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September 28, 2022

Bug startup betting big on food producers bags €6m Series A

Austrian startup LIVIN farms will use the funding to grow its farming as a service model for industrial food producers


Mimi Billing

4 min read

Katharina Unger is the CEO and founder of LIVIN farms

You’ve heard of software as a service, security as a service and even workspace as a service. Now we bring you farming as a service.

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LIVIN Farms alternative protein powder.
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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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