Start-Up

Nestlé invests in LATAM start-ups through Angel Ventures

09-Dec-2019 By Niamh Michail

Nestlé is investing in Angel Ventures, a Latin American venture capital firm based in Mexico in order to fuel start-up innovation in Latin America.

PepsiCo’s second North American Greenhouse accelerator program seeks mission-driven startups

09-Dec-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

PepsiCo is seeking 10 purpose-driven start-ups to participate in its second North American Greenhouse program and to compete for a shot at $100,000 in funding beyond a guaranteed $20,000 grant and mentorship.

Solar Foods makes protein out of thin air: ‘This is the most environmentally friendly food there is’

15-Jul-2019 By Flora Southey

Finnish start-up Solar Foods has developed a complete protein made from carbon dioxide, air and electricity, CEO Pasi Vainikka tells FoodNavigator.

Navigating the start-up ecosystem: Platform opens agri-tech to VCs, accelerators and incubators

19-Jun-2019 By Flora Southey

A global agri-food tech platform has been developed to help businesses keep up with trends, innovations, and funding movements from start-ups, accelerators and investors.

Mapping Brazil’s foodtech movement

10-Jun-2019 By Niamh Michail

FoodTech Movement has created a map of Brazil’s food start-ups and entrepreneurial activity, which it says will help facilitate and speed up the food chain’s ‘tech revolution’.

Investing in the Future of Food: Founding partner of VC Fifty Years shares 3 areas ripe for investment

22-May-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

In the past decade, venture capitalists have emerged as a primary gatekeeper for innovation in the food and beverage industry as the amount of money they are pouring into startups in the space continues to rise exponentially, and so-called big-food continues...

Learning the investment community’s lingo will increase entrepreneurs’ funding success

13-May-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

When pitching a company or a product to investors, startups should brace to hear ‘no’ – a lot – but they can increase their chances of hearing yes by learning everything they can about the investment community at large and individual investors before...