We are a fiercely talented network of 90+ women committed to pushing the boundaries within our industries and communities. We invest in 10 high potential male and female-led startups each year, filtered from 2500 we see annually.
Early-stage venture capital fund focused on Series A technology and consumer product sector investments
We accelerate black and brown entrepreneurs from high potential to high growth, through rigorous leadership training and strategic market access. Our thesis is that entrepreneurship is becoming an increasingly viable pathway for the New Majority to build wealth. Our goal is to facilitate this trend by reducing barriers and risk for these founders across the nation. 1863 Fund is an alternative financing model for black, brown & women-owned brands.
Invest in companies creating fundamental change in food and agriculture in order to address large-scale problems in human and environmental health. Look for the infrastructure and technologies creating systemic changes in the following areas: population health, planetary well-being, responsible production and consumption, and climate solutions.
Investing in visionary founders building authentic, next-generation consumer brands driving omnichannel innovation. AF Ventures manages over 30 portfolio brands across the consumer landscape of food & beverage, health & wellness, beauty, personal care, and pet.
AgFunder is a new kind of venture capital firm. Our mission is to invest in bold and impactful technologies rapidly transforming our food and agriculture system. The firm prefers to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies. The firm prefers investing in the agri-tech, food tech, robotics, big data, and life sciences sectors.
Agronomics Limited is an investment company focused on opportunities within the nascent industry of modern foods, which are environmentally friendly alternatives to the traditional production of meat and plant-based sources of nutrition
Almanac invests in a limited number of hospitality, CPG, and food system technology companies making transformative changes to how we eat and access food.
Alwyn Capital invests in and partners with early-stage companies who are committed to replacing animals in the food, fashion and medical industries.
Amplifyher is a venture capital firm that invests in diverse leadership teams with a unique ability to create flywheel effects of growth in new markets, mainly: commerce, health, and connectivity.
We believe traditional hurdles to innovation are being destroyed empowering start-ups to innovate at unprecedented speed and scale. Combining deep market knowledge and sector expertise with a passion for building groundbreaking companies, we work alongside companies to tackle the challenges of the global food economy.
Aqua-Spark is a global investment fund (Utrecht, the Netherlands) that makes investments in sustainable aquaculture businesses that generate investment returns, while creating positive social and environmental impact. The fund invests in small to medium enterprises that are working towards the production of safe, accessible aquatic life, such as fish, shellfish and plants, in a way that does not harm the health of the planet.
The Artemis Fund invests in tech-enabled companies led by women that help people build wealth, care for their families, and empower their communities.
Invest to accelerate a transition toward regenerative agriculture — at scale, globally. We look for new technology that is connecting nature, producers and consumers; ensuring transparency, fair value and quality. We look for ambitious entrepreneurs innovating food processing to maintain and enrich quality, not just scale quantity
Astia invests in high-growth companies with women leaders, following their successful completion of our Expert Sift™ process. We follow innovators rather than trends, and invest across a variety of industries. Astia Investment vehicles directly support our nonprofit mission to level the investment playing field. Inclusive teams are more likely to succeed, and through Astia Fund, Astia Angels and Astia Edge, we provide the capital and networks required to get there.
FoodLabs is a venture studio and early-stage investor for startups with solutions to feed ten billion people by 2050 in a sustainable and healthy way. The portfolio covers the entire value chain – from agtech, alternative protein sources, water supply, food security, decentralized food production, vertical farming, personalized nutrition, food waste, and carbon reduction.
At Backstage Capital, we invest in companies led by underestimated founders, including women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ founders
Barrel is seed stage fund based in the heart of the midwest. The world is riding the early waves of a massive shift in consumer behavior and how businesses effectively reach these consumers.
Beechwood Capital is a Boston-based investment group that identifies and invests in growth and venture stage branded consumer products and specialty retail/restaurant concepts. We are much more than a source of capital. We are former entrepreneurs and experienced operators ideally positioned to invest in other strong entrepreneurs. We seek to utilize our deep experience in the consumer products industry to help our portfolio companies build value and competitive advantage. We focus on disruptive
Generate returns for our investors while serving the early stage capital needs of women-led companies generating social or environmental impact. Our fund focuses on women-owned or managed privately held seed and early stage growth businesses in the digital, mobile, cloud technology, life sciences, medical device and advanced manufacturing and alternative energy spaces with a preference given to companies located in or impacting Michigan and other underserved geographic markets. We’re looking for
Invests in early-stage, scalable, game-changing technologies across the food & agriculture sectors.
We are a venture capital fund with startup accelerators in key locations, investing in and accelerating top performers in the new food space.
On a mission to replace animal proteins with healthy alternatives. Investing in and build food companies that are better for our planet. Constantly on the lookout for innovative disruptors at different stages of their development to partner with us.
Blueberry Ventures is a venture capital fund investing in emerging & innovative brands and companies across food & beverage. We partner with inspiring & passionate entrepreneurs building the next generation of nutrition by providing early & growth stage capital and operational support to help empower growth.
We’re looking for game-changing, early-stage ventures across the food industry that redefine how consumers achieve their health and wellness. Our investments span the entire value chain – both B2C and B2B – with a focus on four areas:
We invest in early stage, high growth consumer products companies that are better for you and better for the planet.
BIGR Ventures is a growth equity fund providing value-added, strategic partnership and capital to promising early-stage natural and organic products. Headquartered in Boulder, CO, and boasting 70+ years of combined natural product experience between its founders, BIGR Ventures leverages unparalleled industry relationships and experience to maximize the potential of promising young companies.
We are an early stage venture capital firm, focused on investing in next generation consumer product, service, and technology companies.
We’re an early stage venture capital firm based in Minnesota, the Bread and Butter State, investing globally while leveraging our state and region’s unparalleled access to strong corporate connections, commercial opportunities, and industry expertise for the benefit of our founders.
BBG Ventures is an early-stage fund backing big ideas that will reshape the way we live. We focus on female founders who intuitively understand the dominant consumer, enabling them to address the collective or individual lived experience of the 99%.
Our focus is on better-for-you branded consumer products companies with a concentration in Food and Beverage. Other areas of focus include Pet, Personal Care & Beauty, Apparel, Retail, and Household Products. With total flexibility in stage and structure, investment range from $1mm - $30mm+, CAVU can tailor investment solutions requiring a thoughtful approach, deep sector knowledge, and a clear understanding of the company’s and other shareholders’ needs.
Focus on industries that are massively changing and founders whose backgrounds uniquely position them to create businesses in growth markets that are often overlooked.
A venture capital firm that invests in women-led, seed-stage, tech and tech-enabled companies with a product in the market validated through early revenue and/or strategic partnerships. Vow one woman with at least 20% equity must be on a company's cap table. WE are also inclusive of underrepresented founders an diverse leadership teams. While recognized for our #InvestInWomen tour, female founders do not need to participate in one of our signature programs to receive funding opportunities from C
Investing In Plant-Based Food & Cultivated Meat Companies. We focus on companies bringing delicious, inexpensive, readily available, animal-free food to a wide consumer base. We will focus on market demand and inefficiencies while helping entrepreneurs to create, and scale, new plant-based food/cultivated meat companies.
Our mission is to foster growth for a new generation of remarkable restaurant, food tech, and beverage companies.
An investment firm focused on supporting and investing in the shared future. Our funds center around two macro themes: the growth of the creative class, and the concept of the collaborative economy.
Concrete Rose invests financial & social capital into exceptional ventures led by underrepresented founders of color, founders addressing the needs of underrepresented consumers of color, and founders with a demonstrated commitment to creating inclusive cultures and building diverse teams. We invest in early stage (pre-seed to Series A) companies across all sectors, with a focus on financial inclusion, productivity software and future of work, sustainability, precision/predictive health, and dir
Cultivation Capital is a venture capital firm that manages a family of funds focused on early-stage investing. Most of our initial investments are during a startup’s Seed or Series A phase, and our initial checks range from $100k – $3.5M. Our industries of focus include life sciences and health tech, software and IT, agriculture tech, and geospatial tech.
Cultivian Sandbox invests in innovative companies disrupting food & agriculture across a wide range of sectors and stages around the world. We employ a collaborative and active approach to supporting companies in setting company strategy, supporting business development efforts, recruiting key executives and raising additional capital. Much more than simply a financial resource, we aim to deliver value through active collaboration with our strategic partners and network.
We are a corporate venture group located in New York City and Paris that is part of a global food and beverage company with a unique manifesto and world-class expertise and resources. Together with our portfolio companies, we aim to create a healthy and sustainable future of food. We are forming a portfolio of food and food tech businesses that are disrupting the world's eating and drinking habits and changing the way companies engage with consumers. We are committed to supporting their growth a
We back entrepreneurs that are leveraging science and tech to innovate, tech, and move the world towards a reimagined sustainable and resilient food system
Our ideal candidates are scrappy, ambitious founders who have developed a product that resonates with consumer needs and habits. These entrepreneurs should be uniquely positioned to tap into the characteristics and buying trends that make today’s consumers distinctive. We invest in companies that have a proven concept requiring capital and support to reach a sustainable level of national growth and scalability. CPG industries: Food and Beverages, Apparel and Accessories, Beauty, Household Care,
Specifically targets investments in underserved entrepreneurs—such as women and ethnic minorities, or those with limited access regionally to capital and opportunities. We support visionaries with disruptive ideas and products through two specialized investment vehicles
EverHope Capital invests in entrepreneurs and businesses displacing animals from the supply chain. By supporting innovative and scalable alternatives to animal based products, EverHope Capital is investing for a more sustainable and humane future for the planet, people and animals.
$100m venture fund backed by Kraft Heinz to invest in early-stage technology companies disrupting the food industry.
At Fair Food Network we believe that the food economy — fundamental in every community — has outsized power to create greater health, wealth, and environmental equity, and resilience. That’s why we invest in food entrepreneurs — with a focus on BIPOC and women-led businesses — as they work to harness the power of food to transform their communities for good.
We purchase and actively manage farmland throughout the United States, and invest in technology companies strategic to our land holdings. Fall Line invests in technology companies that have the potential to become strategic to our land holdings, and to which we can add value and improve their chances of success.
Fearless Fund invests in women of color led businesses seeking pre-seed, seed level or series A financing. Our mission is to bridge the gap in venture capital funding for women of color founders building scalable, growth aggressive companies. Fearless Fund is built by women of color for women of color.
In 2014, we created Female Founders Fund with one simple belief: women will build the companies of tomorrow. Since then, we’ve become the leading source of institutional capital for female founders raising seed capital with over $3B in enterprise value.
Fifty Years is a venture capital firm that backs founders using technology to solve the world's biggest problems. Fifty Years is an entrepreneur-run early stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco. We partner with companies that inspire. Specifically, we back companies that, if successful, will be both massively profitable and make a serious dent in achieving one of the Sustainable Development Goals.
We help ambitious founders transform food and agriculture. Since 2006, we have provided growth capital to partner with the best and boldest companies that are helping feed the world sustainably.
Our unique network and unrivaled beverage industry expertise are what you need to take your brand to the next level.
FoodBytes powered by Rabobank is an online connection hub for forward-looking startups, corporates and investors pioneering sustainable food and agriculture solutions.
We invest in companies whose products, services, and technologies provide "better" food to consumers and institutions. We focus on seed and growth-stage companies based in North America. Our investments include equity and structured exit instruments such as subordinated debt and royalty financing.
Gaingels seeks top investment returns by co-investing with the best venture capital firms, and seeks to influence social change through business by investing in the best companies that embrace LGBT+ leadership. Gaingels also selectively invests in category-leading growth-stage companies where we can help add C-suite LGBT+ talent.
Germin8 Ventures invests in transformative Food & Agriculture Technology companies that are addressing major demand trends and improving the global food system through disruptive technologies and solutions. We invest in Food & Ag Tech companies across the value chain, in various early stages, globally.
At GingerBread Capital, we invest in the next generation of women founders and entrepreneurs leading high-growth businesses. We help women-led businesses gain access to the knowledge, networks and capital they need to build and scale successful enterprises, and we encourage other women to do the same.
Good Seed Ventures exclusively invests in sustainable food solutions and our support goes way beyond financial capital. The purpose of Good Seed Ventures is to create value by enabling the development of sustainable food systems. Our aim is to foster food solutions that create less waste, use resources more effectively and produce sustainable, nutritious, and delicious food for everyone.
Green Circle Foodtech Ventures is an early-stage ClimateTech investor. We partner with amazing companies that protect the climate and human health by disrupting and improving food production & distribution.
PowerPlant Partners is a growth equity firm that invests in emerging consumer wellness brands. Empowering purpose-led companies solving today's greatest health and environmental problems by building tomorrow's iconic consumer brands
Halogen Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in consumer technology companies led by women.
Harbinger Ventures is an early-stage growth-equity firm focused on identifying and scaling high-growth, female-led companies in the consumer sector. Harbinger works exclusively with early-stage consumer brands that are led by exceptional female founders or mixed-gender founder founding teams and incentivizes collaboration amongst its portfolio companies by giving each entrepreneur an equity stake in the portfolio.
Harlem Capital is a venture capital firm on a mission to change the face of entrepreneurship by investing in 1,000 diverse founders over 20 years.
Innova is a pre-seed, seed and early-stage investor focused on starting and funding high-growth companies in the Biosciences, Technology and AgTech fields. Innova links capital with great ideas to create groundbreaking products and services
Our goal is to generate strong financial returns for investors by investing in companies that promote health and sustainability in the food and agricultural sector.
InvestHER Ventures is an early-stage investment firm that partners with and invests in female entrepreneurs. We invest in early-stage data-driven technology companies with B2B components in untapped markets.
iSelect is investing in the innovative entrepreneurs and cutting-edge companies making real change happen in the fields of Agriculture, Healthcare, Resource Efficiency, and B2B Software. Our portfolio companies are saving energy, reducing agricultural inputs such as water or fertilizer, breeding more efficient plants, or targeting conditions or diseases like obesity, cancer, or hypertension, and more.
We invest in early-stage startups. Our focus is highly scalable software businesses building solutions for the future of work and health.
Kapor Capital invests in tech-driven early-stage companies committed to closing gaps of access, opportunity, or outcome for low-income communities and/or communities of color in the United States. We are particularly interested in those that address gaps of disproportionate relevance to African-Americans and Latinx communities. We are open to investing across every sector, including education, work, finance, justice, food, and health.
KEEN Growth Capital identifies food, beverage and wellness companies with great potential started by revolutionary-thinking, passionate entrepreneurs. We apply our trusted skill and passion to develop them into highly successful and respected companies.
Kitchen fund is a growth equity investor that provides capital, connections, and know-how to help brands bring their story, ethos, and recipes to eaters everywhere.
Female-led and Los Angeles-based, we consult to and invest primarily in female entrepreneurs at the Seed & Series A Stages. We focus on marketplaces, consumer products, and services that make people’s lives better.
Lever VC is a global venture capital fund making early stage investments in the alternative protein space: plant-based meat, egg and dairy, "clean" (cell-based) meat, egg and dairy, plant proteins, and similar
Lewis & Clark Ventures - founded by former founders and operators to support the tech ecosystem in the central U.S. We’ve built venture-backed companies here and have navigated the terrain of going from idea to exit multiple times. We believe the next group of dynamic founders will build their companies between the coasts and are excited to partner with them on the journey. To partner with visionary founders to build iconic companies between the coasts.
The Force for Good Fund invests in women and people of color-owned,“Best for the World” B Corporations (i.e., companies that score in the top 10% of B Corps worldwide).
Invest in brands and categories where we can put our experience, knowledge, and relationships to work to help our brands grow. We typically invest $5-$10 million over time in the companies we partner with. Prefers to invest in the food, beverage, pet care, personal care, home care, and other consumer product sectors. Loft Growth Partners targets emerging brands that are typical $2-25 million in revenue.
Manna Tree is an investment firm dedicated to improving human health. we believe the future of health, well-being, longevity is attainable through innovation in food and nutrition. We invest capital to scale firms that are providing consumers access to calories that support improved metabolic health. Manna Tree focuses on the integration across food production and consumer product verticals, nurturing growth through multi-faceted supply chains.
Marigold Capital is a gender and social equity lens impact investment fund. We invest in founders with technology-enabled products and services that deliver value to women, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPOC) and other underserved groups.
Maumee Ventures’ vision is to foster promising innovations and leverage our unique capabilities to accelerate the growth of such innovations. We are the venture capital arm of The Andersons Inc. Founded in Maumee, Ohio, in 1947, The Andersons Inc. is a diversified public company rooted in agriculture conducting business across North America in the grain, ethanol, and plant nutrient sectors, railcar leasing, turf and cob products, and consumer retailing.
We partner with visionary founders who innovate and transform what consumers eat and drink. We believe in authentic brands which are better-for-you and have a positive impact on society and the environment. We apply our dedication, creativity, and experience to fuel tremendous growth for our companies. Melitas Ventures is a New York based Venture Capital fund that invests in early-stage food & beverage companies through the entire value chain.
A thematic venture capital fund investing in innovative foodtech and agtech companies. We invest holistically across the entire food value-chain to drive systemic change and positive impact.
New Voices Fund is a $100 Million Fund created to empower women of color entrepreneurs to reach their full potential. The brainchild of co-founder and CEO Richelieu Dennis, New Voices Fund is consistent with a long-standing tradition and business philosophy of “taking care of and investing back in the community”. New Voices continues a deep family legacy of community commerce by investing in global communities through the economic empowerment of women of color.
We are working to increase diversity, inclusion, and impact in early-stage investing and our entrepreneurial ecosystem through our innovative learning-by-doing progressive fund model.
NextWorld Evergreen is a San Francisco-based investment partnership providing growth capital to companies in the branded consumer & retail sectors. Our investment focus includes the personal care, food, and beverage categories with emphasis on the natural sector. Our evergreen structure is a unique competitive advantage enabling us to provide flexible capital unconstrained by traditional private equity mandates. We make control and significant minority investments with a preference for building
Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund ("Pontifax AgTech") is a pioneering growth capital investor in food and agriculture technology. We invest globally in growing businesses that improve agricultural productivity, nutrition, health, sustainability, and supply chain efficiency. Pontifax AgTech invests broadly across the food and agriculture technology sector, including: life sciences, food and nutrition, IT, precision farming, and supply chain.
Investment funds designed for women, backing Innovative companies for returns and impact. Currently, has funds that focus on:
We fuel the disruptors – the passionate, purpose-driven founders who are transforming their categories and building brands that modern consumers want and love. We work with high potential, fast-growing brands with big ambitions to become the iconic leaders of tomorrow.
Purple Orange Ventures invests in early-stage food/biotech companies across the globe with a focus on alternative proteins and cellular agriculture.
We are an impact venture fund focused on social justice, environmental resilience, and economic sustainability. Our strategy is to invest in early-stage companies led by exceptional and diverse entrepreneurs focused on: good food (regenerative food systems), good money(fair, transparent, and beneficial finance), and good climate (sustainable and just resource use)
We are an early-stage fund investing in exceptional founders building extraordinary companies. We see the value of investing in women and minorities when other funds just see a blindspot. We are committed to building a portfolio with at least 50% female or minority founders.
Gordon Food Services' investment arm
Rethink Capital Partners is an umbrella platform that oversees and facilitates the development of a suite of impact investment vehicles, which focus on financial and social returns including gender equity, education, health, environmental sustainability, economic empowerment, and community development. Has 4 funds: Education, Impact, Community, and Food
With purpose at our core, we invest holistically to meet consumer demands for more nutritious, sustainable, and traceable food. We are backing entrepreneurs who are working to disrupt the food system across the supply chain.
At Semillero, we help turn vision into reality by investing capital, expertise, and care of global networks to drive growth and innovation across companies in the Food & Beverage, Food Tech, and Wellness Industries. We are passionate about sustainability, innovation, and amplifying our capacity for impact in the world by harnessing the power of business and capital to support determined people, making a contribution to humankind.
Serra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology companies in emerging Midwest technology centers and selected West Coast markets that are underserved. Sectors we focus on include information technology, devices/instrumentation, and agricultural technologies.
Sherbrooke Capital is a leading growth capital private equity firm focused exclusively on investing in emerging consumer companies in the rapidly-growing Healthy, Active and Sustainable Living market. Sherbrooke seeks to be the preferred provider of growth equity capital by working closely with entrepreneurs to nurture and develop exceptional businesses and innovative brands that engage and inspire today’s increasingly health-conscious consumer.
Siddhi Capital blends deep operating knowledge and expertise through its strategic partnership with Siddhi Ops, and smart capital in order to propel convention-crushing brands forward in the food & beverage marketplace!
While there are 100's of VC & PE firms in the U.S. alone, we are one of the very few focused on the underserved white space of “emerging growth” consumer businesses — rapidly growing brands on a clear path to profitability (and not addicted to rounds and rounds of venture capital). The companies that we look to invest in have a great founders' story as well as a promising brand. In turn, these partners often seek the industry-specific financial, operational and strategic expertise that we can pr
Our mission is to democratize access to entrepreneurship by bridging the gap between untapped founders - historically overlooked by the traditional venture ecosystem - and the right capital and resources required to create sustainable equity & economic inclusion.
SnackFutures creates brands that break new ground in well-being. We invest in high-growth, emerging well-being brands and innovations.
Sonoma Brands is a private equity firm focused on the growth sectors of the consumer economy. We aim to partner with bold, innovative founders on their way to building the world’s next enduring brands across the physical and digital landscape.
We are a venture capital fund investing in innovative, early-stage companies across the food, beverage, and biotechnology sectors that are driving a healthier, humane, and more sustainable future.
Sunrise Strategic Partners provides growth capital and expertise to emerging brands in the healthy, active, and sustainable living space. We partner with founders to add strategic value, share guidance on tactical priorities and leverage our industry relationships to maximize potential. The tide is turning in the consumer package goods industry and the current climate favors breakout opportunities for next-generation brands.
We’re focused on the intersection of food, culture, and technology. We catalyze change by investing in diverse founders across the supply chain in technology, sustainable ingredients and high-integrity brands.
SWAT Equity invests in high-growth consumer brands that are disrupting their categories with a differentiated product, service or technology. We are early investors in the brands consumers can’t live without, before they know they can’t live without them. All of our portfolio companies have an authentic branding position, excel at storytelling, and are laser-focused on building meaningful and lasting relationships with their customers.
We invest in women-led companies headquartered in the Southeast U.S., specifically in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia.
We seek investment opportunities that allow us to disrupt conventional animal agriculture, make an impact, and provide wellness to all living beings, including present and future generations. We focus exclusively on alternatives to animal protein products, and target high-impact ventures with the potential to reach mass markets, delivering innovative products into the hands of consumers.
We invest primarily in companies developing meat, dairy, eggs and seafood replacements with plant-based, recombinant and cultivated ingredients.
Victress Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that provides visionary and diverse founding teams in the consumer space with capital and resources for growth by leveraging its 40+ years of consumer operating and investing experience. The firm’s culture is founded on the core values of integrity, humility, teamwork, and inclusiveness.
WE Fund Venture invests in New York City based technology start-up companies founded by women and minority entrepreneurs. Through WE Fund, NYC Small Business Services invests in women entrepreneurs to help them access the capital they need to grow their business. WE Fund reduces financial barriers women often face as business owners by creating products that address their businesses’ needs at every stage of growth.
The right early stage capital for transformative consumer brands and the technologies that power them. We invest in and support a diverse group of founders building tomorrow’s iconic brands.
WomensVCFund II makes investments in early-stage (A/B), revenue-generating, high-growth companies led by management teams inclusive of women. Three high growth sectors where women are important leaders, decision-makers, and consumers: Enterprise SaaS, Consumer Internet, and Educational Technology
We invest in companies with a female founder - the "X Factor" - who have the insight and drive to build the next billion dollar company. We provide needed capital, the connections and 'in the trenches' advice and mentorship to our portfolio. XFactor Ventures is focused on making pre-seed and seed stage investments in companies with billion dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.
Rethink Impact is an umbrella platform that oversees and facilitates the development of a suite of impact investment vehicles, which focus on financial and social returns including gender equity, education, health, environmental sustainability, economic empowerment, and community development. Has 4 funds: Education, Impact, Community, and Food