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AccelFoods adds five new operating partners to teamAccelFoods, a venture firm focused on food and beverage startups has recently added five new operating partners to their team. They are Eric Berniker, Paul Eskenazi, Paula Grant, Chris Hickey and Bart Silvestro.
- Children's frozen meals brand Kidfresh attracts funding
New York-based Kidfresh, a frozen meals brand for children, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding. Monogram Capital Partners, Emil Capital Partners and AccelFoods led the round.
- AccelFoods expands second fund to $35 mln
AccelFoods, an investment fund focused on emerging food and beverage brands, has increased its second fund to $35 million. The newly expanded fund will focus on promising food and beverage startups.
Investors’ appetites for edible insects are growingInvestment has been minimal, but edible insect companies have so far attracted the interest of Mark Cuban and Mark Zuckerberg’s younger sister
- Cricket protein bar maker Exo raises $4 mln
New York-based Exo, which is developing alternative protein sources based on insects, announced it has raised $4 million in a Series A funding round led by AccelFoods. Others participating in the round include new and previous investors, such as Collaborative Fund and individuals Tim Ferriss, Start Garden, rapper Nas and endurance athlete Amelia Boone. The company has now raised $5.6 million in total funding. Exo, which makes a protein bar using crickets, was one of four food startups in AccelFoods' inaugural accelerator program in 2014.
- AccelFoods raises $20 mln fund, backs six startups
AccelFoods, an accelerator for packaged food and beverage companies, added six startups to its portfolio. The companies, part of AccelFoods’ fourth class, are the first to be backed by the accelerator’s newly launched $20 million second fund.
- Exo grabs $1.2 mln seed
New York-based cricket protein bar startup Exo has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. The investors included Collaborative Fund, Start Garden and Tim Ferriss.