Mandi Ventures
VC Fund
São Paulo, Brazil
Mandi Ventures is a VC fund in São Paulo focused on Food and Beverage and Agriculture. Mandi is a Venture Capital Fund focused on Food and Agriculture. We invest in startups that utilize technology to increase the efficiency and sustainability of the food value chain. We strive to help emerging companies become global leaders.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Mandi Ventures invests in
Stages Mandi Ventures invests in
Countries Mandi Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$5.2M
- Series A
- $5.5M–$9.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 4 (25%)
- Agriculture 2 (13%)
- Food Processing 2 (13%)
- Information Services 2 (13%)
- Information Technology 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (31%)
- Series A 3 (19%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
- Series F 1 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (6%)
Country
- Brazil 3 (19%)
- France 2 (13%)
- United States 2 (13%)
- United Kingdom 2 (13%)
- Switzerland 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Antonio Moreira Salles
Co-founder and General Partner
|
Co-founder and General Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Julio Benetti
Co-founder and General Partner
|
Co-founder and General Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lembas is a foodtech startup that has developed "GLP-1 Edge," a patent-pending peptide ingredient designed to naturally boost the GLP-1 hormone, which helps regulate appetite and metabolism for weight management. Using AI-driven discovery and licensed technology from Tel Aviv University, Lembas offers this peptide powder as abusiness-to-business ingredient for food and supplement brands, providing a science-backed, non-pharmaceutical alternative to weight loss drugs with no reported side effects | $3.6M / Pre-Seed / Jun 10, 2025 | ||
| Tarken helps in developing its technology that connects grain buyers and sellers and operates an artificial intelligence tool for commodity pricing. | Seed / Mar 31, 2025 | ||
| Deestree, the B2B food sector is progressively attempting to digitize, It has created a MiddleWare solution that allows suppliers to quickly scale up their distribution policy and multi-segment sales. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 01, 2024 | ||
| Cultivated Biosciences is a Food Production Company. | $5M / Seed / Mar 06, 2024 | ||
| Alice Mushrooms specializes in the production of functional mushroom chocolates, designed to enhance energy, focus, and overall wellness. These chocolates are crafted using organic ingredients, without any artificial flavors or preservatives. The product range includes formulations with Cordyceps for vitality and stamina, and Lion's Mane forbrain health. Alice Mushrooms combines mushrooms with nootropics and adaptogens to create chocolates that support sleep, focus, and full body wellness. The company caters to individuals seeking natural enhancers for their daily routines. | Seed / Feb 09, 2024 | ||
| GrowinCo. is the best platform for supplier and co-manufacturing collaboration for the CPG industry. We connect idle capacity from co-manufacturers with needs for production outsourcing in the industry and private label products for retailers. We connect to the leading quality certification databases in a network of over 40,000 companies. | $1M / Seed / Nov 06, 2023 | ||
| Mium Lab creates vitamin-enriched food supplements in the form of naturally fruity gummies, combining pleasure and health. It employs scientifically developed plant-based and vitamin-based formulas for its products. Mium Lab's mission is to improve everyone's life by providing simple and enjoyable to use well-being and health products. | $5.5M / Series A / Feb 01, 2023 | ||
| Multus Biotechnology is a global leader in cell culture media design, helping biomanufacturing companies shorten their time to market while improving supply chain security. By combining high-throughput robotic automation and ML, Multus revolutionizes cell culture media development - delivering breakthrough performance and efficiency that werepreviously unattainable.Multus’ experienced, multi-disciplinary team of scientists and engineers is redefining the future of biomanufacturing. Harnessing the power of biology, automation, and machine learning, we accelerate the creation of high-performance, resource-efficient cell culture media, empowering the global bioeconomy and enabling the next generation of essential therapies, food, and materials. | $9.5M / Series A / Jan 16, 2023 | ||
| Mium Lab creates vitamin-enriched food supplements in the form of naturally fruity gummies, combining pleasure and health. It employs scientifically developed plant-based and vitamin-based formulas for its products. Mium Lab's mission is to improve everyone's life by providing simple and enjoyable to use well-being and health products. | $5.2M / Seed / Jun 15, 2022 | ||
| Tarken helps in developing its technology that connects grain buyers and sellers and operates an artificial intelligence tool for commodity pricing. | $1.5M / Seed / Mar 01, 2022 | ||
| See all 16 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Mandi Ventures invest in?
Mandi Ventures invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Agriculture and Food Processing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Mandi Ventures invest in?
Mandi Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$5.2M at Seed and $5.5M–$9.5M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Mandi Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Mandi Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Mandi Ventures?
Public channels for Mandi Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. 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.
Who are the partners at Mandi Ventures?
The team at Mandi Ventures includes Antonio Moreira Salles (Co-founder and General Partner) and Julio Benetti (Co-founder and General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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