# Karen Howland

> Karen Howland is a Series A investor at CircleUp backing Food and Beverage and Wellness. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [CircleUp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/circleup-growth-partners)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-howland-1b982149/

Karen Howland is a Managing Director at CircleUp. She attended Tulane University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 4 | 100% |
| Wellness | 1 | 25% |
| Nutrition | 1 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 25% |
| Snack Food | 1 | 25% |

8 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Everything Legendary | Everything Legendary specializes in plant-based, gluten-free, and soy-free food. | $6M | Series A | Feb 08, 2022 |  |
| Los Sundays Tequila | Los Sundays is a lifestyle brand disrupting a product-focused category. Strategically built to engage organically with consumers through today's most influential channels – social media, fashion, and immersive events.Los Sundays combines original and relatable content with award-winning tequila to captivate and inspire the new generation oftequila consumers. | $3.5M | Series A | Jun 16, 2021 |  |
| Serenity Kids | Serenity Kids is facilitating healthy diets and lifestyles for children through the highest quality food, without sugar. They are transforming their society to cultivate health, equality, and sustainability starting with the youngest members of their community.The company was founded in 2016 by Serenity Heegel Carr and Joe Carr and is based inAustin, Texas, United States. | $7M | Series A | Jun 15, 2021 |  |
| IQ Bar | IQ Bar is a food and beverage company that offers protein bars and IQMIX hydration mixes. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $2.8M | Series A | Feb 02, 2021 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [301](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/301-inc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ketch Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ketch-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mistral Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mistral-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Room 9](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/room-9) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Wild Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wild-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About CircleUp

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

CircleUp is an investment platform that provides capital and resources to innovative, early-stage consumer brands with a modern, scalable approach to private markets. CircleUp is comprised of internally-managed equity funds, a credit program, and an Insights and Connections team - all powered by Helio, CircleUp's proprietary machine learningplatform. Helio collects and analyzes billions of data points to evaluates 1.3 million consumer businesses and predict future business success.

5 contacts available at CircleUp.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aditi Dashputre | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aditi-dashputre |
| Ben Lee | Investment Committee, CircleUp Funds | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-lee-3 |
| Karen Howland | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karen-howland |
| Patrick Robinson | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-robinson |
| Rory Eakin | Co-Founder, Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rory-eakin |

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## FAQ

### What does Karen Howland invest in?

Karen Howland invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Wellness and Nutrition startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 4 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 Karen Howland last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Karen Howland closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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