# King Philanthropies

> King Philanthropies is a VC fund in Menlo Park backing Agriculture, AgTech and Biotechnology. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/king-philanthropies
- Website: https://kingphilanthropies.org

King Philanthropies is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Agriculture and AgTech. King King Philanthropies is an organization to alleviates extreme poverty through multiplying high-performing leaders and organizations.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 3 | 33% |
| AgTech | 2 | 22% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 22% |
| Environmental Engineering | 2 | 22% |
| Solar | 1 | 11% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 44% |
| Grant | 2 | 22% |
| Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 56% |
| Kenya | 1 | 11% |
| Australia | 1 | 11% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kubik | Kubik is an environmental technology company that uses plastic waste to make low-carbon, durable, and affordable buildings. | $1.9M | Seed | Apr 28, 2024 |  |
| Ryp Labs | Ryp Labs develops and commercializes technologies designed to reduce food waste. It provides a natural and safe formulation that can be applied to a variety of surfaces, including stickers, labels, and sheets, to increase the shelf-life of fresh produce. Its food-safe labels (Shelf-Defense), and stickers (StixFresh), have been shown to double theshelf-life of fresh produce, by simply peeling and applying them to loose produce or its packaging. | $8.1M | Series A | Nov 22, 2023 |  |
| Okra Solar | Okra Solar is an IoT technology solution that enables solar generating communities to share and utilize more energy. It is a plug-and-play smart grid technology that enables rapid electrification for last-mile communities. Using mobile payments, modular grid design, and remote monitoring, they provide utility companies with a low-cost, data-drivensolution to operate solar networks in hard to reach communities. They are on a mission to connect off-grid communities to the modern economy.Okra Solar was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. | $7.9M | Series A | Sep 04, 2023 |  |
| Climate Vault Solutions | Climate Vault Solutions is shaping the climate action market by offering a comprehensive solution for really verified and immediate carbon estimates, reductions, and removals. Its integrated reduction and removal program uses government-regulated compliance carbon markets to eliminate carbon in days rather than decades, resulting in theenvironmental impact that today's employees, stakeholders, and consumers care about and demand from organizations. Climate Vault Solutions is the all-inclusive alternative to traditional voluntary carbon market solutions because it provides the most verifiable and instantaneous carbon reduction solution on the market at scale. | $9.4M | Series A | Jun 13, 2023 |  |
| Switch Bioworks | Switch Bioworks produces sustainable nitrogen fertilizer by reprogramming naturally occurring symbiotic microbes to produce fertilizers. | $1.5M | Grant | Jan 18, 2023 |  |
| Ryp Labs | Ryp Labs develops and commercializes technologies designed to reduce food waste. It provides a natural and safe formulation that can be applied to a variety of surfaces, including stickers, labels, and sheets, to increase the shelf-life of fresh produce. Its food-safe labels (Shelf-Defense), and stickers (StixFresh), have been shown to double theshelf-life of fresh produce, by simply peeling and applying them to loose produce or its packaging. | $10.8M | Series A | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| 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. | $27M | Series C | Oct 06, 2022 |  |
| Mootral | Mootral is a Swiss AgriTech company that develops innovative carbon reduction solutions for companies and governments. Its first solution is a natural feed supplement that significantly reduces methane emissions from ruminants. Mootral is based on a proprietary combination of active compounds from garlic and flavonoids derived from citrus. Itsresearch shows a nearly complete inhibition of emitted methane in vitro that reaches up to 38% reduction under real farm conditions. | $12M | Series A | Apr 01, 2022 |  |
| Particles for Humanity | Particles for Humanity transforms early-stage medical technology into products for people living in low-resource settings. Its development plans include a portfolio of products for improving vaccination and reducing malnutrition. Its rigorous product development process is based on end-user input and is focused on financially sustainable productopportunities. | $4M | Grant | Jan 20, 2022 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Argosy Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argosy-foundation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [At One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/at-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BCP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bcp-blitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ocean Born Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ocean-born-foundation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [African Renaissance Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/african-renaissance-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Autodesk Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/autodesk-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does King Philanthropies invest in?

King Philanthropies invests primarily in Agriculture, AgTech and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Grant stage. Most of the 9 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 King Philanthropies last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for King Philanthropies closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 9 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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