# Prithvi Ventures

> Prithvi Ventures is a VC fund backing Manufacturing and Food and Beverage. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prithvi-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/PrithviVentures
- Website: https://www.prithvivc.com/

Prithvi Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Manufacturing and Food and Beverage. Prithvi Ventures invests in early-stage startups that fight Climate Change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 16% |
| Food and Beverage | 4 | 16% |
| CleanTech | 3 | 12% |
| Food Processing | 3 | 12% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 12% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 44% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 20% |
| Series A | 3 | 12% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 64% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Singapore | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kunal Sethi | Founding Partner , Founder and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kunal-sethi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mars Materials | At Mars Materials, we're developing technologies that store carbon dioxide in products part of our everyday lives. | $660K | Pre-Seed | Oct 26, 2022 |  |
| Bucha Bio | Bucha Bio creates a novel biomaterial grown from infinitely renewable bacterial-nanocellulose. Strands of natural fibers interlock to form a high-performance textile with a luxuriously soft handfeel. Produced in weeks rather than months or years, use it in premium applications instead of animal leather, polyurethane, latex, vinyl, and so much more.Creating a reliable material is our goal, adding plastics and petrochemicals like PU polyurethane would make it easy, but we’ve never taken the easy way out. Committed to sustainability, Bucha Bio’s team is dedicated to creating a completely biodegradable textile that enables the next generation of designers to create products for a more sustainable future. Our biomaterial is water-resistant, scratch-resistant, sunlight-resistant, flame-resistant, and so many more reasons to test it out in your next product. | $1.1M | Seed | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| Tandem Repeat | Tandem Repeat developed protein-based thermoplastic material with a revolutionary technology for the production of programmable and smart textiles from sustainable resources | $1.9M | Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Tandem Repeat | Tandem Repeat developed protein-based thermoplastic material with a revolutionary technology for the production of programmable and smart textiles from sustainable resources | $2M | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Capra Biosciences | Capra Biosciences is a biotechnology company harnessing biology for efficient and low-carbon production of everyday chemicals. It develops bioreactor technology designed to make the production of chemical products more efficient. The company developed a biofilm bioreactor which has the potential to significantly reduce the downstream processingrequirements and costs inherent in the bio-manufacturing of products such as fuels.Capra Biosciences was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Alexandria, VA. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Jun 06, 2022 |  |
| Exosonic | Exosonic is an early-stage aerospace start-up based in Los Angeles, CA developing supersonic adversary air UAVs to support the adversary air training mission for both commercial and government customers. The goal is to mature these supersonic UAVs to become loyal wingmen (or collaborative combat aircraft) and eventually develop quiet supersonicairliners from the lessons learned and profits generated by the supersonic UAV product line. Founded in 2019, Exosonic has raised $4.5M+ in private capital and $2M+ in AFWERX funding. The team has 15 FTEs and is developing a subscale flight test vehicle to demonstrate autonomy and potentially crewed-uncrewed teaming with a first flight timeframe of Q2 2023. | $4M | Seed | May 06, 2022 |  |
| Carbon Upcycling | Carbon Upcycling converts industrial CO₂ emissions and byproducts into engineered low‑carbon cement materials, deploys modular capture and utilization systems at hard‑to‑decarbonize facilities, and supplies circular construction inputs that support supply chain resilience and emission reduction goals. | $6.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 21, 2022 |  |
| UMAMI Bioworks | Umami Meats is developing delicious, affordable, sustainable cell-cultured seafood based on a proprietary, low-cost growth serum and novel marine cell lines. | $2.4M | Seed | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| UMAMI Bioworks | Umami Meats is developing delicious, affordable, sustainable cell-cultured seafood based on a proprietary, low-cost growth serum and novel marine cell lines. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| Novoloop | Novoloop is an upcycling company that provides a proprietary lifecycling platform to create chemicals and materials from plastic waste. Its Accelerated Thermal Oxidative Decomposition (ATOD) process chemically breaks down plastic films and packaging into monomers, which are then reassembled into virgin-quality TPU and recycled+ formulations. Thecompany operates a demonstration pilot plant in India in partnership with Aether Industries, producing up to 70 metric tons of TPU annually from mixed plastic waste. | $11.4M | Series A | Nov 19, 2021 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Prithvi Ventures invest in?

Prithvi Ventures invests primarily in Manufacturing, Food and Beverage and CleanTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 25 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 Prithvi Ventures?

The team at Prithvi Ventures includes Kunal Sethi (Founding Partner , Founder and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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