List of the 140 largest Vegan Food Venture Capital Investors [2024]

List of 3 large Vegan Food Startup Investors

Recently, the demand for plant-based meat, dairy, and egg alternatives has skyrocketed and more sustainable replacements are developed and created daily. In this article, we highlight three interesting vegan food venture capital investors from our keyword-crawler-based vegan food venture capital investor list.

1. Veg Capital (UK)

Veg Capital is a UK-based vegan food venture capital investor that funds early-stage companies that aim to replace animal products with plant-based alternatives in the food system. In particular, the company invests in meat, dairy, egg, and seafood replacements for conventional animal products. Their portfolio includes the company VFC, which works on creating inexpensive meat alternatives, and Mighty Pea, which creates a sustainable and dairy-free alternative to milk.

2. Green Generation Management GmbH (Germany)

The Green Generation Fund, located in Germany, focuses on a sector-based investment strategy in the food technology area, namely Food Tech, Health and Personal Care, and Green Tech. The company aims to invest in early-stage businesses such as Biomilq, a nutritionally equivalent alternative to breastmilk and animal product-based infant formula and one • five, that develop fiber-based packaging solutions.

Update 2024: In June 2023, Greenlyte Carbon Technologies, a portfolio company of the Green Generation Fund from Germany, announced a pre-seed extension round, raising an additional €4.5 million. The technology employed by the company is the result of 15 years of research and has been successfully tested at various scales.

3. New Money Ventures (USA)

Another vegan food venture capital investor is New Money Ventures, which invests in early-stage and high-growth consumer businesses and additionally complements the companies with expertise and mentorship. The company aims to prioritize female-founded and women-led organizations. Their investments are diverse and range from Hi Note, a plant-based seasoning company to Joyo Tea, a tea company inspired by Ayurvedic traditions.

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Included information list

Our keyword analysis-based list includes the following general columns:

• Name of the VC fund
• Country of origin
• URL
• E-mail (general)
• Investment focus (if data available)
• Corporate VC (yes/no)

The following columns are based on the keyword crawler, which is a Python-based, in-house developed tool that crawls every page for at least 45 seconds to find the respective keywords.

• total_frequency (e.g.: 16) – total counted occurrences of keywords on the VC website
• average_keyword_rate (e.g. 0.008) – average rate of keyword occurrences per subpage in relation with total number of words
• most_common_keyword (e.g. „vegan“) – keyword that was counted the most often on respective VC website
• most_common_keyword_frequency (e.g. 36) – number of times the most common keyword was counted
• sub_url_highest_rate (e.g. https://vegcapital.co.uk/portfolio/) – sub url with the highest number of found keywords
• highest_rate (e.g. 0.04) – highest keyword rate per subpage
• frequency_per_keyword: {‘vegan’: 36, ‘plant based’: 0, ‘plant based foods’: 0, ‘meatless’: 0, ‘meat alternative’: 0, ‘soy meat’: 0, ‘seitan’: 0, ‘tofu’: 0, ‘pea protein’: 0} – dictionary of number of keyword occurrences per keyword

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