Bread & Butter
Welcome to Five Seasons Ventures' newsletter. Our mission is to back food tech entrepreneurs for a healthier, more sustainable and more efficient food system. In this newsletter, you'll find our latest news and publications, the events we plan to attend as well as food tech most important articles. Tasty reading 😋
Our portfolio company This has been in the news again for its incredible performance during Veganuary (link) and for being featured among the top 10 new brand launches of 2020 by Kantar (and the only startup brand in this list). Congrats to them! 🥳
Our portfolio company JustSpices has reached the 400K followers threshold on Instagram. @JustSpices, help me grow my Instagram base! 🙏
Congrats to our portfolio companies Air Up for being ranked #46 and Yamo for being ranked #21 in the FoodTech 500 finalists from Forward Fooding 🚀
Last week, we attended to a two-day event on big food corporates’ strategy:
We found it so interesting that we’d share our notes and insights with you in this 3-part mini-series:
Part 1 - Covid-19: revival of some old brands and DTC FOMO - link
Part 2 - Sustainability & Diversity: Big Food, Big Promises - STAY TUNED 👀
Part 3 - Key trends and what to expect from M&A - STAY TUNED 👀
Niccolo Manzoni will be a speaker at the Plant-Based Summit organized by Bread & Jam on the 31st of March 2021 on the topic “Funding Focus: What Are The Growing Number Of Plant Based Investors After?” - link to register here
Saskia Hoebée will be a panellist at the Ecosystem Innovation for Personalized Nutrition webinar on the 18th of March from 1pm to 3pm CET - link to register here
Here is a selection of the most interesting articles we’ve read in the past month:
Trellis Road on foodtech incubators, accelerators & grants (link) and on corporates investing in high-impact foodtech startups (link)
The Grocer on how vertical farming is taking off - link
The New York Times on personalized nutrition apps - link
Forbes on Celebrity Ghost Kitchens - link
The Chicago Tribune on non-alcoholic beers - link
The Spoon on cashierliess checkout - link
If it’s not too much on your plate, you should also have a look at the 2021 Agfunder Agrifoodtech Investment Report here