Sweet treat: two chocolate startups score festive funding boost
9 dec. 2024
13:11
The festive period is always a busy time for chocolate makers – and apparently for their investors as well. Two startups tackling one of the chocolate industry’s biggest sustainability challenges have raised big investments ahead of the holiday season.
Sourcing cocoa beans in a sustainable way has long been a major issue for the €130 billion chocolate industry.
German foodtech company Planet A Foods and Copenhagen-based Endless Food Co are both trying to address that by making cocoa-free chocolate. Both have pulled in major investments in the past week.