Three Winners Crowned at FoodBytes! Pitch Competition, a New Years Note from Anne Greven + More

Welcome to the December FoodBytes! Bulletin.

Three finalists take the winning spots in our annual FoodBytes! Pitch finale, our own Anne Greven closes out 2020 with a look ahead at innovation, four FoodBytes! alumni raised in the last month, and membership for FoodBytes! 2021 is available now – join us on our journey towards food sustainability
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Fifteen food and agriculture entrepreneurs took the virtual stage on Wednesday December 3 to present new ideas to feed the world more sustainably at our FoodBytes! Pitch 2020 competition. We named Agricycle Global, Envara Health and SWAN Systems the 2020 winners for their breakthrough innovations in food loss mitigation, precision nutrition, and water management, respectively.

Boost Biomes completed an extension of its series A round, totaling $7.5M, to further develop its product pipeline and technology platform.
Regrained raised $5.15M of equity crowdfunding via WeFunder.
TIPA received $4M of corporate investment from Millennium Food-Tech.
KloveChef, raised $1M of pre-Series A funding led by Venture Catalysts. The funds will be used to grow the company's user base and accelerate its expansion efforts into the North American voice shopping market.
ProAgni, creators of antibiotic-free animal feed products, raised $2.2M in a Series A round from Grant Broadcasters.

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