Madeline Darcy
Founder & Managing Partner @ Kaya Ventures
Boston, United States
Madeline Darcy is a seed investor at Kaya Ventures in Boston focused on Food and Beverage and Wellness. Madeline Darcy is the Founder and Managing Partner at Kaya Ventures. Madeline Darcy attended Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Madeline Darcy invests in
Stages Madeline Darcy invests in
Countries Madeline Darcy invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 4 (44%)
- Wellness 3 (33%)
- Software 2 (22%)
- Snack Food 2 (22%)
- Health Care 2 (22%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (56%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (44%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Moku Foods
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Moku Foods' products include a mushroom jerky starter pack, original mushroom jerky, sweet and spicy mushroom jerky, and teriyaki mushroom jerky. It sells starter packs of mushroom jerky. | $2M / Seed / May 14, 2021 | |
PERKS Showcase™
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We are leaders in the employee experience business. Through our brands, we help HR teams more effectively engage their employees with their brand and benefits.As the creators of Showcase™ - The employee experience platform, we give HR the power to effectively market their benefits and experiences to employees. PERKS helps employers find the rightbenefits, connects them with employees, and measures their success. In 2020, we helped small, medium, and Fortune 500 groups host successful virtual benefits, wellness, and open enrollment fairs for their teams. The Showcase platform was designed and built for both the annual fair and ongoing employee awareness. Our easy-to-use, vendor-friendly platform allows employers to:Host events with live vendors throughout the year, 24/7/365 Educate employees on their benefits, throughout the year Allows for personalized employee updates from HQ + vendors Tracks employee behavior and attendance, improving engagement Allows HR to design the future benefits experience based on employee - provided feedbackOwners & creators of PERKSCon - the world's largest employee-experience expo (SF, NYC, BOS, LA, CHI, TOR) Owners & creators of The People Ops Society - the leading new-age professional membership for forward-thinking HR/People leaders. | Seed / Apr 06, 2021 | |
Showcase Insights
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SHOWCASE is a next-gen product research startup, leveraging technology to generate targeted, efficient, agile consumer insights. | Pre-Seed / Oct 01, 2020 | |
Vincere Health
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Vincere Health is a Techstars-backed health tech company founded at the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2019. They use a combination of intelligent, frequent incentives, objectively verified health data, and health coaching to drive behavior change to solve healthcare's biggest challenges - starting with smoking cessation. | $800K / Pre-Seed / Aug 30, 2020 | |
Eterneva
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Eterneva is a developer of diamond technology intended to convert cremated ashes of loved ones into memorial diamonds. It is a consumer technology company and grief wellness brand that has established itself in the industry by providing customized experiences to grieving families in their time of need. Eterneva was developed to understand,listen, and help create a lasting memory of a close friend, partner, or family member who has passed through a memorial diamond. Eterneva provides support to help create, establish, and maintain an ongoing physical memory through one of the most permanent forms that exist in nature. Because the catharsis of transitioning beyond the loss of a loved one to a lasting memory is so personal, Eterneva’s team works to achieve full communication, transparency, and experience with every customer so the end result honors their memory in full. Adelle Archer has been featured on the Inc 30 under 30 List. | $3M / Seed / Jul 13, 2020 | |
Bohana
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Bohana, a delicious and nutritious snack made of popped water lily seeds, has reinvented an ancient Indian puffed snack to fuel our unique selves with nothing but protein packed, plant-based goodness. | Seed / Mar 01, 2020 | |
Behave Candy
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Behave Candy makes delicious, low sugar, all-natural ingredients, guilt-free candy. | Pre-Seed / Nov 07, 2019 | |
Renewal Mill
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Renewal Mill is a next generation ingredient company that upcycles fiber and protein produced during large-scale food manufacturing into high-quality ingredients and products. In doing so, Renewal Mill, the recent winner of IFT's Food Disruption Challenge, is reducing waste and improving nutrition. Partnering with its first pilot facility inOakland, CA, Renewal Mill uses its proprietary technology to upcycle the byproduct of soymilk manufacturing, called okara, into a high protein, high fiber, gluten free flour. The company uses that flour to create baked good products that are currently sold at convenience stores in the Bay Area and can be found at tech company offices. Renewal Mill will soon be in nationwide distribution and has already started work on additional byproduct sources from other nuts and legumes. | $2.5M / Seed / Jan 28, 2019 | |
Elektra Health
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Elektra Health is a next-gen healthcare platform for the tens of millions of women currently and soon to be navigating perimenopause & menopause. 80% of women report that menopause significantly disrupts their life – symptoms include anxiety, depression, loss of libido/painful sex, brain fog, joint pain & more – but 75% of those whoseek help don’t receive appropriate care. Elektra was founded to solve this problem. | Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2019 |
Co-Investors
About Kaya Ventures
Kaya Ventures is supporting founders from the earliest stages of growth. They provide an intersection of consumer and tech, having spent the past decade as an operator, advisor, and investor. For inquiries, telephone and email contact are used.
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FAQ
What does Madeline Darcy invest in?
Madeline Darcy invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Wellness and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed 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.
What is Madeline Darcy's check size?
Madeline Darcy typically joins rounds of $2M–$3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Madeline Darcy participates in.
When did Madeline Darcy last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Madeline Darcy closed in May 2021. 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.
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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 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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