WE BACK FOUNDERS RESHAPING THE FOOD SYSTEM

Mudcake, formerly Trellis Road, is a microfund run by ex-founders dedicated to making the world a better place for the next generation.

We invest in the strongest founders reshaping the way we produce, distribute, and consume food. Our typical ticket is $200k-$800k in pre-seed and seed rounds globally.

Feeding the next generation with cultivated meat

Removing carbon and improving soil health through enhanced rock weathering

Germany & Brazil

Making food affordable through a community group buying platform in Latam

B2B SaaS enabling enterprise customers to reduce energy consumption across the food cold supply chain

Feeding the next generation through weather-resilient high-protein chickpea varieties

Creating a new era of sustainable food ingredients, starting with chocolate

Feeding the next generation with cultivated meat

Removing carbon and improving soil health through enhanced rock weathering

Germany & Brazil

Making food affordable through a community group buying platform in Latam

B2B SaaS enabling enterprise customers to reduce energy consumption across the food cold supply chain

Feeding the next generation through weather-resilient high-protein chickpea varieties

Creating a new era of sustainable food ingredients, starting with chocolate

Feeding the next generation with cultivated meat

Removing carbon and improving soil health through enhanced rock weathering

Germany & Brazil

Making food affordable through a community group buying platform in Latam

B2B SaaS enabling enterprise customers to reduce energy consumption across the food cold supply chain

Feeding the next generation through weather-resilient high-protein chickpea varieties

Creating a new era of sustainable food ingredients, starting with chocolate

Feeding the next generation through weather-resilient high-protein chickpea varieties

B2B SaaS enabling enterprise customers to reduce energy consumption across the food cold supply chain

Making food affordable through a community group buying platform in Latam

Removing carbon and improving soil health through enhanced rock weathering

Germany & Brazil

Feeding the next generation with cultivated meat

Creating a new era of sustainable food ingredients, starting with chocolate

Feeding the next generation through weather-resilient high-protein chickpea varieties

B2B SaaS enabling enterprise customers to reduce energy consumption across the food cold supply chain

Making food affordable through a community group buying platform in Latam

Removing carbon and improving soil health through enhanced rock weathering

Germany & Brazil

Feeding the next generation with cultivated meat

Creating a new era of sustainable food ingredients, starting with chocolate

Feeding the next generation through weather-resilient high-protein chickpea varieties

B2B SaaS enabling enterprise customers to reduce energy consumption across the food cold supply chain

Making food affordable through a community group buying platform in Latam

Removing carbon and improving soil health through enhanced rock weathering

Germany & Brazil

Feeding the next generation with cultivated meat

Creating a new era of sustainable food ingredients, starting with chocolate

Making food affordable through a community group buying platform in Latam

B2B SaaS enabling enterprise customers to reduce energy consumption across the food cold supply chain

Feeding the next generation through weather-resilient high-protein chickpea varieties

Creating a new era of sustainable food ingredients, starting with chocolate

Feeding the next generation with cultivated meat

Removing carbon and improving soil health through enhanced rock weathering

Germany & Brazil

Making food affordable through a community group buying platform in Latam

B2B SaaS enabling enterprise customers to reduce energy consumption across the food cold supply chain

Feeding the next generation through weather-resilient high-protein chickpea varieties

Creating a new era of sustainable food ingredients, starting with chocolate

Feeding the next generation with cultivated meat

Removing carbon and improving soil health through enhanced rock weathering

Germany & Brazil

Making food affordable through a community group buying platform in Latam

B2B SaaS enabling enterprise customers to reduce energy consumption across the food cold supply chain

Feeding the next generation through weather-resilient high-protein chickpea varieties

Creating a new era of sustainable food ingredients, starting with chocolate

Feeding the next generation with cultivated meat

Removing carbon and improving soil health through enhanced rock weathering

Germany & Brazil

/As startup founders, we saw how technology has the potential to tackle the biggest challenges that worry us as parents. Mudcake nurtures founders shaping the way our children’s generation will produce, distribute and consume food/

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Building the default operating system for regenerative farmers

Creating cleaner and greener coffee through biotechnology

Net-zero protein and highly functional ingredients from microalgae

Creating healthy and delicious seaweed-based seafood products

Producer of plant-based products focused on the US market

Cultivated seafood made from fish cells

Meat makers for a variety of pet food applications

Hyper-local gourmet mushrooms in upcycled shipping container farms across North America

Delicious meat from plants for the Chinese market

AI-powered SaaS solution for optimizing greenhouse yield and operations

Enabling a more local, diverse and resilient food supply chain

Removing carbon and improving soil health through enhanced rock weathering

Developing functional ingredients from lemna

Feeding the next generation with cultivated meat

Making food affordable through a community group buying platform in Latam

Feeding the next generation through developing weather-resilient high-protein chickpea varieties

Animal-free plug & play casein replacement for dairy applications

Pollination systems, using hoverflies and new technology

Plant-based pet food for happier and healthier dogs

Creating a new era of sustainable food ingredients, starting with chocolate

Combining pioneering technology with an immense love for life and food to create new earthly pleasures

B2B SaaS enabling enterprise customers to reduce energy consumption across the food cold supply chain

Stockeld Dreamery

Creating the world's most ambitious cheese

Plant-based meat company focused on Brazil

Plant-based meat products

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