Venture Capital

Nutrify India expands market access, venture capital in international nutraceutical marketplaces

12-Oct-2020 By Danielle Masterson

Nutrify India, a nutra-consulting firm and ideas-to-commercialisation platform, is working on bridging the gap of connecting nutra innovators to large commercialization channels.

Vitamin Packs gets investment from L Catterton, largest consumer-focused investment firm in world

22-May-2018 By Adi Menayang

Personalized nutrition startup Vitamin Packs announced that it has received ‘significant growth investment’ from L Catterton, a global venture capital and private equity firm.

Lonza sets up VC fund for North American health and wellness startups

08-Feb-2018 By Adi Menayang

Swiss pharmaceutical and biotech firm Lonza announced a partnership with US-based Prolog Ventures to create a venture capital fund focusing on products that “maintain, protect, or preserve the health and well-being of people and companion animals.”

DuPont and Ireland’s APC venture forward in microbiome-inspired pact

30-Nov-2017 By Will Chu

DuPont Nutrition and Health further strengthen their probiotic credentials collaborating with the APC Microbiome Institute in the first of a series of partnerships intended to push microbiome science to the forefront.

Upcoming seminar to focus on financing a CPG company

21-Jun-2016

Investment experts and industry-leading entrepreneurs will provide insights and tips on how to improve the odds of successfully obtaining financing during the upcoming “Financing Your Consumer Products Company” seminar.

Bad publicity pall stalls M&A activity in supplements even as transactions soar in organic & natural foods, beverages

29-Feb-2016 By Hank Schultz

A hangover from the negative publicity of the past year has stalled M&A and financing activity in dietary supplements, even as this activity booms in other categories of the health and wellness space, according to investment group Nutrition Capital...

Start-up Vitagene uses DNA to design tailored supplement subscriptions

19-Feb-2016 By Adi Menayang

On Wednesday, the start-up company Vitagene announced that its supplement subscription service has raised $5.5 million from notable investors, including Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt and Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman.

From e-start-up to brick-and-mortar: Miramix plots ‘fast and hard’ growth in supplements

04-Sep-2015 By Stephen DANIELLS

A new nutrition marketplace called Miramix has just launched that allows for the customization of all products it sells, and the company is plotting ambitious growth and expansion from the digital world to a brick-and-mortar retail presence.

Fast growing gummy vitamin company hits 'home run' with crowd funding site

23-Aug-2013 By Hank Schultz

SmartyPants Vitamins, which specializes in delivering vitamin formulas via a gummy delivery system, has raised $2.59 million via a crowd funding platform to drive new growth. Getting the money was nice, but saving time was even better, said company co...

Resveratrol player faces bankruptcy if omega-3 funding switch fails: Chairman

02-Oct-2012 By Shane STARLING

Global resveratrol player Fluxome has 8-12 weeks to raise millions of euros to fund a research switch to omega-3, or face bankruptcy, its chairman told NutraIngredients this morning.

M&A activity up 10%, and big companies continue to shop for dietary supplement assets: NCN

02-Apr-2012 By Stephen Daniells

It has been a good year for M&A in nutrition, health & wellness with a 10% uptick, according to Nutrition Capital Network (NCN), and several big companies remain on the lookout for assets as they watch competitors close deals.