Cooks Venture Raises $10M for Its Regenerative Agriculture

Cooks Venture, which focuses on regenerative agriculture, announced it has raised a $10 million Series A round of funding, reports The Spoon.

The round was led by SJF Ventures and Cultivian Sandbox. Cooks Venture had previously raised a $4 million growth equity seed round and secured $12 million in senior secured debt.

The company, founded by Matthew Wadiak (who previously founded meal kit pioneer Blue Apron), is starting with poultry, breeding and raising its own slow-growth, heirloom chickens.

Cooks Venture is vertically integrated and raises chickens on its 800-acre farm in Arkansas and processes the meat at its own processing plant in Oklahoma.