News for September 13, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Mediterranean food company completes successful Series A Afia Foods, a Mediterranean food company, has secured $3 million in Series A
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News for August 23, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Gut health company Bactolife raises more than $32 million in funding Bactolife, a Novo Holdings portfolio company based in Copenhagen,
News for August 9, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: BeautyBio acquired by Rhyz Rhyz Inc., a subsidiary of Nu Skin Enterprises Inc., has acquired BeautyBio, a skincare and beauty
News for July 26, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: KDP and La Colombe Partnership Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (KDP) and La Colombe have announced a strategic partnership that includes
News for July 14, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Jenny Craig to relaunch Wellful, Inc. has acquired the Jenny Craig brand and plans to relaunch it as a separate,
News for June 29, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Gorgie raises $6.5M Gorgie, a wellness beverage brand created by Michelle Cordeiro Grant, has secured $6.5 million in pre-seed funding
News for June 14, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Altman backs Uncommon’s alt-meat British alt-meat startup Uncommon has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round with backing
News for May 24, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Financing fuels VitaminLab’s growth VitaminLab, a leader in personalized supplements, has raised Series A funding to fuel its expansion. The
News for May 10, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Beauty meets biotech Oddity, the parent company of beauty brand Il Makiage has acquired Revela, a biotech startup that develops
News for April 26, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: ClimateAi raises $22M ClimateAi, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies and governments mitigate the impact of climate
April 12, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Aqua Cultured Foods raises $5.5M Aqua Cultured Foods has raised $5.5 million in seed funding to develop a new seafood
News for March 22, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: New funding is flying in for Fly By Jing Fly by Jing, known for its Sichuan Chili Crisp, has received
News for March 8, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Remedy Kombucha closes Series B round Remedy Kombucha recently announced the completion of a Series B financing round led by
News for February 24, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: IFF’s Flavor Specialty Ingredients business to sell for $220M IFF has announced the planned sale of its Flavor Specialty Ingredients
News for February 8, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Investors dash to new seltzer brand Dash Water recently announced the completion of an £8.7 million funding round. The company
News for January 25, 2023
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Beneo sizzles a 14% stake in Grillido Beneo recently announced that it is acquiring a 14% stake in meat replacement/alternative
News for December 28, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: RENEE Cosmetics raises $25M Series B round RENEE is a D2C cruelty-free cosmetics startup in India. To date, the startup
News for December 14, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Arey raises $4.15M seed round Functional beauty and e-commerce brand Arey uses a science-driven approach to protect aging hair and
News for November 23, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Facing the dark side of chocolate Mondelēz International, Barrel Ventures, Regba Group and Trendlines are investing in Celleste Bio to
News for November 9, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Young Mountain Tea using new funding for good Young Mountain Tea has raised $1.1 million to construct a farmer-owned factory
News for October 26, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: The Dumplings that took TikTok by storm receive $10M investment Xiao Chi Jie, a frozen dumpling brand, went viral on
News for October 12, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: The Rounds raises $38M Series A funding Sustainable household restocking service, The Rounds, is an online shopping and delivery service
News for September 30, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Next Level Burger is taking its investment to the next level Next Level Burger, a vegan burger chain, announced that
News for September 15, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Oxwash cleans up in Series A Round The U.K. eco laundry startup Oxwash has secured £10 million in funding led
News for August 31, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Eat Just raises $25M to grow business in China Eat Just, the egg alternative brand, secured an investment of $25
News for August 15, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Moo-ving on up Cloud-based dairy supply chain software, Milk Moovement, closed a $20 million Series A round led by VMG
News for June 1, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Granarolo acquires a majority stake in White & Seeds Italian dairy manufacturer Granarolo has acquired a 51% stake in White
News for May 16, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Sweet deals: Ferrero acquires Fulfil Nutrition The international confectionery group Ferrero, of the Italian chocolate fame, has acquired the Irish
News for April 30, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Food is medicine for startup Season Health Season Health is working with health systems to make accessible condition-specific foods that
News for March 31, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: MelBio is bringing a brand new buzz to the $10B global honey market What happens when you take the bee
News for February 28, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Got Chickpea milk? Global Food and Ingredients snags YoFiit Touted for its high protein and omega-3 content, chickpea milk may
News for January 31, 2022
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Remilk raises $120M in a Series B round with precision fermentation that hits the mark Holy cow! Remilk, an Israeli
News for December 15, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Perfeggt plant-based egg company cracks open $2.8M in new investment Berlin-based Perfeggt, which is part of Lovely Day GmbH, is
News for November 10, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Carbon-neutral brand Neutral Foods gets $4M in seed funding Neutral Foods (Portland, Oregon), which works with diary farmers to implement
News for October 27, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Abbot’s Butcher closes Series A funding Abbot’s Butcher (Costa Mesa, California) has closed its Series A funding round, led by
News for October 13, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Savencia Fromage & Dairy buys No. 1 organic hummus brand Hope Foods Hope Foods (Boulder, Colorado) has been acquired by
News for September 29, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Plant-based pudding startup Noops nabs $2M more in funding Two months ago, Hungryroot co-founder Gregory Struck raised $2 million in
News for September 15, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Butterfly invests in Chosen Foods Private equity firm Butterfly (Los Angeles, California) has taken a majority stake in Chosen Foods
News for September 1, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Zesty Paws to be acquired by H&H Group Pet supplement brand Zesty Paws (Orlando, Florida) has entered into an agreement
News for August 18, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Miyoko’s Creamery raises $52M in Series C funding round Plant-based cheese leader Miyoko’s Creamery has secured $52 million in a
News for August 4, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: New Primal nabs $15M from Manna Tree Manna Tree has invested $15 million in New Primal (Charleston, South Carolina), maker
News for July 21, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Upcycler Comet Bio closes Series C funding round Comet Bio (Schaumburg, Illinois) has raised $22 million in its Series C
News for July 7, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Danone Manifesto Ventures take minority stake in Harmless Harvest Danone Manifesto Ventures (New York, New York), which previously led a
News for June 23, 2021
News for June 26, 2021 Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry Explorer Cold Brew nabs $1.5M in seed funding Explorer Cold Brew (Brooklyn, New York), which
News for June 9, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Ready, Set, Food raises $3.5M in most recent funding round Ready, Set, Food! (Los Angeles, California), which makes an organic,
News for May 26, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: UK-based seaweed processing startup Oceanium nabs $2.75M Oceanium (Oban, Scotland) closed a Seed II round of funding to open up
News for May 12, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Sports nutrition company Picky Bars scooped up by Laird Superfood Laird Superfood (Sisters, Oregon), which is backed by Danone and
News for April 28, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: SunOpta buys Dream and WestSoy brands from Hain Celestial After manufacturing the brands for more than a decade, SunOpta (Mississauga,
News for April 14, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: DSM puts up $100M to launch personalized health startup Hologram A new personalized health and nutrition company called Hologram Sciences
News for March 31, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Berlin grocery delivery startup Gorillas snatches up $290M Promising to deliver groceries and other everyday items to customers in as
News for March 17, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: WeFarm brings in $11M to link up small-scale farmers As an extension of its $13 million series A in 2019,
News for February 17, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: On a mission to fight malnutrition, Frontier raises $6M In a new series B round led by Adjuvant Capital, a
News for March 3, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Supplant raises $24M for a plant-based alternative sweetener To help it commercialize a low-cost sugar substitute made from plant fiber,
News for February 3, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Cutback Coach’s mindful drinking program picks up $3.1M Seeing a “massive, untapped opportunity” to help Americans build healthier habits around
News for January 20, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Muniq takes in $8.2M for gut health nutrition Muniq (Los Angeles, California), a startup founded by Uplifting Results Labs, has
News for January 3, 2021
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Startup enabling meat cultivation closes seed round with leading investors A startup that believes its technology is integral in helping
News for December 23, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Snack brand Peckish sells to Egg Innovations Egg Innovations (Warsaw, Indiana), a Midwestern purveyor of free-range and pasture-raised eggs, has
News for November 25, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Kind sells to Mars Wrigley for a reported $5B Three years after taking a minority stake in the brand, candy
News for October 28, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Australia’s Provectus raises $3.25M to scale algae production for food and ag With the goal of optimizing algae to create
News for December 9, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: LemonBox raises $2.5M to sell personalized American supplements in China Founded in 2018 to give Chinese millennials affordable access to
News for November 11, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Kaffe Bueno raises $1.3M to turn used coffee grounds into functional ingredients Kaffe Bueno (Copenhagen, Denmark), a startup that upcycles
News for October 14, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Cooler Screens gets $80M to replace cooler doors with electronic displays Verizon Ventures, Microsoft’s M12 Ventures and other investors are
News for September 16, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Investors deliver $20M to ex-Uber execs’ Virtual Kitchen Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led a $20 million funding round for Virtual
News for September 2, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Barn2Door raises $6M to equip farmers with tools to sell online With the COVID-19 pandemic driving more U.S. food shoppers
News for August 19, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Allergy Amulet scores $3.3M to develop a food allergy sensor What if people with food allergies carried a sensor that
News for August 3, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: FoodChain ID buys Nutraveris Food safety and quality services company FoodChain ID (Fairfield, Iowa) expanded its portfolio with the purchase
News for July 21, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Meditopia’s meditation app for global audiences draws in $15M European investors Creandum and Highland Europe led a $15 million series
News for July 7, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Super Coffee scores $25M at $200M valuation Past NCN presenter Kitu Life (New York, New York), which operates the Super
News for June 23, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Paleo chocolate brand Honey Mama’s looks beyond natural with $5.8M raise Chocolate bar maker Honey Mama’s (Portland, Oregon), known for
News for June 10, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Shaka raises $2.3M for Hawaiian-inspired RTD tea The husband and wife behind Shaka Tea (Hilo, Hawaii) have $2.3 million of
News for May 27, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Spiceology secures $2M amid pandemic slowdown Chef-owned and -operated spice company Spiceology (Spokane, Washington) has raised $2 million from investors
News for May 13, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: UK noodles-in-a-cup brand crowdfunds a £1.75M more Mr. Lee’s, a United Kingdom-based instant noodle brand that launched in the United
News for April 14, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: Eco-friendly cooler company Vericool closes $19.1M round On a mission to replace packaging materials that harm the environment, Vericool (Livermore,
News for April 2, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: High-profile investors put $80M behind alternative-protein startup The food tech company once known as Sustainable Bioproducts is now Nature’s Fynd
News for March 24, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: PepsiCo pushes further into energy drinks with Rockstar Energy acquisition PepsiCo (Harrison, New York) has added to its energy-drink portfolio
News for March 19, 2020
Recent Transactions in the Nutrition and Health & Wellness Industry: JJ’s Sweets becomes part of Madhava Foods Madhava Foods, a seller of natural sweetener products such as honey, agave and
