Debbie Jones

CFO

Harry Kalms

Senior Investment Associate

40 past transactions

Avant Meats

Venture Round in 2022
They focus on technology, commercial product innovation, and branding as well as intellectual property portfolio building in the area of ‘cell-based’ animal protein food products.

Liberation Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Liberation Labs is a biotech firm developing an industrial agricultural biotechnology system. It focuses on infrastructure that commercializes novel protein manufacturing at the scale. The company invests in infrastructure that commercializes protein manufacture at the market's size and cost structure, allowing biology innovators to compete with animal protein while also providing customers with access to nutritious foods.

Mozza

Venture Round in 2022
Mozza engages in developing the science to create real dairy cheese from plants. Its mission is to make cheese from plants that are indistinguishable from cheese that comes from animals. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Jinding Precision

Venture Round in 2022
Jinding Precision specializes in the production of automobile engines camshaft products such as pieces of gray cast iron and nodular cast iron automobile engine camshafts. Their products include casting camshaft blanks, casting camshaft assemblies, combined camshafts, and balance shafts.

New Culture

Series A in 2021
New Culture is a food and beverage company that focuses on revolutionizing how cheese is made. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Shiru

Series A in 2021
Shiru leverages computational design to create enhanced proteins that feed the world sustainably.

Formo

Series A in 2021
Formo is Europe’s first cellular agriculture company developing animal-free dairy products using real, nature-identical milk proteins derived from precision fermentation.

Miyoko’s Kitchen

Series C in 2021
Miyoko’s Kitchen is a food production company that produces artisan cultured Vegan cheese and butter. Selling in thousands of stores across the country, the Miyoko's brand has garnered loyalty, excitement, and passion since 2014..

Aleph Farms

Series B in 2021
Aleph Farms is an Israel-based food technology company designing new ways to grow quality animal products that improve sustainability, food security and animal welfare in our food systems. Founded in 2017, the company utilized cellular agriculture technology to unveil the world’s first cultivated thin-cut steak in 2018, the world’s first cultivated ribeye steak in 2021, and cultivated collagen in 2022. Under its product brand, Aleph Cuts, the company will launch its first product, the Petit Steak, grown from the non-modified cells of a premium Angus cow. For its contributions to climate leadership including a net zero commitment made in 2020, it has received top accolades from the World Economic Forum and the United Nations.

Aleph Farms

Series B in 2021
Aleph Farms is an Israel-based food technology company designing new ways to grow quality animal products that improve sustainability, food security and animal welfare in our food systems. Founded in 2017, the company utilized cellular agriculture technology to unveil the world’s first cultivated thin-cut steak in 2018, the world’s first cultivated ribeye steak in 2021, and cultivated collagen in 2022. Under its product brand, Aleph Cuts, the company will launch its first product, the Petit Steak, grown from the non-modified cells of a premium Angus cow. For its contributions to climate leadership including a net zero commitment made in 2020, it has received top accolades from the World Economic Forum and the United Nations.

THIS

Series A in 2021
THIS is a plant-based meat brand that provides alternative meat products for meat lovers. The company's products are made of plant-based ingredients that are fortified with vitamin B12 and iron, enabling meat lovers to get the real feel of having meat-based products and satisfy their tastes without killing animals.

ENOUGH

Series B in 2021
ENOUGH is a technology spin-out company from the University of Strathclyde established to develop and commercialise novel patented technology which transforms the production economics for the meat-free food product mycoprotein by integrating the production within existing bio-refinery operations producing bio-ethanol and animal feed (DDGS). This gives integrated fermentation production of Food, Fuel and Feed. ​

Imagindairy

Seed Round in 2021
Imagindairy provides Animal-free dairy proteins for nourishing the world with sustainable, healthy and tasty products.

Bluu Seafood

Seed Round in 2021
Bluu Seafood they provide services for food products in seafood made from fish cells, healthier, and more sustainably

CellRev

Seed Round in 2021
CellRev is a biotechnology company focused on process intensification within cell manufacturing applications. The company’s proprietary technology facilitates the transition from batch to continuous processing of adherent cells. It’s a disruptive new biomanufacturing approach that increases yield while decreasing operating costs and capital expenditure. A proprietary cell detachment process is complemented by a specially designed bioprocess; together, they pose an altogether unique cell manufacturing solution.

Hoxton Farms

Seed Round in 2021
Based in London, UK, Hoxton Farms is growing real animal fat – without animals. The company combines cell biology and mathematical modelling to produce cultivated fat as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry.

Matrix Food Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Matrix F.T. is built upon over a decade of industry leading experience in the design and manufacture of cell matrices to support all cell types. They create proprietary and custom-engineered nanofiber matrices and microcarriers that are animal-free, edible, and scalable.

Better Dairy

Seed Round in 2020
Better Dairy manufactures dairy products. It employs precision fermentation to produce the same cheeses, yoghurts, and ice creams that customers are accustomed to without the use of animals.

Remilk

Series A in 2020
Remilk is a food-tech company that uses microbes to produce the key ingredients in milk. The company is developing technology for creating a milk substitute that is similar to cow milk in flavor, nutritional composition, composition, and functionality. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Avant Meats

Seed Round in 2020
They focus on technology, commercial product innovation, and branding as well as intellectual property portfolio building in the area of ‘cell-based’ animal protein food products.

Green Monday

Venture Round in 2020
Green Monday Holdings is a manufacturer of plant-based pork substitute products and frozen meals and an operator of a chain of vegetarian-focused retail outlets and cafes.

Solar Foods

Series A in 2020
Solar Foods is a food-tech startup that specializes in testing a technology that uses electricity to produce hydrogen which is combined with carbon dioxide, water, vitamins, and minerals to feed and grow microbial biomass that can be used as edible protein. The industrial biotech startup develops a protein called Solein, a nutritious, sustainable substitute for animal-derived proteins. Solein is created using elements from the air—CO2, water, nitrogen—and electricity. This single-cell protein is cultivated through gas fermentation, essentially deriving edible calories from hydrogen-oxidizing microbes.

Geltor

Series B in 2020
Biodesigned proteins for beauty, wellness and beyond.

TurtleTree

Seed Round in 2020
TurtleTree is a biotech company dedicated to producing a new generation of nutrition one that’s better for the planet, better for the animals, and better for people everywhere. It is creating better-for-you milk ingredients sustainably and affordably, with benefits that extend beyond the dining table and into the heart of humanity.

Innovopro

Series B in 2020
InnovoPro is committed to bringing unique plant-based protein ingredients to the global food market in order to create nutritious, tasty, safe, and sustainable food products. With an excellent nutritional profile, free from properties and wide usability in the food industry, InnovoPro’s chickpea protein is the best choice for the growing plant-based protein market. InnovoPro was founded on 2013 by Dr. Ascher Shmulewitz an experienced inventor and investor, and has made considerable progress in developing chickpea proteins and other chickpea ingredients. InnovoPro has been recognized as an innovator of disruptive technology in the food industry.

Rebellyous Foods

Series A in 2020
Rebellyous Foods is a food manufacturing technology and production company defined solely to catapult meat alternative production toward price parity with animal-based meat. Rebellyous Foods implements food manufacturing equipment and processes in large-scale production to produce low-cost plant-based meat at high volumes. These goals are achieved through uniquely designed food products, the use of high-throughput manufacturing automation and ‘smart’ production centers, and the development and utilization of new innovative low-energy manufacturing tools. Rebellyous Foods was established in 2017 in Seattle, Washington.

Yofix

Series A in 2020
Yofix develops and manufacture dairy & soy free fermented plant base pre & pro-biotic foods. Excellent taste and texture, clean label – no artificial or preservative added, made of cereals, lentils, grains and seeds contain high nutritional values at competitive costs & sustainable production process. The first product ready to market is a plant base yogurt which will be followed by yogurt drinks, deserts, frozen yogurt, ice cream base and more

UPSIDE Foods

Series B in 2020
UPSIDE Foods (formerly known as Memphis Meats) develops meat produced directly from animal cells without the need to raise and slaughter actual animals. This approach requires significantly less water, land, and energy than conventional meat production, enabling consumers to enjoy meat that is clean, humane, and free of harmful chemicals. Co-founded and led by Dr. Uma Valeti in 2015, UPSIDE Foods is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Good Catch

Series B in 2020
Good Catch specializes in developing plant-based seafood alternatives. It offers vegetarian shredded tuna, crab cakes, and fish patties made of lentils, chickpeas, fava beans, and other legumes. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Gathered Foods

Series B in 2020
Gathered Foods produces plant-based products intended to provide an alternative to seafood and other plant-based proteins. Its plant-based seafood products are developed using a six-legume blend, including peas, chickpeas, lentils, soy, fava beans, and navy beans, and also seaweed, algae extract to create the umami flavor and natural taste without the use of dairy, gluten, or GMO, enabling consumers to enjoy seafood in a cruelty-free manner.

Formo

Seed Round in 2019
Formo is Europe’s first cellular agriculture company developing animal-free dairy products using real, nature-identical milk proteins derived from precision fermentation.

Shiru

Seed Round in 2019
Shiru leverages computational design to create enhanced proteins that feed the world sustainably.

BlueNalu

Series A in 2019
BlueNalu is a cellular aquaculture company that satisfies the global appetite for seafood in a fresh, sustainable, and humane way. It offers consumers with great tasting, healthy, safe, and trusted seafood products, that support the sustainability and diversity of the oceans.

Algama

Series A in 2019
Nature’s solution for food’s future. 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. Algama’s goal is to feed 10 billion people by 2050, while preserving the planet and offering consumers additional and better choices in foods. Our story After consuming microalgae for numerous reasons, Alvyn and Gaëtan conclude that it was a viable solution with the potential to redefine our food system for good. Algama was founded in 2013. World leader in algae food Since its founding, Algama has been the world leader in microalgae food and is proud to have the support of world-class impact investors like Horizons Ventures, Blue Horizon Ventures, CPT Capital, Veginvest, Beyond Impact, Alwyn Capital. All the team is dedicated to innovate and make microalgae a key resources for tomorrow’s daily food. Algama team We are focused on bringing microalgae-based foods to market, we are working hard to make our ingredients and products super tasty, affordable and widely available. We are expecting the team and we are looking for talents, innovateurs and entrepreneurs.

New Culture

Seed Round in 2019
New Culture is a food and beverage company that focuses on revolutionizing how cheese is made. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Motif

Series A in 2019
Motif develops plant-based food products designed to produce healthy food using genetic engineering and fermentation. Their food technologies enable CPG companies to develop plant-based alternatives that have the same meaty taste, appearance, and texture as their animal counterparts. They offer bioprocessing services, finished products, and food services.

Aleph Farms

Series A in 2019
Aleph Farms is an Israel-based food technology company designing new ways to grow quality animal products that improve sustainability, food security and animal welfare in our food systems. Founded in 2017, the company utilized cellular agriculture technology to unveil the world’s first cultivated thin-cut steak in 2018, the world’s first cultivated ribeye steak in 2021, and cultivated collagen in 2022. Under its product brand, Aleph Cuts, the company will launch its first product, the Petit Steak, grown from the non-modified cells of a premium Angus cow. For its contributions to climate leadership including a net zero commitment made in 2020, it has received top accolades from the World Economic Forum and the United Nations.

Brilliant Planet

Seed Round in 2018
Brilliant Planet is unlocking the power of algae as an affordable method of permanently and quantifiably sequestering carbon at the gigaton scale. The company's innovative process enables vast quantities of microalgae to grow in open-air pond-based systems on coastal desert land.
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