# The Kitchen - FoodTech Hub

> The Kitchen - FoodTech Hub is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ashdod, Israel
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-kitchen-hub
- Website: http://www.thekitchenhub.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Kitchen-foodtech-hub-898365373604009

The Kitchen - FoodTech Hub is a VC fund in Ashdod focused on Food and Beverage and Biotechnology. The Kitchen FoodTech Hub is a seed investor and a Technology Incubator focusing on FoodTech. It invests in 3-4 new FoodTech startups each year. During the incubation period the startups benefit from close support from The Kitchen's team and a large range of experts. The Kitchen was established in 2015 by the Strauss-Group, an internationalfood company based in Israel and is a member of the Israeli Innovation Authority incubators' program.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 15 | 54% |
| Biotechnology | 5 | 18% |
| Food Processing | 5 | 18% |
| AgTech | 3 | 11% |
| Retail | 2 | 7% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 25% |
| Series A | 3 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Amir Zaidman | Vice President Business Development | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amir-zaidman |
| Jonathan Berger | CEO | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-berger-3 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kokomodo | Kokomodo is a produce cocoa via plant cell culture. Kokomodo cellular agriculture technology produce real, controlled, climate-resilient cacao, everywhere, year-round. | $750K | Pre-Seed | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| Day 8 | Day 8 is an Israeli food tech startup that utilizes a unique extraction method to create Rubisco-based protein ingredients that provide nutritional benefits similar to animal proteins. | $750K | Pre-Seed | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Meala Foodtech | Meala Foodtech develops functional proteins for multiple meat replacements. Meala uses naturally occurring biocatalysts to treat plant-based proteins. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Feb 08, 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 |  |
| Forsea Foods | Forsea is a cultivated meat company with proprietary, breakthrough technology to produce fish and seafood in a very similar way to nature. | $5.2M | Seed | Oct 26, 2022 |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| Yofix | Yofix develops and manufacture dairy & soy free fermented plant base pre & pro-biotic foods.Excellent taste and texture, clean label – no artificial or preservative added, made of cereals, lentils, grains and seeds contain high nutritional values at competitive costs & sustainable production process.The first product ready tomarket is a plant base yogurt which will be followed by yogurt drinks, deserts, frozen yogurt, ice cream base and more | $3.5M | Series A | Aug 01, 2021 |  |
| 50CUT | Mush Foods is an Israeli-based food tech company, growing edible mushroom mycelium to create innovative and sustainable animal-free protein as an ingredient for the food and beverage industry. We harness the fantastic power and innate intelligence of mushrooms to face future global challenges and provide sustainable groundbreaking food solutions tothe food of the future. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Milk & Honey Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/milk-honey-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [New Crop Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-crop-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Strauss Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/strauss-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CPT Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cpt-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MoreVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/israel-cleantech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Israel Innovation Authority](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/israel-innovation-authority) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does The Kitchen - FoodTech Hub invest in?

The Kitchen - FoodTech Hub invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Biotechnology and Food Processing startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact The Kitchen - FoodTech Hub?

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### Who are the partners at The Kitchen - FoodTech Hub?

The team at The Kitchen - FoodTech Hub includes Amir Zaidman (Vice President Business Development) and Jonathan Berger (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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