Beyond Impact
VC Fund
Montreux, Switzerland
Beyond Impact is a VC fund in Montreux focused on Food and Beverage and Food Processing. Beyond Impact Advisors is created to facilitate investment in products and services that are either inherently vegan in nature or are cruelty-free and remove mankind’s reliance on the raising of animals for slaughter. Beyond Impact’s core investment thesis centers on sustainability as a pillar of risk management and economic valuation. Due to the heavy environmental impact, the use of animals is inherently unsustainable and alternatives need to be found and funded. Coinciding with this we are seeing an accelerating societal shift in favour of vegan, cruelty-free and plant-based alternatives, based on the environmental imperative, health concerns and compassion for animals. As such, Beyond Impact targets significantly impactful companies which have positioned their products and services to meet this growing demand, favouring those with clear technological advantages and whose products outstrip the qualities of the animal-derived material they replace.
- Total investments:
- 41
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 12%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Beyond Impact invests in
Stages Beyond Impact invests in
Countries Beyond Impact invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $670k–$7M
- Series A
- $2.9M–$14M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $2.1M–$2.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 18 (44%)
- Food Processing 11 (27%)
- Biotechnology 8 (20%)
- Alternative Protein 5 (12%)
- Nutrition 3 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 18 (44%)
- Series A 8 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (12%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (10%)
- Series B 2 (5%)
Country
- United States 11 (27%)
- France 5 (12%)
- United Kingdom 4 (10%)
- Canada 2 (5%)
- Israel 2 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Claire Smith
Chief Executive Officer
|
Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Sagar Tandon
Partner; Partner
|
Partner; Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paleo is a food ingredient company that develops ingredients for plant-based foods, making them tasty, healthy, and more sustainable, feel and look like real meat or fish without hurting animals through bioscience. | $2.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| Jay&Joy is the first plant-based creamery in France engaged in manufacturing alternatives to cheese made from almond milk and cashew nuts. | $2.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 19, 2026 | ||
| Perfat Technologies is a health-based technology company that develops fat-management applications based on healthy vegetable oils. | $2.9M / Series A / Sep 10, 2025 | ||
| Jay&Joy is the first plant-based creamery in France engaged in manufacturing alternatives to cheese made from almond milk and cashew nuts. | $2.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 02, 2025 | ||
| Yeastup upcycles by-products from the beer-brewing process into quality ingredients, thus promoting the circular economy. Yeastup is headquartered in Brugg, Aargau and was founded in 2020. | $10M / Series A / Dec 16, 2024 | ||
| Ingrediome focuses on producing key animal proteins to revolutionize meat alternatives. Ingrediome was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in Ness Ziona, Israel. | $2.3M / Seed / Feb 09, 2024 | ||
| KLATU Networks designs develop and market wireless sensor network solutions that help Life Science companies optimize the management of cold storage assets and other mission-critical laboratory equipment. Their products enable their customers to manage risk, reduce operating costs, achieve energy savings, and sustain near-zero breakdown performanceby transforming traditional "fail and fix" maintenance practices to "predict and prevent" methodologies.They work collaboratively and build strong relationships with their customers --incorporating the intelligence of their applications into new best-practices that their customers rely upon to achieve higher levels of efficiency and performance. They also leverage their skills and experience by offering custom engineering design and development services to partners who wish to establish new lines of business or enable new service offerings. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 06, 2023 | ||
| Renewal Mill is a next generation ingredient company that upcycles fiber and protein produced during large-scale food manufacturing into high-quality ingredients and products. In doing so, Renewal Mill, the recent winner of IFT's Food Disruption Challenge, is reducing waste and improving nutrition. Partnering with its first pilot facility inOakland, CA, Renewal Mill uses its proprietary technology to upcycle the byproduct of soymilk manufacturing, called okara, into a high protein, high fiber, gluten free flour. The company uses that flour to create baked good products that are currently sold at convenience stores in the Bay Area and can be found at tech company offices. Renewal Mill will soon be in nationwide distribution and has already started work on additional byproduct sources from other nuts and legumes. | Series A / Jun 01, 2023 | ||
| Paleo is a food ingredient company that develops ingredients for plant-based foods, making them tasty, healthy, and more sustainable, feel and look like real meat or fish without hurting animals through bioscience. | $12.8M / Series A / Feb 21, 2023 | ||
| Nature’s solution for food’s future. Engineering sustainable food solutions for all.As a food-tech company, Algama harvests the potential of algae to create food that's good for both people and the planet.Algama’s goal is to feed 10 billion people by 2050, while preserving the planet and offering consumers additional and better choices infoods.Our story After consuming microalgae for numerous reasons, Alvyn and Gaëtan conclude that it was a viable solution with the potential to redefine our food system for good. Algama was founded in 2013.World leader in algae food Since its founding, Algama has been the world leader in microalgae food and is proud to have the support of world-class impact investors like Horizons Ventures, Blue Horizon Ventures, CPT Capital, Veginvest, Beyond Impact, Alwyn Capital. All the team is dedicated to innovate and make microalgae a key resources for tomorrow’s daily food.Algama team We are focused on bringing microalgae-based foods to market, we are working hard to make our ingredients and products super tasty, affordable and widely available. We are expecting the team and we are looking for talents, innovateurs and entrepreneurs. | $14M / Series A / Jan 11, 2023 | ||
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FAQ
What does Beyond Impact invest in?
Beyond Impact invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Food Processing and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 41 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 Beyond Impact invest in?
Beyond Impact typically joins rounds of $670k–$7M at Seed, $2.9M–$14M at Series A and $2.1M–$2.3M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Beyond Impact's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Beyond Impact took part in.
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Who are the partners at Beyond Impact?
The team at Beyond Impact includes Claire Smith (Chief Executive Officer) and Sagar Tandon (Partner; Partner). 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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