Planet A Foods
planet-a-foods.com
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Food Technology
Food Ingredients
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$30M
1 round on record
Latest round
$30M
Venture round · Dec 2024 · 22 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
4
open roles
Backers
6
Y Combinator, Bayern Kapital
The money's age
Due for its next round
22 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Dec 5, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $30M · TechCrunch
Jun 2021
Went through Y Combinator
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 6 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Dec 2024 | $30M | — | TechCrunch |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Planet A Foods GmbH | its site |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Y Combinator 
Bayern Kapital 
Burda Principal Investments 
Cherry Ventures 
Omnes Capital 
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How Planet A Foods hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Planet A Foods scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
News
Nestlé, Planet A Foods team up for cocoa-free brand launch in Germany
Nestlé is to launch a product in Germany containing cocoa-free chocolate through a tie-up with ingredient supplier Planet A Foods.
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Planet A Foods nabs $30M to make tons more cocoa-free chocolate
Turning sunflower seeds into sustainable, cocoa-free chocolate has netted Munich-based B2B food tech startup Planet A Foods (formerly QOA) a $30 million
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Founded by twins, Planet A Foods gobbles $15.4M to save the world with chocolates - TFN
Planet A Foods, the next-generation startup from Germany has bagged a $15.4 million Series A funding round.
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Planet A Foods whips up more capital to take its cocoa-free chocolate global
Planet A Foods uses fermentation technology to turn ingredients, like oats and sunflower seeds, into its cocoa-free chocolate brand, ChoViva.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Planet A Foods over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
1
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
43/100
Developer tools
Microsoft Excel
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
22/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
4
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
134 days
faster than 11% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~1 days
10/13/2026
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
QA
50% ▼
Industrial Engineering
50% ▲
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Planegg
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Munich
Germany
HQ
Planegg
Germany
Regional office
5 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Communications, Operations, Science & Research
Fraunhoferstr. 11a, Planegg, 82152, Deutschland
Plzeň
Czech Republic
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for QA
Financials
Total raised
$30M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $30M | Details |