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| 10.02.2026 | Good Culture Secures $55 Million, Fuels Dairy Revolution | Good Culture, the transformative dairy brand, secured a substantial $55 million investment from Semcap Food & Nutrition. This new capital builds upon Semcap's prior partnership and follows a recent majority stake acquisition by L Catter... |
| 07.02.2026 | Good Culture: Dairy Brand Secures $55 Million From SEMCAP Food & Nutrition | SEMCAP Food & Nutrition has made a $55 million investment in Good Culture, a better-for-you cultured dairy brand, in a deal the investor said reinforces its focus on backing category-defining food companies.
The investment builds on SEM... |
| 05.02.2026 | Good Culture cottage cheese receives $55M from equity investor | Listen to the article 2 min
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A month after selling a majority stake in its business, cottage cheese maker Good Culture is receiving additional cash to further fund its gr... |
| 03.02.2026 | Good Culture Receives $55M Investment | Good Culture, an Austin, Texas-based developer of a clean-label cultured dairy brand, received a $55m investment.
The investment was made by SEMCAP Food & Nutrition, which joined majority investor L Catterton in this round.
The company ... |
| 27.01.2026 | General Mills sells Muir Glen tomato brand to private equity firm | Listen to the article 2 min
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General Mills sold its Muir Glen brand of organic tomatoes to Violet Foods, a manufacturer of pizza sauce, pasta sauce and other ... |
| 26.01.2026 | Uno frozen pizza offloaded by private equity firm | Listen to the article 2 min
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Private equity firm Brynwood Partners is selling its pizza division, Great Kitchens Food Company, to baked goods maker Rich Products for an u... |
| 15.01.2026 | SEMCAP Food & Nutrition Closes $125 Million Debut Fund Backed By Strategic Industry Investors | SEMCAP Food & Nutrition announced it has closed its inaugural Food & Nutrition fund with $125 million in commitments, positioning the growth equity platform to expand its portfolio of “better-for-you” and sustainable food brands acr... |
| 11.01.2026 | Good Culture Announces Majority Investment From L Catterton | Good Culture announced L Catterton has entered into a definitive agreement to make a majority investment in the Austin, Texas-based clean-label cultured dairy brand, positioning the company for expanded production capacity, broader distribu... |
| 07.10.2025 | "In The Sauce" Returns: Alison Cayne and Naturally New York Team Up for New Season | Beloved CPG Podcast To Bring Back Insightful Conversations & Lessons From Industry Leaders
NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- In the Sauce, the widely respected podcast hosted by Alison Cayne, Founder of Haven's Kitchen, is of... |
| 28.07.2025 | Gen Z Can't Get Enough of This 'Grandparents' Food — and Suppliers Can't Keep Up With Demand Health influencers made cottage cheese so popular that companies are struggling to produce it fast enough.... | Once thought of as a kitschy diet food, lumpy bumpy cottage cheese is seeing an unprecedented rise in demand thanks to health influencers on TikTok.
CNN reports that "young, protein-hungry consumers have whipped up new recipes and post... |
| 06.09.2024 | Leftovers: Ferrero unwraps new chocolate bar | Tabasco takes on Tex-Mex heat | Listen to the article 6 min
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Leftovers is our look at a few of the product ideas popping up everywhere. Some are intriguing, some sound amazing and some are the kinds of ... |
| 04.04.2024 | Aloha's Growth Spurt: A Plant-Based Protein Powerhouse Emerges | Aloha, a plant-based protein brand, is making waves in the snacking industry with a $68 million investment from Semcap Food & Nutrition. The company, known for its better-for-you protein bars, is on a mission to dominate the market with... |
| 02.04.2024 | Protein bar maker Aloha gets $68M from venture fund | Listen to the article 5 min
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Aloha, which manufactures better-for-you protein bars, is taking the next step to become a bigger presence in the snacking category, receivin... |
| 29.03.2024 | ALOHA: Plant-Based Protein Company Raises Nearly $70 Million From SEMCAP | ALOHA, a plant-based protein brand, announced that SEMCAP Food & Nutrition (a growth equity investment firm focused on helping build the purpose-driven food and nutrition brands of the future) has invested $68 million of secondary capit... |
| 24.02.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: GrowUp Farms gets $135m, PlantLab pulls in $57m & Novameat nabs $6m | The UK will soon get a new, large-scale controlled environment agriculture (CEA) facility thanks to a recent nine-figure investment in GrowUp Farms.
In the realm of alternative proteins, Spain’s Novameat netted several million dollars for i... |
| 24.02.2022 | Good Culture raises $64M for cultured foods expansion | Dive Brief:
Cultured foods brand Good Culture has announced a $64 million Series C funding round led by Manna Tree, with participation from SEMCAP Food & Nutrition and actress Kristen Bell.
The company said the funding will help it scal... |
| 24.02.2022 |
Good Culture Gets $65M For Food Brand
| Irvine-based Good Culture, best known for its cottage cheese brand, said on Wednesday that it has raised $64M in its Series C funding round. The funding was led by Manna Tree, and also included SEMCAP Food & Nutrition, pluls celebrity K... |
| 23.02.2022 | Good Culture lands $64m Series C funding: 'Many nutrient dense, cultured food categories are on the table for innovation' | The recent round of funding was led by Manna Tree with participation from SEMCAP Food & Nutrition and celebrity investor, Kristen Bell.
The capital injection will help Good Culture reach new consumer audiences and innovate beyond its cu... |
| 23.02.2022 | Good Culture Raises $64M in Series C Funding | Good Culture founder and CEO, Jesse Merrill / Photo Credit: SRW Agency
Good Culture, an Irvine, CA-based certified B-Corp and clean-label cultured foods brand, closed a $64m Series C funding.
The round was led by Manna Tree, with participat... |
| 23.02.2022 | Cottage Cheese Brand Good Culture Raises $64 Million With Help of ‘Superfan’ Kristen Bell | Sign up for dot.LA’s daily newsletter for the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
Alternative dairy products have long been a darling of the food-conscious crowd, and one local startup is tapping th... |
| 23.02.2022 | Good Culture raises $64 million to support innovation | IRVINE, CALIF. — Cottage cheese brand Good Culture has completed a $64 million Series C funding round led by Manna Tree, with participating from SEMCAP Food & Nutrition and celebrity investor Kristen Bell. The funding will support conti... |
| 17.02.2021 | Good Culture Partners With Dairy Farmers Of America To Further Commitment To People, Animals And The Planet With Path To Pasture Program | |
| 12.11.2019 | Good Culture moves into new territory with probiotic gut shots | While the refrigerated organic shots – which will debut in Whole Foods nationwide this month at $5.99/shot alongside brands such as Vive Organics, KOR and Vital Proteins – are not cheap, the price tag is in line with other premium functiona... |
| 25.03.2019 | This Startup Raised $17 Million for Its Efforts to Resurrect Cottage Cheese Sales | March 25, 2019 4 min read
Jesse Merrill spends a lot of time thinking about cottage cheese.
"Cottage cheese is so versatile," he said. "Cottage cheese adds a high quality, clean protein boost to any recipe that you're making.... |
| 27.02.2019 | Daily funding roundup - February 27th, 2019 | Coterie raised $2.75M; Lightstream raised $8M; Threads raised $10.5M; Landit raised $13M
Coterie: Coterie offers a curated selection of elevated party supplies, because gathering with friends should be effortless. Coterie has raised $2.75 m... |
| 26.02.2019 | Good Culture Closes $8M Funding Round | Good Culture, an Irvine, Calif.-based maker of cottage cheese and cultured dairy, closed an $8m funding round.
The round was led by Cavu Venture Partners, with participation from 301 INC, General Mills’ new business development and venturin... |
| 26.02.2019 | Good Culture closes $8m funding round, eyes new product categories: 'We never once thought of ourselves as strictly a cottage cheese company' | The round was supported by significant investment from 301 Inc., General Mills' business development and venturing unit, and Almanac Insights, an early stage CPG investment firm co-founded by David Barber of Blue Hill (a working farm, r... |
| 19.01.2018 | How do you talk about quark? Misha rebrands as Wünder Creamery to promote ‘nutrient-rich superdairy’ | Abilova was speaking to FoodNavigator-USA ahead of the Winter Fancy Food Show, where she will be unveiling a new look for her grass-fed quark product line, which launched in 2015 under the Misha brand (a term of endearment in Eastern Europe... |
| 19.04.2017 | good culture CEO: ‘We’re looking to scale pretty aggressively over the next 1-2 years’ | good culture has been notching up “explosive growth” over the past year, co-founder Jesse Merril told FoodNavigator-USA: “Our sales were up in 2016 over 17x vs prior year and we are on pace to experience triple digit growth in 2017. Key ... |
| 19.09.2016 | good culture Raises $3M in Financing | good culture, a Los Angeles, CA-based cottage cheese maker, raised $3M in financing.
Backers included existing investors Cavu Venture Partners and 301 Inc., the new business development and venturing unit of General Mills, and new investor ... |
| 18.09.2016 | Cottage cheese innovator good culture lands $3 million investment | The young company, which entered the sleepy cottage cheese category slightly more than year ago, first caught the attention of high profile investors CAVU Venture Partners and 301 INC, the business development and venturing unit of food gia... |
| 10.03.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Advanced Animal Diagnostics Raises $1.7m, Farmland Partners Acquires $197m Property, more | Advanced Animal Diagnostics Raises $1.7m in Top-up Financing
Advanced Animal Diagnostics, a company developing tools to diagnose livestock disease on the farm, has raised a $1.7m equity top-up funding from existing investors. The investors ... |
| 09.03.2016 | Good Culture Closes $2.1M Funding Round |
LOS ANGELES, CA, Company that is disrupting the cottage cheese space, announced today that it has closed a $2.1 million strategic financing round
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| 08.03.2016 | good culture Raises $2.1m in Strategic Funding | good culture, an Irvine, California-based food company focused on cottage cheese, raised $2.1m in strategic funding.
The round was led by CAVU Venture Partners, and 301 INC, General Mills’ business development and venture unit.
The company ... |
| 08.03.2016 | General Mills’ VC Arm Makes Another Food Startup Investment | The venture capital arm of General Mills has made an investment in another food startup, announcing on Tuesday that it participated in a funding round for cottage cheese maker Good Culture.
California-based Good Culture said it closed a $2.... |
| - | Good Culture Recently Raised $64 Million In Series C Funding | Good Culture recently announced it raised $64 million in Series C funding. These are the details.
Good Culture – the clean-label cultured foods brand credited with revolutionizing cottage cheese – recently announced the completion of $64 mi... |
| - | MCJ Collective’s Cody Simms on How Tech Is Addressing Climate Change | MCJ Collective's Cody Simms joins this episode of the LA Venture podcast to talk about investing in the Earth's future and what he sees ahead for climate change technologies.
"If you were an entrepreneur, and you open the financial mod... |
| - | Health-conscious millennials, Gen Zers are making cottage cheese cool again—but is it really that good for you? | If you dive into the world of foodies on TikTok, the hub known as #foodtok, cottage cheese is sure to make an appearance on many of the plates you’ll see.
Cottage cheese became a staple of diet culture in the 1950s, but really got its shine... |
