Nestle
VC Fund
Vevey, Switzerland
Nestle is a VC fund in Vevey focused on Food and Beverage and Health Care. Nestle manufactures and sells food and beverages for several countries. It has generated more than CHF 90 billion in annual revenue. Its diverse product portfolio includes brands such as Nestle, Nescafe, Perrier, Pure Life, and Purina. Nestle also owns just over 23% of French cosmetics firm L'Oréal. It has a vast portfolio of global products,with 34 brands each achieving more than CHF 1 billion in sales annually and a geographic presence that spans 189 countries.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 62%
Last updated:
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Industries Nestle invests in
Stages Nestle invests in
Countries Nestle invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Grant
- $6k–$150k
- Private Equity
- $130M–$4.2B
- Corporate Round
- $100M–$229M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 9 (43%)
- Health Care 4 (19%)
- Food Processing 4 (19%)
- Food Delivery 3 (14%)
- Nutrition 2 (10%)
Stage
- Private Equity 4 (19%)
- Corporate Round 4 (19%)
- Grant 3 (14%)
- Funding Round 2 (10%)
- Seed 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 6 (29%)
- United Kingdom 4 (19%)
- Germany 2 (10%)
- China 1 (5%)
- Egypt 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jacki Guerra
Consultant/Program Manager Content
|
Consultant/Program Manager Content | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Mark Broduer
Vice President Global Head, Digital Marketing Innovation
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Vice President Global Head, Digital Marketing Innovation | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Titia de Lange
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Malena Cutuli
AVP Global Communications - Food
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AVP Global Communications - Food | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Peter Vogt
Chairman
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Chairman | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drools provides actual nutrition to pets that is convenient and easily accessible to pet careers. | Corporate Round / May 26, 2025 | ||
| Hsu Fu Chi is a confectionery company that manufactures various confectionaries, biscuits, chocolates, jellies, sachima, and snacks. | Corporate Round / Mar 05, 2025 | ||
| Wonder is a food technology company that operates a mealtime platform offering restaurant meals, prepared foods, meal kits, and food delivery through a unified ordering experience. It develops and manages food preparation, ordering, and delivery using proprietary technology, including its Infinite Kitchen food robotics platform. The companypartners with chefs and restaurant brands to provide a variety of meal options that customers can order through its platform. It also manages the preparation and fulfillment process to support delivery and pickup services across its locations. Additionally, Wonder expands its food ecosystem through the operation and integration of restaurant concepts, meal kit services, and delivery capabilities. | $700M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 19, 2024 | ||
| Impact Recycling has developed a breakthrough plastic recycling technology which separates the components of post-consumer, mixed plastic waste to recover two consistent streams of plastic; polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), each with over 95 per cent purity. | $8.7M / Debt Financing / Nov 16, 2023 | ||
| Wonder is a food technology company that operates a mealtime platform offering restaurant meals, prepared foods, meal kits, and food delivery through a unified ordering experience. It develops and manages food preparation, ordering, and delivery using proprietary technology, including its Infinite Kitchen food robotics platform. The companypartners with chefs and restaurant brands to provide a variety of meal options that customers can order through its platform. It also manages the preparation and fulfillment process to support delivery and pickup services across its locations. Additionally, Wonder expands its food ecosystem through the operation and integration of restaurant concepts, meal kit services, and delivery capabilities. | $100M / Corporate Round / Nov 07, 2023 | ||
| yfood Labs is a food-tech startup which designs smart food solutions for a modern generation. The product portfolio currently compromises ultra-convenient and complete-nutrition drinks, drink powders and bars. | $229.4M / Corporate Round / Mar 01, 2023 | ||
| GuateValley interconnects local guides with travelers to live experiences in little-known destinations. | $6K / Grant / Apr 03, 2022 | ||
| Sundial Foods utilizes a macro and microstructural engineering approach to create plant-based meat alternatives for conscious consumers.The company is passionate about making the affordable, accessible, and nutritional value of plant-based meats, made from ingredients that customers know and created using simple processes.It is headquartered inBerkeley, California in 2019. | $4M / Seed / Nov 19, 2021 | ||
| Sundial Foods utilizes a macro and microstructural engineering approach to create plant-based meat alternatives for conscious consumers.The company is passionate about making the affordable, accessible, and nutritional value of plant-based meats, made from ingredients that customers know and created using simple processes.It is headquartered inBerkeley, California in 2019. | $127K / Seed / Nov 19, 2021 | ||
| Origin is the carbon negative materials company. The Origin platform turns the carbon found in biomass into useful materials, while eliminating the need for fossil resources and capturing carbon in the process. Origin has developed a platform for turning the carbon found in inexpensive, plentiful, non-food biomass such as sustainable wood residuesinto useful materials while capturing carbon in the process. Origin’s patented technology platform can help revolutionize the production of a wide range of end products, including clothing, textiles, plastics, packaging, car parts, tires, carpeting, toys, and more with a ~$1 trillion addressable market. | $200M / Post-IPO Equity / Jun 25, 2021 | ||
| See all 21 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Nestle invest in?
Nestle invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Health Care and Food Processing startups, most often at Private Equity and Corporate Round 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 round sizes does Nestle invest in?
Nestle typically joins rounds of $6k–$150k at Grant, $130M–$4.2B at Private Equity and $100M–$229M at Corporate Round. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Nestle's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Nestle took part in.
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Who are the partners at Nestle?
The team at Nestle includes Jacki Guerra (Consultant/Program Manager Content), Mark Broduer (Vice President Global Head, Digital Marketing Innovation) and Titia de Lange (Director), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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