Sustainable Food Ventures

  • DATABASE (516)

  • ARTICLES (462)

    • DATABASE (516)
    • ARTICLES (462)
  • Sort by
    • Relevance
    • Date

LC Ventures is a Lisbon-based VC specializing in pre-seed and seed investments, mainly in Portugal-based startups and with a focus on promoting regional growth. Established in 2015, it has €11.5m under management in three funds, two which are exclusive to Portuguese startups. It has invested in more than 40 companies to date. Recently it has invested in Botcliq, a blockchain e-marketplace for wild fish trading, and in Finnish cleantech company Solved. It also participated in the €2m Series A round of Portuguese online tech employment agency in March 2020.Its investment portfolio currently includes 32 tech startups, a majority of which are based in Portugal.

Citi Ventures is the San Francisco-based investing arm of the multinational banking group Citibank. It was founded in 2010 and invests in US-based tech startups with a financial sector focus at all investment stages.  It currently has 80 companies in its portfolio and has managed 13 exits to date. Its most recent investments were in six startups in March 2021. These included contributing to the $3m seed round of co-parenting financial planning platform Ensemble, in the $130m Series D round of on-demand notary service Notorize and in the $200m Series D round of Feedzai, the world market leader in fighting online fraud. 

New York-based VC firm Union Square Ventures (USV) was established in 2004 and has invested in more than 100 companies to date. It manages US$1.7bn in assets across nine funds. The most recent, totaling US$450m in commitments, was launched in 2019. USV invests across multiple sectors and all stages of investment. Its specific interest, however, is in businesses derived from academic theses. USV is a prolific investor: recent investments include blockchain-based gaming company Dapper Labs' US$11m Series A round and B2B loan marketplace C2FO's US$200m Series G round.

Sarah Hordern is a co-founder, CFO and Group Development Leader at UK-based Modulous, the first end-to-end generative design and delivery solution for affordable, sustainable and modulized housing, where she has worked since 2019. She is simultaneously a non-executive director at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and at lenders Newbury Building Society. She was previously executive advisor at the Cambridge Code 2018-19, the first digital tool that measures subconscious drivers of behavior, and spent two years as COO at residential management company Meyrick Estate Management. From 1999 to 2014, she was a joint managing director in the area of property and finance at Newbury Racecourse, one of the UK’s largest horse-racing establishments, where she was responsible for the design and commercial negotiations for a new community of 1,500 homes. Prior to this, Hordern spent five years at PwC in corporate tax management. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

A farmer's son who became an astronomer, Liu Chuanjun is also a serial entrepreneur. After his first startup (selling high-end organic food) failed after six months, Liu founded group-buying site Wowo (aka 55tuan), now Nasdaq-listed, which he sold it in 2011, to refocus on farm products. Liu majored in astronomy and holds a master’s from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where his research areas included spaceflights of Chinese space program Shenzhou 6 and 7. He was born in 1982 in Shandong and goes home every year to help work the land.

With the innovative C2B2F (Customer to Business to Farm) business model he came up with, Fresh Market survived the winter for venture capital funding in China in 2016, and is today the leading fresh food e-commerce platform in East China.Zhang Hongliang (b. 1975) embarked on his journey as a serial entrepreneur after five years in the financial management sector and six years in the automobile industry. The persistent Suzhou native founded Fresh Market (Shihang Shengxian) in 2011 at aged 36, after several tries in three years.

Victor Timothy has more than 12 years of experience in management, accounting and sales. The Business Administration graduate worked as an insurance agent for Prudential Life Assurance while still at Universitas Bina Nusantara in Indonesia. After graduating in 2005, he worked as a cost accountant and inventory manager for almost four years at a food packaging company PT Anta Tirta Kirana. He later worked as an area sales manager at PT Indo Pangan Nusantara for another four years until May 2015 when he left to join Wedlite as a co-founder. Wedlite is now part of the bigger Taralite fintech.

Iñigo Juantegui is a serial entrepreneur with two years of experience in PwC as a senior consultant. He co-founded and led the operations of La Nevera Roja, a food delivery company that was sold to Rocket Internet in 2015. That operation is today considered to be one of the largest and most successful exits in Spain in the past five years, with the company becoming part of Just Eat.Since 2016, he has been CEO and Co-Founder of OnTruck, an innovation-oriented logistics company that optimizes road freight transportation via technology. 

Andrew Barnes is a Canadian resident and co-founder of Tonic App for doctors, which he co-founded in 2016 after meeting the co-founding team during MBA studies at IE Business School in Madrid. Barnes is currently both a Partner at Barnes Strategy, a consultancy for video game production, and the CEO at Coho Commissary, a shared kitchen community for food entrepreneurs, both in Vancouver. He was previously COO and co-founder of Preview Careers, an external university relations agency in Vancouver, and a Senior Director at Electronic Arts gaming company in the same city. 

East Ventures co-founder Willson Cuaca graduated from Bina Nusantara University with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He worked at Singapore-based Red Sentry, a cyber security and network performance optimization company. In 2010 he co-founded East Ventures, a seed-early stage venture capital firm. That same year, he also co-founded Apps Foundry, a mobile company that developed the e-reader app SCOOP, among other things.

Formerly Fidelity Growth Partners, the renamed Eight Roads Ventures is the investment arm of Fidelity International Limited. In China for over 20 years, it counts among its successful investments/exits Alibaba, WuXi PharmaTech, AsiaInfo and iSoftStone. It focuses on early- and growth-stage companies across eight broad sectors.

Founded in 2017 by the ex-COO of Deutsche Bank Henry Ritchotte, Ritmir Ventures is based in London and has invested in nine companies internationally. Ritchotte is passionate about digital innovation within the banking sector and established Ritmir specifically to invest in fintech startups during the seed and Series A funding stages.

Founded by Hillhouse Capital in February 2020, GL Ventures mainly invests in early-stage startups from diverse sectors like pharmaceutical, SaaS, internet-based consumption/technology and emerging consumer goods/services.The RMB/USD dual currency VC-arm of Hillhouse currently manages total funds worth RMB 10bn from limited partners including university endowments, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, FOF and family offices. The VC has made nearly 200 investments in its first year of operations.

All Iron Ventures, inspired by the “alliron” cry of the Biscay province in Spain, is a venture capital firm based in Bilbao. The VC was established by Ander Michelena and Jon Uriarte, the co-founders of Ticketbis who sold the business to eBay in 2016 for €165 million. The VC invests in capital-efficient and fast-growing e-commerce and marketplaces in Europe and the US.

Founded in 2011, Ankur Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Mumbai. The VC invests in Indian-based startups in diverse sectors like agritech, food, health and education. It has 15 startups in its investment portfolio and has managed one exit to date, Carmel Organics.Recent investments include seed funding for seafood supply chain platform Captain Fresh and agriproduce marketplace Vegrow, as well as participation in the $20m Series C round of predictive farming platform Cropin.

Sorry, we couldn’t find any matches for “Sustainable Food Ventures”.

Your payment was not successful.

Please make sure you have entered your payment details correctly. Or try again in a few moments.

small logo

The discount code you entered is invalid

Please make sure you have entered your discount code correctly. Or try again in a few moments.

Download successful.

Your sample has been sent. Please check your email.

Our Privacy and Cookies policies and our Terms of Use may have been updated since your last visit. By continuing to browse this website, you consent to our use of cookies, as well as to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, which provides additional information about how we process your data. This website uses cookies to enhance your user experience. Please read our Cookies Policy for more information on how we use cookies, as well as instructions on how to disable cookies. You may disable cookies through your internet browser settings, however this may result in some parts of the website not working properly for you.