Bread & Butter
We are very excited to announce our participation in KoRo's β¬50m investment round.
Five Seasons Ventures co-cooked the round with our friends at HV Capital (special kudos to Alexander Joel-Carbonell & Jannis Fett), with participation of Partech and existing investor The Social Chain AG. We are very proud to back Florian Schwenkert, Piran Asci and Constantinos Calios in their mission to create the future of healthy food and snacking in Europe!
π We tell you all about our investment thesis here!
Butternut Box is celebrating its 6th anniversary! But wait, are we talking about dog years or human years? π€ͺ
THIS has won the World Food Innovation Award 2022 for its fat 2.0. THIS is good! π
Pyxo has won the βSnacking dβOrβ for helping to transit to reusable packaging! π
Yfood cofounders have been featured in Forbes. Happy reading [GERMAN ONLY] π€
Five Seasons Ventures has been selected among the top performing foodtech funds in Europe, alongside our friends from Astanor and Food Labs π₯
As we entered 2022, increased geo-political uncertainty and concerns on key food commodities have added a layer of risk onto an already inflationary environment. We are decoding this new macro economic context and its impact on the foodtech scene in a new report co-cooked with Dealroom. Happy reading! π€
Eleonore Lafonta will be a panelist at the Foodhack Summit in Switzerland on May 12th on the topic βthe State of FoodTech VCsβ.
Here are the most interesting foodtech articles of the month, curated just for U π
Agfunder and Digital Food Labs have released new reports! Nearly as good as ours π
An extensive article on Amazonβs expensive e-grocery strategy
Speaking of e-grocery, ethnic-focused startups are on fire right now: these articles from Modern Retail and Grocery Dive give you more insights
News on plant based: here are the latest numbers for plant-based sales globally and for US retail plant-based sales. This growth will only accelerate as we get closer to price parity
A very insightful article on the new state of performance marketing
An inspiring podcast from All-In on late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy and Ukraine/Russia update π§
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La Fourche - her1 - yfood Labs - air up - the nu company - mammaly - Just Legends -vly - THISβ’ - Butternut Box - Tropic Biosciences - Cortilia - Barkyn - yamo - Koro