WHAT TO WATCH & WHAT TO IGNORE IN 2026
Welcome to 2026, and to an era of FoodTech undoubtedly different than the last. What worked five years ago – the cheap capital, frothy valuations, hype over fundamentals.
Cocoa’s Breaking Point
Plenty of ink has been spilled over all things cocoa and chocolate in the last couple of years. Cocoa spent decades at around $2,500 a ton, then spiked to over $12,000 at the end of 2024. These days it’s trading around $6,000, a relative relief that’s still more than twice the historical average. Supply-driven volatility […]
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: Lessons Learned in 5 Years of FoodTech Investing
By Yoni Glickman, Managing Partner, PeakBridge’s FoodSparksOp-ed first published in Food Dive After some $8 billion deployed, wild overvaluations and countless high-profile bankruptcies, the easy money era of food technology is over. Good riddance. What we need isn’t more capital-chasing science projects; it’s frameworks that separate real opportunities from expensive experiments. I’ve spent north of […]
Market Makers: One Quarter, Three Milestones
Driving a VC is about seeing the signal through the noise. In FoodTech, that noise is overwhelming: hype bubbles, highly complex technologies, sustainability buzzwords, and solutions chasing problems. The signal is harder to find – teams building scalable technologies that solve real-world problems, with business models that actually work. In the second quarter, amid an […]
Ending the Chemical Romance
The U.S. administration wants artificial additives cut out, and so do a growing number of global consumers. But what needs to happen to make it work? By Nurit Ben It’s a shift ramping up resources and attention across the food industry: the U.S. signaling the end of the heyday of additives that for decades have […]
Culture Clash: Corporations & Startups
Partnerships between the two are a match made in heaven, but these relationships often go awry By Nurit Ben, first published in Nutrition Insight magazine They say opposites attract, but that doesn’t mean the relationship is easy. Food corporates and startups are arguably as opposite as they come, yet fundamentally need each other: for innovation, […]
Beyond the Buzzwords: What does ‘Food as Medicine’ Really Mean?
Discover 6 PeakBridge Portfolio Companies Combining Science, Nutrition, and Technology to Transform Health Written by: Taire Brown The idea of “food as medicine” is rooted in the recognition that nutrition plays a central role in preventing, managing, and even reversing chronic diseases. With diet-related illnesses such as Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity […]
From Farm to Fork: AI’s Impact on the Future of Food
Discover how PeakBridge’s 12 pioneering portfolio companies are leveraging AI to innovate and revolutionize the food industry. Written by: Taire Brown and Eva Everloo The current state of the food industry is marked by numerous challenges and inefficiencies that hinder its ability to meet the demands of a growing global population. Disjointed […]
Cooking Up Insights: Tastewise CEO Alon Chen on AI and Food
Scaling up FoodTech: The Investor’s Take
Written by Nurit Ben together with Thomas van den Boezem, Nadim El Khazen, and Yoni Glickman FoodTech is at a crucial tipping point, and with tipping points come opportunities. But the real potential of this space has gotten muddled, and it’s a good time to cut through the noise. A fair amount of hype and […]