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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Food and Beverage startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
SVG Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Los Gatos, California, United States, North America | ||
AgFunder | Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Pasadena Angels | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Altadena, California, United States, North America | ||
Marcy Venture Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | San Francisco, California, United States, North America | ||
Greenhouse Capital Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity | Sausalito, California, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top Food and Beverage Early Stage Venture investors in California. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Food and Beverage Investors & Funds (California)
SVG Ventures
SVG Ventures|THRIVE is an investment and advisory firm that partners with public and private organizations on strategy, innovation and global expansion. Formed in 2010 and based in Silicon Valley, SVG Ventures|THRIVE invests in early stage technology companies. The SVG Ventures|THRIVE team consists of accomplished technology leaders from all over the globe. With its vast network, SVG gets deeply involved with portfolio companies to support their success.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Gatos, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Cloud Computing, Food and Beverage, Internet, Mobile, Venture Capital
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AgFunder
AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world’s food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, FinTech, Food and Beverage
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Pasadena Angels
Entrepreneurial small businesses are major engines of job growth and key players in the commercialization of new technologies. However, most entrepreneurial ventures fail to achieve their goals. Among the most common reasons for such business failures are the inability to execute sound business plans and to access capital funding, particularly at critical early stages of a company’s development. Affiliated as Pasadena Angels, Inc., a nonprofit entity, the organization offers early-stage companies the opportunity to benefit from the knowledge of more than 100 experienced entrepreneurs, senior corporate executives, and skilled professionals from a variety of industries and venture capital affiliates. Approximately 80 companies from a broad range of industries are screened each year by Pasadena Angels members and are provided with invaluable counsel, including insights into developing business and financing strategies that are achievable and fundable. Companies also benefit from the group’s feedback and the opportunity to connect with individuals who may offer more specialized expertise and advice. The organization’s members provide up to $1 million in early-stage financing and seed money to emerging technology-based ventures located in Southern California. The group cooperates with other venture capital firms and angel investment groups to support companies that are raising between $1 to $5 million. Pasadena Angels members invest individually and directly, without any legal pooling of financial resources. The corporate entity, Pasadena Angels, Inc. does not invest or act as an investment agent in any manner. Pasadena Angels charges no fees and provides its services to companies which it believes have a significant potential for success and the potential to benefit from an association with the organization.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Altadena, California, United States, North America
Industries: CleanTech, FinTech, Food and Beverage, Mobile, Personal Health, Small and Medium Businesses, Social Media
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Marcy Venture Partners
Marcy Venture Partners (MVP) was Co-Founded by Shawn Carter (JAY-Z), Jay Brown and Larry Marcus. MVP has a passion for building innovative businesses and mass-market brands. The firm invests in Consumer & Culture with an emphasis on positive impact including sustainability, inclusivity, accessibility, empowerment and health & wellness. Our companies are led by exceptional management teams with clear vision, purpose and executional excellence. We lead or co-invest in companies that have meaningful brand values, high customer joy driven by an outstanding product, demonstrated growth and clear catalysts for the next level of scale.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer, Fashion, Food and Beverage
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Greenhouse Capital Partners
Greenhouse Capital Partners is a growth capital firm investing in high growth companies with established business models promoting health and sustainability within the areas of food, agriculture and the environment. The firm believes that an economic revolution is underway, powered by technology and simultaneously shaped by evolving system needs, that is rapidly changing the way we produce, move and consume goods. Greenhouse is at the forefront of investing in this wave of change and partners with values driven teams creating real products built to stand the test of time.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Sausalito, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Industrial, Internet of Things, Venture Capital, Waste Management, Water
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Creative Ventures
Creative Ventures is a deep tech venture firm investing in early-stage companies solving humanity’s most critical crises. Led by a team of world-class experts, our deep tech acumen is informed by rigorous research, unmatched market understanding, and the dedication to lead our companies to success. Today’s problems can’t be solved by yesterday’s solutions. Let’s get Creative.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Oakland, California, United States, North America
Industries: Advanced Materials, Computer Vision, Construction, Food and Beverage, Robotics
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Acre Venture Partners
Driven by a mission to redefine food, Acre invests in companies creating systemic change in the food system to address the growing problems of human and environmental health. Acre makes venture-stage investments in highly disruptive platform business across the food value chain, with a particular focus on the agriculture, food tech and consumer verticals. Taken together, these investments have the ability to form the foundation of an integrated new approach to food system evolution.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Venture Capital
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LAT VC
L’ATTITUDE VENTURES (LAT VC) invests in early-stage US Latino led and owned businesses with high-growth market opportunities capturable through technology. LAT VC addresses a troubling economic cost to our country: the underfunding of Latino entrepreneurs. LAT VC is led by global executive, Sol Trujillo, the first US-born Latino to lead a Fortune 200 company, who has long underscored the economic importance of Latinos in the US.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Diego, California, United States, North America
Industries: Advertising, E-Commerce, Electronics, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Health Care, Information Technology, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Software
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Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley
Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley is a venture capital firm that invests in the robotics, food, and AgTech industry. The firm invests in early-stage companies that have product and customer validation. Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (YMVSV) was founded in 2015 by Hiro Saijou and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Automotive, Food and Beverage, Transportation, Wellness
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Miroma Ventures
Miroma Ventures is the investment arm of The Miroma Group, predominantly investing in growth stage consumer brands and media platforms. We leverage the complete offering of marketing capabilities and global reach of The Miroma Group, a bespoke collective of creative and marketing agencies for the Connected Age, uniquely placed to unlock value and drive growth for its clients. As a strategic co-investor, Miroma Ventures brings both capital and a full suite of marketing services to the table—tailoring the offering to suit the stage of business and make the most impact for our partner companies. We have invested in over 50 media and consumer businesses to date with partners including ClassPass, Cedar, Pinterest, SBTV, Minute Media, Simba, MikMak, Who What Wear, and more.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Digital Media, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Mobile Apps, Retail, Venture Capital
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Blueberry Ventures
Blueberry Ventures is a venture firm that invests in brands and business models across food and beverage. It partners with entrepreneurs building the next generation of nutrition by providing early and growth-stage capital and operational support to help empower growth.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Finance, Food and Beverage, Venture Capital
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Radicle Growth
Radicle carefully selects innovative ag and food tech start-ups for investment, ensuring that powerful, disruptive technologies reach their full potential. We provide a company building platform, a fertile environment for visionaries in the ag space, not just to grow but to flourish. Their proprietary platform is the only one of its kind in the agriculture industry, thus filling a huge void in the market by identifying the most innovative technologies and accelerating them with a range of value-creation initiatives. Radicle Growth pioneered a concept called The Radicle Challenge to proactively seek out the best and brightest entrepreneurs solving a problem or looking to disrupt an existing business model in the ag and food industries.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Diego, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, Food and Beverage
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LDR Ventures
LDR is a VC firm based in Los Angeles investing In Female & Minority Founders, Consumer Product, Food, E-Comm, Marketplaces & Legal Tech. Our investment amounts range from $100K to $500K at the Seed Stage and Series A rounds. We take a hands-on approach by applying our team’s significant operating experience with a passion for business development, the capital and strategic contacts to build success.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: E-Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage, Marketplace, Restaurants
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Stage 1 Fund
Over the past 7 years, Stage 1 Financial has organically built a platform that generates validated deal flow. No longer do we wish to only support the investment process, but be part of it. Meet Stage 1 Fund, which will allow us to leverage the Stage 1 Financial platform to invest in great brands alongside very successful investment partners.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Anaheim, California, United States, North America
Industries: Beauty, Consumer, Consumer Goods, Fashion, Financial Services, Fitness, Food and Beverage, Home and Garden, Retail, Wellness
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Rocana Venture Partners
Rocana Venture Partners (“RVP”) is an LA-based venture capital firm that invests in early stage consumer packaged goods (“CPG”) brands. We find truly disruptive, hyper growth, mission-driven brands that provide consumers with better living choices. Our primary area of focus is in food & beverage, with secondary verticals of focus in beauty and personal care, wellness, pet care, fitness and fashion/apparel.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Wellness
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New Money Ventures
Let’s face it, the way we do business has fundamentally shifted. The new generation of entrepreneurs building businesses are calling for a new approach to venture capital, which we are here to provide. We are not just investors, we are partners driven by the same purpose & passion as you. We have built & grown companies ourselves allowing us to provide hands-on expertise & mentorship to help scale and grow your business all with a clear path to exit.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Beauty, Consumer Goods, Fashion, Food and Beverage, Personal Finance, Personal Health, Pet
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Strand Venture Partners
Strand Venture Partners (SVP) is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. The Firm invests in start-ups and early stage ventures that have the potential to scale, disrupt, and build large markets. Investment themes include; sports & entertainment, food & beverage/F&B Tech, CPG, consumer mobile, real estate/proptech
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Venture
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Consumer Goods, eSports, Food and Beverage, Media and Entertainment, Payments, Real Estate, Sports, Wine And Spirits
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Agroecology Capital
Agroecology Capital is an AgTech VC fund based in Palo Alto. The fund invests in early-stage technology ventures that help agriculture to transition toward practices focused on Safety, Sustainability, Productivity, and Equitability (Agroecology). Agroecology Capital invests from bioengineering to data and software solutions.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Animal Feed, Aquaculture, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Genetics, Life Science, Nutrition, Software
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Mstar Capital Group
Having been in the region since 2003, Mstar Capital group is one of the most experienced investment firms in America and the Asia Pacific. We have comprehensive geographical coverage with offices in U.S.A and Thailand. Mstar capital works with many angel investors and Venture capitalists worldwide that are second to none. Our strength in short-term and long-term investments is driven by teams of experienced professionals who know how to invest and are capable of delivering a stable and massive return of investment to all our clients.To date, we had manage $ 1.5 Billion USD of assets globally with an on-the-ground presence in more than 25 markets.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Apps, E-Commerce, Education, Food and Beverage, Real Estate, Software
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Taiwan Global Angels
Taiwan Global Angels (TGA) is a global network of seasoned angel investors primarily based in the US and Taiwan. We are entrepreneurs backing entrepreneurs. TGA invests in early stage startups with scalable technologies that may leverage Taiwan’s unique strengths in manufacturing, healthcare, channels, and talents for growth. Our members are domain experts in healthcare, hardware, manufacturing, finance, and investments, and many of our members also belong to other angel groups.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berkeley, California, United States, North America
Industries: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Information Technology, Internet, Medical, Professional Services, Software
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