# Kurt Beecher Dammeier > Kurt Beecher Dammeier is a seed investor at Beecher's Handmade Cheese backing Product Design. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details… - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: Beecher's Handmade Cheese - Location: Seattle, United States - Total investments: 1 - Last investment: Apr 2016 - Lead investor: 0% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KurtDammeier/ Kurt Beecher Dammeier is a seed investor at Beecher's Handmade Cheese in Seattle focused on Product Design and Consumer Software. A fourth generation Puget Sound native and nascent New Yorker, Kurt has always felt passionately about authentic, full-flavored foods, free of artificial additives and preservatives. Through his company, Sugar Mountain, Kurt is the owner and chef of a number of food destinations and brands, including Beecher’s Handmade Cheese, Bennett’s, Maximus/ Minimus, Pasta & Co, Mishima Reserve, and The Butcher’s Table. With each operation, Kurt’s goal is to demonstrate how quality ingredients make for delicious meals, without added food colorings, flavor enhancers, or preservatives. Beyond the retail world, Kurt is effecting change in people’s eating habits through his new book, Pure Food, released in July 2016, and through the Beecher’s Pure Food Kids Foundation (501c3), founded in 2004. Each year, the Foundation’s Pure Food Kids Workshop empowers more than 15,000 fourth and fifth grade students in the Seattle Metro area and in New York City to make healthy food choices for life. ## Contacts 5 contacts available for Kurt Beecher Dammeier: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/kurt-beecher-dammeier?utm_source=investor_profile ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Product Design | 1 | 100% | | Consumer Software | 1 | 100% | | Consumer Electronics | 1 | 100% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Human Inc | Human is a Seattle-based consumer technology company that builds products which put people's needs, relationships and experiences first. | $5M | Seed | Apr 21, 2016 | | 1 of 1 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Darling Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darling-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Microsoft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/microsoft) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Nazca Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nazca-ventures-3) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Sage Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sage-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About Beecher's Handmade Cheese VC Fund 1 contacts available at Beecher's Handmade Cheese. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Kurt Beecher Dammeier | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kurt-beecher-dammeier | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Kurt Beecher Dammeier invest in? Kurt Beecher Dammeier invests primarily in Product Design, Consumer Software and Consumer Electronics startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### How do I contact Kurt Beecher Dammeier? Public channels for Kurt Beecher Dammeier include Facebook. 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. ### When did Kurt Beecher Dammeier last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Kurt Beecher Dammeier closed in Apr 2016. Shizune tracks 1 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co