# The Food Tech Lab

> The Food Tech Lab is a VC fund in Spain backing Biotechnology and Manufacturing. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Spain, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thefoodtechlab-tftl
- Website: https://thefoodtechlab.com/

The Food Tech Lab is a VC fund in Spain focused on Biotechnology and Manufacturing. The Food Tech Lab (TFTL), is an investment club formed by a network of investors, mostly professionals linked to the agri-food sector.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.1M–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 33% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 33% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| AgTech | 1 | 17% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 83% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 4 | 67% |
| Spain | 1 | 17% |
| Sweden | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BlueRedGold | BlueRedGold is a Swedish AgriTech startup revolutionizing saffron production through the world’s first scalable, automated indoor farming system. Using AI, robotics, hydroponics, and controlled environment agriculture, they enable year-round, high-quality saffron cultivation with minimal environmental impact. The company supplies premium saffron tofood, nutraceutical, and cosmetics industries globally. | $3.1M | Seed | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Brevel | Brevel developed a disruptive cultivation technology for sustainable, low cost and high quality production of microalgae for various yet untapped markets. The technology is based on high-tech indoor, sterile and fully automated systems which are illuminated from within at high intensity. The technology enables the surprising results of more than90% cost reduction and up to 200 higher yields compared to current alternatives. Brevel is using the advantageous production capabilities to enter multiple markets where microalgae derived products are needed. | $5M | Seed | Mar 23, 2025 |  |
| Pack2Earth | Pack2Earth, S.L. is a company that specializes in developing new, sustainable materials for the food sector and other industries. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 22, 2024 |  |
| Treetoscope | The first and only commercial device that senses the internal water flow of a plant and directly measures its water consumption and real-time irrigation needs. without extrapolations based on indirect sensing technologies.Treetoscope offers a SaaS irrigation management platform, based on direct plant sensing technology. We tackle one of the mostcrucial challenges farmers face today: water scarcity and irrigation optimization. Our groundbreaking ag-tech enables the unprecedented measurement of real-time actual water use of trees (based on our patented single probe Sap Flow sensor). Through the Treetoscope solution, growers gain great value as a result of the affordability, scalability, and ease of deployment of our technology. | $7M | Seed | Sep 20, 2023 |  |
| MAOLAC | MAOLAC is a producer of nutrition products. Their functional milk proteins offer humans and animals immune protection that includes sports nutrition, healthy aging, leaky gut, gut health, relief of joint pain, and reduction of skin infections. | $3.2M | Seed | Jul 05, 2022 |  |
| Better Juice | Better Juice was founded in 2017 by a team of prestigious food industry professionals: a biochemist and microbiology academician with extensive experience in product development. The company is supported by The Kitchen FoodTech Hub – Strauss Group’s incubator, whose goal is to nourish promising food-tech ventures that can disrupt the global foodsystem – making it more productive, more affordable, more sustainable and healthier. ​ Better Juice gives consumers what they are looking for: simple ways to reduce sugar in their diets. Popular juices such as orange and apple juice have 6 teaspoons (25 grams) of sugar per 1-cup serving (250 ml). Grape juice has up to 14 teaspoons. The Better Juice solution lets industrial juice producers lower or eliminate sugar in one simple step. | $8M | Seed | Jun 23, 2021 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Neome](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neome) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [The Kitchen - FoodTech Hub](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-kitchen-foodtech-hub) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Agrovision](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agrovision-37ce) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brigantia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brigantia-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Champel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/champel-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Earth Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earth-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does The Food Tech Lab invest in?

The Food Tech Lab invests primarily in Biotechnology, Manufacturing and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is The Food Tech Lab's check size?

The Food Tech Lab typically joins rounds of $3.1M–$8M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds The Food Tech Lab participates in.

### When did The Food Tech Lab last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for The Food Tech Lab closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 6 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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