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Blue Horizon is accelerating the transition to a sustainable food system that delivers outstanding returns for the planet and people.
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Our portfolio companies. We back and support promising ideas and growing companies that are aligned with our values and mission. Our portfolio extends from seed investments in creative, early-stage ideas, right through to emerging global businesses.
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HOMEPAGE (https://bluehorizon.com) Blue Horizon – Blue Horizon
[H1] The next Generation Our mission is to accelerate the transition to a Sustainable Food System that delivers outstanding returns for humans and the planet. [H1] impactFounder [H1] The next Generation [H1] impactFounder Our mission is to accelerate the transition to a Sustainable Food System that delivers outstanding returns for humans and the planet. [H2] Doubling up We generate impact with a philosophy we call Double Positive — positive, above-market returns for people and positive, measurable impact for the planet, humans and animals. [IMG: Blue Horizon] [H1] Seeking game changers Staying ahead of the curve is what sets us apart. With unrivalled connections, expertise and access, we are uniquely placed to champion technology and science entrepreneurs to create impact. See our portfolio [H1] Pushing the tipping point We commit holistically in the Sustainable Food System, with an approach that extends beyond alternative proteins, starting with better crop practices right through to sustainable packaging and smarter distribution. Mass adoption will happen within the decade as these sustainable options continue to outperform their conventional counterparts. [H1] A full lifecycleinvestment approach We help founders build and grow their businesses by supporting across the lifecycle; taking positions in creative, early-stage ideas through to mature companies to help them scale up their products and reach. Our approach creates impact, learn more in these success stories. 1 [H5] Seed Backing mission-aligned founders working at the intersection of biology, technology and agriculture. Approach 2 [H5] Roll-ups Supporting the creation of world-leading platforms through growth and consolidation. Approach 1 [H5] Seed Backing mission-aligned founders working at the intersection of biology, technology and agriculture. Approach 1 [H5] Roll-ups Supporting the creation of world-leading platforms through growth and consolidation. Approach [H3] Doublepositive In accelerating the transition to a Sustainable Food System, impact and financial returns are complementary and mutually reinforcing. [H1] 100+ [H6] Companies Funded [H1] 53% [H6] FEMALE FOUNDERS [H1] 3 [H6] UNICORNS FUNDED, SO FAR [H1] >10X [H6] MARKET PENETRATION BY ALTERNATIVE PROTEINS BY 2035 [IMG: insights] [H6] What’s new on the State of Global Fermentation? View more [H2] In the news [H6] AgFunder Assumes Management of Blue Horizon’s $100m Growth Fund [H6] Plant Power: The Latest Health Research Rooting For Plant-Based [H6] Atomo open beanless coffee roastery More News
SUB-PAGE (https://bluehorizon.com/insights/) Insights – Blue Horizon
[H1] Insights To maximize the impact, we draw on our own unique insights, triangulating science, data and entrepreneurial innovation to inform our decisions. [H3] TOP INSIGHTS June 27, 2024 [H6] AgFunder Assumes Management of Blue Horizon’s $100m Growth Fund Press Release Silicon Valley, CA – June 27, 2024 – Leading agrifoodtech venture capital and intelligence platform, AgFunder, has taken over investment management of Blue Horizon’s growth fund. Blue Horizon, based in Zürich, is strategically refocusing on its core operational businesses to accelerate the global [...] READ MORE Read More June 5, 2024 [H6] Plant Power: The Latest Health Research Rooting For Plant-Based Plant-based diets have come a long way in the minds of consumers, who are increasingly aware of this emerging food category and its associated benefits on planetary and human health. What was once considered a niche lifestyle choice, plant-based diets have gained huge traction and [...] READ MORE Read More April 24, 2024 [H6] Atomo open beanless coffee roastery The maker of the ‘world’s first beanless espresso’ has opened a 33,547 sq ft roastery in Seattle, capable of producing four million pounds of ground ‘coffee’ a year from upcycled date pits. Why beanless? Well, despite coffee still being an affordable luxury now, the industry [...] READ MORE Read More April 17, 2024 [H6] Mosa Meat raises €40M to scale up production The Dutch cultivated meat pioneer, Mosa Meat, has secured €40 ($42.4) million in a new, oversubscribed funding round, taking the company’s total raised to more than $135 million. This marks the largest sum brought in by a cultivated meat company since November 2022. The funds [...] READ MORE Read More March 13, 2024 [H6] Bezos Earth Fund gives sustainable proteins $60m boost The Bezos Earth Fund announced an initial $60 million commitment to establish ‘Bezos Centers for Sustainable Protein’ as part of the Bezos Earth Fund’s $1 billion commitment to transform food and agriculture systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The university research centers for sustainable proteins [...] READ MORE Read More March 12, 2024 [H6] Planted launches first-of-its-kind fermented steak Planted launched its game-changing fermented beef fillet steak made from plants into restaurants across Europe! As the only plant-based steak on the market to use only natural ingredients and zero additives, it offers the health-conscious consumer a clean-label dining experience, with even the most discerning [...] READ MORE Read More March 7, 2024 [H6] Cultivated Biosciences close $5 million Seed round Our portfolio company, Cultivated Biosciences has successfully closed a $5 million seed funding round – marking a significant milestone for the Swiss biotechnology company amid a difficult fundraising environment. Cultivated Biosciences was founded in Zürich, Switzerland in 2021 with a mission to make animal free [...] READ MORE Read More February 27, 2024 [H6] $200 billion market for bioproducts by 2040 A new report from New York-based biotech company, Synonym, and Boston Consulting Group outlines a roadmap for the biomanufacturing industry to explode to a $200 billion market in specialty sectors over the next ten years. The report, titled “Breaking the Cost Barrier on Biomanufacturing” encourages [...] READ MORE Read More February 21, 2024 [H6] Who’s hungry for what: Closing the talent gap in Sustainable Food Who’s hungry for what: Closing the talent gap in Sustainable Food Our broken food system poses the single largest threat to human and planetary health – but thankfully, in recent years public and private sector figures have come to realize the enormous potential of food [...] READ MORE Read More February 14, 2024 [H6] The beginning of the future of chocolate Our West Sacramento-based portfolio company, California Cultured has teamed up with Japan’s largest chocolate company to bring cell-cultured chocolate to the market. This marks the first time that cell-cultured chocolate will enter any market worldwide. California Cultured harvests cells from a cocoa plant and cultivates [...] READ MORE Read More February 2, 2024 [H6] Polybion and GANNI take fruit waste to high fashion Polybion announced its showcase at the Copenhagen Fashion Week, in a revolutionary collaboration with Danish fashion-brand GANNI. In the ‘Future, Talent, Fabrics’ exhibition hosted by GANNI, Polybion celebrated the intersection of creativity, biology, and sustainability, using its vegan leather alternative, or ‘Premium Cultivated Cellulose, Celium™ [...] READ MORE Read More December 15, 2023 [H6] COP28: UN endorse alternative proteins The UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) released a landmark report during the COP28 summit in Dubai, openly endorsing alternative proteins, including plant-based, cultivated, and fermented options, as a means to significantly reduce emissions, deforestation, water and soil pollution, biodiversity loss, and zoonotic disease risks associated with [...] READ MORE Read More December 15, 2023 [H6] COP28: FAO release global agri-food roadmap The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released the first instalment of its roadmap at COP28, designed to map out the pathway needed to bring global food systems in line with climate goals (limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees) and to end hunger, as [...] READ MORE Read More December 15, 2023 [H6] COP28: 159 leaders declare to transform food system Food system conversations at this year’s COP28 UN climate summit kicked off with an announcement on the ‘COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems and Climate Action’. A declaration whereby endorsers agree to help strengthen food systems by building resilience to climate change, [...] READ MORE Read More December 5, 2023 [H6] Blue Horizon at COP28 COP28 is in full swing, and Food Systems finally have a seat at the table. Our food system – the way we grow, process, transport, cook, dispose and waste food, accounts for roughly a third of all greenhouse gas emissions. What’s more, of those total [...] READ MORE Read More November 16, 2023 [H6] 36 companies form global alt seafood association 40% of the global population eat seafood as a primary protein source and it’s a market that’s set to more than double by 2030. Despite the growing awareness of microplastics taking over the seas, fish production being linked to child and slave labor, and rampant [...] READ MORE Read More November 14, 2023 [H6] What’s new on the State of Global Fermentation? By Blue Horizon and Synonym Biomanufacturing – the production of food ingredients and other materials via microorganisms, continues to establish itself as a promising building block for a more sustainable, healthier, and resilient economy – the bioeconomy. We have come a long way already in [...] READ MORE Read More October 25, 2023 [H6] Denmark and South Korea first to announce national action plans for plant-based foods The Danish government has unveiled its first national action plan aimed at shifting the country toward a more plant-based food system. The plan, which was released by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries of Denmark, is part of a political agricultural agreement from 2021 [...] READ MORE Read More October 20, 2023 [H6] Kern Tec raise €12M in Series A and launch vegan cheese from rescued fruit pits Congratulations to our portfolio company, Kern Tec, who raised €12 million ($12.8 million) in a Series A funding round to scale technology that turns food waste into food ingredients. The funds will help Kern Tec in scaling the production and commercialization of its sustainable ingredients [...] READ MORE Read More October 11, 2023 [H6] Plant-based at price parity in two German retailers Lidl Germany announced that it will price almost all of its own-brand vegan products under the Vemondo range at equal levels to their animal-based counterparts and will position these vegan products alongside their animal-based counterparts in all of its 3,250+ stores. The move is part [...] READ MORE Read More September 10, 2023 [H6] Cultivated meat can be considered halal GOOD Meat, the cultivated meat division of our portfolio company Eat Just, Inc., announced that a group of leading Islamic scholars advised that real meat made from cells, without raising and slaughtering animals can be considered halal if production meets certain criteria. This approval is [...] READ MORE Read More [H3] TOP INSIGHTS June 27, 2024 [H6] AgFunder Assumes Management of Blue Horizon’s $100m Growth Fund Press Release Silicon Valley, CA – June 27, 2024 – Leading agrifoodtech venture capital and intelligence platform, AgFunder, has taken over investment management of Blue [...] READ MORE June 5, 2024 [H6] Plant Power: The Latest Health Research Rooting For Plant-Based Plant-based diets have come a long way in the minds of consumers, who are increasingly aware of this emerging food category and its associated benefits [...] READ MORE April 24, 2024 [H6] Atomo open beanless coffee roastery The maker of the ‘world’s first beanless espresso’ has opened a 33,547 sq ft roastery in Seattle, capable of producing four million pounds of ground [...] READ MORE April 17, 2024 [H6] Mosa Meat raises €40M to scale up production The Dutch cultivated meat pioneer, Mosa Meat, has secured €40 ($42.4) million in a new, oversubscribed funding round, taking the company’s total raised to more [...] READ MORE March 13, 2024 [H6] Bezos Earth Fund gives sustainable proteins $60m boost The Bezos Earth Fund announced an initial $60 million commitment to establish ‘Bezos Centers for Sustainable Protein’ as part of the Bezos Earth Fund’s $1 [...] READ MORE March 12, 2024 [H6] Planted launches first-of-its-kind fermented steak Planted launched its game-changing fermented beef fillet steak made from plants into restaurants across Europe! As the only plant-based steak on the market to use [...] READ MORE March 7, 2024 [H6] Cultivated Biosciences close $5 million Seed round Our portfolio company, Cultivated Biosciences has successfully closed a $5 million seed funding round – marking a significant milestone for the Swiss biotechnology company amid [...] READ MORE February 27, 2024 [H6] $200 billion market for bioproducts by 2040 A new report from New York-based biotech company, Synonym, and Boston Consulting Group outlines a roadmap for the biomanufacturing industry to explode to a $200 [...] READ MORE February 21, 2024 [H6] Who’s hungry for what: Closing the talent gap in Sustainable Food Who’s hungry for what: Closing the talent gap in Sustainable Food Our broken food system poses the single largest threat to human and planetary health [...] READ MORE February 14, 2024 [H6] The beginning of the future of chocolate Our West Sacramento-based portfolio company, California Cultured has teamed up with Japan’s largest chocolate company to bring cell-cultured chocolate to the market. This marks the [...] READ MORE February 2, 2024 [H6] Polybion and GANNI take fruit waste to high fashion Polybion announced its showcase at the Copenhagen Fashion Week, in a revolutionary collaboration with Danish fashion-brand GANNI. In the ‘Future, Talent, Fabrics’ exhibition hosted by [...] READ MORE December 15, 2023 [H6] COP28: UN endorse alternative proteins The UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) released a landmark report during the COP28 summit in Dubai, openly endorsing alternative proteins, including plant-based, cultivated, and fermented options, [...] READ MORE December 15, 2023 [H6] COP28: FAO release global agri-food roadmap The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released the first instalment of its roadmap at COP28, designed to map out the pathway needed to bring [...] READ MORE December 15, 2023 [H6] COP28: 159 leaders declare to transform food system Food system conversations at this year’s COP28 UN climate summit kicked off with an announcement on the ‘COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food [...] READ MORE December 5, 2023 [H6] Blue Horizon at COP28 COP28 is in full swing, and Food Systems finally have a seat at the table. Our food system – the way we grow, process, transport, [...] READ MORE November 16, 2023 [H6] 36 companies form global alt seafood association 40% of the global population eat seafood as a primary protein source and it’s a market that’s set to more than double by 2030. Despite [...] READ MORE November 14, 2023 [H6] What’s new on the State of Global Fermentation? By Blue Horizon and Synonym Biomanufacturing – the production of food ingredients and other materials via microorganisms, continues to establish itself as a promising building [...] READ MORE October 25, 2023
SUB-PAGE (https://bluehorizon.com/investment/) Investment – Blue Horizon
[H1] From Seed to Success We fund with precision, operating at the epicentre of a global sustainable food network that we built. With unrivalled connections, expertise and access that affords early visibility to superior deal flow, we create impact and value for technology and science entrepreneurs. We take a full lifecycle approach to companies, with the resources and conviction to support founders’ progression from idea to exit. 01 [H6] SEED Backing mission-aligned founders working at the intersection of biology, technology and agriculture. 02 [H6] roll-ups Supporting the creation of world-leading platforms through growth and consolidation. [H3] SEED Backing mission-aligned founders working at the intersection of biology, technology and agriculture. [H3] roll-ups Supporting the creation of world-leading platforms through growth and consolidation. see success stories see success stories [H6] HOW WE CREATE IMPACT A combination of proprietary modeling, unparalleled access and domain expertise allows us to deliver positive impact on the planet: 01 Our Quantified Market Model permits us to see opportunities others cannot and identify where the bottlenecks are. 02 Our global network and ecosystem allow unique access to deals and partnerships that accelerate value creation. 03 Enabled by a market-leading combination of entrepreneurial and scientific DNA with a global track record. [H3] Success stories [H6] Seed To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video [H6] New Roots New Roots is reinventing traditions of the future, offering a healthy alternative to cheese that doesn’t taste like an alternative. This is done by using homemade organic cashew milk and the same artisanal techniques of fermentation and ripening as traditional cheese. New Roots is one of the only companies in Switzerland to make vegan cheese using ancestral techniques. New Roots is reinventing traditions of the future, offering a healthy alternative to cheese that doesn’t taste like an alternative. This is done by... Learn more To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video [H6] Impossible Foods Impossible Foods set out to do the impossible: develop and produce delicious meat that is good for people and the planet. After initially introducing the Impossible Burger, the scientists worked hard to invent more ways to make the foods we love most – animal-free and therefore cruelty-free. Today, Impossible offers burgers, sausages, nuggets, meatballs and pork. Impossible Foods set out to do the impossible: develop and produce delicious meat that is good for people and the planet. After initially introduci... Learn more To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video [H6] Wild Earth Wild Earth offers everything your dog needs – nothing they don’t. Their product development is based on research that looks at the biology of companion animals from a holistic perspective and with inspiration of Mother Nature, combines it with modern technology to bring it to scale. Wild Earth offers everything your dog needs – nothing they don’t. Their product development is based on research that looks at the biology of compa... Learn more [H6] Venture To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video [H6] Mosa Meat Mosa Meat famously created the world’s first lab-grown beef burger back in 2013, and has since raised millions in funding in addition to slashing the cost of its growth medium. The team grows beef by harnessing the same natural processes responsible for muscle growth in a cow. This starts by taking a sesame-seed-sized sample of cells, and nurturing them to naturally grow into beef. Mosa Meat can make 80,000 burgers just from that one sample – and no animal is harmed. Mosa Meat famously created the world’s first lab-grown beef burger back in 2013, and has since raised millions in funding in addition to slashing t... Learn More [H6] BIOMILQ Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure healthy development in children. However, the reality is that breastfeeding, let alone exclusive breastfeeding, isn’t always possible. In fact, over 4 out of 5 moms in the US transition to dairy-based infant formula before the recommended six-month breastfeeding period ends. BIOMILQ is developing a new choice for infant nutrition that lessens the trade-off between babies’ nutrition, mothers’ wellbeing, and the future of our environment. Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure healthy development in children. However, the reality is that breastfeeding, let alone ex... Learn more [H6] Growth To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video [H6] Motif Motif FoodWorks is a food technology company working to make plant-based foods better tasting, more nutritious and so desirable that people actually crave them. The company’s mission is to unleash the promise of plant-based foods by taking a new, holistic approach to ingredient development that combines science and technology — merged with sensory fundamentals — to reveal totally new answers. By changing our understanding of plant-based food, Motif will enable crave-worthy products that exceed taste and experience expectations, unlocking benefits for people and our planet. Motif FoodWorks is a food technology company working to make plant-based foods better tasting, more nutritious and so desirable that people actuall... Learn More [H6] Roll-Ups [H6] LikeMeat LikeMeat is one of the leading plant-based food producers in Europe with a broad portfolio of products and distributed by leading retailers in various countries. They are fully mission-aligned and have an incredible know-how in the production and marketing especially when it comes to plant-based meat. LikeMeat is one of the leading plant-based food producers in Europe with a broad portfolio of products and distributed by leading retailers in vari... Learn More [H6] Fry Family Food Behind Fry’s products stands a passion for plant-based food, driven by an entrepreneurial family in South Africa. Their product portfolio ranges from burgers, snacks to seafood and saves over 600’000 animals every year already today. Behind Fry’s products stands a passion for plant-based food, driven by an entrepreneurial family in South Africa. Their product portfolio ranges fr... Learn more Ready to plant a seed? Are you are a mission-aligned founder with a promising idea that needs funding? We should talk. Contact US
SUB-PAGE (https://bluehorizon.com/portfolio/) Ecosystem – Blue Horizon
[H1] Our Ecosystem We back and support promising ideas and growing companies that are aligned with our values and mission. Our network extends from creative, early-stage ideas, right through to emerging global businesses. See Our Innovation Approach [H3] our Experience Experience with mission-aligned founders working at the intersection of biology, technology and agriculture. [H6] abillion Social media for social good. Discover the best vegan food, sustainable beauty and ethical fashion products, anywhere. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] AgBiome Improving the world through microbial solutions. Isolating microbes from environmental samples from across the globe, then fully sequencing each microbe’s genome. Invested at: Venture and Growth Visit their website [H6] Algama Engineering sustainable food solutions for all. As a food-tech company, Algama harvests the potential of algae to create food that's good for both people and the planet. Invested at: Venture Visit their website [H6] alpha A different kind of delicious. Alpha's craveable meatless meat products are exactly what a meat eater would eat if a meat eater didn't eat meat. Invested at: Seed and Venture Visit their website [H6] Apparo Developing the process and market knowledge to upcycle existing crop biomass creating a more sustainable food supply. By extracting unique functional, nutritious proteins, flour and antioxidants from sunflower meal, we provide food developers with new innovative ingredients for plant-based foods. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Arkeon Arkeon’s proprietary technology is fully independent from agricultural land and directly converts CO2 into a range of clean label ingredients that are GMO-free and 100% vegan. The company holds the key to unlock a food system without resource constraints, without geographical restrictions and free from animal suffering. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Atomo Atomo is refreshing coffee lovers with great tasting beanless coffee that does great things for the planet. It’s coffee that loves us back, brewing a brighter future for all of us. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Basecamp Research London-based Basecamp Research discovers and optimises proteins for all sectors of the bioeconomy using its unique ability to understand real-world relationships between proteins. With a team spanning Antarctic ice divers to machine learning graph scientists, Basecamp Research is building the largest, most sophisticated, entirely ethically sampled graph database of natural biodiversity – a knowledge graph of life on earth. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Beyond Meat Feed a better future. Beyond's mission is to create delicious, nutritious, sustainable protein so that you can Eat What You Love™, no sacrifice required. Exited: Seed Visit their website [H6] BIOMILQ Human milk for babies. Unlocking human potential with breakthrough mammary biotechnology. Invested at: Venture Visit their website [H6] Bosque Foods Bosque Foods is on a mission to create the next generation of meat alternatives, starting with whole-cut products grown naturally from Mycelium. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Bramble Feed your pets the way you feed yourself: healthy, clean and sustainable. Invested at: Venture Visit their website [H6] California Cultured We are a team of chocoholics who are dedicated to protecting the planet. Chocolate is an irresistible indulgence to be enjoyed by all. But the harsh reality is, the chocolate we know and love causes harm. That’s why…we are making a better chocolate. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Change Foods Change Foods is creating animal-free dairy foods by leveraging precision fermentation technology, starting with cheese. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Chromologics Natural colors for a better world. Chromologics is a biotech spin-out who has developed a fungal biotech platform for the production of novel, natural colorants. Invested at: Venture Visit their website [H6] Core Biogenesis Core Biogenesis uses plants as biofactories to scale the production of high-value bioproducts. Our Ultra-scalable bioproduction as a service (UBaaS) platform accelerates mass production and increases yields, while driving down costs. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] CUBIQ FOODS CUBIQ FOODS leads the way in sustainable, tasty and clean nutritional profiles for industrial food producers worldwide. Invested at: Venture Visit their website [H6] Cultivated Biosciences Plant-based dairy alternatives fail to provide the same sensory journey as animal dairy products. Yeast fermentation can solve this problem. Cultivated Biosciences offers an ingredient that gives consumers the creamy experience they crave. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Eat Just It starts with really good eggs, from plants. And leads to a healthier world. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Eat Virgin Just eat better. Eat Virgin crafts organic and plant-based ambient and frozen meals, while fuelling a culture of creators, athletes, and hustlers. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] EV Biotech EV Biotech is a Netherlands-based start-up offering a solution to the issue of pollution-heavy manufacturing methods by harnessing the power of fermentation combined with state-of-the-art computational methods. EV Biotech is currently developing four Microbial Chassis for the production of Vanillin, Spider Silk, Terpenes and PHAs. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Finless Foods Finless Foods is plant-based and cell-cultured seafood that changes how the world eats… and supports a thriving ocean. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Gathered Foods United by a love of good food, plant-based eating and animal welfare, Gathered Foods has a calling to raise consciousness, reduce harm and preserve our precious and delicate environment, all while delivering a great culinary experience. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Geltor Geltor is the conscious biodesign company creating the world’s most advanced designer proteins by exploring nature’s tree of life and combine biology, protein optimisation, and fermentation to create sustainable, high-performance consumer proteins with optimal functionality and benefits. Invested at: Seed and Venture Visit their website [H6] Green Monday To be a global change maker for a sustainable future. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Hail Merry Clean, fresh, healthy ingredients can provide an indulgent experience - "have your cake and eat it too". Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Happy Ocean Foods Happy Ocean Foods is founded with the mission to replace animal seafood in the human diet and help nurture seafood populations in the oceans. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Heartbest Foods En Heartbest desarrollamos alimentos plant-based de una from a sustentable, responsable y llena de amor. Alimentos deliciosos y funcionales para que disfrutes y contribuyas a salvar el mundo. Invested at: Venture Visit their website [H6] Human Food Human Food is whole food health benefits with snack bar convenience. One of their delicious, organic bars provides over half your recommended daily intake of 13 essential micronutrients, all in their natural, most health-giving form. Invested at: Venture Visit their website [H6] Hyfé Foods Hyfé makes low-carb, protein-rich fungi flour. They do this by leveraging fermentation to upcycle water used in food manufacturing Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Impossible Impossible Foods develops plant-based substitutes for meat products with the aim to give people the taste and nutritional benefits of meat without the negative health and environmental impacts associated with livestock products. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Jay & Joy Jay & Joy manufacture alternatives to cheese made from almond milk and cashew nuts. Invested at: Venture Visit their website [H6] Kern Tec Kern Tec is a B2B company based in Austria that has developed a unique process to upcycle fruit pits into high-value raw materials. The company uses discarded pits from apricots, cherries, and plums in order to develop new ingredients for the food and beverage industry. Kern Tec’s raw materials are processed in order to produce a range of new products, including specialty oils, protein powders, and plant-based dairy alternatives. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] LettUs GROW LettUs GROW's mission is to reduce the waste and carbon footprint of fresh produce by empowering anyone, anywhere, to grow delicious food near its point of consumption. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Lighter Lighter is intelligent, personalised meal planning & tracking technology that bridges the gap between advice and action. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] LoveRaw LoveRaw is on a mission to bring you awesome vegan chocolate, not only for vegans but for unvegan vegans too. Invested at: Venture Visit their website [H6] Mosa Meat Mosa Meat is a food technology company that’s helping everyone take a bite out of a better future – starting with the world’s kindest beef burger. Invested at: Seed and Venture Visit their website [H6] motif food works Motif makes plant-based food better by analysing, discovering and designing differently. The result? Crave-worthy food that’s better tasting, more nutritious and sustainable. Invested at: Growth Visit their website [H6] New Roots Creating the traditions of the future - crafting a plant-based alternative to cheese. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] New School Foods Whole-cut seafood, made from plants. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] New Wave Foods Small bite. Big Impact. Delicious plant-based shrimp. It's sustainable, vegetarian and kosher. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Next Gen Foods The next generation of plant-based foods is here. See it. Taste it. Believe it. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] No Evil Foods No Evil Foods makes meat from nothin’ but plants. We are makers driven to help hungry mouths everywhere recognise the connection between food, kindness to self and others, and environmental impact. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] NuCicer NuCicer’s proprietary, non-GM chickpeas with dramatically increased protein content cut the cost of production for chickpea protein nearly in half, transforming opportunities for food and beverage products. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Ocean Hugger Foods Save oceans, eat plants. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] one.five Pioneering next gen eco-saving materials. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Outstanding Foods Addictively delicious plant-based foods. Ditch the guilt, snack with benefits. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Outlier Health The life-changing power of a plant-based diet. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] planetary Planetary is a fermentation CDMO providing R&D services, industrial-scale bioprocessing capacity, and finished food product formulations to fermentation front-runners. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Plantable Plantable is the first clinically-supported lifestyle program that combines plant-based nutrition and behavioural psychology. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Planted Planted brings delicious meat alternatives to your table. Our planet is very important to us. Therefore, we have no animal suffering, only great taste. Invested at: Seed and Venture Visit their website [H6] Polybion Polybion is the next gen biomaterials company that brings performance and possibility to 21st century designers and materials engineers. Invested at: Venture Visit their website [H6] Proeon Proeon is an ingredient innovation company working on creating next-gen plant protein ingredients with a mission to make food that is good for people, planet and the conscience. Invested at: Seed and Venture Visit their website [H6] Rebellyous Foods At Rebellyous Foods, we believe everyone should have access to delicious plant-based food. Meatless for all is our mission. Let’s get rebellyous. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] RedSun Hortitech We strive to lead the international macadamia nursery industry in achieving Reliability, Quality and Integrity. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Shaka Harry We are as delicious as meat and we replicate the sensory experience that you love. Our products are packed with delicious plant-based goodness for foodies that serve as a healthier option to meat products. Better for you, better for the planet. Try our Just-like-meat nuggets, samosas and kebabs made from plants – we know you’ll love it! Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Synonym Bio Synonym is a financing and development platform for essential biomanufacturing infrastructure. Invested at: Seed Visit their website [H6] Sunfed meats Boasting premium yellow pea protein, Sunfed meats cook, feel and taste just like animal meat but are healthier, both for you and the planet. 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🛡️ Trust Signals — reviews, proof links, trust-theatre flag (Trust & Proof)
| Page | Reviews | Proof links |
|---|---|---|
| / (home) | 8 | 0 |
| /insights/ | 3 | 0 |
| /investment/ | 5 | 0 |
| /portfolio/ | 3 | 0 |
🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps (Identity & Authority)
Homepage schema
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Your Diagnosis
Before revealing the machine’s verdict, predict the BS score for each signal. Higher = more BS (more fluff, less verifiable substance). Drag each slider, then submit to compare your judgment against the engine.
Stuck? Reveal the heuristic lens — how the deterministic page-auditor reads each signal (no AI, pure pattern rules)
These are the structural rules a local, deterministic auditor applies — the same lens you can use to judge each signal. They describe what to look for, not this company’s result.
Classify each sentence as substantive or hollow. Grounding markers — numbers, currencies, dates, technical units, named entities — outweigh marketing adjectives. When fluff sits right next to hard evidence, the fluff is forgiven.
Pull the main entities out of the H1, then check whether they actually recur through the body. A page that announces one thing and then talks about another drifts. Headings with no real sentences underneath read as pseudo-substance.
Count trust words (review, testimonial, rating, verified) against real outbound proof links (Google, Trustpilot, Clutch, G2, Yelp). Lots of trust language with zero verification links is trust theatre. Unlinked logo galleries count against it.
Look at how much sentence length varies. Natural writing varies its rhythm; templated or mass-produced copy is statistically uniform. Very low variation reads as commodity content — unless unique named entities break the pattern.
Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.
Want to apply this lens yourself? The free BS Indicator Chrome extension runs these heuristic checks live on any page. Bear in mind it is a single-page, deterministic tool — it relies only on pattern rules for the page in front of it and does not perform the cross-page semantic correlation this audit uses, so its readout is a starting lens, not the full verdict.
Based on 745 businesses audited.
Financial Services, Banking & Insurance BS: Blue Horizon (bluehorizon.com)
Blue Horizon provides a high volume of substance through its extensive portfolio lists and successful exits, keeping it well below extreme BS levels. However, it relies heavily on trust theatre by displaying unlinked reviews and fails to identify its human leadership, creating a ‘faceless corporate’ authority gap. The site’s content is aging, with most major news and success stories dating back to 2023 and 2024 relative to the 2026 system date.
Integrate Person schema for lead partners and connect them via sameAs links to verifiable LinkedIn profiles or academic records. Replace the internal review counter with third-party verified review links (e.g., Trustpilot or industry-specific auditors) to reduce Trust Theatre. Update the success stories with 2025/2026 data to avoid the ‘stale fund’ perception created by 2024 news. Fix the heading hierarchy by reclassifying H6 portfolio names as H2 or H3 to improve technical crawl credibility.
The site fits the Venture Capital/Private Equity subset of Financial Services, specifically targeting the sustainable food technology sector. The content aligns with the industry dictionary regarding capital growth and portfolio diversification but avoids generic consumer banking cliches.
“The score of 39 is primarily driven by Trust Theatre (unverified reviews) and Authority Gaps (lack of named internal experts). The high Information Density from the portfolio page successfully offset the cliché-heavy hero sections. Semantic coherence remained strong, preventing a higher BS score by maintaining a tight link between mission and evidence.”
This training module utilizes a snapshot of public data from Blue Horizon, captured on May 26, 2026, to demonstrate how machine logic evaluates different types of business narratives.
Purpose: This data is presented under “Fair Use” / “Educational Exception” for the purpose of forensic semantic analysis, allowing users to compare human intuition against machine-generated evaluations.
Notice to Blue Horizon: This analysis is part of a non-adversarial audit conducted by 1 Euro SEO. The results provided by 1EuroSEO are intended as professional feedback to help improve any website’s machine-readability and authority signals. The 1EuroSEO BS Detection Tool is a free tool, and anyone can test any company to see how their content is interpreted by AI models.
Any company can use the insights for free and improve its voice by comparing it to industry clichés or competitors. When a company has updated its content, it can always submit a new audit request, which will be reflected in a new current score.
To all users: You are encouraged to visit the live site at https://bluehorizon.com to view the most current version of its content and learn from the source what this company is about and what it offers.