# Future Positive

> Future Positive is a VC fund backing Software and Food Processing. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/futurepositive/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/futurepositive
- Website: https://www.futurepositive.com/

Future Positive is a venture capital investment firm.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Future Positive. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Future Positive. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/future-positive?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$9M |
| Series A | $10M–$43M |
| Series B | $20M–$161M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 11% |
| Food Processing | 3 | 11% |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 11% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 25% |
| Series A | 5 | 18% |
| Series B | 5 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Series C | 1 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 43% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
| Chile | 1 | 4% |
| Brazil | 1 | 4% |
| Mexico | 1 | 4% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frederick Blackford | Founder | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fred-blackford |
| Alex Yagoda | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-yagoda |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Panthalassa | Panthalassa is a technology company focused on developing renewable energy systems in the ocean, particularly to power computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company works on harnessing wave energy to generate electricity at sea, which can then be used to run offshore data centers or converted into fuels that are transported backto land. | $140M | Series B | May 04, 2026 |  |
| Hello Vet | Hello Vet is a pet care platform connecting clients with veterinary teams, allowing real-time communication and support during procedures | $20.1M | Series A | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Belvo | Belvo is the open finance API platform that enables users to connect their accounts to an app. The platform lets financial innovators to access and interpret data from their end-users in an easy and scalable way. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 16, 2025 |  |
| Heirloom | Heirloom is a provider of direct air capture technology to enhance the natural process of CO2 absorption from the atmosphere. Its technology accelerates limestone's ability to capture carbon dioxide, storing it permanently underground while operating with renewable energy. | $150M | Series B | Dec 04, 2024 |  |
| Speak | Speak is a developer of a mobile language-learning application focused on English learning. The application uses speech recognition technology to support conversational practice in real-world contexts. It enables users to improve spoken English skills and listening comprehension, including exposure to different accents, through structured speakingexercises and interaction-based learning features. | $20M | Series B | Jun 21, 2024 |  |
| Vantage Discovery | Vantage Discovery is an engine for harnessing the power of generative AI embeddings to deliver astoundingly insightful search results, a platform for enabling new experiences for discovering and contextualizing content and products, a service for implementing production-ready solutions in hours, not weeks. | $16M | Series A | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Vantage Discovery | Vantage Discovery is an engine for harnessing the power of generative AI embeddings to deliver astoundingly insightful search results, a platform for enabling new experiences for discovering and contextualizing content and products, a service for implementing production-ready solutions in hours, not weeks. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| Redwood Materials | Redwood Materials creates a circular supply chain to drive down the environmental footprint and cost of lithium-ion batteries and the electric vehicles and sustainable energy storage systems they power. It offers recycling of end-of-life batteries and production scrap, refining of critical elements, and deployment of large-scale energy-storagesystems using second-life battery packs. | $1B | Series D | Aug 29, 2023 |  |
| Rex | Rex offers a mobile app that allows users to find, track, and recommend places. Rex app seeks to start sharing recommendations by combining AI and computer vision technology. | $4M | Seed | Jun 12, 2023 |  |
| NotCo | NotCo is a food industry. They use technology to recreate the same products. They create food systems. They produce plant-based meat and dairy substitutes. They used artificial intelligence to make plant-based food that functions and animal-based tastes. | $70M | Series D | Dec 12, 2022 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kaszek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaszek-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-twenty-minute-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Bezos Expeditions](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bezos-expeditions) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [L Catterton](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lcatterton) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Future Positive invest in?

Future Positive invests primarily in Software, Food Processing and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 28 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 Future Positive's check size?

Future Positive typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$9M at Seed, $10M–$43M at Series A and $20M–$161M 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 Future Positive participates in.

### How do I contact Future Positive?

Public channels for Future Positive 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 Future Positive?

The team at Future Positive includes Frederick Blackford (Founder) and Alex Yagoda (Partner). 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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