Bread & Butter
🚀 Thrilled to announce that we led the new round of Pyxo with our friends from Eurazeo (Matthieu Bonamy, Raphael Cattan) and with the participation of Evolem (Thomas Rival) and Alliance for Impact (Damien Roch).
🌊 Today 80% of ocean pollution comes from plastic packaging. Pyxo has developed a unique tech platform to manage large volumes of reusable containers and erase single-use packaging in the Quick Service Restaurant industry.
🥗 At Five Seasons Ventures we are committed to solve major environmental issues like plastic pollution and we are proud to support two visionary entrepreneurs like Benjamin Peri and François des Beauvais in this journey. Read more on Tech Crunch here.
Huge congrats to Butternut Box for winning Gold for the best customer engagement approach at European Contact Center & Customer Service Awards 🎉
La Fourche recently launched a new “Anti-Gaspi” offering made of discounted products turned down by traditional retailers because they are ugly or have small flaws. French readers can learn more about it here.
THIS has launched a huge partnership (700 stores) with Caffè Nero and is now live in Booth. Green power forever 💚
Congrats to Lena Jüngst and Tim Jäger, cofounders at Air Up, for being featured in Forbes DACH 30 under 30 🍾
Finally, a huge applause to our 10 portfolio companies, The Nu Company, Yfood, Air Up, Yamo, Butternut Box, Just Spices, Vly Foods, THIS, Tropic Bioscience and Cortilia for being featured in Foodhack’s 50+ Foodtech Unicorns, Soonicorns and Futurecorns 🎊
Louis, who led our investment in Pyxo, wrote an insightful piece on why we invested and our thesis on reusable packaging.
Micol, our Head of Sustainability and Impact Investing, attended the COP26 and reports to Sifted in this great article.
For those who have a subscription to Foodhack, Niccolo tells you more on the 18 European Foodtech Soonicorns to watch.
🛵 An update on grocery quick commerce from Alexandre Dewez
🍸 A very interesting trendline from Fooddive on alcohol & beverage
🧂 The report of Lightspeed on the State of Hospitality
🔬 A couple of articles on cultivated meat from Green Queen and Vegconomist
🛍️ A great piece from Nicole Johnson, partner at Forerunner Ventures, on the consumer psyche’s evolution