# Blue Horizon Corporation

> Blue Horizon Corporation is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage. See 99 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 99
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 31%
- Fund size: $187M
- Last fund: Jan 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluehorizoncorp/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/bluehorizoncorp
- Website: https://www.bluehorizon.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bluehorizoncorp

Blue Horizon Corporation is a VC fund in Zürich focused on Food and Beverage and Food Processing. Blue Horizon is an investment firm that invests in companies and businesses in the agriculture and food processing sector.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$12M |
| Pre-Seed | $450k–$6.3M |
| Series A | $2M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 40 | 40% |
| Food Processing | 22 | 22% |
| Biotechnology | 20 | 20% |
| Organic Food | 10 | 10% |
| Nutrition | 9 | 9% |

75 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 47 | 47% |
| Series A | 16 | 16% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 4% |
| Series B | 3 | 3% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 33 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 6% |
| Germany | 4 | 4% |
| France | 3 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 3% |

15 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bjoern Witte | CEO | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bjoern-witte |
| Michel Hirschi | Managing Partner / CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michel-hirschi |
| Roger Lienhard | Founder & Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roger-lienhard |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| foodforecast | AI supported solution to reduce food waste. | $3.3M | Seed | Sep 30, 2024 |  |
| WOW EARN | WOW EARN connects users to the blockchain, enabling them to mine, earn, and trade via decentralised mining, earning, and trading systems. | $40M | Series A | Jun 07, 2023 |  |
| EV Biotech | We believe that with the current technology society is on the verge of creating a bio-based economy. EV Biotech will evolve the chemical feedstock market by revolutionizing the methods of microbial cell factory strain engineering; hereby shifting the chemical market from petrochemical-based to biological-based chemical production. A revolutionarystep for a more sustainable world. | $4.9M | Seed | Mar 22, 2023 |  |
| Chromologics | Chromologics develops innovative natural food colorants. Chromologics is a Danish biotech spin-out from the Technical University of Denmark. We have developed a fungal biotech platform for the production of novel, natural colorants. | $7.6M | Seed | Mar 06, 2023 |  |
| New School Foods | New School Foods creates plant-based seafood with the same texture, flavor, nutritional benefits, and cooking experience as traditional seafood. The first product of the company is a plant-based filet that looks, cooks, and tastes like wild salmon. The company aims to accelerate the transition to a kinder, more sustainable food system. | $12M | Seed | Feb 02, 2023 |  |
| Basecamp Research | Basecamp Research is a market leader in mapping biodiversity for AI-based design of biological systems. We match and refine novel proteins for our partners' exact industrial, therapeutic or diagnostic applications using BaseGraph™, a new generation of AI design that is powered by the first-ever high-resolution map of global geneticbiodiversity. Understanding the full genetic, evolutionary, and environmental context of each protein allows Basecamp Research to design tailored proteins for specific applications without the need for expensive and time-consuming directed evolution campaigns. We're a team of explorers, scientists and policy experts driven by our ambition to protect and learn from nature's diversity, whilst delivering life-changing breakthroughs to those who need them most. | $19.9M | Series A | Dec 13, 2022 |  |
| NuCicer | NuCicer is unlocking chickpea’s full potential - transitioning it from “interesting ingredient” to “staple superfood” by launching new varieties with ground-breaking agronomic and quality traits that deliver better nutrition, improved flavor, and more economical ingredients. NuCicer’s technology combines the world's most diverse chickpeabreeding library and their proprietary breeding innovation platform, built on deep roots in plant genetics and machine learning, to create value across the agri-food system. | $2.5M | Seed | Nov 03, 2022 |  |
| Synonym | Synonym is a financing and development platform for essential biomanufacturing infrastructure. It builds production capacity for synthetic biology companies and creates a new asset class for investors. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in New York, New York. | $6.3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 14, 2022 |  |
| Cosaic | Cultivated Biosciences is a Food Production Company. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 05, 2022 |  |
| Core Biogenesis | Core Biogenesis is a biotechnology company building next-generation recombinant protein production technologies. The company uses proprietary gene editing and plant biotechnology to drastically reduce the cost of making growth factors. The growth factors are molecules used in the clean meat and cell therapy industries. | $10.5M | Series A | Jul 28, 2022 |  |

10 of 99 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Thia Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thia-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [1/0 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1-0-capital-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Better Bite Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-bite-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Clear Current Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clear-current-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Blue Horizon Corporation invest in?

Blue Horizon Corporation invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Food Processing and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 99 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Blue Horizon Corporation's check size?

Blue Horizon Corporation typically joins rounds of $2M–$12M at Seed, $450k–$6.3M at Pre-Seed and $2M–$40M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Blue Horizon Corporation participates in.

### How do I contact Blue Horizon Corporation?

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### Who are the partners at Blue Horizon Corporation?

The team at Blue Horizon Corporation includes Bjoern Witte (CEO), Michel Hirschi (Managing Partner / CFO) and Roger Lienhard (Founder & Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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