Startup · $72m raised
Sydney, NSW
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round v2food raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Astanor Ventures | Series B | - |
Investors whose own portfolio pages list v2food, even though we haven't found any coverage of the round yet.
| Investor | Listed on |
|---|---|
| Main Sequence Ventures | its portfolio page ↗ |
Every published round v2food took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
Companies v2food has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio companies recorded yet. | ||||
Fund closes reported for v2food, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies v2food has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal v2food did.
| Company | Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio company of v2food is recorded as having been acquired. | ||||
Companies v2food acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Company | Kind | Announced | Price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daring Foods | Acquisition | 7 Aug 2025 | - | @AuManufacturing (11 Aug 2025), @AuManufacturing (7 Aug 2025), SmartCompany, AgFunderNews |
Stories naming v2food. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Fishburners, the Sydney not-for-profit co-working community, has gone into voluntary administration over a long-running rent debt to the NSW government. KPMG administrators will keep it trading while pursuing a sale and recapitalisation.
Australian plant-protein maker v2food bought US plant-based chicken firm Daring Foods and struck a partnership with Japan's Ajinomoto, price undisclosed. The page also recalls v2food's $77 million Series B and local industry failures.
Australian meat-alternative company V2food has bought US chicken-substitute producer Daring Foods and announced a partnership with Japan's Ajinomoto aimed at global growth; no price was revealed.
Australian meat-alternative firm v2food buys US plant-based chicken company Daring Foods as its US entry; Ajinomoto has invested in v2food and will license-manufacture its products in Asian and African markets.
Australian algae startup Algenie raises A$1.1 million from University of Technology Sydney and Better Bite Ventures while unveiling a thin-layer photobioreactor designed to make algae production dramatically cheaper for fuels, plastics and feed.
Also SmartCompany
KPMG administrators took control of ProForm Foods, the company behind the Meet brand, and the piece recalls earlier raises at v2food and All G Foods as the plant-based sector cools.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup covering Agrotoken's Series A, raises by Mediterranean Food Lab, Better Juice, Burro, SeeTree and farm-ng, the MaxAB–Wasoko merger, v2food's brand acquisition, a Flashfood CEO change, and Drizly's shutdown.
Feature on Australia's fast-growing climate tech sector, recounting raises at companies including Neara, Loam Bio, Goterra and Great Wrap, and warning that scarce growth capital and limited foreign investment could stall the industry.
All G Foods spins its Love Buds plant-based range into a merger with Fenn Foods' vEEF, forming a new entity; All G pivots to fermented dairy, with both companies' earlier raises recapped.
Plant-based meat maker v2food changed course and is shutting its Wodonga factory after founder-CEO Nick Hazell's departure, with Tim York now chief executive; the story recalls its two Series B raises.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup covering funding rounds for Pure Salmon, FreshToHome, SwarmFarm and others, acquisitions of Delphi and Soylent, layoffs at Impossible Foods and GreenLabs, and plant-based labeling news.
Plant-based meat maker v2food will shut its Wodonga factory and shift production to third parties, while chief operating officer Tim York replaces departing founder Nick Hazell as chief executive.
Queensland mushroom-based meat alternative maker Fable Food Co raised a Series A led by K3 Ventures, with celebrity and existing investors, to fund product development and expansion into North America, the UK and Singapore.
Sponsored profile of Sydney cultivated meat company Vow, covering its quail-based first product, recent Series A backing, manufacturing plans, and founder George Peppou's upcoming panel appearance at AgriFutures' evokeAG 2023 event.
Profile of Cairns startup Rainstick, which uses artificial lightning to boost mushroom growth. It won $20,000 from Dream Ventures, has taken in $200,000, and joined CSIRO's ON Accelerate with nine other teams.
CSIRO has revived its ON Accelerate program and named ten deep-tech startup teams, drawn from universities and its own research, joining the seventh cohort starting in early 2023.
AgFunder's first Asia-Pacific agrifoodtech report shows Singapore alt-protein startups dominating Innovative Food investment, with Next Gen Foods' record Series A and Australia's V2Food taking 2021's biggest Innovative Food raise.
Coverage of AgFunder and AgriFutures' new Asia-Pacific investment report, which found Australian agrifoodtech startups attracted $565.5 million across 55 deals in 2021, plus Lyro's raises and evokeAG 2023 applications.
GrainCorp has launched GrainCorp Ventures, a corporate venture fund set up with Artesian Venture Partners, intending to back early-stage agtech, animal nutrition and food innovation startups, building on prior investments including Hone and FutureFeed.
Tattarang, Andrew Forrest's investment firm and R.M. Williams parent, has put $26.8m into Natural Fiber Welding's Series B; the US materials startup's Mirum leather substitute may reach the bootmaker's vegan lineup.
GrainCorp announces a government-funded 4.4 million dollar plant-protein research partnership with CSIRO and v2food, aiming to build local processing of canola, soy, fava bean and chickpea proteins, with the project due to finish in 2023.
SmartCompany covers the launch of PlantForm, a local accelerator for plant-based meat ventures, and rounds up recent sector raises by Change Foods, Fenn Foods, Eighth Day Foods and All G Foods.
Woolworths' corporate venture arm W23 has added an undisclosed multi-million-dollar investment to its backing of Sydney alt-protein maker All G Foods, which had earlier raised a $16 million seed round in late 2021.
Also AgFunderNews·@AuManufacturing·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·AgFunderNews
Senators question CSIRO over email exchanges with plant-based protein maker v2food, probing conflicts between the agency's public research role and its equity stake in the company, with fund investment details aired at the hearing.
Main Sequence recounts how personal relationships across CSIRO, Woolworths, ANU and prior ventures converged over years to found plastic-recycling startup Samsara Eco.
Australia's Main Sequence has pulled in A$250 million for its second deep tech fund, with existing backers returning and a sharpened emphasis on decarbonisation investments.
Deep tech firm Advanced Navigation, based in Sydney, has secured $20m from CSIRO's venture arm Main Sequence plus two US funds; two investors take board seats. OIF backed it earlier.