Food Retail Ventures
VC Fund
Boston, United States
Food Retail Ventures is a VC fund in Boston focused on Software and E-Commerce. Food Retail Ventures invests in early stage food and retail technology companies. Food Retail Ventures uses their industry experience and network to help food and retail technology companies succeed. The company is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
Last updated:
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Industries Food Retail Ventures invests in
Stages Food Retail Ventures invests in
Countries Food Retail Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$4M
- Series A
- $4.5M–$13M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $3.5M–$8.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (46%)
- E-Commerce 4 (31%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (31%)
- Grocery 3 (23%)
- Machine Learning 3 (23%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (46%)
- Seed 3 (23%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (23%)
Country
- United States 8 (62%)
- Canada 1 (8%)
- Israel 1 (8%)
- Germany 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
James McCann
Founder & CEO
|
Founder & CEO | Total investments: 4 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veeve is a computer vision startup that provides in-store cashier-less checkout solutions. Veeve uses machine learning, sensor fusion, and AI to enable large-scale visual recognition. The technology combines the tactile gratification of in-store shopping with a content-rich online experience.The company was founded in 2018 and is based inBellevue, Washington, United States. | $6.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 05, 2022 | ||
| FoodMaven is a food distributor, bringing agility and flexibility to the big food system. It sells local and oversupplied food–lost food–to commercial kitchens, at about half price. Its zero-waste sustainability philosophy means unsold food is donated to food banks, animal feed, and composting operations, benefiting both hunger initiatives and theenvironment. With its Internet marketplace, big data optimization technology, and agile logistics model, FoodMaven is for profits, for people, and for the planet.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Colorado Springs. | $3.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 03, 2022 | ||
| Flashfood is the App for Grocery's best Deals. As a certified B-corp, our mission is to Feed Families, not Landfills. Our marketplace connects Food Retailers in North America who have product that is near-expiry or surplus that may have been destined for waste, and offer it instead to motivated Consumers who want to save serious cash. B2B2Cthat has saved consumers over $250B USD and redirected over 150M pounds of food from waste streams. | $12.3M / Series A / Feb 28, 2022 | ||
| CYTRIO develops data privacy rights management platform for security and privacy professionals. Its platform provides automated identity verification, ai driven data discovery, classification, and ID correlation, enabling clients to build trust by facilitating their customers to exercise their data privacy rights.The company was founded in 2019and is based in Wayland, Massachusetts. | $3.5M / Seed / Oct 12, 2021 | ||
| Halla is The Taste Intelligence Company. Taste Intelligence is the only grocery AI that understands and responds to human preference and behavior, all in real-time. Halla’s Taste Intelligence suite of products helps grocers power 1-to-1 experiences via hyper-personalized product recommendations, substitutions and searches. From cart pages onlineto printed coupons in-store, Halla can plug in anywhere the grocer wants to increase sales and boost engagement. Shoppers see the most enticing products at the perfect moment, resulting in bigger baskets, better rewards, and the best grocery experience possible. | $4.5M / Series A / Jul 16, 2021 | ||
| Pensa is a leading innovator in changing the way brands and retailers manage retail shelf inventory. Pensa’s data-as-a-service portfolio and use of advanced computer vision and artificial intelligence enable CPG brands and retailers to reduce stockouts and boost revenues by delivering highly accurate real-time visibility of the store shelf at afraction of the cost of other solutions. Pensa partners with top CPG brands and retailers globally, including Johnson & Johnson, General Mills, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Circle K, and Unilever to address a trillion-dollar “blind spot” at a critical time in the industry. | $11M / Series A / Jun 08, 2021 | ||
| Tortoise is an automated delivery platform for the retail and logistics industries. It was founded by David Graham and Dmitry Shevelenko. Companies like Lyft, Microsoft, and Samsung have brought David in when developing novel technologies and concepts. Meanwhile, Dmitry oversaw the new modality partnership strategy at Uber and led Uber’s firstdeals with JUMP, Getaround, and the public transit ticketing system Masabi. Together, the two have identified some of the biggest pain points in logistics and shared micromobility and are setting out to tackle them together. | $8.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 21, 2021 | ||
| What is BRINC? Brinc is your online platform for quick local delivery service. We deliver everything you need in everyday life. You simply order via app or on our website from our partner stores – and we bring everything to you.We are fast: in about 60 minutes, we will ring your doorbell. Instead of delivering in days, we offer you quickavailability of all products. With our continuously optimized routes, our delivery fleet also saves resources, helps to ensure that fewer cars are on the road and thus ensures lower CO2 emissions.You can already enjoy our services in many cities. Our various partners include supermarkets, bakeries, beverage shops, pharmacies, restaurants, drugstores, flower shops and more.Your benefits: you save a lot of time when shopping, you can quickly fulfill urgent desires and simply relax and enjoy life.Using the innovative algorithms of our software, we always find the optimal route to your place and are able to deliver your items as quickly as possible.And the best thing is: You can start right away!BRINC brings everything you need in everyday life quickly and easily to your home. In short: You order. We deliver.Just give it a try now! | $1.1M / Seed / Jan 07, 2021 | ||
| Kevel is a developer of ad-serving APIs to help developers build server-side ad platforms. Its APIs provide access to hundreds of ad serving features, decision APIs for seamless native promotions, and easily integrate first-party data for more revenue and relevance, helping developers to build a custom ad server without hassle. | $11M / Series A / Dec 07, 2020 | ||
| Afresh is an AI-powered company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores. The company is an operator of a fresh-first supply chain platform intended to handle the complexity of perishable categories for brick and mortar retailers and wholesalers. Its platform brings artificial intelligence and machinelearning to forecast and ingest millions of data points to provide accurate item-level predictions of future demand to replenish recommendations that account for supply chain constraints and optimize for margin that enable clients to minimize waste, maximize freshness, and multiply business profitability.Afresh was established in 2017 in San Francisco, California by Matt Schwartz. | $13M / Series A / Nov 19, 2020 | ||
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FAQ
What does Food Retail Ventures invest in?
Food Retail Ventures invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Food Retail Ventures's check size?
Food Retail Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$4M at Seed, $4.5M–$13M at Series A and $3.5M–$8.3M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Food Retail Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Food Retail Ventures?
The team at Food Retail Ventures includes James McCann (Founder & CEO). 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 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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