Through groundbreaking innovative, agro-tech processes, and data-driven curing, Vanilla Vida sets out to provide top-quality, tailor-made natural vanilla. We unlock new possibilities by offering a stable & sustainable vanilla supply chain.
We grow vanilla in zero-carbon footprint greenhouses and operate a novel data-driven indoor curing facility, which allows us to naturally navigate the sensory profile of the vanilla beans in accordance with specific demands.
By achieving the world's most vanillin-concentrated vanilla – as recognized by leading F&F companies – we help our clients "do more with less" and maximize the cost-efficiency of their vanilla operations.
We grow vanilla in zero-carbon footprint greenhouses and operate a novel data-driven indoor curing facility, which allows us to naturally navigate the sensory profile of the vanilla beans in accordance with specific demands.
By achieving the world's most vanillin-concentrated vanilla – as recognized by leading F&F companies – we help our clients "do more with less" and maximize the cost-efficiency of their vanilla operations.
Location: Israel, Tel Aviv District, Herzliya
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $11.5M
Founded date: 2020
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | PeakBridge... | peakbridge... |
| - | Gullspång ... | refood.vc |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 16.02.2022 | Series A | $11.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
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| 05.02.2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Hot Honey, Dairy-Free February & Earthshot Prize | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Eleven Madison Park’s new vegan hot honey and Kite Hill’s post-Veganuary dairy-free campaign. New products and la... |
| 30.01.2025 | Exclusive: Vanilla Vida celebrates “world’s first’ large-scale indoor vanilla harvest | Vanilla Vida – an Israeli startup addressing the vast mismatch between supply and demand in the natural vanilla market – has announced its first scaled harvest of vanilla plants grown via an indoor farming system that halves the time from p... |
| 20.05.2024 | GUEST ARTICLE Scaling up foodtech, the investor’s take: ‘The real potential of the space has gotten muddled’ | Editor’s Note: Agrifoodtech investor PeakBridge funds startups from seed stage to series B in five categories in the US, Europe and Israel: ingredients innovation, alt protein technologies, digitalization and food systems 4.0, nutrition &am... |
| 15.05.2024 | Peakbridge closes $187m Growth Fund II, homes in on disruptive potential of AI | Agrifoodtech investor PeakBridge has closed its Growth Fund II at $187 million in partnership with Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity, bringing its total AUM (assets under management) to more than $250 million. The fund targets series A an... |
| 26.09.2022 | Vanilla Vida scouts US locations as it expands high-tech vanilla cultivation operation | While there are a variety of different options now available for companies keen to retain a ‘natural’ positioning and a clean label (see box below), vanillin synthesized from petrochemical derivatives (ie. ‘artificial’ vanilla flavor) still... |
| 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... |
| 17.02.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Equip gets $58m to help manage eating disorders; Bowery acquires Traptic | This week, US telehealth startup Equip raised funds for its eating disorder management platform, while Danish agtech company Agreena secured $22.5 million to help farmers participate in carbon markets. In Asia, Next Gen Foods, the company b... |
| 16.02.2022 | Vanilla Vida wants the world to eat more natural vanilla | Vanilla is indeed “the world’s most popular flavor.” However, despite its popularity, its production is so complex that many people aren’t often getting the real thing, but a synthetic version of the flavoring. About 70% of the vanilla we c... |
| 16.02.2022 | NASA’s Sierra Space Team Develop New Approaches to Soon Grow Gardens in Space | Thea Felicity, Tech Times 16 February 2022, 11:02 am (Photo : @lalaus / Unsplash) Using plant tests aboard the International Space Station, a NASA-sponsored Sierra Space team develops soilless nutrient delivery and recovery technologies tha... |