# Sparkalis

> Sparkalis is a VC fund in Brussels backing Food and Beverage, B2B and Coffee. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Belgium
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 80%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/foodtech-sparkalis
- Website: https://sparkalis.com/

Sparkalis is a newly created corporate venture arm of the PURATOS GROUP.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 60% |
| B2B | 1 | 20% |
| Coffee | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |
| Wholesale | 1 | 20% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 40% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 1 | 20% |
| Germany | 1 | 20% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 20% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Glimpact | Glimpact is a digital platform that aims to make a product's environmental performance a new consideration for customer decisions. | $3.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 17, 2026 |  |
| Time-Travelling Milkman | Time-Travelling Milkman produce a plant-based cream from sunflower seeds, as an ingredient for dairy alternatives. | $2.4M | Seed | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Bakerix | Bakerix.de is a B2B marketplace that connects local bakeries and further producers of fresh food with corporate clients such as contract caterers, hotel chains, and healthcare facilities across Germany. Its purpose is to simplify the procurement of fresh bakery products for businesses with multiple locations by offering a centralized platform thatensures streamlined ordering, unified invoicing, and consistent quality standards. | $2.7M | Series A | Sep 07, 2025 |  |
| Food Brewer | Food Brewer AG is a Switzerland based food and food ingredients company using plant cell cultures. We focus on research, development, and marketing of pioneering technologies for large scale cultivation in fermenters (similar to beer brewing) as an alternative to conventional agriculture. We secure key resources for the food industry and eliminategeographic, climatic, and ethical uncertainties. | $5.6M | Seed | Feb 25, 2025 |  |
| Fooditive | Fooditive provides apples and pears side stream services. They also provide products supply, nutritional value, fooditive sweetener, research and development services, and side-streams solutions. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 07, 2023 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Evercurious VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evercurious-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Felchlin](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felchlin) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Lindt & Sprüngli — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [OostNL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oostnl) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Zürcher Kantonal Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/z%C3%BCrcher-kantonalbank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Sparkalis invest in?

Sparkalis invests primarily in Food and Beverage, B2B and Coffee startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Sparkalis last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sparkalis closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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