# Brave New Food

> Brave New Food is a VC fund backing Food Processing and Food and Beverage. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.bravenewfood.com/

Brave New Food is a VC fund focused on Food Processing and Food and Beverage. Brave New Food is the open innovation platform to discover and accelerate next-generation food solutions.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food Processing | 3 | 75% |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 75% |
| AgTech | 1 | 25% |
| Farming | 1 | 25% |
| Snack Food | 1 | 25% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jesse ‘t Lam | Co-founder and Partner | 1 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Karma Kebab | Karma Kebab is a startup that makes vegetable kebabs. | $2.2M | Seed | Jun 22, 2023 |  |
| Verdify | Verdify is a food tech scale-up that develops digital technology for healthy and sustainable eating. Verdify offers recipes based on lifestyle preferences, a number of persons, allergies, and guideline-based diets, enabling users to set up a personal food profile, including highly-specific dietary needs, and see matching recipes for deliciouschef-designed meals. | $838.3K | Seed | Jun 30, 2022 |  |
| The Ketchup Project | The Ketchup Project helps Kenyan farmers combats tomato waste and turn into ketchup. | $480.9K | Pre-Seed | May 25, 2022 |  |
| SUNT food | SUNT is an Amsterdam-based startup that makes food products from discarded bananas. | $1.3M | Seed | Nov 04, 2021 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DOEN Participaties](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doen-foundation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BNF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bnf-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Capital Blue Partners — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Phase2.Earth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phase2-earth) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Rabobank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rabobank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Brave New Food invest in?

Brave New Food invests primarily in Food Processing, Food and Beverage and AgTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Brave New Food?

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### Who are the partners at Brave New Food?

The team at Brave New Food includes Jesse ‘t Lam (Co-founder and Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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