These prominent founders invest in vegan eggs

The Berlin start-up Perfeggt was able to convince some well-known investors in its pre-seed round. Among them are the founders of Gorillas and Mymuesli.

Foodtech Perfeggt increases its pre-seed financing round to 3.5 million euros. The start-up had already raised 2.5 million euros in capital in November 2021. The new investors are Gorillas founder Jörg Kattner, Just Spices founder Ole Strohschnieder, Foodspring founders Philipp Schrempp and Tobias Schüle as well as Hubertus Bessau from Mymuesli. Entrepreneurs Lea-Sophie Cramer, Verena Pausder, Albert Schmidbauer, Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss and Deepali Nangia are also investing. Urania Ventures is also investing in the start-up.

Tanja Bogumil and Gary Lin founded Perfeggt 2021 together with Bernd Becker, the former Head of Research and Development at Rügenwalder Mühle. Together, the founding trio developed an alternative to chicken eggs. This plant-based substitute is intended to be more sustainable and healthier than conventional eggs. Customers can use it to prepare vegan dishes such as scrambled eggs.

The founders want to invest the newly raised capital in product research and building up the team. Another focus is on selling their first egg substitute. The start-up plans to launch the product in food retailers in the near future.