FoodTech Startup Grain4Grain Raises $775K in Pre-Seed Funding | Startups San Antonio
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In collaboration with Village Capital, the largest supporter of impact-driven, seed-stage startups globally, the Foundation selected the San Antonio-based Grain4Grain as one of 10 Fund participants from a pool of more than 145 applicants. As craft beer brewing grows in popularity, so does the staggering amount of leftover spent barley grains — over 6 billion pounds annually. Grain4Grain’s low-carb flour mixes won third place in H-E-B’s 2019 Primo Picks Quest for Texas Best competition, landing in about 200 H-E-B stores plus all Central Market locations. The startup’s “rapid growth since its launch in 2019 tells me that Grain4Grain has hit upon a food sustainability solution the market didn’t know it needed,” said Tech Bloc CEO David Heard. “At scale, each of these solutions has the potential to create systems-level change, improve inefficiencies and prevent food waste,” said Sunny Reelhorn Parr, executive director of The Kroger Co.