# Goods Ventures

> Goods Ventures is a VC fund in Princeton backing Wholesale and Food and Beverage. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Princeton, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/goods-ventures/
- Website: http://www.goodsventures.com

Goods Ventures is a VC fund in Princeton focused on Wholesale and Food and Beverage. Goods Ventures invests in early-stage companies within the food, beverage, and consumer goods ecosystem. The firm was founded by Kevin Lehmann — a leading financial and consumer industry analyst, M&A advisor, and founder of Goods Intelligence. Kevin was previously a Director at global investment bank Evercore and member of Wall Street’stop-ranked analyst team to cover both the CPG and restaurant sectors (Institutional Investor). He was Wall Street’s leading CPG data user (e.g. Nielsen/IRI/SPINS/Numerator/NPD) and Thomson Reuters once named his team the #1 Stock Pickers in the Food sector. Kevin began his consumer career with GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare and consumer research giant Nielsen.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wholesale | 2 | 67% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 67% |
| Local | 1 | 33% |
| Winery | 1 | 33% |
| Organic | 1 | 33% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chubby Snacks | Chubby Snacks is reinventing the classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich so that you never have to choose between wholesome and delicious. With familiar flavors and nutritious ingredients, the firm takes tasty convenience to the next level. | $3.3M | Seed | Sep 26, 2022 |  |
| Forager | Forager is a digital B2B procurement platform for local food, designed to simplify the sourcing process for wholesale buyers and local food suppliers.The company's mission is to make locally sourced food more widely available for everyone, which they believe is only possible when it becomes just as easy to buy from independent local farms asit is from broadline distributors. Their solution streamlines every step of sourcing process for local food from procurement to payment, taking out all the emails, phone calls, and paperwork. | $4M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 14, 2021 |  |
| Madre Mezcal | Madre Mezcal is a distillery company that specializes in manufacturing and selling alcoholic beverages. | $3M | Series A | Apr 21, 2021 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [444 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/444-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Coastal Enterprises](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coastal-enterprises) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- ICM — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Pareto Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pareto-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Room 9 — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Villam Ventures — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Goods Ventures invest in?

Goods Ventures invests primarily in Wholesale, Food and Beverage and Local startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 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 Goods Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Goods Ventures closed in Sep 2022. Shizune tracks 3 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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