ValueGrain develops upcycled food ingredients derived from brewery spent grain (Treber) and partners with breweries and food-industry players to integrate that ingredient into food applications. The company focuses on pragmatic, scalable solutions for the brewing and food industries and collaborates with established partners to advance product development. ValueGrain plans to expand its team and R&D to prepare the ingredient for more food use-cases and to build scalable logistics for supply to food manufacturers. Strategic investor partnerships—most notably with Krombacher (via investor Bernhard Schadeberg) and existing investor Jeff Maisel—are being used both for capital and to secure feedstock supply. Through these partnerships ValueGrain aims to secure access to roughly 10% of Germany's spent-grain output to supply its B2B ingredient customers. The recent financing strengthens its financial position to scale operations and commercial deployment.

Total raised

$3M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jul 2026