Investors / Israel / Fresh Start
Fresh Start
Accelerator · Kiryat Shmona, Israel · Middle East and Africa
Fresh Start is a global foodtech incubator that supports early-stage ideas and startups in food, beverage, and nutrition. It provides funding, R&D and lab space, business mentoring, and industry access through partners such as Tnuva and Tempo.
Invests inFood & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsfoodtechagrifoodbeveragenutritionincubatorcross-tech
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Or find every investor that fitsFresh Start lists 10 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Food & Agriculture (57%), Healthcare & Biotech (29%) and AI & Machine Learning (7%). 67% of its companies are based in Israel. It invests most often alongside Green Circle Foodtech Ventures, Iron Nation Fund and NevaTeam Partners.
No funding round on record names Fresh Start yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Fresh Start's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 10. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 23th | 10 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 88th | 57% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers10100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Food & Agriculture | 57% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 29% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 7% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Green Circle Foodtech Ventures
Compare Fresh Start head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
10 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlueTree enables the global production of healthier, great-tasting natural beverages with reduced sugar content. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| BountiCa develops a natural preservative for foods and beverages. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| DistanSea develops advanced water treatment technologies for live aquatic systems. | AI & Machine LearningFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Eggmented harnesses the metabolic power of microbes to transform agricultural by-products, waste streams, and underutilised crops into nutritious, functional foods | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and provides protein purification technology for industrial applications | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| NanoScout provides pan-microbial food safety testing using cloud AI and scanning electron microscopy | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| ProFuse Technology develops a pipeline of novel therapeutics and dietary supplements for skeletal muscle and metabolic health | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Sea2Cell develops a unique technology to produce cultivated fish meat by growing fish cells in huge tanks. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company sells food products online. | E-commerce & MarketplacesFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Yumetra develops a innovative sucking candy based on a unique cinnamon extract for the treatment of herpes in the lips | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- fresh-start.co.il
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 10
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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