Employees: 1-10
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Series B
Portfolio 54
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 16.09.2023 | Cala | eatcala.com | $6.4M | France, Il... |
| 04.07.2023 | Infinitope... | infinitopes.com | $51.16M | United Kin... |
| 03.03.2023 | Believer M... | believermeats.com | - | Israel, Ce... |
| 08.06.2022 | KOJO | usekojo.com | $39M | United Sta... |
| 08.06.2022 | Aqtual, In... | aqtual.com | - | United Sta... |
| 06.04.2022 | Kadence | kadence.co | $30M | United Sta... |
| 06.04.2022 | Better Dai... | betterdairy.co.uk | $26.81M | United Kin... |
| 06.04.2022 | Please Wai... | coinpaprika.com | - | - |
| 06.04.2022 | Juvena The... | juvenatherapeutics.com | $41M | United Sta... |
| 06.04.2022 | Freedom Bi... | freedombio.co | $10.5M | - |
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| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Rufus | Loveridge | - | linkedin.c... | - | r***s@mant... | - |
| - | Lawrence | Barclay | Managing P... | linkedin.c... | - | L******e@m... | - |
| - | Leah | von Siemen... | Partner | linkedin.c... | - | l**h@manta... | - |
| - | Alejandro | Restrepo L... | MBA VC Ass... | linkedin.c... | - | a*******o@... | - |
| - | Julia | Schrameier | Associate | linkedin.c... | - | j***a@mant... | - |
| - | Yaryna | Nych | Venture Ca... | linkedin.c... | - | y****a@man... | - |
| - | Petra | Müller | Platform/P... | - | p***a@mant... | - |
Mentions in press and media 17
| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.04.2026 | Alien Raises $7.1M in Pre-Seed Funding | Alien, a San Francisco, CA-based startup building trust infrastructure for the agentic economy, raised $7.1M in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Initialized Capital and Finality, with investment from Mantaray, Commonmetal, Soma Capita... |
| 01.04.2026 | Alien raises $7.1M to build identity infrastructure for humans and AI agents The rise of agentic AI The broader agentic identity industry Send us a News Tip EXTRACT THE SIGNAL FROM THE NOISE Cookies | Alien, a startup looking to build trust infrastructure for the internet as the era of artificial intelligence agents changes how people interact with businesses and one another, today announced it has raised $7.1 million in pre-seed funding... |
| 06.10.2025 | Climax Foods Unveils New Identity, Plans Growth with $6.5M Investment and Leadership Change | Climax Foods has rebranded as Bettani Farms, appointing Sandeep Patel as CEO and Chairman. Patel, who previously served as CFO at Califia Farms, brings experience from the food and sustainability sectors. Alongside the rebrand, Bettani disc... |
| 05.08.2025 | Y-Combinator-backed agritech Supplant put up for sale after plunging into administration | An agritech firm backed by the likes of Y-Combinator has been put up for sale after being plunged into administration, City AM can reveal. Cambridge-based Supplant, which had raised more than £25m in funding since launch, is now searching f... |
| 30.07.2025 | 15 Biggest Funding Rounds in Poland (H1 2025): ElevenLabs Leading the Top | Poland ~ Company: Some may have thought it would be hard to beat the beginning of 2024 for the Polish startup ecosystem, when Eleven Labs joined the unicorn ranks. This year, they proved them wrong with an astonishing Series C. For Polish s... |
| 10.07.2025 | Aqtual Raises $31M in Series B Funding | Aqtual, a Hayward, CA-based precision medicine company providing an active chromatin cell-free DNA (cfDNA) platform, raised $31M in Series B funding. Backers included Bold Capital, Bold Longevity Growth Fund, Genoa Ventures, Manta Ray Ventu... |
| 28.06.2023 | Bluu Seafood reels in $17.5M to bring cultivated fish products to market | Bluu Seafood, a German company creating cultivated (i.e. “lab-grown”) fish products, today announced it has raised €16 million ($17.5 million) in a Series A round of funding. Founded out of Berlin in 2020 originally as Bluu Biosciences, Blu... |
| 27.03.2023 | The Supplant Company utilizes ‘forgotten half of the harvest’ to make ‘world first’ wheat flour made from stalks and grains | [Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in The Supplant Company. Scroll down to watch our video interview with founder and CEO Dr. Tom Simmons on the sidelines of the Future Food Tech conference in San Francisco.] A limi... |
| 01.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Planted’s $72m for whole-cut ‘chicken,’ genomics startup Pattern snags $35m | Swiss alt-protein startup Planted raised Series B funding to expand its line of whole-cut plant-based chicken items. Agtech and genomics startup Pattern also announced Series B funding, while carbon-neutral milk company closed a Series A ro... |
| 26.05.2022 | Nomagic sweeps off $22 million to turn manual warehouses into automated fulfilment centres | Fulfilment centres are seeking automation and hence, the money from VCs have been pouring into robotics companies for a while now. Last year more than $17 billion poured into VC-backed robotic startups, nearly triple the investment in 2020.... |
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