The future of food
We invest in game changers that are disrupting
the largest market in the world, food.
VideosThe future of food
We invest in game changers that are disrupting
the largest market in the world, food.
Our Vision
Creating the largest Asset Manager for tasty, healthy, and sustainable food.
For everyone.
We invest at the crossroads of food security, health, sustainability, animal rights, and create unique returns by using a holistic investment approach from seed over venture up to uniting leading players into a bigger group.
Addressing hunger, lifestyle diseases, climate change, and the fair treatment of animals simultaneously.
This is the biggest investment opportunity ever, a bigger and faster transformation as we have seen in the energy and ICT sector.
Food Security
Food Security
It took us thousands of years until 1954 to get up to 2.5 billion humans on earth. In only 100 years, we are going to quadruple this number. The planet still can provide enough food for all of us. But due to inefficiency in our food production, 800 mio. people are starving, and the overall nutrition value is poor. Our aim is to change this by using disruptive technologies, invented by our leading startups.
Health
Health
Todays biggest health problems like heart disease and diabetes are highly co-related with our eating habits. Studies performed by the World Health Organisation and other leading institutes, are showing this context. 2 billion people suffer from mal nutrition and the same amount is overweight or obese. With a better, plant-based centric diet, these issues can be addressed and prevented.
Sustainability
Sustainability
Animal-based protein production is already using 77% of global agriculture land resources and is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions. It is by far not sustainable to feed plant proteins to animals, in order to eat their meat. Instead we should eat the plants directly. We believe that protein production can be done in a much better way, using newly invented technologies to produce tasty and healthy products at a mass retail price point.
Animal rights
Animal rights
It's a fact, that using animals as a source for food is no longer sustainable in order to feed 10 billion people by 2050. With a fast growing population and changing food habits, this way of food production is neither scalable nor healthy. It is disastrous for the animals and the ecosystem of our planet we all live on. By the power and the potential given to us humans, it is our responsibility to create an environment that benefits all forms of life.
Problem
An exponentially growing population and changing food habits in Asia drive meat consumption.
In 1954, the global population was 2.5 billion. 70 years later, that number will have more than tripled resulting in a population of 10 billion by 2050.
The Asian population is increasingly adapting the meat-centric western diet. Today, the CO2 emission of animal agriculture has surpassed the negative impact of all global transportation vehicles combined. More Insights
Solution
We are all in this together.
A new generation of tech-driven, healthy and innovative plant-based products that meet global consumer demand at mass retail price points.
Innovative entrepreneurs who created these plant-based food products are increasingly partnering with existing production facilities and distribution chains.
Additional support is found through direct investments from existing large players who want to capitalize on the inevitable market shift.
Market
Disrupting the largest market in the world… food.
The global food market in 2017 had a staggering size of over 8 trillion. Thereof the plant-based meat substitute market will reach 5 billion by 2020.
Disruption of existing players and the growth of new product segments will take place much faster than expected.
Consumers will rapidly adapt as soon as a certain mass retail price point has been achived. More market news
Seed
Game Changers disrupting the food industry.
This is how we have started. We will always be a partner for entrepreneurs who have a vision and want to move into a tangible business, need money and support through our network for a fast kickstart.
Therefore we are investing in mission-aligned, tech-driven, healthy and innovative plant- and cell-based companies.
Venture
Make a change by backing world class entrepreneurs.
Blue Horizon Ventures is a food technology-focused venture capital fund. The fund aims to support the movement towards a more sustainable food system through innovation, technology and entrepreneurship.
Its focus is on companies that have proven business model and need additional capital for expansion.
Unite
Transforming the global food system.
Committed to transforming the global food system and to own and operate the entire value chain of production.
Through uniting leading plant-based food companies, from supplier over producer and brands to distributor, we establish strategic partnerships, and invest in infrastructure to transform traditional meat production facilities into plant-based power-houses.