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| 21.08.2024 | The Green Shift: How Awareness and Innovation Are Transforming Our Plates | In a world grappling with climate change, our plates are becoming battlegrounds for sustainability. The choices we make at mealtime ripple through the environment. Recent campaigns and technological innovations are reshaping how we think ab... |
| 20.08.2024 | Equinom’s AI-Driven Manna Technology Now Commercially Available for High-Protein Pea Production | Israeli agri-food-tech company Equinom has announced the commercial availability of its Manna™ technology, an AI-powered solution designed to optimize the processing of high-protein yellow peas. The company, known for its focus on developin... |
| 19.03.2024 | Plant-Based Innovations Secure Top Honors in 2024 Food and Beverage (FABI) Awards | The 2024 National Restaurant Association Show is spotlighting the future of the foodservice industry, showcasing 35 innovative products honored with the Food and Beverage (FABI) Awards.
Over one-third of the awards were given to plant-based... |
| 29.05.2023 | Big Idea Ventures Raises Initial Funds for $75M New Protein Fund II | Food tech investor Big Idea Ventures (BIV) has announced a first close for its New Protein Fund, which aims to raise $75 million within the next 12 months to support new food tech and protein innovators. This new raise brings its total asse... |
| 01.02.2023 | Who were the most active food and agriculture technology venture capital firms in 2022? | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder, a food and agriculture technology venture capital firm.
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| 14.12.2022 | 12 of the VC firms most active in funding e-commerce startups told us what they're looking for in an investment — and shared the biggest bets they're making for the future | From left to right: Aaron Epstein, George Damouny, Andrea Hippeau, and Anton Simunovic Y Combinator; Plug and Play Tech Center; Lerer Hippeau; Alumni Ventures; Marianne Ayala/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscriber... |
| 12.12.2022 | Black Sheep Foods Raise a $12.3 Million Series A for Plant-Based Lamb | 3 Mins Read Black Sheep Foods, the Bay Area plant-based food tech company working to create vegan lamb meat with proprietary patent-pending technology has closed a $12.3 million Series A funding round.
Black Sheep’s funding was led by Unovi... |
| 11.12.2022 | Black Sheep Foods Raises $12.03M in Series A Funding | Black Sheep Foods, a San Francisco, CA-based foodtech company, raised $12.03M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Unovis, alongside Bessemer Venture Partners, AgFunder, and KBW Ventures.
The company, which has raised $18.05 Million si... |
| 08.12.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Grocery startup Oda bags $158m, new rounds for alt meat & restaurant tech | Despite losing its unicorn status, Norwegian online grocer Oda bagged a sizable round this week. Restaurant tech company MarginEdge and AgFunder portfolio company Black Sheep Foods also raised money, as did forest tech platform Gaia AI and ... |
| 08.12.2022 | Black Sheep Foods Has Raised $18.05 Million to Bring Flavor Freedom to the Meat Aisle | Plants gone wild. Black Sheep Foods secures funding from Unovis, Bessemer Venture Partners, AgFunder, and Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed as it leaps past chicken, beef, and pork to create even tastier meats, made from plants.
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| 08.12.2022 | Black Sheep Foods Has Raised $18.05 Million to Bring Flavor Freedom to the Meat Aisle | - |
| 08.12.2022 | Black Sheep Foods grabs $12.3M to craft tastier plant-based meats | Black Sheep Foods, a San Francisco–based food tech company that uses plants to create a similar flavor to animal meat, secured another funding round, this time $12.3 million in Series A capital.
The company is leaping over the traditional p... |
| 12.07.2022 | Black Sheep Foods Partners with The Chef’s Warehouse to Launch Plant-Based Lamb in NYC Restaurants | Black Sheep Foods announces it is partnering with specialty foods distributor The Chef’s Warehouse to launch plant-based lamb at restaurants throughout NYC. Beginning next week, chefs and restaurants can order the brand’s plant-based herita... |
| 16.06.2022 | Will the World Eat Exotic (Plant-based) Meats? Sunny Kumar of Black Sheep Foods | Sunny Kumar of Black Sheep Foods joins me on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss the world’s first and only plant-based lamb products, how they get that authentic flavor and just how (planet) healthy great taste can be.
Specifically, th... |
| 22.03.2022 | AgFunder captures increasing, urgent investor demand for agrifoodtech with $60m Fund IV first close | Disclosure: AgFunder is AFN’s parent company.
AgFunder, one of the world’s most active investors in foodtech and agtech startups, has increased its assets under management to $160 million – 10x in two years – with the first close of its fou... |
| 17.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Licious nets $150m, Bear Robotics raises $81m | Licious, an India e-commerce marketplace for meat, scored $150 million in Series F-plus investment this week, while California’s Bear Robotics bagged $81 million for its robot restaurant servers. Over in agtech, Local Bounti snapped up a ri... |
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Data Snapshot: Alt-protein is now in China’s 5-year plan. Here’s how much funding it raised in 2020
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‘Double climate dividend’ awaits high-income countries that adopt plant-based diet: study
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Plant-based lamb pioneer Black Sheep Foods bags $5.3m funding from AgFunder, others
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| 01.02.2022 | Vegan Lamb Maker Black Sheep Foods Raises $5.2 Million | 3 Mins Read
San Francisco startup Black Sheep Foods has closed a $5.2 million seed funding round. New Crop Capital and AgFunder participated in the round, among others. The move comes the company debuted its vegan lamb last year. Capital ra... |
| 27.01.2022 | Plant-based lamb pioneer Black Sheep Foods bags $5.3m funding from AgFunder, others | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Black Sheep Foods.
San Francisco-based Black Sheep Foods has raised $5.25 million in seed funding to grow its business focused on “lesser-known, bold tasting” plant-based meats, ... |
| 27.01.2022 | Black Sheep Foods Raises $5.25M to Make Plant-Based Lamb and Wild Game | Black Sheep Foods, makers of the first plant-based lamb in the US, announces a $5.25 million seed funding raise to bring uncommon plant-based “game” meats to the market.
Based in San Francisco, Black Sheep Foods also intends to “catapult fl... |
| 26.01.2022 | Will your nose know lamb? Black Sheep Foods is betting it will | Black Sheep Foods, a food tech company making plant-based heritage breed meats and wild game, took in $5.25 million in seed funding as it continues developing its patent-pending flavor compounds.
Sunny Kumar, co-founder, told TechCrunch tha... |
| 10.11.2021 | Black Sheep Foods Partners With Equinom For Pea-Based Vegan Lamb | Black Sheep Foods, a company that recently launched what it claims is the first-ever plant-based heritage lamb, has announced a collaboration with Equinom.
Equinom, based in Israel, uses AI and plant breeding to produce improved seeds witho... |
| 25.10.2021 | USA’s “First Ever” Plant-Based Heritage Lamb Launches at San Francisco Restaurant Chain Souvla | San Francisco-based Greek restaurant chain Souvla has added vegan lamb to its menu. Made by Black Sheep Foods, it is described as the USA’s first “heritage breed” lamb alternative.
Previously, Souvla’s only vegan option was roasted white sw... |
| 02.06.2021 | Magic Valley Launches As Australia’s First Cultured Lamb Food Tech | 3 Mins Read
Australian startup Magic Valley has launched as the first Australian food tech cultivating lamb meat. Based in Melbourne, it wants to be the leading provider of slaughter-free cultured lamb mince, chops, strips and even lamb ste... |
| 10.11.2020 | The digital shelf: CPG food startups in the era of online grocery | Editor’s note: Josh Hechtman is an analyst intern on AgFunder’s investment team. Atomo Coffee, Black Sheep Foods, Lavva, and SIMULATE appear in this article; all are portfolio companies of AgFunder, the parent company of AFN.
The digital sh... |
| - | Black Sheep Foods | “Black Sheep Foods seeks to be the world leader in plant-based lamb and other wild and heritage meats.” |
