# e squared

> e squared is a VC fund in New Orleans backing Food and Beverage and Agriculture. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New Orleans, United States
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/e%C2%B2jdj
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/E2Jdj
- Website: https://www.e2jdj.com

e squared is a VC fund in New Orleans focused on Food and Beverage and Agriculture. e squared invests in visionary teams tackling systemic inefficiencies

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.7M–$12M |
| Series A | $10M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 4 | 15% |
| Agriculture | 3 | 12% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 12% |
| Robotics | 2 | 8% |
| Software | 2 | 8% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 42% |
| Series A | 3 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 46% |
| Israel | 1 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Keychain | Keychain is a CPG production platform that collaborates with retailers and brands to streamline and simplify the process of developing items that consumers adore. |  |  | Oct 24, 2024 |  |
| Campus | Campuswire is a real-time messaging app for college classes that streamlines class discussions, Q&A, and announcements. The company on a mission to optimize the world’s teaching and learning. They are assembling a world-class team of engineers, designers, pedagogists, and more to solve problems in teaching and learning. | $23M | Series A | Apr 23, 2024 |  |
| Collective | Collective operates as an online back-office platform designed for self-employed people. Its technology and a team of trusted advisors give its members the freedom to focus on what matters by taking care of everything from business incorporation to accounting, bookkeeping, tax services, and access to a community all in one platform. | $50M | Convertible Note | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| Stealth | Stealth |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| Vori | Vori is the only modern B2B operating system for the grocery industry. Vori's platform unlocks the data required for grocery retailers, brands, and distributors to effectively address food access and food waste while future-proofing their business operations with advanced technology. Their technology seamlessly connects data across the foodsupply chain, making supply chain management easy for retailers and their suppliers.Vori was founded in 2019 and launched its first product in March 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Vori is backed by investors who share their vision of a future where food moves freely. Their investors include Greylock, Y Combinator, Village Global, South Park Commons, grocery industry experts from Safeway/Albertsons, co-founders of Instacart, DoorDash, and Twitch, and strategic Vori customers. Learn more at vori.com. | $10M | Series A | Aug 03, 2022 |  |
| Vori | Vori is the only modern B2B operating system for the grocery industry. Vori's platform unlocks the data required for grocery retailers, brands, and distributors to effectively address food access and food waste while future-proofing their business operations with advanced technology. Their technology seamlessly connects data across the foodsupply chain, making supply chain management easy for retailers and their suppliers.Vori was founded in 2019 and launched its first product in March 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Vori is backed by investors who share their vision of a future where food moves freely. Their investors include Greylock, Y Combinator, Village Global, South Park Commons, grocery industry experts from Safeway/Albertsons, co-founders of Instacart, DoorDash, and Twitch, and strategic Vori customers. Learn more at vori.com. |  | Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |
| Oshi | Alternative Protein - Stealth Mode | $12M | Seed | Mar 21, 2022 |  |
| Aigen | Aigen is connecting farmers to breakthrough technologies, decarbonizing agriculture, and improving human and planetary health. The company is developing an autonomous, solar-powered robotics platform that manages plants without the chemical inputs that undermine soil's carbon storage potential by bringing alternatives to conventionalpractices, allowing farmers to regenerate soil health and deal with the global agriculture manual labor shortage. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |
| Agtonomy | Agtonomy is a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist platform for agriculture vehicles. | $5M | Seed | Jan 18, 2022 |  |
| Aigen | Aigen is connecting farmers to breakthrough technologies, decarbonizing agriculture, and improving human and planetary health. The company is developing an autonomous, solar-powered robotics platform that manages plants without the chemical inputs that undermine soil's carbon storage potential by bringing alternatives to conventionalpractices, allowing farmers to regenerate soil health and deal with the global agriculture manual labor shortage. | $7M | Seed | Jan 03, 2022 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Color Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/color) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Flybridge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flybridge-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HackCapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foodhack) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Good Seed Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/good-seed-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does e squared invest in?

e squared invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Agriculture and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 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 e squared's check size?

e squared typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$12M at Seed and $10M–$23M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds e squared participates in.

### When did e squared last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for e squared closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 26 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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