# Strauss Group

> Strauss Group is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage and Food Processing. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Petah Tiqva, Israel
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/strauss-group-inc.
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/StraussGroup
- Website: http://strauss-group.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/StraussGroupGlobal

Strauss Group is an international corporation with a portfolio of five companies, which provide a response to two leading world trends – Health & Wellness, and Fun & Indulgence.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $7M–$15M |
| Series A | $12M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 5 | 45% |
| Food Processing | 3 | 27% |
| Retail | 2 | 18% |
| Agriculture | 2 | 18% |
| AgTech | 1 | 9% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 36% |
| Seed | 3 | 27% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ariel Chetrit | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ariel-chetrit-579a |
| Shahar Florence | Chief Growth & Innovation officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shahar-florence |
| Giora Bardea | CEO & President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giora-bardea |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wanda Fish Technologies | Based in Israel, Wanda Fish Technologies is a cell-cultured seafood startup that offers cultivated fish filets with similar nutrition, taste, and texture to real fish, using a GMO-free platform. Wanda Fish produces its cultivated fish by growing fat and muscle cells in a bioreactor using animal-free growth media. | $7M | Seed | Oct 09, 2023 |  |
| Torr FoodTech | Torr is an innovative food tech startup, aiming to challenge multi-ingredient snacking categories with our breakthrough technology. Torr dreams develop and produce snacks that serve a unique, tasty, and much healthier bite. | $12M | Series A | Nov 21, 2022 |  |
| Imagindairy | Imagindairy provides Animal-free dairy proteins for nourishing the world with sustainable, healthy and tasty products. | $15M | Seed | May 18, 2022 |  |
| Vanilla Vida | We are here to help the world consume more natural vanilla by establishing a vertical integration company. | $11.5M | Series A | Feb 16, 2022 |  |
| Imagindairy | Imagindairy provides Animal-free dairy proteins for nourishing the world with sustainable, healthy and tasty products. | $13M | Seed | Nov 17, 2021 |  |
| Aleph Farms | Aleph Farms is an Israel-based food technology company designing new ways to grow quality animal products that improve sustainability, food security and animal welfare in our food systems. Founded in 2017, the company utilized cellular agriculture technology to unveil the world’s first cultivated thin-cut steak in 2018, the world’s first cultivatedribeye steak in 2021, and cultivated collagen in 2022. Under its product brand, Aleph Cuts, the company will launch its first product, the Petit Steak, grown from the non-modified cells of a premium Angus cow. For its contributions to climate leadership including a net zero commitment made in 2020, it has received top accolades from the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. | $105M | Series B | Jul 07, 2021 |  |
| Aleph Farms | Aleph Farms is an Israel-based food technology company designing new ways to grow quality animal products that improve sustainability, food security and animal welfare in our food systems. Founded in 2017, the company utilized cellular agriculture technology to unveil the world’s first cultivated thin-cut steak in 2018, the world’s first cultivatedribeye steak in 2021, and cultivated collagen in 2022. Under its product brand, Aleph Cuts, the company will launch its first product, the Petit Steak, grown from the non-modified cells of a premium Angus cow. For its contributions to climate leadership including a net zero commitment made in 2020, it has received top accolades from the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. | $105M | Series B | Jul 07, 2021 |  |
| Imagindairy | Imagindairy provides Animal-free dairy proteins for nourishing the world with sustainable, healthy and tasty products. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2021 |  |
| Aleph Farms | Aleph Farms is an Israel-based food technology company designing new ways to grow quality animal products that improve sustainability, food security and animal welfare in our food systems. Founded in 2017, the company utilized cellular agriculture technology to unveil the world’s first cultivated thin-cut steak in 2018, the world’s first cultivatedribeye steak in 2021, and cultivated collagen in 2022. Under its product brand, Aleph Cuts, the company will launch its first product, the Petit Steak, grown from the non-modified cells of a premium Angus cow. For its contributions to climate leadership including a net zero commitment made in 2020, it has received top accolades from the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. | $12M | Series A | May 01, 2019 |  |
| RiLBiTE | RiLBiTE is a food-tech startup in the meat alternative industry. The company developed a technology that enables mixing and binding ingredients that are plants into clean label dishes of different shape, texture and taste. Thus, creating various food applications may it be meat, egg, ice cream, chicken, or fish, without using any ultra-processedingredients in its innovative production line. |  | Seed | May 01, 2019 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CPT Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cpt-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Peregrine Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peregrine-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Cargill](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cargill) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Clay Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-protein-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Strauss Group invest in?

Strauss Group invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Food Processing and Retail startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Strauss Group's check size?

Strauss Group typically joins rounds of $7M–$15M at Seed and $12M–$12M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Strauss Group participates in.

### How do I contact Strauss Group?

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### Who are the partners at Strauss Group?

The team at Strauss Group includes Ariel Chetrit (CFO), Shahar Florence (Chief Growth & Innovation officer) and Giora Bardea (CEO & President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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