Participated · Series A · Jul 2020

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.

Led · Series A · Feb 2020

Yofix Probiotics is an Israeli B2B food‑tech company that develops and manufactures plant‑based dairy substitutes, primarily vegan yogurts. Founded in 2014, it uses a proprietary blend of oats, lentils and sunflower seeds to produce clean‑label, soy‑free formulations containing prebiotics and probiotics. The company operates manufacturing facilities in Netivot and serves co‑packers, private labels and food corporations via an end‑to‑end service to develop, produce and sell plant‑based dairy. Its consumer brands include the plant‑based yogurt brand Only and vegan yogurt‑based porridges under The Real Foodists. Yofix is a graduate of The Kitchen FoodTech Hub incubator run by Strauss‑Group and has a production partnership with Strauss Health. It plans to use new capital to expand manufacturing capacity to meet surging demand for plant‑based dairy. Yofix Probiotics makes clean-label, plant-based fermented yogurts that replicate dairy yogurt flavor and probiotic functionality without dairy ingredients. Its formulas are soy-free and rely on a short ingredient list including oats, lentils and sesame. The company emphasizes a proprietary zero-waste production process and says it uses no artificial ingredients, positioning taste, texture and ingredient transparency as differentiators. Yofix targets lactose-intolerant and dairy-allergic consumers as well as vegan and flexitarian markets. CEO Steve Grün has described the company’s domestic factory and distribution success as a template for international expansion, though timing and specific markets are not yet specified. The company recently closed a $2.5 million Series A financing. Yofix is an Israeli plant-based yogurt maker that produces the first grain-, seed- and lentil-based yogurt using traditional fermentation on novel ingredients. Its product blends oats, lentils, sunflower seeds, coconut and sesame to achieve a dairy-like texture without common stabilizers and thickeners and contains pre- and probiotics. Yofix offers three yogurt flavors with no added sugars and emphasizes a no-waste process that uses all grains in the emulsion without filtering, reducing ecological footprint. The company was incubated in The Kitchen Hub, Strauss Group’s FoodTech incubator, and received seed funding, mentoring and support there. Yofix raised a $2 million Series A led by Strauss Health and will use the funds to build a production facility in Israel and increase domestic distribution. The company has stated plans for future international expansion.