The Mediterranean Food Lab

About

MFL's line of ready-to-use stocks is sold under the brand SHO; Umami-packed meat-free stocks made for professional foodservice cooks. The stocks are made by fermenting grains and legumes, containing 100% natural ingredients, with no additives, emulsifiers, colors, preservatives, or flavoring agents.

Sectors & technology

Primary sector

Agriculture & Food Technologies

Sub-sectors

Agriculture & Food TechnologiesFood TechNovel Food & Ingredients

Technologies

BiologicalsMicroorganisms

Target customers

Agriculture & FoodFood Retail & Consumption

Business model

B2B

The Mediterranean Food Lab — Full Company Profile (machine-readable)

Fermented Flavor Ingredients

About

The Mediterranean Food Lab develops a fermentation-based approaches to produce a natural, honest flavor solutions made from real food - simple ag-commodities and food side streams. The solutions is designed to bring satisfying, meaty, multi-layered flavor profiles to a wide range of dishes traditionally flavored with animal protein. MFL's line of ready-to-use stocks is sold under the brand SHO; Umami-packed meat-free stocks made for professional foodservice cooks. The stocks are made by fermenting grains and legumes, containing 100% natural ingredients, with no additives, emulsifiers, colors, preservatives, or flavoring agents.

Facts

Name	The Mediterranean Food Lab
Slug	the-mediterranean-food-lab
Type	Israeli Startup
Founded	2017
HQ city	Tel Aviv-Jaffa
HQ country	IL
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Business models	B2B
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Status	active
Current stage	Series A
Public stage	A
Total raised (USD)	19,606,000
Last round	Series A (2023-08)
Website	https://www.med-food-lab.com/
Crunchbase ID	the-mediterranean-food-lab
Israeli Companies Registrar	515884849

Funding rounds (2)

Date	Round	Amount	Lead investors	All investors	Valuation
2021-01	Seed	$2,500,000		PeakBridge , Lever VC
2023-08	Series A	$17,000,000	Re:food	Re:food, PeakBridge , FoodBridge, Arancia International

Team (6)

Name	Role	LinkedIn
Yair Yosefi
Asaf Gronovitch
Omer Ben-Gal
BZ Goldberg
Sivan Dor
Youval Amit

News mentions (5)

Mar 5, 2024 — www.haaretz.co.il: Article
Jan 17, 2024 — agfundernews.com: Article
Oct 29, 2022 — www.maariv.co.il: Article
Dec 17, 2020 — www.perfumerflavorist.com: Article
Dec 1, 2020 — www.themarker.com: Article

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Funding history · 2 rounds · $19.6M total

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