Investor · 4 deals
Every published round PepsiCo took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Role | Alongside | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X-Centric Sciences | Accelerator | 20 May 2026 | - | Lead | Startup Daily, AgFunderNews | |
| Adiona | Accelerator | 20 May 2026 | - | Lead | Startup Daily, Wholesale Investor | |
| Endua | Accelerator | 2025 | - | Lead | Startup Daily (Thu 21 May 2026), Startup Daily (Thu 24 Apr 2025) | |
| Calyx.eco | Accelerator | 2025 | - | Lead | Startup Daily (Thu 21 May 2026), Startup Daily (Thu 24 Apr 2025) |
Everyone PepsiCo has named to a program in published coverage. A place in a program is not a raise: the cheque is the figure recorded with the place, which is the program's standard terms where we hold them, and a blank is one we don't.
Companies PepsiCo has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adiona | 20 May 2026, Accelerator | 1 | 1 | |
| Calyx.eco | 2025, Accelerator | 1 | 1 | |
| Endua | 2025, Accelerator | 1 | 1 | |
| X-Centric Sciences | 20 May 2026, Accelerator | 1 | 1 |
Fund closes reported for PepsiCo, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies PepsiCo has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal PepsiCo did.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Rodrigo Cortes | SmartCompany, Startup Daily | |
| Indra K. Nooyi | President and CEO | esade.edu |
| Nick Hazell | R&D Exec (former) | AgFunderNews, Startup Daily (Fri 6 Aug 2021), Startup Daily (Mon 21 Sep 2020), Startup Daily (Tue 26 Nov 2019), Startup Daily (Wed 2 Oct 2019), @AuManufacturing |
Stories naming PepsiCo. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Roundup of eight Australian and New Zealand startups whose late-July funding totals $102 million across space capsules, medical devices, livestock breath analysis, sports analytics and AI crop forecasting.
Sydney AI grain-forecasting startup Octopusbot has raised over $1 million from Folklore Ventures and No Brand to grow its platform and enter further commodity markets.
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Mobility newsletter: a new autonomy index puts Chinese robotaxi operators on top; Cargofy raises $11m, XDOF $70m; Carro buys CarPlace; plus driverless partnerships and a Waymo recall.
PepsiCo has chosen alumni companies Adiona Tech and X-Centric Sciences for the 2026 APAC Greenhouse Program's IMPACT Edition; the piece also recalls Adiona's $1.8m CRC-P grant and X-Centric's earlier $600,000 round.
Fleet-logistics software firm Adiona Tech won the Sydney pitch competition and heads to the San Francisco finale vying for a US$1 million investment prize; Telstra and Third Sphere previously backed the company.
A legal automation software company has raised more than six million dollars from existing shareholders and a Seattle-based non-dilutive lender, its first institutional backing, to fund international growth and AI product development.
Legal AI platform Plexus has raised more than $6 million, led by existing shareholders alongside Seattle lender Lighter Capital, its first institutional backer, to speed international growth, AI product delivery and hiring.
Two Australian startups, Calyx.eco and Endua, are among ten finalists in PepsiCo's Asia-Pacific sustainability accelerator, each receiving a grant plus mentorship, with an extra prize for the eventual winner.
Australian algae startup Algenie raises A$1.1 million from University of Technology Sydney and Better Bite Ventures while unveiling a thin-layer photobioreactor designed to make algae production dramatically cheaper for fuels, plastics and feed.
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Weekly agri-foodtech roundup: raises at THIS, Tender, Ever After Foods, Farmbot and Beta Bugs; two acquisitions; Proterra's rural fund raise; grants; and AgriFORCE appointing Jolie Kahn CEO.
PeakBridge has finished raising its second growth vehicle at $187m with Edmond de Rothschild as partner. Its founding GP discusses AI's role in food investing and names holdings such as Vow and Tastewise.
Esade honours the Klarna co-founder at its alumni day; he describes Norrsken's mission to support companies with positive impact and reflects on entrepreneurship, networking and mentoring.
Sydney startup Refilled has raised a A$1.3 million seed round, with Melt Ventures leading and Envato's Ta'eed brothers among backers, to scale refill stations that cut single-use plastic; Google is already a customer.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: Paine Schwartz closes its $1.7bn food-and-ag fund; several seed and Series A rounds; Tangelo acquires Diet ID; Infarm declared bankrupt; layoffs and partnerships across the sector.
Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: funding for Muncher, Vow, Freight Farms and others, a grant to GreenPod Labs, Bayer buying Targenomix, Bunge and Advanta taking SEEDCORP|HO stakes, and Deliveroo and Voly shutting down.
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Block Earner appoints Apurva Chiranewala as general manager, with other senior hires named, as the blockchain fintech prepares to launch its decentralised finance platform for Australian consumers.
Fast food billionaire Jack Cowin has launched v2food, a plant-based meat joint venture with CSIRO's innovation fund Main Sequence Ventures, seeded by his Competitive Foods Australia and led by ex-PepsiCo research director Nick Hazell.