The opportunity presented by compassionate investing

UK-based ice-cream brand creating healthy and indulgent vegan and vitamin–fortified low sugar ice creams in multiple flavours, expanding into Europe

Paris-based company creating innovative functional foods, beverages and ingredients containing extracts of micro-algae, with improved nutritional and gustative properties.

Renewal Mill is transforming the fibrous byproducts of plant processing to produce nutritious, high fibre and flavourful consumer goods without using synthetic processing techniques or unnatural fortification. As a zero waste process it is also undermining the economics of animal agriculture by removing a low cost source of animal feed.

Ocean Hugger Foods produces a range of substitutes for raw fish in sushi, created from common vegetables which are texturised and flavoured with condiments to resemble the flavours and consistency of tuna, salmon and eel.

San Francisco-based company developing superior texture solutions, designed and built with synthetic biology for use in food, beverage, cosmetics and materials.

Boston-based developers of Organs-on-Chips technology, its Human Emulation System predicts how a human may respond to diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods with greater precision and control than cell culture or animal-based testing approaches.

High end vegan shoes and accessories brand created by LA-based celebrity stylist with Italian production, expanding through celebrity collaborations.

LiveKindly is a fast-growing vegan media company which majors on a positive view of veganism, making it aspirational and life-affirming.

SwissDeCode supports a vegan lifestyle by providing fast onsite analysis of biological material to check for the presence of animal DNA. Its kits that identify the four major pathogens have the potential to expand significantly the frequency and amount of food testing and so undermine public confidence in animal-derived products.