# Beringea

> Beringea is a VC fund in Farmington Hills backing Software and E-Commerce. See 171 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Farmington Hills, United States
- Total investments: 171
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 57%
- Fund size: $30M
- Last fund: Apr 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/beringea-limited
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Beringea
- Website: http://www.beringea.com/

Beringea is an international venture capital and private equity firm dedicated to finding, funding and nurturing exceptional companies in growth industries. Founded in 1988, the firm currently has more than 60 portfolio companies in a range of emerging sectors, including media, health care and life sciences, Internet technologies, advancedmanufacturing, clean tech and specialized consumer goods. With capital, experience and offices in the U.S. and U.K., Beringea is in a unique position to offer entrepreneurs and their management teams the resources to develop strategy, evaluate growth opportunities, solve problems and build value. Beringea is the co-manager of the Michigan Growth Capital Partners Funds in the U.S., as well as the ProVen VCT family of funds in the UK, among others.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.3M–$11M |
| Series B | $4.1M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 31 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 18 | 11% |
| Analytics | 14 | 8% |
| Health Care | 13 | 8% |
| SaaS | 12 | 7% |

193 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 47 | 27% |
| Series B | 40 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 27 | 16% |
| Series C | 13 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 12 | 7% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 65 | 38% |
| United States | 37 | 22% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Benjamin Bernstein | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-bernstein |
| Eyal Malinger | Partner | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eyal-malinger |
| Leslie A. Shipley | Director, Operations; CCO, US | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leslie-a-shipley |
| Maria Wagner | Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maria-wagner |
| William Blake III | Senior Associate | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-blake-iii |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MOTH: | MOTH: is a beverages company that provides ready-to-drink cocktail for family and friends. | $14.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| Checkboard | Identity and Finance checking platform for property transactions. | $8.5M | Series A | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Dealroom.co | Dealroom.co serves as a platform that facilitates connections between new investors and technology companies, allowing them to exchange data. The platform functions across all stages of investment, ranging from seed-stage to late growth-stage.Dealroom.co empowers investors to monitor the progress of companies and determine the optimal timing fortheir investments. Entrepreneurs can manage investment interests and utilize Dealroom.co as their primary channel for disseminating information to prospective investors. | $6.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 28, 2026 |  |
| Cycle Exchange | Cycle Exchange is a platform for buying, selling, and exchanging premium bikes and the business offers a selection of pre-owned road, gravel and mountain bikes, as well as parts and accessories. | $3.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Sovato Health | Sovato Health provides surgical access through remote robotic surgeon options. | $41M | Series B | Nov 04, 2025 |  |
| Farmer J | Farmer J is a food service provider that Serving honest food, that rolls with the seasons, is mindfully sourced. | $23.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 07, 2025 |  |
| Limitless Travel | Limitless Travel provides holidays, tours, accommodation, and travel for people living with disability. | $8.4M | Series A | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| VRAI | First and foremost, they are a content creation company specialising in virtual reality production. They are visual storytellers embracing this new medium as a way of creating immersive, engaging content.Their pioneering methodology takes elements from our diverse background. We use techniques from narrative cinema, from visual effects, fromexhibition design, from gaming, from brand management and combine them in new exciting ways to help you tell your story. | $4.4M | Series A | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| InvestNext | At InvestNext, we set out on a mission to transform the way investment firms raise and manage capital. The company is based in Detroit, Michigan, and was founded in 2016. At the time, we realized the industry as a whole operates within a black box, with countless hours spent on activities that made fundraising, investment management, and investorrelations tedious and inefficient.Since day one, we’ve known that tomorrow’s investor is one who will not only have access to detailed performance metrics across their portfolio, but also have the full picture of the positive impact they have made on the communities they have invested in. With that in mind, we’ve built a software platform that enables investment firms to operate more effectively and provide greater transparency to their investors. Instrumental to this effort, has been our close partnerships with commercial real estate syndicators and other investment firms around the globe. As of today, we are trusted by tens of thousands of investors, with billions of dollars managed on the platform. | $15M | Series B | Feb 07, 2025 |  |
| MOTH: | MOTH: is a beverages company that provides ready-to-drink cocktail for family and friends. | $6M | Seed | Sep 09, 2024 |  |

10 of 171 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [InvestMichigan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investmichigan-credit-suisse) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Arboretum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arboretum-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Baird Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baird-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Amadeus Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amadeus-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Plymouth Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plymouth-growth) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Hyde Park Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyde-park-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Beringea invest in?

Beringea invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 171 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Beringea's check size?

Beringea typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$11M at Series A and $4.1M–$26M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Beringea participates in.

### How do I contact Beringea?

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### Who are the partners at Beringea?

The team at Beringea includes Benjamin Bernstein (Principal), Eyal Malinger (Partner) and Leslie A. Shipley (Director, Operations; CCO, US), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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