{"id":22592,"date":"2025-01-21T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/dutch-vegan-cheese-startup-willicroft-shuts-after-funding-troubles\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:30:00","slug":"dutch-vegan-cheese-startup-willicroft-shuts-after-funding-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/es\/dutch-vegan-cheese-startup-willicroft-shuts-after-funding-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Vegan Cheese Startup Willicroft Shuts After Funding Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willicroft, a Dutch plant-based cheese startup, has ceased operations after failing to secure necessary funding. The company had previously raised \u20ac2M in 2022 and initiated a \u20ac350,000 crowdfunding round in 2023. Co-founder Brad Vanstone cited unmet fundraising goals as the primary reason for the closure, highlighting the challenges faced by alternative protein companies in a competitive market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original excerpt:<\/strong> \u201c2024 was a tough year for Willicroft. After failing to meet our fundraising goals, we made the difficult decision to sell the company,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenqueen.com.hk\/willicroft-vegan-cheese-butter-plant-based-dairy-closed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Queen<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willicroft has ceased operations after failing to secure necessary funding, highlighting challenges in the alternative protein market.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":22591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1034],"tags":[300,240],"class_list":["post-22592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundraising","tag-food-tech","tag-nicaragua"],"acf":{"content_format":false},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/willicroft-vegan-cheese-butter-plant-based-dairy-closure-social-1024x536-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-14 07:48:36","action":"category","newStatus":"draft","terms":[337],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tribu.la\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}