Yamo produces fresher, healthier refrigerated baby meals and purees using high-pressure pasteurisation (HPP) to retain nutrients, taste and colour. Its products are sold online via a direct-to-consumer subscription model and through grocery retailers, including Coop in Switzerland and trials in select Edeka and Rewe stores in Germany. Yamo's items last between eight and 12 weeks when refrigerated, and it recently launched what it claims is the first non-dairy oat-milk yoghurt for kids in Europe. Founded in 2016 by Tobias Gunzenhauser, José Amado-Blanco and Luca Michas, the company was created in response to concerns about added sugar, salt and long shelf lives in conventional baby foods. With the new funding, Yamo plans to expand into France and to introduce additional food products for children. The company positions homemade baby food and incumbent baby-food brands as its main competitors and notes the retail challenge of securing refrigerated placement. yamo is a Swiss, vertically integrated baby-food brand that controls recipe development, production, and online sales. It produces fresh, natural organic baby food and leverages innovative high-pressure preservation (HPP) technology to preserve vitamins, taste, and original colours. The company was founded in 2017 by Tobias Gunzenhauser, José Amado-Blanco and Luca Michas. Its products are available in large retailers. yamo plans to use new funding to strengthen its brand presence in Germany and Austria and to bring solid food and snacks to market. The article reports the company raised a low seven-digit funding round.

Total raised

$11M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Jul 2020