Bosque Foods in a €2.8 million seed round backed by FoodLabs, Happiness Capital, SOSV, Blue Horizon and Blue Impact.

Bosque Foods, a Berlin, Germany-based startup producing alternative meat products, announced completing a seed funding round closed at €2.8 million ($2.9M).

The money was raised from a range of investors including FoodLabs, Happiness Capital, SOSV, Blue Horizon and Blue Impact.

Bosque Foods, founded in 2020 by CEO Isabella Iglesias-Musachio, developed a proprietary technology in order to cultivate pure, edible mycelium, through a process called solid-state biomass fermentation. The ingredient can be used to create clean-label, minimally processed whole cuts similar to filets of chicken and pork. In the alternative protein industry dominated by mostly liquid fermentation companies, Bosque Foods is one of the few companies working with solid-state fermentation to create mycelium for food.