# Carsten Boers

> Carsten Boers is a Series A investor at Rhapsody Venture Partners backing Biotechnology. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Rhapsody Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rhapsody-venture-partners-llc)
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 62%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carstenboers
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/CarstenBoers
- Website: http://rhapsodyvp.com/

Carsten Boers is a Series A investor at Rhapsody Venture Partners in Cambridge focused on Biotechnology and Navigation. Managing Partner at Rhapsody Venture Partners

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 23% |
| Navigation | 2 | 15% |
| Agriculture | 2 | 15% |
| Mapping Services | 2 | 15% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 15% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 31% |
| Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 15% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Grant | 1 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 54% |
| Finland | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SpinDrive | Spindrive creates customized levitation technology pushing energy efficiency to the maximum level and promoting oil-free solutions. |  |  | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| 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. | $11.5M | Series A | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| SpinDrive | Spindrive creates customized levitation technology pushing energy efficiency to the maximum level and promoting oil-free solutions. | $4.1M | Series A | Nov 08, 2023 |  |
| GPR | GPR is commercializing technology developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory that has proven to be a successful in a military context. After years of development, MIT’s ultra-wide band radar was first deployed in Afghanistan in 2013. The technology allowed military vehicles to stay on previously-mapped routes by matching radar measurements with maps ofsubterranean geology. |  | Series A | May 18, 2023 |  |
| Hazel Technologies | Hazel Technologies develops biotechnology for reducing waste in the agricultural supply chain. Their product development is funded in part by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and their product performance has been validated by 3rd party academic research institutions such as Cornell University. The company provides USDA-funded1-MCP technology conditions the storage atmosphere to reduce respiration rate & increase resistance to ethylene.Hazel Technologies offers horticultural consulting services to growers and shippers, as well as develops new solutions to reduce food waste to improve the fresh produce supply chain. It also provides shelf-life extension technologies and services to combat the global food waste problem and improve profitability for its customers.Hazel Technologies was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA. | $70M | Series C | Apr 13, 2021 |  |
| WaveSense | WaveSense is commercializing technology developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory that has proven to be a successful in a military context. After years of development, MIT’s ultra-wide band radar was first deployed in Afghanistan in 2013. The technology allowed military vehicles to stay on previously-mapped routes by matching radar measurements with mapsof subterranean geology. | $15M |  | Mar 30, 2021 |  |
| GPR | GPR is commercializing technology developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory that has proven to be a successful in a military context. After years of development, MIT’s ultra-wide band radar was first deployed in Afghanistan in 2013. The technology allowed military vehicles to stay on previously-mapped routes by matching radar measurements with maps ofsubterranean geology. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 30, 2021 |  |
| Hazel Technologies | Hazel Technologies develops biotechnology for reducing waste in the agricultural supply chain. Their product development is funded in part by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and their product performance has been validated by 3rd party academic research institutions such as Cornell University. The company provides USDA-funded1-MCP technology conditions the storage atmosphere to reduce respiration rate & increase resistance to ethylene.Hazel Technologies offers horticultural consulting services to growers and shippers, as well as develops new solutions to reduce food waste to improve the fresh produce supply chain. It also provides shelf-life extension technologies and services to combat the global food waste problem and improve profitability for its customers.Hazel Technologies was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA. | $13M | Series B | Aug 12, 2019 |  |
| Hazel Technologies | Hazel Technologies develops biotechnology for reducing waste in the agricultural supply chain. Their product development is funded in part by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and their product performance has been validated by 3rd party academic research institutions such as Cornell University. The company provides USDA-funded1-MCP technology conditions the storage atmosphere to reduce respiration rate & increase resistance to ethylene.Hazel Technologies offers horticultural consulting services to growers and shippers, as well as develops new solutions to reduce food waste to improve the fresh produce supply chain. It also provides shelf-life extension technologies and services to combat the global food waste problem and improve profitability for its customers.Hazel Technologies was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA. | $3.3M | Series A | Mar 15, 2018 |  |
| Hazel Technologies | Hazel Technologies develops biotechnology for reducing waste in the agricultural supply chain. Their product development is funded in part by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and their product performance has been validated by 3rd party academic research institutions such as Cornell University. The company provides USDA-funded1-MCP technology conditions the storage atmosphere to reduce respiration rate & increase resistance to ethylene.Hazel Technologies offers horticultural consulting services to growers and shippers, as well as develops new solutions to reduce food waste to improve the fresh produce supply chain. It also provides shelf-life extension technologies and services to combat the global food waste problem and improve profitability for its customers.Hazel Technologies was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA. | $800K | Seed | Mar 07, 2017 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [S2G Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s2g-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Valley Oak Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valley-oak-investment) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Aliment Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aliment-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Asahi Kasei Corporate Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asahi-kasei-corporate-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Innovestor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovestor) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Leaps by Bayer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leaps-by-bayer) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Rhapsody Venture Partners

VC Fund · Cambridge, United States

Rhapsody Venture Partners specializes in bringing to market breakthrough science innovation in industrial sciences (non-life science). The firm was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

4 contacts available at Rhapsody Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Carsten Boers | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carsten-boers |
| Jason Whaley | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-whaley |
| Bernard Lupien | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bernard-lupien |
| Jessica Freyer | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jessica-freyer-33a9 |

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## FAQ

### What does Carsten Boers invest in?

Carsten Boers invests primarily in Biotechnology, Navigation and Agriculture startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Carsten Boers last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Carsten Boers closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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