Nick's
Nick's is a health revolution disguised as irresistible temptations, bridging the gap between healthy and cravable.
Nick's is a health revolution disguised as irresistible temptations, bridging the gap between healthy and cravable.
Matsmart/Motatos is Europe's leading online discount food store, saving products from being wasted.
Planted is changing how we eat with its juicy, tender, plant-based, and clean-label alternatives to meat.
Agreena provides a global AgTech platform supporting the regenerative farming transition to scale carbon removals.
Mission Barns makes real meat without harm, using cultivators that mimic the animals' bodies.
Through superior products and clever marketing, Oatly is leading the plant-based revolution. It's like milk but made for humans.
Our generation's greatest business opportunity is to mend the food system for future ones
Our cheap calories come at a steep price. With the population growth there is an increasing number of mouths to feed. Still, food production is already the primary contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, loss of species, soil degradation, and lifestyle diseases. The equation doesn’t add up, but it’s solvable.
Bold companies with transformative innovations are redesigning of our food system into a biodiverse carbon sink feeding the billions with nutritious food. The outcome is resilience, regeneration, and abundance. We invest in category-defining companies driving the reformation of the global food system.
Our investment themes build upon the work of Stockholm Resilience Center and EAT-Lancet, and the required shifts they’ve identified to bring the global economy back to a safe operating space. Our portfolio companies are producing more with less, repurposing waste, replacing linearity with circularity, regenerating soil, and enabling access to nutritious food for everyone.
Read our report, Food is Investable, on why venture capital, private equity, and infrastructure funds should consider agrifood in their investment strategies. Despite the agrifood sector’s critical role in sustaining life and driving 12% of global GDP, it punches below its weight in capital allocation. In 2023, agrifood was only 2% of private equity’s total assets under management and received only 5.5% of global venture capital. From a climate perspective, it’s even more underinvested. Agrifood emits 26% of GHG emissions but attracts just 1.3% of climate-focused private capital. This is concerning, given the sector’s potential for massive impact and financial returns. Food Is Investable, developed with ADAM Partners, gives you a Treasure Map as an overview of relevant investment segments in agrifood across different asset classes.
In January 2025, the AgreenaCarbon Project reached a significant milestone by becoming the first large-scale agricultural cropland project registered under Verra's Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) VM0042 methodology for Improved Agricultural Land Management. This achievement marks a pivotal moment for the regenerative agriculture movement and the soil carbon sector, steering much-needed carbon finance to European farmers.
In recent years, upcycling has emerged as a promising avenue to combat food waste, offering innovative ways to turn discarded food into new products. As the global population grows and resources become scarcer, finding solutions to food waste is essential. Upcycling addresses the problem by repurposing food that would otherwise be wasted, creating triple benefits of reducing environmental impacts, improving food security, and creating value from waste. However, while the potential benefit is vast, the journey toward widespread production and adoption of upcycled food faces significant practical challenges. During 2024 Gullspång Re:food, Novax, and PolarVentures collaborated on project Stardust to map global technologies for upcycling with Nordic side streams.