About Re:food
The World’s Biggest Challenge Is the Most Profitable Frontier
Food is both the world’s foundation and its greatest pressure point. It powers 12% of global GDP, but drives a quarter of emissions, half of biodiversity loss, and soaring health costs. It needs to be fixed and yet it attracts only a fraction of global capital. That gap is the opportunity: invest here, and you solve environmental and health crises while unlocking the next frontier of growth.
The breakthroughs are built. Companies with proven size and business models are creating the solutions the world needs. Innovation isn’t the bottleneck. Capital is. Re:food exists to unleash that momentum and grow the leaders of tomorrow’s food economy. We commit growth capital and long-term partnership to scale the companies positioned for continued hyper-growth with competitive margins, delivering resilience, abundance, and enduring value.
Guided by science and deep market research
We focus on the leverage points where solving systemic problems creates exponential value across four investment themes.
These four themes define where we play. The Re:food Edge defines how we win.
1. Sustainable Proteins and Fats
Rethinking where delicious, economically scalable, and resource-efficient proteins and fats come from
- 2. Healthy Soils
Redesigning farming practices and technology to rebuild soil, capture carbon, and secure long-term yield
3. Sustainable Supply Chains
Revalorizing resources in shorter and circular supply chains that minimize lost nutrients, material, and exposure to geopolitical disruptions
4. Healthy Diets
Revitalizing health with nutritious, delicious, and personalized diets preventing disease and reducing healthcare costs
A Proven Model for Value-Creating Growth
As we mapped the agrifood investment landscape, one truth became clear: lasting transformation requires more than capital. It demands systems thinking, deep agrifood expertise, and long-term partnerships to build companies that create outsized returns and enduring impact at scale.
We identified a critical financing gap. Early-stage venture capital abounds for technologies seeking product–market fit. Late-stage private equity firms, on the other hand, buy and consolidate mature companies. But few partners exist for the defining growth stage; the moment when category-changing companies need strategic guidance, access to capital for scaling, and support to reach operational excellence.
This gap led us to a defining question: How can we consistently unlock growth and system-level impact in agrifood while addressing the structural barriers holding the sector back?
The answer is the Re:food Edge. Built on decades of investing and M&A experience in agrifood, our model distills what it truly takes to grow strong businesses into global category changers.
The Re:food Edge: Specialized Conviction Capital
The Re:food Edge is our proprietary model that turns proven science into resilient returns and system-wide impact. It has helped Re:food deliver 6× portfolio revenue growth and >1,600 bps gross-margin expansion, with a sustained, multi-year run of value-creating growth. Here’s how it works.
1. Value Creation
We partner with unique category-changers to achieve defendable operational excellence and scale. From growth financing and acquisitions to sharpening strategy and execution, we are in the trenches with management to accelerate scale and unlock new potential.
1. Value Creation
We partner with unique category-changers to achieve defendable operational excellence and scale. From growth financing and acquisitions to sharpening strategy and execution, we are in the trenches with management to accelerate scale and unlock new potential.
- Capital that makes a difference: Typical initial investment of €10–20M, with the capacity to deploy up to €50M over the life of an investment, for growth and add-on acquisitions.
- Experience that compounds: Three decades of food-industry leadership and more than a decade investing in the green transition, to support strategy design, business-model development, and operational excellence.
- A transatlantic footprint: Our presence across Europe and North America connects innovation to growth markets.
Why it matters
With capital, expertise, and true partnership, great companies change categories and emerge as tomorrow’s leaders, delivering outsized returns and lasting impact. When we partner, we are all in, through every challenge and every breakthrough.
2. Long-Term Partnerships
We selectively build lasting collaborations with our limited partners, researchers, co-investors, industry experts, other stakeholders in the agrifood system, and most importantly the management teams of the companies we support.
2. Long-Term Partnerships
We selectively build lasting collaborations with our limited partners, researchers, co-investors, industry experts, other stakeholders in the agrifood system, and most importantly the management teams of the companies we support.
- Stronger together: We cultivate international relationships across the entire agrifood system, connecting diverse stakeholders to bring the best insights and talent to each portfolio company.
- Mutual trust: Our partnerships are reciprocal—we carefully select our portfolio companies, and they carefully select us—creating the foundation for long-term growth and shared success.
- Long-term view: We are in it for the long run, shown by the ten-year commitment to fund a professorship at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, strengthening research and innovation for the future.
Why it matters: By putting relationships before transactions, we create partnerships rooted in trust, unlocking greater value together.
3. Systems Thinking
Every investment starts with science and deep market research. We rigorously assess emerging technologies, consumer shifts, and regulatory trends with a dual lens to identify segments where category changers can drive both systemic impact and commercial success.
3. Systems Thinking
Every investment starts with science and deep market research. We rigorously assess emerging technologies, consumer shifts, and regulatory trends with a dual lens to identify segments where category changers can drive both systemic impact and commercial success.
- 100% agrifood specialists. Our singular focus gives us unmatched depth in science, regulation, and markets.
- The Re:food Solvable Framework is our science-based methodology, aligned with EAT-Lancet and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. It connects planetary boundaries to food, adds a social foundation, and translates science into actionable investment themes.
- Sustainability embedded. As an Article 9 fund, ESG rigour is built in from day one, turning responsibility into resilience and long-term returns.
Why it matters: We concentrate where growth and impact intersect and bring the capital strength to change entire categories.