Roll-Up
alpha
A different kind of delicious. Alpha's craveable meatless meat products are exactly what a meat eater would eat if a meat eater didn't eat meat.
Invested at: Roll-Up
LIVEKINDLY MEDIA
For humanity, our home, and those who share it with us, we’re creating new, better, and kinder choices to help us all LIVEKINDLY.
Invested at: Roll-Up