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Top 10 Food and Beverage VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in December 2024

A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Food and beverage startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Food and Beverage VC (Venture Capital) Funds in South Africa in December 2024

Investor Food and Beverage South Africa investments
Cult Food Science 3
Sustainable Food Ventures 2
Standard Chartered Bank 2
Anonymous Trust 1
HAVAÍC 1
Kale United 1
Khulisani Ventures 1
Twynam Agricultural Group 1
Vumela Fund 1
Alethea Capital Management 1
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Cult Food Science VC Fund
CULT Food Science is an investment company focused on supporting and advancing the technology behind the future of food.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, South Africa, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Novel Farms — Cell-cultivated food solutions
  • Minus — A sustainable coffee alternative, combining the taste, look, and smell of coffee with a smaller footprint to ensure a brighter future for coffee and the planet.
  • Unicorn Biotechnologies — Unicorn Biotechnologies is developing a fully automated manufacturing platform to enable cellular agriculture producers to seamlessly scale products from the lab bench to supermarket shelves. Our full stack platform combines hardware, software and analytics to completely automate cellular agriculture manufacturing, reducing costs and increasingproduct quality. By providing a clear path to scale cellular agriculture from grams to tons, we will improve human and planetary health and drive the transition to animal free agriculture.
Sustainable Food Ventures VC Fund · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • United States, India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Another Food — Another Food is a plant cell culture startup which develops sustainable coffee from plant cells. A nature-identical coffee, healthier for consumers and better for the planet.
  • Peruvian Veef — Peruvian Veef is an offline and online store that offers real burgers, grilled seitan, crispy cravings, and vegan nugget products.
  • Atlantic Fish Company — Atlantic Fish Co is a cultivated seafood company using cellular agriculture to bring the world sustainable delicious seafood.
Standard Chartered Bank VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Standard Chartered Bank offers personal and business banking services. Their solutions for companies include transaction banking and financial markets solutions. They also offer current accounts, savings accounts, credit cards, loans, and mortgage services.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Internet, FinTech
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
  • Singapore, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Verkor — Verkor is a battery cell manufacturer whose goal is to increase the production of low-carbon batteries to fulfill the growing demand for electric vehicles. The company focuses on the development of low-carbon batteries with a carbon footprint that is many times smaller than standard batteries. This reduces the logistics footprint, includingemissions, and provides businesses with batteries that are very inexpensive and use carbon-free electricity.
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  • Fosun International — Fosun International Limited is a Hong Kong-based investment holding company engaged in financial, property, steel, and healthcare businesses. The Company has nine segments. Insurance operates and invests in insurance businesses. Investment is engaged in strategic investment, private equity investment, venture capital investment, and secondarymarket investment.Fosun International Limited was founded in 1992.
Anonymous Trust VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
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Investment focus
  • Software, Computer, Market Research
  • Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
  • United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • The Index — The Index is a platform of cutting-edge technology used by clients in the fashion and retail industry to grow their companies and enhance their digital footprints
  • De Novo Foodlabs — Producing non-animal dairy proteins using precision fermentation
  • Smart Separations — Smart Separations is a limited company based in London UK that has patented an innovative microfiltration technology to produce ceramic filters with self-assembled controllable pores of uniform size in the range between <1 and 50µm. This tight pore size control and range availability will revolutionise the field of MF with a cost-effectiveproduct.It aims to be the world’s leader in MF and particle separations technology – filling the void gap that exists in the market nowadays.
HAVAÍC VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • South Africa, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Sportable — Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences. With Rugby being their primary focus, they are working with a number of teams and manufacturers to create and develop hardware and wearable devices that enable sport specific data to be collated in real time. Their technology gives the viewer, the team, and thebroadcaster unprecedented insight into the decision making of players.Sportable was founded in 2015 and is based in London, England.
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Kale United VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Kale United offers a portfolio of over 75+ plant-based game changers
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Sweden, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
  • The Pack — Nutritionally complete vegan dog food. Grain-free & developed with food scientists & animal nutritionists, try our delicious vegan dog food now.
  • Cultimate Foods — Cultimate Foods is a cellular agriculture company. It develops cultivated fat for hybrid alt-meat products. It's cultivated fat replicates the structure of animal fat tissue and it uses a "unique technological approach to 3D cultivation that creates the structure of their ingredient and reduces production costs."
Khulisani Ventures VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
Khulisani Ventures is Mineworkers Investment Company’s early-stage investment vehicle, providing capital for businesses that are ready to aggressively expand and increase their market footprint.
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Investment focus
  • Farming, Livestock, Farmers Market
  • Funding Round
  • South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • Livestock Wealth — Livestock Wealth is a crowdfarmingTM company that allows people to invest in livestock and earn from sale of the offspring.Their unique CrowdFarmingTM concept allows individuals to share the facilities of a commercial livestock farm while our experts look after their cows on a day to day basis.Cows have been a source of pride and a store ofwealth in Africa for centuries. The wealth in cows is based on something real – beef. The company enables anyone to be an organic beef farmer.
Twynam Agricultural Group VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Twynam Group is a leading Australian Funds Manager investing in early-stage climate tech. We also operate an agricultural and property portfolio.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Agriculture, Seafood
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Australia, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Voltpost — The lamppost electric vehicle charger.
  • Alt Mobility — ALT Mobility is a full-stack EV leasing platform offering mobility as a service (MaaS) for commercial vehicle users.
  • Ocean Rainforest — Ocean Rainforest offer a collection of premium fully-traceable seaweed products, mostly for food and cosmetic producers.
Vumela Fund VC Fund · Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom
Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Software, Primary Education
  • Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
  • South Africa, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
  • Kombo King — Kombo King Ventless Fryer Tech removes the need for plumes of steam & the constant eye of an inconsistent employee to Revolutionize & solve the frying industry!
  • Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
Alethea Capital Management VC Fund · Rancho Santa Fe, California, United States
Alethea Capital Management is an SEC-registered investment advisor founded in March of 2011. As an investment management and research firm, the mission of Alethea is simple – to provide the highest level of service and guidance to our clients with honesty, integrity, and transparency. The firm’s services include fee-based asset management,research/advanced quantitative systematization, manager/strategy evaluation, and comprehensive planning. Alethea’s center of operations is in San Diego, CA.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
  • 3X4Genetics — Scientifically-robust nutrigenomics (personalised nutrition guided by your own genetic stack). Practitioner education & genomic reporting
  • Lipidio Pharmaceuticals — A Unique Approach to Treating Obesity Precision Targeting of the Skin Exploiting the skin as an endocrine organ Historically regarded as a protective barrier organ, the skin is now recognized as an active endocrine organ capable of synthesizing, and secreting diverse hormones and signaling
  • SEngine Precision Medicine — The Search Engine For Identifying Personalized Cancer Treatments.
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