# Cake Ventures

> Cake Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Health Care and Fashion. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://cake.vc/

Cake Ventures is an investment firm that invests in companies that address the needs of a world undergoing massive demographic changes. Cake Ventures was founded by Monique Woodard.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Cake Ventures. Shizune tracks 1 team members at Cake Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/cake-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$7.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $2.4M–$3.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 5 | 36% |
| Fashion | 3 | 21% |
| Apps | 2 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 14% |
| iOS | 1 | 7% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 79% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 64% |
| Canada | 2 | 14% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Monique Woodard | Founding Partner | 30 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/monique-woodard |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NextWork | NextWork is developing the world's greatest online learning experience for switching careers. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 04, 2026 |  |
| Koobz | Koobz is a consumer products company that designs and manufactures 3D-printed footwear products with automated manufacturing processes. | $7.3M | Seed | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| Culina Health | Culina Health is a personalized nutrition platform powered by registered dietitians to help you prioritize the way you want to live. We make insurance-covered nutrition care accessible and easier to understand so that you can fuel a satisfying and well balanced life. | $7.9M | Series A | Dec 19, 2024 |  |
| Aster | Clinic enablement software for women's health providers, keeping them private and independent and helping to reduce poor health outcomes. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Jan 30, 2024 |  |
| Eli | Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions. | $3.6M | Seed | Apr 04, 2023 |  |
| Culina Health | Culina Health is a personalized nutrition platform powered by registered dietitians to help you prioritize the way you want to live. We make insurance-covered nutrition care accessible and easier to understand so that you can fuel a satisfying and well balanced life. | $4.8M | Seed | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| McMullen | McMullen provides a singular shopping experience that allows women to feel confident and beautiful. Founded in 2007 by Sherri McMullen in Oakland, McMullen is an all-inclusive concept shop for luxury fashion featuring emerging and established designers from around the world. | $500K | Seed | Nov 21, 2022 |  |
| Guaranteed | Guaranteed is a care company that makes tough moments easier by blending at-home treatment with cutting-edge technology, | $6.5M | Seed | Nov 03, 2022 |  |
| Bright | Bright Network is an online careers community designed to connect the brightest graduates and undergraduates with the most dynamic employers in the market.Bright Network released its networking site for intelligent students and graduates with a series of soft launches to a select number of UK university students in 2010. The site has a minimumacademic requirement of ABB (or equivalent) A Level - anybody who meets that is welcome to apply to join the network. Once accepted onto Bright Network, members can use the site's intuitive technology to personalise their job search and ensure that the opportunities, events and people they are most interested in are delivered to them. There is also a variety of relevant rich media content available to help keep them informed of the latest graduate recruitment news and advice.Bright Network's philosophy is that so many graduates are intelligent (and have the impressive qualifications to prove it!), but each is different and, especially in a Web 2.0 age, deserves to be given the information they need about the things they want to know about. Bright Network's aim is to use the developing platform of social media to create a new means of personal interaction between companies and their prospective employees. | $4.5M | Seed | Oct 20, 2022 |  |
| Pamper | Pamper operates as an online nail art studio that handcrafts reusable press-on nail sets featuring custom designs from thematic collections like the Museum of Nail Art to seasonal, limited, and TikTok-featured styles. It offers free sizing kits to first-time clients and ships internationally. Launched in 2015 on iOS and Android, Pamper isdisrupting the beauty industry by bringing consistency, safety, and trendiness to consumers and by giving licensed manicurists a "business-in-a-box" to grow a career as a Pamper Pro Artist. |  | Seed | Feb 22, 2022 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [MGV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maschmeyer-group-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Panache Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/panache-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Cake Ventures invest in?

Cake Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Fashion and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 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 Cake Ventures's check size?

Cake Ventures typically joins rounds of $500k–$7.3M at Seed and $2.4M–$3.5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Cake Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Cake Ventures?

Public channels for Cake Ventures include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Cake Ventures?

The team at Cake Ventures includes Monique Woodard (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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