Lunch Partners
VC Fund
New York, United States
Lunch Partners is a group of business leaders that invests together in early-stage companies with passionate leaders.It supports its portfolio companies with unique expertise and strategic guidance. The firm reviews founder-led companies, at seed and early A rounds, across industries, with a bias towards passionate entrepreneurs who are supportedby teams with substantial domain expertise. They look for products and services that demonstrate clear purpose, market demand, and massive potential. It prioritizes teams that leverage consumer intelligence and operational excellence to establish and grow a direct, one-to-one connection with consumers.In 2017, the New York, New York-based company was formed by a group of business leaders.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Lunch Partners invests in
Stages Lunch Partners invests in
Countries Lunch Partners invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 13 contacts → | |||
Investment Focus
Industry
- Retail 3 (15%)
- E-Commerce 3 (15%)
- Manufacturing 3 (15%)
- Food and Beverage 3 (15%)
- Content 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (45%)
- Series A 5 (25%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (10%)
- Secondary Market 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 12 (60%)
- Canada 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alexander Jutkowitz
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Carla Zakhem-Hassan
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Carl Stern
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jason Ostheimer
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Jeff Kingsley
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 13 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| PathWater is to make sustainable bottled water that helps break the addiction to single-use plastic bottled water. We’re growing this revolution every day, as global consumer demands skyrocket for sustainable and reusable choices in bottled water packaging. | $2M / Secondary Market / Sep 20, 2022 | ||
| Sundays for Dogs engages in the online retail of dog foods. Its products are made by an air-drying method that gently dehydrates food low and slow to preserve nutrients and flavor while killing germs. The company was co-founded by Tory Waxman and Michael Waxman and is based in New York. | $10M / Series A / Mar 16, 2022 | ||
| Gemist is the first-ever D2C custom jewelry company focused on the way millennials engage jewelry. We have made it easy to custom design jewelry through our branding, technology and namely our unique home “Try-and-Buy” experience. | $3M / Seed / Feb 02, 2022 | ||
| Air brings your content and collaborators together in a space designed for visual work. By giving your team back those hours previously lost each day on menial tasks, Air not only fundamentally changes team efficiency, but also enables more moments of creativity. Air was designed by creators for creators with the hopes of getting more peopleinvolved in your brand experience. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 28, 2022 | ||
| Chatdesk helps companies maximize the ROI of their customer interactions on Email, Chat, Social, and SMS by leveraging AI + utilizing 43,000 local brand experts in 60+ languages. Our BrandScript technology ensures that responses match clients’ brand voice powered by Generative AI. | $7M / Series A / Jan 18, 2022 | ||
| Qonsent provides next-practice consent enablement for marketing teams, as well as a first-of-its-kind consumer consent wallet for transparent consent engagements directly between the Consumer and the brand. | $5M / Seed / Dec 15, 2021 | ||
| Jupiter is a specialized manufacturer of hair, scalp care and dandruff products. | Seed / Jun 04, 2021 | ||
| We deliver sommelier curated, low intervention, sustainably farmed wines without chemical manipulation that are paired with unique art to drive off-shelf velocity. Because traditional glass bottles are heavy, energy-intensive to produce, and not recyclable, our four-packs of cans (1L) have half the carbon footprint of a glass bottle of wine(750mL). Nomadica is attracting new customers away from the traditional bottle market, is sold both DTC and wholesale in 20 markets. We have been featured in Forbes, Fortune, and industry darling, Vinepair. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2021 | ||
| MikMak is the leading global platform for commerce intelligence and orchestration. Our software grows brands in real-time by enabling commerce in the places where their shoppers spend time, measuring the omnichannel outcome of those interactions, and helping them to plan and optimize future outcomes.In 2023, MikMak significantly expanded itsglobal footprint across EMEA, APAC, and LATAM through the acquisition of French eCommerce enablement company Swaven. That same year, the company further deepened its commerce insights by acquiring ChannelAdvisor’s Shoppable Media and Brand Analytics product lines from Rithum (formerly CommerceHub). In January of 2026, MikMak was acquired by SPINS, bringing together two category leaders in commerce intelligence and best-in-class data and insights. The combined entity provides brands with an unrivaled, unified view of availability, point-of-sale performance, and consumer behavior, globally and in real time. | $10M / Series A / Aug 03, 2020 | ||
| Religion of Sports is a Santa Monica, CA-based sports media company that provides scripted and unscripted videos, podcasts, feature films, and social content about sports. Founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, and Gotham Chopra, Religion of Sports creates best-in-class content and is building a brand focused on human/emotional storytelling inand around the world of sports. | $10M / Series A / Jul 23, 2020 | ||
| See all 20 investments → | |||
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BAM Ventures
2 deals together
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2 deals together
Great Oaks Venture Capital
2 deals together
Hawke Ventures
2 deals together
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What does Lunch Partners invest in?
Lunch Partners invests primarily in Retail, E-Commerce and Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Lunch Partners?
The team at Lunch Partners includes Alexander Jutkowitz (Partner), Carla Zakhem-Hassan (Partner) and Carl Stern (Partner), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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