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| 10.02.2026 | Umanitek expands its global AI safety mission with a strategic investment |
Umanitek, founded in 2025 in Zug, is a global data company focused on building what it calls the world’s largest “data immune system,” using advanced AI trust and safety agents to detect and prevent digital harm at scale. The company’s Gua... |
| 11.11.2025 | KBW Ventures scouts for high-quality bets to quadruple MENA exposure share | Premium
Ekta Tolani, Chief Investment Officer, KBW Ventures (Source: Company website)
KBW Ventures, the private investment office of Saudi Arabia’s Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal, plans to significantly increase its exposure to Middle... |
| 04.09.2025 | ADFW 2025: World's Financial Elite Managing Over USD 60 Trillion to Explore How Technology is Shaping Finance | ABU DHABI, UAE, Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ADFW 2025, the region's biggest financial gathering, announced its first wave of top global speakers who will headline this year's event. Hosted by ADGM, the international financial centre of Ab... |
| 05.08.2025 | VC Voices: Ekta Tolani, Chief Investment Officer, KBW Ventures How to win investor attention and scale with impact—insider guidance from Ekta Tolani, Chief Investment Officer, KBW Ventures. | This article is part of VC Voices: Insights to Help Startups Succeed by Entrepreneur Middle East - a series where the MENA region's leading venture capitalists share practical advice to help founders navigate the challenges of building and ... |
| 21.10.2024 | KBW Ventures Engages Local Entrepreneurs through Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund Startup Clinic KBW Ventures Chiefs of Communications and Investments spoke to the startups for a two hour bespoke w... | Members of the KBW Ventures senior leadership team took part in a Startup Clinic staged by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund (MBRIF). The event, held on October 9, 2024, was structured to encourage audience engagement with a rapid-fir... |
| 07.12.2023 | Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed Joins BlueNalu’s Corporate Advisory Board | San Diego cellular aquaculture company BlueNalu announced the addition of Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud to its corporate advisory board during COP 28. According to BlueNalu, the Prince’s commitment to sustainable development,... |
| 28.11.2023 | Lebanon-Based Dooda Solutions Wins Grand Prize Of US$100,000 In The 2023 Installment Of The PepsiCo Greenhouse Accelerator Program: MENA Sustainability Edition The announcement of the winner was made ... | Lebanon-based startup Dooda Solutions has been declared the winner of the 2023 installment of the PepsiCo Greenhouse Accelerator Program: MENA Sustainability Edition, with it receiving a cash prize of US$100,000.
As a global mentor-led init... |
| 28.06.2022 | Eclipse Foods Secures $40M in Series B to “Completely Transform” the Dairy Industry | Eclipse Foods, a leader in plant-based dairy, announces it has raised over $40M in Series B funding led by Sozo Ventures, with participation from Khaled bin Alwaleed’s KBW Ventures. The latest round brings the startup’s total fundraising am... |
| 19.01.2022 | How I try to make a difference with every meal–and every investment | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
There isn’t much more to be said about greenhouse gasses, the climate crisis, and factory farming that has... |
| 19.01.2022 | How I try to make a difference with every meal–and every investment | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
There isn’t much more to be said about greenhouse gasses, the climate crisis, and factory farming that has... |
| 13.01.2022 | KBW Ventures Founder Prince Khaled to Join Industry Leaders at Future Food Tech Summit | Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed of Saudi Arabia, the founder and CEO of KBW Ventures, is to join other industry leaders at the San Francisco Future Food Tech Summit 2022. This year’s event will take place on March 24-25. First FFT summit since p... |
| 24.08.2021 | Vegan Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed to Join Panel on Promoting Food Security Through Agri-Food Innovation | KBW Ventures founder and CEO, Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed, will join industry experts next month for the 2021 World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit on a panel discussion under the banner of Accessing New Market Opportunities.
The vegan Prince an... |
| 30.05.2021 | Prince Khaled's KBW Ventures Invests In France-Based Furahaa Group | May 30, 2021 3 min read
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KBW Ventures, founded by HRH Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed, has invested in French startup Furahaa Group, marking it as the firs... |
| 27.05.2021 | Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed Makes First Investment In France’s Vegan Industry | 4 Mins Read
KBW Ventures, founded by Saudi royal and chief executive officer Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed, made its first investment in French startup Furahaa Group, which focuses on addressing France’s market needs for plant-based foods and ... |
| 25.05.2021 | Furahaa Group Receives Investment From Prince Khaled, Aims to Be First Plant-Based Chain in France | KBW Ventures, founded by CEO Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed, today announced its investment in French startup Furahaa Group, marking the first investment made in France by KBW Ventures. Based in Paris, the mission-driven startup is an inclusive... |
| 16.03.2021 | Vegconomist in Conversation With Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed | HRH Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of KBW Ventures and the Founding Chairman of KBW Investments, which has funded extensively in the area of alternative proteins through a portfolio t... |
| 22.01.2021 | BlueNalu sets sights on Asia after raising cultured seafood’s biggest round yet | San Diego-based BlueNalu just raised $60 million in a convertible note financing, which the startup claims is the biggest funding round yet in the ‘lab-grown’ seafood space.
Rage Capital led the funding, with a host of new and existing inve... |
| 06.01.2021 | TurtleTree Labs launches B2B unit to develop cost-efficient culture media & growth factors | TurtleTree Labs, a Singaporean startup that’s culturing milk in the lab from animal cells, has launched a B2B business to develop growth factors for the wider cellular agrifood industry.
Dubbed TurtleTree Scientific, the new unit will work ... |
| 17.12.2020 | ‘Mammal-free milk’ startup TurtleTree Labs raises $6.2m pre-Series A funding | TurtleTree Labs, a Singaporean startup producing ‘lab-grown’ milk, has raised $6.2 million in a pre-Series A funding round.
Existing investors participating in the round included Green Monday Ventures — part of Hong Kong’s alt-protein focus... |
| 04.11.2020 | Pushing for US & Middle East to eat organic, Saudi prince joins Back To The Roots round | KBW Ventures, the early-stage investment firm run by Saudi Arabian prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, has joined an investment round into Oakland, California’s organic gardening company Back to the Roots.
The round, of undisclose... |
| 14.09.2020 | From Burger King to Saudi prince: Bond founder on why cats & dogs could be cultured meat’s first mass consumers | Providing advertising makeovers and comms tips to a fast food giant used to gnaw at the moral fiber of former brand strategist Rich Kelleman.
“I was a vegan at Burger King,” he explains to AFN.
This was a decade ago, long before the days of... |
| 25.06.2020 | Singapore FoodTech Raises US$3.2M Seed To Scale Lab-Grown Breast Milk, Green Monday Backs Startup | 527 1
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Singapore-based biotechnology startup TurtleTree Labs has just announced fresh funding from global investors, including Hong Kong’s Green Monday Ventures, the investment arm of plant-based disruptor Green Monday... |
| 24.06.2020 | Singapore cell-based breastmilk startup TurtleTree Labs raises $3.2m seed funding | TurtleTree Labs has raised $3.2 million in seed funding from investors including Hong Kong alt-protein and sustainability specialists Green Monday Ventures, House of Saud-linked KBW Ventures, and Australia’s Artesian. US-based New Luna Vent... |
| 23.01.2020 | TurtleTree Labs, World’s First Company to Create Milk From Cells, Closes Pre Seed Round | ©TurtleTree Labs
Biotech startup TurtleTree Labs, has announced a pre-seed round to create real milk from animal cells, with no animals required. The investment round, led by Lever VC and with participation from vegan Prince Khaled’s KBW Ve... |
| 23.01.2020 | TurtleTree Labs, World’s First Company to Create Milk From Cells, Closes Pre Seed Round | Biotech startup TurtleTree Labs, has announced a pre-seed round to create real milk from animal cells, with no animals required. The investment round, led by Lever VC and with participation from vegan Prince Khaled’s KBW Ventures, will be u... |
| 22.01.2020 | Singapore’s TurtleTree Labs, Maker Of Milk Without Cows, Secures Pre-Seed Funding | 2
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Singapore startup TurtleTree Labs, the first company in the world to reproduce the full composition of dairy milk without cows, has just completed its pre-seed funding round. The financing was backed by Lever VC, K2 G... |
| 06.12.2019 | UPDATE: Bond Pet Foods raises $1.2m seed round to take the animal out of pet food | UPDATE: FRI 6 DEC, 16:41 ET *adds comment from Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud*
Did you know that if America’s cats and dogs were a country, they’d be the fifth largest consumer of meat products globally? Now add the world’s pe... |
| 26.11.2018 | Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed to Open 30 Vegan Restaurants in Middle East | Vegan Prince Khaled, prolific investor of numerous vegan businesses across the world, has revealed plans to open 30 restaurants across the middle east. The plans are part of the Folia partnership, Prince Khaled’s consultancy and teaching pa... |
| 23.11.2018 | The Vurger: “We’re Here to Make Vegetables Sexy Again” | Vurger is a 100% vegan restaurant based in Shoreditch, London, aiming to revolutionise the fast food industry with delicious meals made from natural and locally sourced plant-based ingredients.
After an incredibly successful crowd-funding t... |
| 29.01.2018 | Memphis Meats Adds Tyson to Investor List With Cargill, Gates, Branson, Musk, more | *First Published August 23, 2017. Updated January 29, 2018 to reflect new investment from Tyson Foods.
Tyson Foods‘ venture arm has joined the laundry list of well-known investors backing cultured meat developer Memphis Meats.
The San Franc... |
| 02.01.2018 | Israeli Cultured Meat Startup SuperMeat Raises $3m Seed Round | SuperMeat, an Israeli cultured meat startup, has raised a $3 million seed round to develop its cultured chicken product in the first of what will likely be several funding rounds in the area of cellular agriculture this year.
Cellular agric... |
| 10.10.2017 | Cultured Meat Will Cost Startups $150m-$370m (and Take At Least 4 More Years) to Bring to Market | There is a reason that high profile investors and entrepreneurs — and therefore media outlets globally — are getting increasingly excited about alternative protein-based food sources.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates tha... |
