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Oct 8, 2026

Finches raises €2 million in pre-seed funding for early warnings in agricultural sourcing

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and Vanagon Ventures back Finches, together with Bayern Kapital, UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators and business angels from industry and tech. The money goes into product development and sales.

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Finches at a glance

Founded
April 2025 in Munich
Founders
Catharina van Delden (CEO), Dr. Stefanie Glenn (CTO), Alexandra Vázquez Bea (CFO/COO)
Team
Nine people, remote-first
Funding
€2 million pre-seed, October 2026
Investors
HTGF, Vanagon Ventures, Bayern Kapital, UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators, business angels from industry and tech
Product
Sourcing intelligence for agricultural raw materials, live since September 2026
Customers
Customers and co-creation partners include a leading organic baby food manufacturer and a North American Fortune 500 food company
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Finches helps companies that buy agricultural raw materials see sourcing risks at the source, before they hit their business.

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Finches gives food, beverage, cosmetics and pharmaceutical companies early warning of risks to the agricultural raw materials they buy. Its agentic system combines field observations from agronomists with weather, satellite, scientific, trade and news data and each company’s own sourcing data. It turns them into risk alerts for the regions and suppliers a company depends on, early enough to act. Catharina van Delden and Dr. Stefanie Glenn founded Finches in April 2025 in Munich, and Alexandra Vázquez Bea joined as co-founder in January 2026. The remote-first company is backed by HTGF, Vanagon Ventures, Bayern Kapital and UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators.

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Stefanie Glenn, Catharina van Delden and Alexandra Vázquez Bea, the three founders of Finches
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Dr. Stefanie Glenn, Catharina van Delden, Alexandra Vázquez Bea
The Finches team, from left: Alexandra Vázquez Bea, Mega, Adnan, Dilara, Helin, Pratik, Catharina van Delden, Abdullah and Dr. Stefanie Glenn
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Co-founder and CTO
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Co-founder and CFO/COO
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Catharina is available for interviews and background conversations on sourcing risk, climate and the raw materials the food industry depends on.