# Disruptive Innovation Fund

> Disruptive Innovation Fund is a VC fund backing Energy, Retail and Grocery. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Disruptive Innovation Fund is a VC fund focused on Energy and Retail. Disruptive Innovation Fund operates as an investment firm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 1 | 50% |
| Retail | 1 | 50% |
| Grocery | 1 | 50% |
| Robotics | 1 | 50% |
| Automotive | 1 | 50% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series C | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Addie's | Addie's is offering online-only grocery shopping with curbside pickup. | $10.1M | Seed | Jan 26, 2023 |  |
| Ample | Ample utilizes autonomous robotics and smart-battery technology to solve the energy delivery challenge for electric transportation. It created an economical, rapidly deployable, and widely accessible platform that delivers a full charge to any electric car in minutes. The aim is to make it possible to have “Electric Cars for Everyone”. It wasfounded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $160M | Series C | Aug 19, 2021 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ENEOS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eneos) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Momentum VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/momentum-8119) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Moore Strategic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moore-strategic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [PTT Public Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ptt) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Rose Park Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rose-park-advisors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Shell Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shell-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Disruptive Innovation Fund invest in?

Disruptive Innovation Fund invests primarily in Energy, Retail and Grocery startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 2 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 Disruptive Innovation Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Disruptive Innovation Fund closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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