Almanac Insights
VC Fund
New York, United States
Almanac Insights is a VC fund in New York focused on Food and Beverage and Food Processing. Committed to being a positive force in the broader food ecosystem, Almanac makes early-stage investments and serves as an operational partner for a limited number of next generation CPG, experiential retail, and agriculture and hospitality technology companies.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
- Fund size:
- $9.6M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Almanac Insights invests in
Stages Almanac Insights invests in
Countries Almanac Insights invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $747k–$4M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$28M
- Series B
- $20M–$90M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 11 (37%)
- Food Processing 5 (17%)
- Agriculture 4 (13%)
- Organic Food 4 (13%)
- Manufacturing 3 (10%)
Stage
- Series B 6 (20%)
- Series A 5 (17%)
- Seed 3 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (10%)
- Series C 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 16 (53%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
David Barber
Founder & Managing Partner
|
Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 14 | Find email | |
David Barber
Founder & Managing Partner
|
Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
Brian Halweil
Portfolio Manager
|
Portfolio Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge Electric Cement is a sustainable cement start-up. Its breakthrough process co-recycles steel and cement to produce a low carbon, circular cement product that offers very low emissions[1], circular, and scalable alternative to existing cement production. | $2.9M / Seed / Jul 04, 2024 | ||
| Scout is a company that manufactures and distributes canned seafood. They obtains all of their seafood directly from regional fishing communities. They managed fisheries that prioritize worker and environmental well-being. They offers specialty shops like bakeries, seafood markets and cheese shops. | $4M / Seed / Oct 18, 2022 | ||
| BlueCart is a web and mobile platform built to streamline and modernize the wholesale procurement process for buyers and sellers. It offers online and mobile ordering to new and existing customers while boosting sales with the BlueCart marketplace tools. BlueCart was formerly known as Improvonia and is launched in July 2014. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 23, 2022 | ||
| Onfleet is a B2B software company that specializes in last-mile delivery logistics. Onfleet powers millions of deliveries every month for thousands of businesses around the world. Onfleet's customers range from food and beverage delivery services to laundry and dry cleaning, pharmaceutical, retail and e-commerce delivery businesses. Thecompany's product includes a web-based dispatch dashboard for routing, tracking, dispatching, and analytics, intuitive iOS and Android apps for drivers, automated customer notifications and real-time driver tracking, and a robust RESTful API.Onfleet was founded in 2012 by a team of engineers at Stanford University. | $23M / Series B / Jun 07, 2022 | ||
| Foxtrot is a mobile app that lets customers shop their curated collections of drinks, food, and everyday essentials. The customer's order will be delivered straight to them in under an hour. The company was co-founded by Mike LaVitola with Brian Jaffee and Taylor Bloom in 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. | $100M / Series C / Jan 11, 2022 | ||
| Smallhold is a farming technology company that provides automated, modular remotely-managed, and subscription-based growing systems. With Smallhold's controlled-environment growing systems, food industry professionals can generate consistent and reliable local produce tailored to their individual business or menu needs independent of climaticchanges or outside market pressures. | $25M / Series A / Oct 13, 2021 | ||
| Foxtrot is a mobile app that lets customers shop their curated collections of drinks, food, and everyday essentials. The customer's order will be delivered straight to them in under an hour. The company was co-founded by Mike LaVitola with Brian Jaffee and Taylor Bloom in 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. | $42M / Series B / Feb 22, 2021 | ||
| Kingdom Supercultures create microbial cultures that help food manufacturers to create new foods with boosted benefits. It re-assembles nature's microbes into new combinations, creating plant-based foods that taste like dairy, low-alcohol beverages with full flavor, and natural preservatives that work as well as artificial ones.They workwith clients across diverse industries including food, beverage, personal care, beauty, and more. Their technology comprises an expansive biobank of GRAS microbial strains, high-resolution strain characterization, and new algorithms for predicting and assembling microbial communities. | Seed / Nov 30, 2020 | ||
| Kingdom Supercultures create microbial cultures that help food manufacturers to create new foods with boosted benefits. It re-assembles nature's microbes into new combinations, creating plant-based foods that taste like dairy, low-alcohol beverages with full flavor, and natural preservatives that work as well as artificial ones.They workwith clients across diverse industries including food, beverage, personal care, beauty, and more. Their technology comprises an expansive biobank of GRAS microbial strains, high-resolution strain characterization, and new algorithms for predicting and assembling microbial communities. | Seed / Oct 30, 2020 | ||
| Scout is a company that manufactures and distributes canned seafood. They obtains all of their seafood directly from regional fishing communities. They managed fisheries that prioritize worker and environmental well-being. They offers specialty shops like bakeries, seafood markets and cheese shops. | $747.1K / Seed / Sep 25, 2020 | ||
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FAQ
What does Almanac Insights invest in?
Almanac Insights invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Food Processing and Agriculture startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Almanac Insights invest in?
Almanac Insights typically joins rounds of $747k–$4M at Seed, $2.5M–$28M at Series A and $20M–$90M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Almanac Insights's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Almanac Insights took part in.
How do I contact Almanac Insights?
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Who are the partners at Almanac Insights?
The team at Almanac Insights includes David Barber (Founder & Managing Partner), David Barber (Founder & Managing Partner) and Brian Halweil (Portfolio Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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