s2g ventures
Walmart heir Lukas Walton’s Builders Vision puts S2G on a path to independence
Walmart heir Lukas Walton, worth $28 billion, is bringing on new limited partners to expand S2G’s investment reach.
Food tech roundup: VC funding declines again in Q3 amid fewer deals
Food tech investors discuss another consecutive quarter of decline in venture capital investments into areas like plant-based meat alternatives and cultivated meat.
Omeat emerges from stealth with beefy tech approach to cultivated meat growth media
Omeat’s process uses regenerative factors extracted humanely from cow plasma to make growth media to create beef, pork, chicken or fish.
Investors salivate over food tech companies perfecting precision fermentation
The technology is not “new,” but what has industry followers so excited is the potential for better-quality, more-cost-effective proteins compared to animal-based counterparts.
Flashfood raises $12.3M to scale its grocery app that helps tackle retail food waste
Toronto-based Flashfood, a mobile marketplace that provides customers with access to discounted food nearing its best-by date, has raised $12.3 million in Series A funding led by S2G Ventures. The…
Yali Bio is using precision fermentation to build up a microbial strain library of fats that plant-based companies can use instead of oils as the basis for their alternative meat…
Biotech startup Shiru sprouting plant-based ingredients with new capital infusion
The company plans to have ingredients ready by next year, which means we could see the first commercial products containing Shiru’s ingredients on grocery store shelves as early as 2023.
Burro first crossed our path during our 2020 robotics event, when the agtech company competed in our pitch off. The company (which used to go by the decidedly less fun…
LIVEKINDLY screams its way to the top of new plant brands with the close of a $335 million round
LIVEKINDLY Collective, the shouty parent company behind a family of plant-based food brands, has snagged cash from the global impact investing arm of $103 billion investment firm TPG to close…
Founded by an Impossible Foods and Google data scientist, Climax Foods raises $7.5 million to tackle the cheesiest market
Oliver Zahn began his professional career studying the stars. The founder of Climax Foods, a startup that’s using data science to replace animal proteins with plant-based substitutes, spent years at…
Focusing on human and climate health, S2G Ventures launches ocean fund with $100 million in commitments
S2G Ventures, the Chicago-based investment firm focusing on startups developing technology and services for human and planetary health, is launching a new investment vehicle focused on seafood and oceanic cultivation.…
Featured Article
Lab-grown meat could be on store shelves by 2022, thanks to Future Meat Technologies
Are consumers ready for meat grown in a lab? Companies like Memphis Meats, Aleph Farms, Higher Steaks, Mosa Meat and Meatable are all trying to bring to supermarkets around the world meat made from cultivated animal cells, but the problem has always been the cost. Now, Future Meat Technologies has raised $14 million in new…
FoodShot Global is digging up innovation for soil health as part of its first prize competition
FoodShot Global, a prize platform devoted to transforming the world’s food and agriculture industries, has awarded the first round of prizes for its Innovating Soil 3.0 competition. Trace Genomics, a startup…
Beyond Meat, the meat replacement company whose packages of Beyond Burgers line grocery store aisles across America, has priced its initial public offering. The company is looking to raise roughly…
Apeel partners with Nature’s Pride to bring spoilage-resistant fruits and veggies to Europe
Apeel Sciences, the developer of a new technology that makes fruits and vegetables more resistant to spoilage, and Nature’s Pride, one of the largest vendors of avocados and mangos in…
Jennifer Garner’s baby food company Once Upon a Farm raises $20M Series B
Once Upon a Farm’s business has grown 10x since actress Jennifer Garner signed on as chief brand officer last year.
Investing in tech for hospitality and food, Almanac Investments raises $30 million
David Barber, the storied owner of the Blue Hill restaurant, farm, and hospitality consulting mecca (a favorite of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama), has long been an…
Arable raises $4.25 million to demystify farming with sensors and data
Believe it or not, farmers in the U.S. have faced a labor shortage for years. U.S. citizens aren’t drawn to agriculture the way they were in previous generations. The labor…
Kuli Kuli raises $4.25 million to make moringa a mainstay in the US diet
Oakland-based food startup Kuli Kuli has raised $4.25 million in a Series A round of funding to bring moringa, a high-protein plant, to more kitchens in the U.S., according to…
