# Kale United

> Kale United is a VC fund in Stockholm backing Food and Beverage and Food Processing. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kaleunited/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/kale_united
- Website: http://kaleunited.com/

Kale United is a VC fund in Stockholm focused on Food and Beverage and Food Processing. Kale United invests in vegan startups. Måns Ullerstam founded it in 2018, with its headquarters in Stockholm in Sweden.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $360k–$2.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 11 | 41% |
| Food Processing | 7 | 26% |
| Biotechnology | 5 | 19% |
| Organic Food | 3 | 11% |
| Retail | 2 | 7% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 48% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 22% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 15% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 2 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sweden | 5 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 15% |
| Canada | 2 | 7% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Austria | 1 | 4% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hooked Foods | Hooked Foods is working on a plant-based tuna substitute. By serving delicious plant-based seafood for everyone to enjoy, the company is leading the transition to a healthier seafood ecosystem. The company was established in 2019 and is headquartered in Sweden. | $829.3K |  | Mar 20, 2025 |  |
| Cultimate Foods | Cultimate Foods is a cellular agriculture company. It develops cultivated fat for hybrid alt-meat products. It's cultivated fat replicates the structure of animal fat tissue and it uses a "unique technological approach to 3D cultivation that creates the structure of their ingredient and reduces production costs." | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 23, 2024 |  |
| Opalia | Opalia develops food technology focused on producing animal-free dairy using cell-based systems. It creates real milk by cultivating mammary cells in controlled bioreactors, generating proteins, fats, and sugars that match conventional dairy composition. The company provides a platform that produces complete milk rather than isolated ingredients,allowing direct use in products such as cheese, butter, and ice cream. Its offering is structured as a business-to-business model, supplying milk and dairy inputs to food manufacturers and partners for integration into existing production processes.Opalia also develops modular bioreactor systems and production methods designed to scale manufacturing of cell-based dairy. The technology is applied to support food production systems that operate without livestock while maintaining functional properties of traditional dairy. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| Bärta | Bärta produces vegan and organic food from naturally fermented organic peas. | $575.9K |  | Jul 23, 2023 |  |
| The Pack | THE PACK is a food technology startup, cooking up drool inducing plant-based meals for all of dog kind. | $1M | Seed | Dec 21, 2022 |  |
| Swedish Temptations | Swedish Temptations, founded in 2019 by CEO Pia Qvarnström, built a brand named Bärta for producing organic, vegan and fermented food. The ingredients include Swedish split peas. | $1.6M | Equity Crowdfunding | Aug 20, 2022 |  |
| Bärta | Bärta produces vegan and organic food from naturally fermented organic peas. | $1.5M | Equity Crowdfunding | Aug 20, 2022 |  |
| Loki Foods | We're producing sustainable, plant-based foods from the Arctic. Iceland’s first plant-based cod and seafood! | $500K | Pre-Seed | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| Fermify | Fermify offers a digital B2B platform enabling dairy companies to produce precision fermentation-based casein identical to cow casein, over 50% cheaper, sustainably, and independent of cow’s milk availability. |  | Pre-Seed | May 03, 2022 |  |
| Vevolution | Vevolution is the home of plant-based and cell-tech innovators we provide SaaS solutions to help investors and startups create a better world. | $330K | Seed | Mar 22, 2022 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Kale United invest in?

Kale United invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Food Processing and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kale United's check size?

Kale United typically joins rounds of $360k–$2.5M at Seed and $100k–$2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kale United participates in.

### When did Kale United last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kale United closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 27 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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