let’s grow
Are you a bold founder building breakthrough solutions for the future of food?
Future Food Fund backs ambitious early-stage companies driving real, measurable impact across the food and agriculture system. We invest in technologies that transform the food value chain from the ground up.
We’re especially interested in solutions that:
Strengthen ecosystem resilience and reduce dependency on synthetic inputs
Technologies such as seed trait development, biological crop protection (e.g. microbial or RNA-based), soil data platforms and nature-based inputs.
Enhance yield and enable regenerative, low-impact farming at scale
Autonomous field robotics, AI-powered on-farm optimization, precision irrigation, nutrient-use efficiency tools and data-driven regenerative practices.
Unlock traceability and emissions reductions across the supply chain
Solutions for demand-supply matching, sourcing transparency (e.g. satellite or blockchain-enabled), ESG data integration, scope 3 tracking and verified insetting systems.
Valorize waste streams or enable sustainable alternatives via bioprocessing
Innovations in precision fermentation, clean protein production (e.g. microbial or cell-based), upcycled ingredients, input replacement, bio-based packaging and functional coatings.
If your startup is tackling these challenges with scalable, science-backed solutions,
we’d love to hear from you!
Key Investment Information
Team
Describe the founding team:
- why your track record aligns with the challenges your startup is addressing
- Background and complementarity
Value Proposition
Explain clearly:
- The problem you solve
- What makes your solution unique and compelling
Route to Market
- Value Chain: Visualize your company’s envisaged position in the value chain versus relevant parties such as (end) customers, distributors, partners, and competitors
- Go-to-market strategy: How you plan to reach customers and scale, now and in the following phase?
Total Addressable Market
- Calculation of TAM, SAM, and SOM across relevant geographies and market segments
Competitors
- Competition overview, including a table comparing your company with others on key success factors
Traction
- Technical validation: What has already been validated, what is planned?
- Commercial traction: Clear distinction between pilot revenue, commercial (profitable) revenue, and strategic partnerships
Financial History and Projections
In one overview, so that we can compare and broken down in geographies and/or market segments for better understanding:
- financial performance to date
- financial projections, including cash flow statement
Funding Needs
Required funding and allocation of funds over a defined period
Key Investment Criteria
We invest in companies with at least the following characteristics:
Minimum of two full-time founders in the management team
Proves your ability to attract relevant talent and build commitment to the proposition.
Validated product-market fit
So we can focus on accelerating growth.
Ambition and the potential to scale rapidly
Given the high-risk nature of venture capital, fast growth is essential.
Openness to strategic discussions and appreciation of our input
We have been exclusively investing in food & agri startups since 2016 and bring deep domain expertise and validated (growth) formats
Funding need of EUR 750K – 10M in the first round
Our sweet spot: companies raising EUR 750K – 7M for 18–24 months of runway.
Within that round, we invest EUR 750K – 2.0M, ideally alongside co-investors.
We have follow-on capacity of up to EUR 4M per portfolio company.
HQ in Europe, ideally in Northwestern Europe
The leadership team should predominantly live and work here.
