Bread & Butter
🚨🚨 NEW INVESTMENT ALERT 🚨🚨
We are excited to announce that we just led a new investment in Barkyn alongside our friends from Indico Capital Partners, All Iron Ventures, Portugal Ventures and Shilling. Barkyn is a Portugal-based company which offers a personalized pet food subscription service combined with a tele-vet service. We are proud to support two fantastic entrepreneurs, Andre Jordão and Ricardo Macedo, in their mission to shape the future of pet food in Southern Europe 🐶
👉 You can read more on TechCrunch here.
👉 Who’s the handsome smart guy who just joined Five Seasons Ventures? 👀
Please be introduced to Mehdi! After graduating from ESCP with a Finance Master's Degree, Mehdi started his career at BCG prior to joining Deloitte fund audit team. He subsequently joined Partech where he spent over 3 years as financial controller. We are now thrilled to welcome him onboard at Five Seasons Ventures as CFO to help us scale! Mehdi's indulgence? 🍟🍟🍟 (well, they are plant-based… 😉)
👉 In other team news, Eléonore Lafonta, senior analyst at Five Seasons Ventures, has recently integrated The Rising Tide Collective, a group of investors dedicated to helping founders striving to make a positive impact on the world. If you are looking for VC advice, please reach out for 1:1 office hour here.
👉 A huge congrats 👏👏👏 to our portfolio companies:
This for having launched nationwide in Morrisons and Sainsbury’s - link & link
Just Spices for launching in Spain - link
At Five Seasons Ventures, we were lucky enough to back two great e-grocery companies in Europe: Cortilia in Italy and La Fourche in France. But far from satiating us, their amazing performance made us even hungrier to invest further in the $2.1T European grocery market. So we rolled up our sleeves and made our homework. Check up our latest findings on the European e-grocery market here.
Niccolo Manzoni, one of Five Seasons’ co founder, will be moderating a panel at Earthrise on the 19th of May on the topic Impact and Transparency in FMCG. This session brings together some of the most innovative and exciting thinkers and investors within the FMCG sector alongside Katja Seidenschnur, Sustainability Director EMENA for Nestlé ➡️ link to tickets.
First and foremost, you should download and read our State of European Food Tech 2021 here. If it’s already done, here are the most interesting articles that were published in April:
Two great pieces from Alexandre, investor at Idinvest, on Deliveroo’s IPO - link & link
A great report on food tech in Europe from Digital FoodLab - link
An in-depth report on pet-tech from Sifted - link
An extensive article on dairy-free cheese from The Wired - link
An interesting article on upcycling from Forbes - link
An insightful trendline on restaurant tech by Restaurant Dive - link