# Gil Horsky

> Gil Horsky is a seed investor at FLORA Ventures backing Food and Beverage and Organic Food. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FLORA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flora-ventures)
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilhorsky?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/GilHorsky
- Website: http://www.floravc.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gilhorsky

Gil Horsky is a seed investor at FLORA Ventures focused on Food and Beverage and Organic Food. Gil Horsky is the Founding Partner of FLORA Ventures (www.floravc.com) a new early-stage VC fund that is identifying, backing and partnering with the best purpose-led entrepreneurs redefining the $8T AgriFood & Sustainability industries, to make food that is good for people, and kind to the planet. The fund’s investment thesis is focused onthe intersection of the AgriFood industry with Planetary & Human Health, all underpinned by deep-tech. Gil was previously part of the SnackFutures founding team, the ventures (CVC) & innovation hub from Mondelēz, and led the company’s venture capital investments in capabilities: foodtech, R&D, sustainability, e-commerce and supply chain.Among others, SnackFutures invested in Hu Kitchen (later acquired), Torr FoodTech, Celleste Bio and others.Throughout his career, Gil had the privilege to work in a variety of commercial roles on some of the most iconic global food brands: Milka, Pepsi, Quaker Oats, Toblerone, Cadbury, Oreo, Tropicana & Nestle Purina. Gil Horsky leveraged strong business & consumer insights to identify, develop and launch over $800 of new food products, FoodTech technologies and businesses around the world. His professional career has taken him around the world gaining strong international experience in both developing & emerging markets.Gil Horsky is a regular contributor to leading industry journals and a speaker in leading international conferences about the topics of FoodTech, innovation and new ventures.But most importantly, Gil Horsky enjoys working, leading and learning from others and wants to make a positive impact!

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 100% |
| Organic Food | 1 | 50% |
| Food Processing | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 1 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lembas | Lembas is a foodtech startup that has developed "GLP-1 Edge," a patent-pending peptide ingredient designed to naturally boost the GLP-1 hormone, which helps regulate appetite and metabolism for weight management. Using AI-driven discovery and licensed technology from Tel Aviv University, Lembas offers this peptide powder as abusiness-to-business ingredient for food and supplement brands, providing a science-backed, non-pharmaceutical alternative to weight loss drugs with no reported side effects | $3.6M | Pre-Seed | Jun 10, 2025 |  |
| Tupu | Tupu engages in the manufacture and supply of mushroom-based foods. | $3.2M | Seed | Oct 31, 2023 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FoodLabs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-food-lab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bluestein Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluestein-associates) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Clear Current Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clear-current-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Coast Capital Savings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coast-capital-savings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FoodHack](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foodhack-8449) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [fresh.fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fresh-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About FLORA Ventures

VC Fund · Tel Aviv-jaffa, Israel

FLORA Ventures (www.floravc.com) is a new early-stage VC fund that is identifying, backing and partnering with the best purpose-led entrepreneurs redefining the $8T AgriFood & Sustainability industries, to make food that is good for people, and kind to the planet. The fund’s investment thesis is focused on the intersection of the AgriFoodindustry with Planetary & Human Health, all underpinned by deep-tech. FLORA Ventures is accessing a proprietary deal-flow, and we are supporting our portfolio companies with our hands-on deep industry know-how, global network and access to smart capital. The fund is managed by experienced and industry expert General Partners, and backed by leading Institutional and Strategic Limited Partner investors.

1 contacts available at FLORA Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gil Horsky | Founding Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gil-horksy |

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## FAQ

### What does Gil Horsky invest in?

Gil Horsky invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Organic Food and Food Processing startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Gil Horsky last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gil Horsky closed in Jun 2025. 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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