For its second fund dedicated to investing in start-ups working to promote more sustainable food, Astanor is raising 360 million euros.
Six years after its creation, the venture capital fund Astanor Ventures aims more than ever to revolutionize our food model. The impact fund, co-created in 2017 by Eric Archambeau and George Coelho, has just collected 362 million euros, for its second venture capital fund dedicated to investment in technologies agri-food and sustainable agriculture. By adding the previous fund launched three years ago, this brings the group’s ets under management to nearly 850 million euros. “We use far more of the planet’s resources than we restorerecalls Éric Archambeau. The idea is to invest in everything that can have a positive impact on nature’s resources, whether it is carbon capture, the restoration of biodiversity or the preservation of water and soil. And always with a technological approach to really change the model.”
After investing in more than thirty start-ups around the world…