# KBW Ventures

> KBW Ventures is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage and Food Processing. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, United States
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/18142640/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/kbw_ventures
- Website: https://kbw-ventures.com

KBW Ventures is an asset management firm focusing exclusively on venture capital, value creation, and growth equity. It seeks to make venture and growth investments in companies operating in the food, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and fintech sectors. The firm was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California,United States.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$12M |
| Series A | $7.1M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 9 | 27% |
| Food Processing | 5 | 15% |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 12% |
| Software | 3 | 9% |

64 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 39% |
| Series A | 5 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 9% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 9% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 39% |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 | 9% |
| Singapore | 2 | 6% |
| Egypt | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Khaled Al Saud | Founder | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khaled-bin-alwaleed |
| Steve Mullins | Managing Director & Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-mullins-7216 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| umanitek | Umanitek focuses on countering harmful AI-generated content such as deepfakes, CSAM, and misinformation using privacy-preserving, decentralised technology. |  | Seed | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| Relik | Relik is a UAE-based authentication platform that uses AI, visual recognition, and blockchain-backed verification to authenticate collectibles, luxury goods, artwork, and cultural assets. The platform creates tamper-resistant digital identities for physical items without using chips, tags, or holograms, enabling users to verify authenticity throughsmartphone-based object recognition and digital certification. |  | Seed | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Clearspeed | Clearspeed is the market leader for assessing risk in speech. Global organizations trust our highly precise, accurate, and unbiased voice analytics to fast-track low risk while also alerting to possible fraud. Our clients and partners rely on the unique data we provide to improve their risk confidence, reduce their costs, and deliver an improvedcustomer experience. | $60M | Series D | Jun 25, 2025 |  |
| ClearGrid | ClearGrid, creating software and AI to streamline recovery and collaborate with the existing vendors. | $6.5M | Seed | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| PlaysOut | PlaysOut is a mini-game platform that helps developers publish mini-games on superAPP platforms | $7M | Seed | Mar 17, 2025 |  |
| Kaso | Kaso is an all-in-one AI-powered platform and growth suite for the foodservice industry. It's digital procurement and ordering platform uses data-driven tools and AI-powered automation to connect restaurants with suppliers - streamlining orders, reducing errors and food waste, and enabling smarter, more sustainable supply chains. |  | Seed | Aug 21, 2024 |  |
| NoorNation | NoorNation's mission is to provide long-term, decentralised energy and water infrastructure solutions. |  | Seed | Aug 21, 2024 |  |
| Simplified Financial Solutions Company | Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting. | $10M | Seed | May 30, 2024 |  |
| Rebellyous Foods | Rebellyous Foods is a food manufacturing technology and production company defined solely to catapult meat alternative production toward price parity with animal-based meat. Rebellyous Foods implements food manufacturing equipment and processes in large-scale production to produce low-cost plant-based meat at high volumes. These goals are achievedthrough uniquely designed food products, the use of high-throughput manufacturing automation and ‘smart’ production centers, and the development and utilization of new innovative low-energy manufacturing tools.Rebellyous Foods was established in 2017 in Seattle, Washington. | $20.3M | Series B | Feb 03, 2023 |  |
| Black Sheep Foods | Black Sheep Foods is a plant-based meat company using technology and analytical chemistry to create a delicious lamb alternative that is better for the environment and their health. The company's products are a plant-based alternative to ground lamb and are made using analytical chemistry from soy protein, coconut oil, and natural flavors,enabling consumers to reduce carbon footprint by opting for the lamb alternative which is also cheap and tastes the same. | $12.3M | Series A | Dec 08, 2022 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does KBW Ventures invest in?

KBW Ventures invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Food Processing and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 33 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 KBW Ventures's check size?

KBW Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$12M at Seed and $7.1M–$20M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds KBW Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact KBW Ventures?

Public channels for KBW Ventures 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 KBW Ventures?

The team at KBW Ventures includes Khaled Al Saud (Founder) and Steve Mullins (Managing Director & Chief Financial Officer). 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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