Litani Ventures
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Litani Ventures is a consumer investment company for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
Last updated:
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Industries Litani Ventures invests in
Food and BeverageOrganic FoodFood ProcessingOrganicConsumer
Stages Litani Ventures invests in
SeedSeries ASeries BPre-SeedFunding Round
Countries Litani Ventures invests in
United StatesVenezuela
Round sizes
Seed $1.1M–$12MSeries A $5M–$21MSeries B $21M–$24M
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$12M
- Series A
- $5M–$21M
- Series B
- $21M–$24M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 7 (33%)
- Organic Food 3 (14%)
- Food Processing 3 (14%)
- Organic 2 (10%)
- Consumer 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (38%)
- Series A 6 (29%)
- Series B 2 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 14 (67%)
- Venezuela 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Peter Rahal
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 26 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| The world they live in is built from petroleum. The paints on their walls, the carpets in their homes, the tires on their cars, the plastics for everyday consumer goods – these and many more products are made from chemicals that are mostly made from petroleum, creating a $3 trillion/yr industry. To fulfill their dependency on petroleum, theydo crazy things like setting up oil rigs in the middle of the ocean and drilling several miles into the ocean floor! They’ve done these things because they have had no alternative to meet their needs. Not anymore!Over the past decade, advances in engineering microorganisms have afforded us the opportunity to make the same chemicals that are traditionally made from petroleum. Instead of requiring raw materials buried deep within the earth, microbes can use abundant and renewable sources of carbon such as sugars during processes akin to brewing beer. Despite the numerous advantages, making chemicals this way at the industrial level is still rare. This is because it’s still more expensive than using petroleum for producing the chemicals. Although a few challenges need to be solved to usher in the era of renewable chemicals, a fundamental constraint that limits the economic competitiveness of using microbes is the loss of at least 33% of the carbon as carbon dioxide waste during the fermentation – think of this as the head on your beer. Because of this carbon loss, potential product is simply not made. In technical terms, the maximum achievable yields are 67%. As sugars are the most expensive component of a bioprocess, making the carbon dioxide waste translates to as much as 20% of total costs, which severely hampers the economics of the bioprocess and its competitiveness with petroleum-based production methods.At ZymoChem, they are re-imagining the microbe, one that is designed to eliminate (or substantially reduce) carbon loss during the production of chemicals. To do this, they had to design a completely new biosynthetic pathway – one that doesn’t exist in nature – to make the chemicals. Each individual step of this pathway is designed to not lose carbon as carbon dioxide, enabling their biosynthetic pathway to retain all of the sugar’s carbon into the final chemical product. This carbon conservation allows their approach to have superior theoretical yields, up to 50% better than existing state-of-the-art technology! In turn, their technology has the potential to substantially lower production costs and drastically improve cost-competitiveness for making a variety of chemicals from renewable sources, even at today's oil prices. | $21M / Series A / Jan 15, 2024 | ||
| On a mission to end the world's reliance on plastic. Cove has developed the first fully biodegradable water bottle. | $6.6M / Series A / Oct 04, 2023 | ||
| Noba is a technology company building a more open global financial system. They offer a mobile application that enables users to access, hold, send, and receive information. This gives organizations a financial incentive to recruit and keep talent. Use the power of digital currency to shield the team against inflation. | $5M / Pre-Seed / Aug 15, 2022 | ||
| Plonts produces plant-based foods to promote sustainable foods by using the art of microbes to craft a new category of incredible cheeses, with incredible flavors and textures from sustainable plants. | $12M / Seed / May 31, 2022 | ||
| Smart Search Your Documents. Built For Financial Due Diligence. | May 16, 2022 | ||
X (formerly Twitter)
|
X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications. As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages. X was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. X is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with local offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and Washington. X's international offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver. | $7.2B / Post-IPO Equity / May 04, 2022 | |
| AI-powered electronics supply-chain-as-a-service Cofactr gives critical manufacturers access to world-class supply chain management services for their electronic components. Hardware innovators, from rapidly growing startups to the largest enterprises, build, scale, and adapt with Cofactr. | $6.2M / Seed / Apr 07, 2022 | ||
| Parthean is a learning platform that creates personalized learning paths to help young professionals get ahead. | $1.1M / Seed / Jan 27, 2022 | ||
| The world they live in is built from petroleum. The paints on their walls, the carpets in their homes, the tires on their cars, the plastics for everyday consumer goods – these and many more products are made from chemicals that are mostly made from petroleum, creating a $3 trillion/yr industry. To fulfill their dependency on petroleum, theydo crazy things like setting up oil rigs in the middle of the ocean and drilling several miles into the ocean floor! They’ve done these things because they have had no alternative to meet their needs. Not anymore!Over the past decade, advances in engineering microorganisms have afforded us the opportunity to make the same chemicals that are traditionally made from petroleum. Instead of requiring raw materials buried deep within the earth, microbes can use abundant and renewable sources of carbon such as sugars during processes akin to brewing beer. Despite the numerous advantages, making chemicals this way at the industrial level is still rare. This is because it’s still more expensive than using petroleum for producing the chemicals. Although a few challenges need to be solved to usher in the era of renewable chemicals, a fundamental constraint that limits the economic competitiveness of using microbes is the loss of at least 33% of the carbon as carbon dioxide waste during the fermentation – think of this as the head on your beer. Because of this carbon loss, potential product is simply not made. In technical terms, the maximum achievable yields are 67%. As sugars are the most expensive component of a bioprocess, making the carbon dioxide waste translates to as much as 20% of total costs, which severely hampers the economics of the bioprocess and its competitiveness with petroleum-based production methods.At ZymoChem, they are re-imagining the microbe, one that is designed to eliminate (or substantially reduce) carbon loss during the production of chemicals. To do this, they had to design a completely new biosynthetic pathway – one that doesn’t exist in nature – to make the chemicals. Each individual step of this pathway is designed to not lose carbon as carbon dioxide, enabling their biosynthetic pathway to retain all of the sugar’s carbon into the final chemical product. This carbon conservation allows their approach to have superior theoretical yields, up to 50% better than existing state-of-the-art technology! In turn, their technology has the potential to substantially lower production costs and drastically improve cost-competitiveness for making a variety of chemicals from renewable sources, even at today's oil prices. | $4M / Seed / Dec 08, 2021 | ||
| JuneShine is a hard-kombucha company. | $24M / Series B / Nov 15, 2021 | ||
| See all 21 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Litani Ventures invest in?
Litani Ventures invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Organic Food and Food Processing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 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 Litani Ventures's check size?
Litani Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$12M at Seed, $5M–$21M at Series A and $21M–$24M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Litani Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Litani Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Litani Ventures?
The team at Litani Ventures includes Peter Rahal (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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