About The Kitchen Hub
The Kitchen Hub is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. It is primarily based out of Rehovot, Israel. As of Apr 2024, The Kitchen Hub has invested in 23 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in Israel based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Food and Agriculture Tech to High Tech and Life Sciences. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Finally Foods A lot of funds co-invest with The Kitchen Hub, with names like Milk & Honey Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. The Kitchen Hub has team of 9 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
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The Kitchen Hub's List of Top Investments
The Kitchen Hub has a portfolio of 23 companies. Their most notable investments are in Torr and Flying Spark.Their portfolio spans across Israel and United Kingdom. They have invested in Food and Agriculture Tech, High Tech, Life Sciences and 9 other sectors, across stages such as Seed stage. Here is the list of top investments by The Kitchen Hub:1. Aleph Farms
Develops lab-cultured meat products using beef cells. Its product offerings include ground meat, beef burger patties, steaks, etc. The company uses proprietary 3D bioprinting technologies by using fat cells, support cells, muscle cells, and blood vessel cells to develop tissues and further into meat products. Claims that the process takes 3 weeks to develop the meat in bioreactors.
Key facts about Aleph Farms
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Ashdod (Israel)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $118M
- Employee Count: 66 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: La Maison Partners, L Catterton and 55 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jun 07, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Imagindairy
Key facts about Imagindairy
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Israel
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $28M
- Employee Count: 15 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Target Global, MoreVC and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Apr 26, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Day 8
Key facts about Day 8
- Founded Year: 2006
- Location: London (United Kingdom)
- Annual Revenue: €1.33M as on Sep 30, 2024
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $750K
- Employee Count: 45 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: The Kitchen Hub
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Feb 20, 2024, $*****
4. Better Juice
Provider of juice additive to produce sugar-less fruit juices. The technology uses ingredients to convert monosaccharides and disaccharides, fructose, glucose, and sucrose into prebiotic and other non-digestible fibers and sugars.
Key facts about Better Juice
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Ashdod (Israel)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $8M
- Employee Count: 15 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: ECP Growth, iAngels and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jan 18, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. forseafoods
Producer of lab-grown seafood products. It has developed a technology for the production of high-quality seafood while ensuring ocean health & wealth. It offers cell-grown meat products produced in laboratories.
Key facts about forseafoods
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: Ashdod (Israel)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $5.2M
- Employee Count: 6 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Target Global, PeakBridge and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Oct 26, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
The Kitchen Hub's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
The Kitchen Hub has invested in 23 companies over the last 10 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Finally Foods and most recent follow-on round was in Torr.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
The Kitchen Hub's Investments by Stage
The Kitchen Hub has made 10 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $3.81M.The Kitchen Hub's Investments by Sector
The Kitchen Hub has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Food and Agriculture Tech, Sustainability Tech, High Tech, Food and Agriculture and Enterprise Applications. Notably, it has invested in 17 Tech companies, 12 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 10 Consumer (B2C) companies and at least 4 companies focusing on Software.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Food and Agriculture Tech | 7 |
Sustainability Tech | 7 |
High Tech | 5 |
Food and Agriculture | 2 |
Enterprise Applications | 1 |
Others | 5 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
The Kitchen Hub's Investments by Geography
The Kitchen Hub has made most investments in Israel (9), followed by United Kingdom where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Israel | 9 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
The Kitchen Hub's recent investments
The Kitchen Hub has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by The Kitchen Hub:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Apr 02, 2024 | Israel | Seed | 6609 | - | |
Feb 20, 2024 | United Kingdom | Seed | 6637 | - | |
Feb 08, 2023 | Israel | Seed | 3927 | ||
Nov 22, 2022 | Israel | Series A | 4832 | [+2] | |
Oct 26, 2022 | Israel | Seed | 5578 | [+4] |
Team profile of The Kitchen Hub
The Kitchen Hub has a team of 9 members located in Israel. The Kitchen Hub's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of The Kitchen Hub
Over the past 10 years, 25 investors have co-invested in The Kitchen Hub's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before The Kitchen Hub: Europa, MassChallenge and 2 others have invested in rounds before The Kitchen Hub. There is 1 company where Europa has invested before The Kitchen Hub and 1 company where MassChallenge has invested before The Kitchen Hub.
- Top Co-investors of The Kitchen Hub: 16 investors entered a company along with The Kitchen Hub. These include investors like Milk & Honey Ventures (2 companies).
- Invested after The Kitchen Hub: A total of 5 investors have invested in The Kitchen Hub's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Ingredion (1 company), Harel Group (1 company) and Mondelez International (1 company).
Recent News related to The Kitchen Hub
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Molecular farming startup Finally Foods emerges from stealthAgFunderNews•Apr 02, 2024•Innovation Israel, Strauss Group, The Kitchen Hub, Finally Foods
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Wanda Fish Raises USD $7M in Seed FundingFinSMEs•Oct 09, 2023•MoreVC, CPT Capital, PICO Partners, Peregrine Ventures and 4 others
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Meala FoodTech Secures US$1.9M in Pre-Seed FundingAI Express•Feb 08, 2023•Meala Foodtech, The Kitchen Hub, Strauss Group, DSM and 6 others
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Torr Raises $12 Million for FoodtechCAESARS INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT (UK) LIMITED•Nov 22, 2022•Torr, Harel Group, Mondelez International, Strauss Group and 1 other
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Israeli cell-based newcomer Forsea foods nets US$5.2M to scale cultivated eelFoodIngredientsFirst•Oct 26, 2022•forseafoods, The Kitchen Hub, PeakBridge, ZORA and 4 others
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Bovine colostrum food co Maolac raises $ 3.2mTechiLive.in•Jul 05, 2022•MAOLAC, OurCrowd, The Kitchen Hub, FoodTech Lab at the University of St Gallen (HSG) and 4 others
