David Barber
Founder & Managing Partner @ Almanac Insights
David Barber is a seed investor at Almanac Insights focused on Food and Beverage and Food Processing. David is the Founder and Managing Partner of Almanac Insights. He is also a co-owner of Blue Hill--a working farm, restaurant, and consulting company supporting agriculture that positively contributes to the world's food system. The 138-acre farm in Great Barrington, Massachusetts has been in the Barber family for four generations. Blue Hillrestaurant has locations in Greenwich Village and Pocantico Hills, New York.David is a founding partner of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Westchester County. This unique nonprofit advances community and ecologically based food production-demonstrating alternative ways to farm and eat. Stone Barns Center works in association with Blue Hill’s second restaurant located on the campus. Blue Hill (NYC) received the James Beard Outstanding Restaurant Award in 2013. Blue Hill at Stone Barns received the same honor in 2015 and was added to the San Pellegrino World 50 list.David is an early stage investor in the food and hospitality space through Almanac Investments and advisor to S2G Ventures and Acre Investments. He serves on the Board of BlueCart Corp, and is a Trustee for Stone Barns Center, Caramoor Center for the Arts and the Collegiate School in New York City.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries David Barber invests in
Stages David Barber invests in
Countries David Barber invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 5 (50%)
- Food Processing 3 (30%)
- Delivery 2 (20%)
- Software 2 (20%)
- Agriculture 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (20%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Series B 2 (20%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
- Series C 1 (10%)
Country
- United States 8 (80%)
- Canada 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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SCOUT
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Scout is a company that manufactures and distributes canned seafood. They obtains all of their seafood directly from regional fishing communities. They managed fisheries that prioritize worker and environmental well-being. They offers specialty shops like bakeries, seafood markets and cheese shops. | $4M / Seed / Oct 18, 2022 | |
Foxtrot
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Foxtrot is a mobile app that lets customers shop their curated collections of drinks, food, and everyday essentials. The customer's order will be delivered straight to them in under an hour. The company was co-founded by Mike LaVitola with Brian Jaffee and Taylor Bloom in 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. | $100M / Series C / Jan 11, 2022 | |
Ark Biotech
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With an intelligent bioprocess platform, Ark helps today’s innovators make better decisions and accelerate development timelines dramatically — to bring transformational science to those who need it most. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Dec 14, 2021 | |
Smallhold
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Smallhold is a farming technology company that provides automated, modular remotely-managed, and subscription-based growing systems. With Smallhold's controlled-environment growing systems, food industry professionals can generate consistent and reliable local produce tailored to their individual business or menu needs independent of climaticchanges or outside market pressures. | $25M / Series A / Oct 13, 2021 | |
Apeel Sciences
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Apeel Sciences produces products including avocados, apples, mangos, cucumbers, and citrus protected by plants. They support the plant’s natural ability to protect against environmental stress by maintaining moisture and reducing oxidation. | $250M / Series E / Aug 18, 2021 | |
Meati
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Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that offers carbon materials, bioengineering, and filtration. It focuses on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutrient-dense, plant-based meat alternatives that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day. | $50M / Series B / Jul 06, 2021 | |
Table22
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Table22 enables local restaurants to create unique subscription experiences for their patrons to help restaurants expand revenue past the 4 walls of their establishment and create unique relationships with their customers. | Seed / Apr 15, 2021 | |
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SCOUT
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Scout is a company that manufactures and distributes canned seafood. They obtains all of their seafood directly from regional fishing communities. They managed fisheries that prioritize worker and environmental well-being. They offers specialty shops like bakeries, seafood markets and cheese shops. | $747.1K / Seed / Sep 25, 2020 | |
Pilotworks
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Pilotworks fuels the growth of independent food companies with flexible kitchen spaces, powerful services, learning programs and a thriving community so that companies of every size—from new startups to national companies—can access new opportunities without limits. | $13M / Series A / Dec 05, 2017 | |
BlueCart
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BlueCart is a web and mobile platform built to streamline and modernize the wholesale procurement process for buyers and sellers. It offers online and mobile ordering to new and existing customers while boosting sales with the BlueCart marketplace tools. BlueCart was formerly known as Improvonia and is launched in July 2014. | Series B / May 05, 2017 |
Co-Investors
Acre Venture Partners
2 deals together
Imaginary Ventures
2 deals together
Tao Capital Partners
2 deals together
AlleyCorp
1 deal together
Almanac Insights
1 deal together
Alpaca VC
1 deal together
About Almanac Insights
Committed to being a positive force in the broader food ecosystem, Almanac makes early-stage investments and serves as an operational partner for a limited number of next generation CPG, experiential retail, and agriculture and hospitality technology companies.
Almanac Insights Contacts
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David Barber
Founder & Managing Partner
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David Barber
Founder & Managing Partner
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Brian Halweil
Portfolio Manager
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FAQ
What does David Barber invest in?
David Barber invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Food Processing and Delivery startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 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 David Barber last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for David Barber closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 10 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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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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