# Top 50 Organic Food Startup Investors in Europe in October 2023 ## HackCapital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing Join FoodTech focused investors looking to back impact-driven founders shaping our food system ## Blue Horizon Corporation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology Our mission is to accelerate the transition to a new Sustainable Food System that delivers outstanding returns for investors and the planet. ## Henri Seydoux - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Wireless, Fruit, Manufacturing Henri Seydoux founded Parrot in 1994 and has been its CEO ever since its inception. Parrot is today one of the major players in the civil drone market. Self-taught, Henri started his career in 1978 as a trainee and then as a journalist for the magazine Actuel. In 1982, he joined the company SSCI as a developer and then, the company Micro Archi. In1986, he created BSCA, a company that specialized in rendering 3D computer images and served as CEO until 1990. In 1991, along with three other partners, he founded Christian Louboutin, a luxury shoes company. ## better ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Environmental Consulting, Advanced Materials At better ventures we invest in early-stage founders who aim to change our world for the better. ## Wolfgang Mauer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Wolfgang Mauer ## Tobias Fezer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Tobias Fezer ## Nucleus Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Biotechnology Supporting purpose-driven founders solving systemic challenges to planetary health. ## JamJar Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage JamJar Investments is a venture capital firm that invest in high growth consumer brand businesses in both digital and non-tech.Its combination of operational, commercial and brand experience was honed over 14 years taking innocent from scratch to sale to Coca Cola for north of half a billion £. That journey means the company understand thejourney of entrepreneurs, the highs the lows, the challenges and some of the solutions. JamJar is the consumer Venture Capital fund run by the innocent drinks founders. ## Atomico - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world. ## Capagro - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series C - Focus: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Food Processing The First European Independent Venture Capital fund dedicated to AgTech and Food Tech ## Geschwister Oetker - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Organic Food, Food Processing Geschwister Oetker is owned by Alfred, Ferdinand, and Julia Oetker. ## Investbridge AgriTech - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: B2B, AgTech, Agriculture Investbridge ## Michael Cortelletti - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Michael Cortelletti ## Feast Ventrues - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Organic Food, Food and Beverage Enabling the new Nutrition Epitome ## Dennis Aogo - Type: Angel - Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Cannabis, Software Dennis Aogo is a German former professional footballer. ## Jörg Kattner - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Jörg Kattner ## Norbert Lemken - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Norbert Lemken ## Capsa Vida - Type: VC Fund - Location: Granda, Asturias, Spain - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Agriculture, Organic Food, Food and Beverage Capsa Vida is a corporate venture capital firm of Alimentaria Peñasanta SA. It focuses on investments in innovative foodtech projects. ## Danone Manifesto Venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Health Care We are a corporate venture group located in New York City and Paris that is part of a global food and beverage company with a unique manifesto and world-class expertise and resources. ## Arman Anatürk - Type: Angel - Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Wellness Arman Anatürk is Co-Founder @ FoodHack. ## Shio Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Grocery Shio Capital Venture Investments in Businesses that Change the World ## Tijen Onaran - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, FinTech, Education Tijen Onaran - CEO & Founder @ Global Digital Women ## REDangels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet of Things, Mobile, Internet They believe the unbelievable and trust the untrustable. ## CRiF - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain CRIF offers credit bureau services, business information, analytics and decisioning, consultancy to support finance, insurance, utility and service companies of the customer relationship cycle. ## PINC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Cooking, Children PINC invests in attractive start-ups leveraging four major consumer trends: Conscious Consumption, Holistic Health, Personalized Convenience, and Authentic Experiences. ## Luminar Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Insurance Luminar Ventures is a venture capital fund that prefers to make early-stage investments in technology companies. They engage with their portfolio companies and are actively helping with strategic, growth, team and organizational, and operational support, and together setting the foundation for future expansion.Luminar's core investment focusis on scalable digital seed-stage companies from the Nordics, founded by highly motivated and talented entrepreneurs with a vision to disrupt or transform major industries. The firm aims to provide experienced seed-stage financing and active operational support to Sweden based early-stage technology companies that are looking to disrupt or transform major industries with digital technologies and innovations. ## True Growth Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, Financial Services True Growth is a Berlin-based group of founders who actively invest into outstanding entrepreneurs. Over the past two decades, we have built several internationally leading companies and sold them to global players. We leverage our operational experience and dedicate a significant amount of time to supporting our portfolio companies. ## World Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Hardware, Energy Storage, Energy Efficiency European VC backing entrepreneurs who build climate tech that can save at least 100Mt CO2e emissions per year. ## MSM - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, B2B MSM is an early-stage generalist impact fund that invests all across Europe. ## PeakBridge - Type: VC Fund - Location: Valletta, NA - Malta, Malta - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Health Care PeakBridge is an Alternative Investment Fund Manager and Investment Services Firm specialized in FoodTech. ## Daphni - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Daphni is a venture capital based in Paris, firm investing in tech startups with a European DNA and a strong international ambition. ## Sustainable Food Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant ## AgFunder - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers. ## Mario Gomez - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Apps, Mobile Mario Gomez ## Bertrand Jelensperger - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Organic Food Bertrand Jelensperger is the Co-Founder and Advisory Board at TheFork. ## New Growth - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, Consumer, E-Commerce New Growth aims to positively impact the food and water system by investing in replacements for animal products. ## Pymwymic - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming Founded in 1994, Pymwymic is the “Put Your Money Where Your Meaning Is Community”, a co-owned organisation of European wealth holders who take a frontrunner role in the transition towards investing with care for people and planet. A community that consists of over 150 individuals, families, entrepreneurs and angel investors of differentbackgrounds, ages and nationalities. We currently invest through the Pymwymic Healthy Ecosystems Impact Fund, a venture capital fund for companies that seek to conserve and restore our ecosystems, with a specific focus on sustainable food systems. By combining our knowledge, passion and money, we bring credibility to the impact investing industry and continuously push for higher standards until investing with care for people and planet is is the new norm. ## LOVEFiLM - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology LOVEFiLM is an Amazon company and is the leading European film subscription service with over 2 million members in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and NorwayIn February 2011 LOVEFiLM was acquired by Amazon EU SARLLOVEFiLM members can enjoy the benefits of DVDs delivered straight to their door with LOVEFiLM By Post and streaming filmsonline via LOVEFiLM InstantLOVEFiLM Instant is available on over 200 Internet-enabled devices including PCs, PlayStation 3, iPad, Xbox 360, plus a growing number of Blu-Ray players and Internet-connected TVs including LG, Sony, Samsung and CelloLOVEFiLM is available for one low monthly price – with no late fees Titles are also available to everyone on a pay-per-view basis via LOVEFiLM Box OfficeMembers can choose from a selection of over 70,000 titles available across Blu-ray, DVDs, video games and instant streamingLOVEFiLM offers a range of video games rental options in the UK market to support gaming across Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation®3, PlayStation®2, Wii and DSLOVEFiLM members have generated over 80 million film ratings and written more than 843,000 reviewsFor additional information including a breakdown of packages visit www.lovefilm.com ## Creas - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mersin, Mersin, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Baby, Medical, Agriculture Creas is an online platform that offers web design, graphic design, and software solutions for its users.Its current chain of services includes: web design, graphic design, software, e-commerce site, advertising photo, google ad, facebook ad, SEO solutions, server services, virtual power plants, banner design, and printing solutions. Creasalso conducts an after sales special training session for its customers.Creas was launched in 2004. ## Octopus Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back. ## Nexus Investment Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, SaaS, Software Helping promising UK businesses grow by raising private capital through government-sponsored EIS incentives. ## Quadia - Type: VC Fund - Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail Quadia is a regulated investment manager specialized in social and environmental finance. With more than CHF 70 million invested in over 20 companies, Quadia is a leading and pioneering impact investor. Our core investment thesis centers on sustainability as a pillar of risk management and economic valuation. It targets significantly impactfulcompanies which have positioned their products and services to meet a growing demand which is influenced by an irreversible paradigm shift. This paradigm shift is driven by worldwide interdependent social, environmental and economic stakes. ## Stockholm Techstars Accelerator - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Pet, FinTech, Finance The Stockholm Techstars Accelerator invests in early-stage, high-growth companies looking to build and expand in the Nordic-Baltic startup ecosystem. ## Fondazione Social Venture Giordano dell'Amore - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Art, Apps FSVGDA aims at the promotion of the impact investing culture, in order to facilitate social innovation. ## Business Growth Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Private Equity - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing BGF invests in hundreds of businesses from an evergreen balance sheet. But we offer more than just growth capital. Find out what makes us different. ## SmiLe Inject Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Organic Food, Food and Beverage SmiLe Inject Capital operates as an angel investment company that focuses solely on promising early-stage life science companies. ## Stefan Lemcke - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Manufacturing, Bakery, Cosmetics Stefan Lemcke ## Venturewave Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Health Care, Apps, Education VentureWave Capital is an actively managed private equity group that invests in and builds great companies. ## Fabian Gosselin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Organic Food Fabian Gosselin ## Felix Wolf - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Other, Apps, Gaming Felix Wolf # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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