# FreshTracks Capital

> FreshTracks Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Manufacturing. See 97 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shelburne, United States
- Total investments: 97
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last fund: Dec 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/1075685
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/FreshTracksCap
- Website: http://www.freshtrackscap.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/49253882148/

FreshTracks Capital is a VC fund in Shelburne focused on Software and Manufacturing. FreshTracks is a seed & early stage venture capital firm focused on financing businesses. The firm was founded in 2000, and is currently investing out of its 2016 vintage FreshTracks IV Fund, which is managed by co-founder Cairn Cross, T.J. Whalen & Lee Bouyea. FreshTracks’ expertise, networks, resources and capital support innovativebusinesses through multiple rounds of financing and stages of growth.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$3.5M |
| Series A | $750k–$7.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 11% |
| Manufacturing | 8 | 8% |
| Health Care | 7 | 7% |
| SaaS | 6 | 6% |
| Solar | 5 | 5% |

119 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 24 | 25% |
| Series A | 17 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 13 | 13% |
| Debt Financing | 8 | 8% |
| Series B | 6 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 54 | 56% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cairn Cross | Co-Founder | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cairn-cross-e306 |
| Holly J. Killary | Bookkeeper and Administrative Assistant | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holly-j-killary |
| Lee Bouyea | Managing Director | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lee-bouyea |
| Timothy C. Davis | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tim-davis-2 |
| T.J. Whalen | General Partner and Managing Director | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/t-j-whalen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TAHO | TAHO is the first cloud performance layer, running AI 30x faster—costing 90% less. | $3.5M | Seed | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Zymochem | The world they live in is built from petroleum. The paints on their walls, the carpets in their homes, the tires on their cars, the plastics for everyday consumer goods – these and many more products are made from chemicals that are mostly made from petroleum, creating a $3 trillion/yr industry. To fulfill their dependency on petroleum, theydo crazy things like setting up oil rigs in the middle of the ocean and drilling several miles into the ocean floor! They’ve done these things because they have had no alternative to meet their needs. Not anymore!Over the past decade, advances in engineering microorganisms have afforded us the opportunity to make the same chemicals that are traditionally made from petroleum. Instead of requiring raw materials buried deep within the earth, microbes can use abundant and renewable sources of carbon such as sugars during processes akin to brewing beer. Despite the numerous advantages, making chemicals this way at the industrial level is still rare. This is because it’s still more expensive than using petroleum for producing the chemicals. Although a few challenges need to be solved to usher in the era of renewable chemicals, a fundamental constraint that limits the economic competitiveness of using microbes is the loss of at least 33% of the carbon as carbon dioxide waste during the fermentation – think of this as the head on your beer. Because of this carbon loss, potential product is simply not made. In technical terms, the maximum achievable yields are 67%. As sugars are the most expensive component of a bioprocess, making the carbon dioxide waste translates to as much as 20% of total costs, which severely hampers the economics of the bioprocess and its competitiveness with petroleum-based production methods.At ZymoChem, they are re-imagining the microbe, one that is designed to eliminate (or substantially reduce) carbon loss during the production of chemicals. To do this, they had to design a completely new biosynthetic pathway – one that doesn’t exist in nature – to make the chemicals. Each individual step of this pathway is designed to not lose carbon as carbon dioxide, enabling their biosynthetic pathway to retain all of the sugar’s carbon into the final chemical product. This carbon conservation allows their approach to have superior theoretical yields, up to 50% better than existing state-of-the-art technology! In turn, their technology has the potential to substantially lower production costs and drastically improve cost-competitiveness for making a variety of chemicals from renewable sources, even at today's oil prices. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Lost Lantern Whiskey | Lost Lantern Whiskey is a brewing company that focuses on wine and spirits. The company was founded by Nora Ganley-Roper and Adam Polonski in 2018 and is headquartered in Weybridge, Vermont, United States. | $2M | Seed | Feb 21, 2025 |  |
| Filabot | Filabot is a company that sells recycled plastics from 3D printers in pellet form to customers as well as 3D printers and parts. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 03, 2024 |  |
| Verde Technologies | Verde Technologies specializes in the production of perovskite solar cells that offers thin film and flexible solar panels. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 05, 2024 |  |
| AskFora | AskFora is an app to connect contractors and managers with each other. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 30, 2023 |  |
| DataBlend | DataBlend is an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solution designed exclusively for CFOs, controllers, and their teams. Featuring a no-code, low-code workflow builder, DataBlend allows accounting and finance professionals to create secure and worry-free data integrations. Companies use Datablend to collect and join data from multiplesources, build workflows (e.g. field to field mapping, pivot tables, and additional data transformations through virtually unlimited custom scripting possibilities), and schedule events so users are never without real-time data access. | $2.6M | Seed | Sep 20, 2023 |  |
| DataBlend | DataBlend is an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solution designed exclusively for CFOs, controllers, and their teams. Featuring a no-code, low-code workflow builder, DataBlend allows accounting and finance professionals to create secure and worry-free data integrations. Companies use Datablend to collect and join data from multiplesources, build workflows (e.g. field to field mapping, pivot tables, and additional data transformations through virtually unlimited custom scripting possibilities), and schedule events so users are never without real-time data access. | $2.6M | Seed | Jun 16, 2023 |  |
| DataBlend | DataBlend is an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solution designed exclusively for CFOs, controllers, and their teams. Featuring a no-code, low-code workflow builder, DataBlend allows accounting and finance professionals to create secure and worry-free data integrations. Companies use Datablend to collect and join data from multiplesources, build workflows (e.g. field to field mapping, pivot tables, and additional data transformations through virtually unlimited custom scripting possibilities), and schedule events so users are never without real-time data access. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 06, 2023 |  |
| Wasted* | wasted* transforms human waste into effective, safe, and sustainable fertilizers. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Burlington, Vermont. |  | Pre-Seed | May 30, 2023 |  |

10 of 97 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does FreshTracks Capital invest in?

FreshTracks Capital invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 97 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 FreshTracks Capital's check size?

FreshTracks Capital typically joins rounds of $500k–$3.5M at Seed and $750k–$7.7M 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 FreshTracks Capital participates in.

### How do I contact FreshTracks Capital?

Public channels for FreshTracks Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 FreshTracks Capital?

The team at FreshTracks Capital includes Cairn Cross (Co-Founder), Holly J. Killary (Bookkeeper and Administrative Assistant) and Lee Bouyea (Managing Director). 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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