# Purple Orange Ventures

> Purple Orange Ventures is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/purpleorange/
- Website: https://www.purpleorange.com/

Purple Orange Ventures is an entrepreneur-led impact seed fund based in Berlin. They seek early-stage teams leveraging technology to remove animals from the global food system.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $907k–$4.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$2.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 8 | 50% |
| Biotechnology | 5 | 31% |
| Animal Feed | 2 | 13% |
| Consumer Goods | 2 | 13% |
| Food Processing | 2 | 13% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 56% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 19% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 38% |
| Sweden | 3 | 19% |
| China | 1 | 6% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gary Lin | Founder & Managing Director | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-lin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Prolific Machines | Prolific Machines is a biotech company developing cell technologies to redefine how cells are produced for a sustainable and healthy future. It combines cutting-edge technologies to enable cell production at a new scale. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $42M | Series A | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| Omni | Omni is a plant-based pet food company from the UK, that is developing healthy, sustainable food for dogs. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 19, 2022 |  |
| NovoNutrients | NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems. | $4.7M | Seed | Jul 29, 2021 |  |
| NovoNutrients | NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems. | $4.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 29, 2021 |  |
| Melt&Marble | Melt&Marble, formerly known as Biopetrolia, was founded patent holding firm for co-founder Professor Jens Nielsen’s research group. | $906.8K | Seed | Apr 27, 2021 |  |
| Change Foods | Change Foods is a food-tech company developing animal-free cheese and dairy products. Its products are created by leveraging precision fermentation technology, starting with cheese, by harnessing the power of microbes instead of animals to create bio-identical dairy proteins and ingredients. | $2.3M | Seed | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Change Foods | Change Foods is a food-tech company developing animal-free cheese and dairy products. Its products are created by leveraging precision fermentation technology, starting with cheese, by harnessing the power of microbes instead of animals to create bio-identical dairy proteins and ingredients. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| VEAT | VEAT is on a mission to make healthy, plant-based foods more accessible. We cook and prepare our fresh meals locally at Stora Essingen and deliver them daily to our vending machines throughout the city. | $531K | Pre-Seed | Nov 05, 2020 |  |
| CellX | CellX is creating the world's first mushroom protein from morel mycelium fermentation. Our ingredient and product solutions can be applied to savory snacks, protein powders, and meat alternatives.We are also licensing existing IPs to help accelerate the commercialization of cultivated meat. Our technology offerings include suspension celllines and serum-free media that have achieved 30M/ml cell density and <$5/L media cost, tested at the 2,000L scale. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2020 |  |
| CellX | CellX is creating the world's first mushroom protein from morel mycelium fermentation. Our ingredient and product solutions can be applied to savory snacks, protein powders, and meat alternatives.We are also licensing existing IPs to help accelerate the commercialization of cultivated meat. Our technology offerings include suspension celllines and serum-free media that have achieved 30M/ml cell density and <$5/L media cost, tested at the 2,000L scale. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Purple Orange Ventures invest in?

Purple Orange Ventures invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Biotechnology and Animal Feed startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 16 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 Purple Orange Ventures's check size?

Purple Orange Ventures typically joins rounds of $907k–$4.7M at Seed and $500k–$2.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Purple Orange Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Purple Orange Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Purple Orange Ventures?

The team at Purple Orange Ventures includes Gary Lin (Founder & Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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