Gullspång Re:food

The firm is led by a Managing Partner and Co-Founder and a General Partner and Co-Founder based in Stockholm, who together drive investment strategy and team direction. The broader team includes a Senior Investment Manager in Boston, an Investment Manager and Head of Sustainability in San Francisco, and operational leads across Europe.

Re:food cultivates deal flow through a transatlantic network of relationships with agrifood stakeholders, including researchers, co-investors, industry experts, and early-stage venture funds. The firm partners with managers like FTW Ventures, Kost Capital, and FoodSparks® to access early-stage opportunities, and also holds direct early-stage stakes in companies like Mission Barns and Pow.Bio.

Yes, Re:food is structured as an Article 9 fund under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, which embeds ESG rigor from day one. This classification means the firm invests with a sustainability objective as a core component of its mandate, not as an overlay. The firm's investment framework, the Re:food Solvable Framework, translates planetary boundaries into actionable themes, aligning with EAT-Lancet and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

Re:food focuses on growth-stage companies — the critical financing gap between early venture capital seeking product-market fit and late-stage private equity buying mature companies. The firm makes initial investments of €10–20M and can deploy up to €50M over the life of an investment, including for add-on acquisitions.

Re:food's four investment themes — sustainable proteins and fats, healthy soils, sustainable supply chains, and healthy diets — inherently exclude conventional animal agriculture, fossil-fuel-intensive food production, and companies without a clear planetary-boundary-aligned impact thesis. The firm does not invest in activities misaligned with Article 9 criteria.

The firm pursues a hybrid model: it makes direct growth equity investments in portfolio companies and also commits capital to select early-stage venture funds as limited partner partnerships. These fund commitments (e.g., to FTW Ventures, Kost Capital, FoodSparks®) provide access to emerging technologies and companies that may later scale into direct investment opportunities.

The firm does not publicly disclose the specific family or individual wealth behind Gullspång Re:food. The firm presents itself as an independent asset manager with a growth equity platform focused on agrifood, and its two co-founders are named as principals.