# Branded Hospitality Ventures

> Branded Hospitality Ventures is a VC fund backing Restaurants. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/branded-hospitality-ventures
- Website: http://brandedventures.co

Branded Hospitality Ventures (“BSV”) is a micro venture investment and solutions platform that leverages its ecosystem of hospitality venues and deep relationships to connect HI-Tech (Hospitality Industry Technology), Emerging Concepts and Unique F&B (Food & Beverage) with capital and customers.BSV was created to capitalize on theopportunities to invest and partner with early and growth-stage HI-Tech, Emerging Concepts and Unique F&B and other capital providers. BHV has demonstrated an ability to identify, vet and leverage its hospitality expertise & relationships to truly create and add-value as well as reduce the costs and risks associated with operating and investing without boots on the ground expertise. We present unique investment opportunities to our capital partners.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Restaurants | 10 | 42% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 38% |
| Food and Beverage | 8 | 33% |
| Software | 7 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 25% |

60 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 50% |
| Series A | 6 | 25% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 83% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Ireland | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Ciancio | Hospitality Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-ciancio-1bbe |
| Julie Zucker | Partner and CMO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-zucker |
| Dean Palin | Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dean-palin |
| Jeff Mann | Founder and Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-mann |
| Jimmy Frischling | Founder/Managing Partner | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jimmy-frischling |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mr Bing Foods | Mr Bing brings our passion for East Asian flavors to sauce lovers everywhere. Originally founded in 2012 as a chain of street food kiosks in Hong Kong, Mr. Bing was crowned “Rookie of the Year” by the Vendy Awards for Best Street Food in NYC in 2015. In 2018, fans demanded to buy our sauces, and our Chili Crisp was launched in grocery stores,followed by our Thai-Style Sriracha and Sweet and Spicy Chili Crisp Wing Sauce. While Mr Bing street food kiosks closed during the pandemic, our story lives on in a bottle, available to lovers of East-Asian inspired flavors everywhere, at thousands of grocery stores, restaurants, colleges, office campuses, and stadiums nationwide. From street cart to tailgate, try Mr Bing sauces on eggs, rice, pizza, dumplings, noodles, or drizzle on burgers and hot dogs to take your cookout from mundane to insane. |  |  | Nov 11, 2024 |  |
| Ottonomy | Ottonomy IO is a tech startup which builds autonomous robot fleets to make contactless deliveries for safe and enhanced user experience, saving millions of dollars for eCom, Logistics, retail industries to name a few. The state of the art mapping and perception elements are unique to navigate in ever changing surroundings for both indoor andoutdoor environments integrated with a fleet management and monitoring cloud framework. | $3.3M | Seed | Aug 02, 2022 |  |
| Ecotrak | Ecotrak is a top-rated platform designed to simplify facilities, asset and project management for multi-site businesses. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Irvine, California, we are on a mission to empower people with actionable information to make better business decisions. Our cloud-based platform is increasing efficiency, reducing repair& maintenance spend and helping businesses grow & scale quickly. | $250K | Convertible Note | Jun 17, 2022 |  |
| Valyant AI | Valyant AI is a developer of state-of-the-art AI customer service designed for existing retail hardware, in order to break down barriers between humans and computers through natural communication. Its platform merges artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and computer-generated characters and integrates with existing mobile, web,call ahead, kiosk, and drive-through systems to help restaurant, retail, and service-based industries to speed up customer orders, reduce overheads, and increase profitability.The company was founded in 2017 by Rob Carpenter and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. | $100K | Seed | May 23, 2022 |  |
| Incentivio | Incentivio is helping restaurants win restaurant 2.0 by transforming the restaurant experience for the digital age. The platform increases retention, maximizes revenue, and improves the guest experience for first-time visitors as well as loyalists. It operates across web, mobile, and in-store channels to assist restaurants in acquiring newcustomers, increasing visits and spending, increasing loyalty and engagement, lowering costs, and generating incremental revenue.By combining online ordering and white-label restaurant apps with loyalty, gift cards, machine learning upsells, CDP analytics, a data-driven marketing suite, and guest journey management, you can create a powerful system for building relationships with your guests and driving digital revenue. | $150K | Seed | Apr 01, 2022 |  |
| Bite | Bite, the #1 kiosk ordering software for fast casual and quick-service restaurants, uses AI to offer real-time upsell recommendations that result in 20% higher check averages. | $125K | Seed | Mar 14, 2022 |  |
| Ingest | Ingest.ai is the central nervous system for restaurants. | $2.6M | Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Curbit | Curbit develops a curbside delivery application designed to help deliver orders. Its application enables consumers to order food from their favorite restaurants in advance, drive to the store, and wait in the car for their order to be delivered to them, enabling smaller restaurants to safely and conveniently serve takeaway meals to their customerswithout the use of expensive third-party delivery services.The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Calabasas, California. | $100K | Seed | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Agot | AI Restaurant Manager | $250K | Pre-Seed | Nov 24, 2021 |  |
| Dispatch Goods | Dispatch Goods excludes disposable foodware from food delivery by coordinating into food delivery apps, enabling customers to select sustainable deliveries. Dispatch Goods offers stainless steel boxes for cold and hot food. The company is located in San Francisco, California. | $3.7M | Seed | Sep 20, 2021 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Branded Hospitality](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/branded-strategic-advisors) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [Connetic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connetic-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Branded Hospitality Ventures invest in?

Branded Hospitality Ventures invests primarily in Restaurants, Information Technology and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Branded Hospitality Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Branded Hospitality Ventures?

The team at Branded Hospitality Ventures includes David Ciancio (Hospitality Partner), Julie Zucker (Partner and CMO) and Dean Palin (Chairman), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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