We craft products we feel good about. Good for planet, people and animals. Our plant-based whole-cuts deliver unprecedented texture, taste and juiciness. We bring true culinary plant-based alternatives to traditional products such as meat and fish, without compromising on taste and experience.
Location: Netherlands, Utrecht, Amersfoort
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $17.5M
Founded date: 2019
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| 09.10.2022 | PeakBridge... | peakbridge... |
| - | StartHub W... | starthubwa... |
| 10.08.2025 | ROM Utrech... | romutrecht... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 18.06.2025 | - | $11.5M | - |
| 21.09.2022 | Series A | $6M | - |
Mentions in press and media 18
| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.12.2025 | The biggest European foodtech deals in H1 2025 | The first half of 2025 showed continued momentum across Europe’s foodtech landscape, driven by growing demand for sustainable, scalable and resource-efficient food solutions. Investment activity reflected a maturing ecosystem in which innov... |
| 24.06.2025 | The Future of Food: Innovation and Sustainability in Plant-Based and Dairy Industries | The food industry is evolving. It’s a race against time, a quest for sustainability, and a battle for consumer hearts. Two players are making waves: Rival Foods in the plant-based sector and Yili Group in dairy. Both are harnessing innovati... |
| 18.06.2025 | Rival Foods Raises €10M to Scale Production of Clean-Label Plant-Based Whole Cuts | Dutch food-tech scale-up Rival Foods has raised €10 million in a Series B funding round led by pension investor APG on behalf of ABP. PYMWYMIC and ROM Utrecht Region also participated, while existing shareholder PeakBridge provided follow-o... |
| 21.03.2024 | Rival Foods: “We Believe the Whole Cut Segment Will See a Similar Evolution as Plant-Based Meat” | Rival Foods develops and uses new technologies to create next-generation plant-based whole-cuts with “unprecedented” size, texture, and juiciness. We speak with the Netherlands based company which has very recently signed a lease for its fi... |
| 01.02.2023 | Who were the most active food and agriculture technology venture capital firms in 2022? | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder, a food and agriculture technology venture capital firm. Click here for more research from AgFunder and ... |
| 21.09.2022 | Rival Foods Raises a €6 Million Series A to Improve on Plant-Based Meat Development | 3 Mins Read Rival Foods, the Wageningen University & Research spinoff working since 2019 to replicate animal meat with plants, has announced the closing of a €6 million Series A funding round. PeakBridge and Roquette Ventures led the fu... |
| 16.09.2022 | Dutch-based Rival Foods raises €6M to make next-gen plant-based protein products | Netherlands-based Rival Foods, a company that specialises in producing plant-based culinary whole-cuts, announced on Wednesday, September 14, that it has raised €6M in a Series A round of funding. Rival Foods says it will use the funds to d... |
| 15.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: PepsiCo. & ADM partner on regen ag, Biden bets on cultivated meat | This week, PepsiCo. and ADM made a major announcement that could boost regenerative agriculture practices in the US, while President Biden signed an executive order impacting cultivated meat. France’s Capagro launched a $200 million agrifoo... |
| 14.09.2022 | BREAKING: PeakBridge Growth Fund II holds first close on €100m, makes first 2 investments | Agrifoodtech investment manager PeakBridge VC has completed the first close in its PeakBridge Growth II fund in partnership with Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity. The fund will start to deploy its first €100 million ($100 million), begin... |
| 14.09.2022 | Where’s the smart money going in food tech? From precision nutrition to enabling tech for alt meat, dairy. In conversation with PeakBridge | Targeting series A and B companies in ingredients innovation, alt protein technologies, digitalization, nutrition & health, and alternative farming systems across Europe, Israel, and the US, four months after launch, PeakBridge Growth I... |
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