# Companion Fund

> Companion Fund is a VC fund in New York backing Pet and Health Care. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitalis-ventures/
- Website: https://companionfund.com/

Companion Fund is an investment fund for investing in the future of pet care. It specializes in the fields of pet care, investing, and financial services. It supports digital health, diagnostics, nutrition, and therapeutics for pets.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $595k–$8M |
| Series A | $4M–$17M |
| Series B | $11M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pet | 16 | 52% |
| Health Care | 6 | 19% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 16% |
| Veterinary | 5 | 16% |
| Animal Feed | 5 | 16% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 39% |
| Series A | 9 | 29% |
| Series B | 5 | 16% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 45% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 16% |
| China | 1 | 3% |
| Austria | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Asad Butt | Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asad-butt |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tuft + Paw | Tuft + Paw provides modern cat furniture designed to sleep, climb, scratch, play, and litter in. Its products are easy to assemble and machine washable. Founded in 2016, Tuft + Paw is based in Traverse City, Michigan. | $4M | Series A | May 28, 2025 |  |
| Napo Pet Insurance | Napo is an Insurtech start-up committed to bringing innovative, customer-centric and transparent products to the market. | $15.2M | Series B | Feb 26, 2025 |  |
| HelloBello | HelloBello offers freshly cooked and cooled delivered human-grade food tailored to each dog’s nutritional needs. HelloBello is a PetTech company with a strong focus on the German speaking markets (for now). HelloBello’s personalized meals are free of any by-products and are portioned, packaged, and delivered directly to your door. By working with aspecialized veterinarian, HelloBello is able to derive each dog’s exact nutritional needs based on a proprietary algorithm. The recipes are made of natural sources like millet and seaweed, instead of heavy use of supplements, which makes it easier for the dog to absorb and get true nutritional benefits.Our credo in German is " ... Frisch. Individuell. Geliefert. - Frischfutter ist einfach besser ..." | $4.1M | Series A | Jan 09, 2025 |  |
| Mirna | Mirna is a veterinary diagnostics company that specializes in the development of veterinary disease testing technology. | $4.1M | Series A | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| Native Pet | Native Pet is a pet food and nutrition company that makes organic, highly effective, and limited-ingredient pet supplements for dogs and cats. The company develops proprietary formulas and formats, offering only the best, most innovative nutrition to directly benefit the health of pets. | $11M | Series B | Aug 10, 2023 |  |
| Smalls | Smalls is a direct-to-consumer pet food company that produces human-grade and fresh food for cats.The company's cat food is prepared with human-grade ingredients and offers customized kits as per the cat's nutrition needs, enabling pet owners to get healthy and fresh food directly at their doorstep. It offers variants such as chickenand beef; freeze-dried chicken, and turkey and duck.In 2017, co-founders and best friends Matt Michaelson and Calvin headquartered the company in New York, New York. | $19M | Series B | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| Bundle x Joy | Bundle x Joy is a consumer goods company that delivers curation, community and connection to pet parents. It was founded by Jessica Berger in 2021 and is based in Glendale, Arizona. | $1M | Seed | Feb 27, 2023 |  |
| Vedi | Smarter, connected veterinary care. Vedi is building a better future for vets and pets through trusted dataVeterinary care today is disconnected, manual, often paper-based and putting unneeded stress on overworked vets.Vedi is building the future of animal care – a digital veterinary system connected by trustworthy health data.In the vetpractice, vets use Vedi to do more in less time – submit and track pathology work, register a microchip, manage vaccinations and more at the touch of a button.Outside of the practice, Vedi is improving and connecting the whole system – and providing true continuity of care.Vedi locks verified, error-free health data to an animal’s microchip. That means wherever it goes – a new state, a shelter or the emergency room – anyone treating that animal can access its vital health information. | $3M | Seed | Jan 13, 2023 |  |
| The Pack | THE PACK is a food technology startup, cooking up drool inducing plant-based meals for all of dog kind. | $1M | Seed | Dec 21, 2022 |  |
| HelloBello | HelloBello offers freshly cooked and cooled delivered human-grade food tailored to each dog’s nutritional needs. HelloBello is a PetTech company with a strong focus on the German speaking markets (for now). HelloBello’s personalized meals are free of any by-products and are portioned, packaged, and delivered directly to your door. By working with aspecialized veterinarian, HelloBello is able to derive each dog’s exact nutritional needs based on a proprietary algorithm. The recipes are made of natural sources like millet and seaweed, instead of heavy use of supplements, which makes it easier for the dog to absorb and get true nutritional benefits.Our credo in German is " ... Frisch. Individuell. Geliefert. - Frischfutter ist einfach besser ..." | $1.7M | Seed | Nov 23, 2022 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Companion Fund invest in?

Companion Fund invests primarily in Pet, Health Care and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 31 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 Companion Fund's check size?

Companion Fund typically joins rounds of $595k–$8M at Seed, $4M–$17M at Series A and $11M–$20M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Companion Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Companion Fund?

Public channels for Companion Fund include LinkedIn and 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 Companion Fund?

The team at Companion Fund includes Asad Butt (Advisor). 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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