# Renewal Funds

> Renewal Funds is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage and Software. See 48 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 48
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2627122?trk=vsrp_companies_cluster_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A1045530011485392309405%2CVSRPtargetId%3A2627122%2CVSRPcmpt%3Acompanies_cluster
- Website: http://www.renewalfunds.com/

Renewal Funds is a mission venture capital firm investing in early growth stage companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2M–$24M |
| Series B | $3M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 14 | 29% |
| Software | 6 | 13% |
| Organic Food | 6 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 6 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 10% |

66 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 16 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 21% |
| Series B | 9 | 19% |
| Seed | 2 | 4% |
| Series C | 2 | 4% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 23 | 48% |
| Canada | 12 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carol Newell | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carol-newell |
| Catherine Storey | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catherine-storey-2 |
| Catherine Storey | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catherine-storey |
| Emily Danaher | Sr. Operations Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-danaher |
| Genevieve Pinto | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genevieve-pinto |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SuperCircle | SuperCircle develops a tech platform and reverse logistics system that powers circularity for retail brands. It links retail with the waste management industry to close the loop and eliminate post-consumer clothing waste. | $24M | Series A | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Rodatherm Energy | A geothermal company that plumbs its boreholes with a closed loop | $38M | Series A | Sep 15, 2025 |  |
| Fresh Prep Foods | Fresh Prep Foods is a weeknight dinner solution providing meal kit delivery service for busy people. It specializes in delivering everything needed to make meals at home including fresh, locally-sourced, pre-chopped ingredients that are delivered in reusable cooler bags, thus allowing customers access to an affordable and diverse range of cuisinesthat can be prepared within thirty minutes.It was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| Station A | Station A is a clean-tech company that offers an AI-powered clean energy marketplace. Station A's technology automatically evaluates available clean energy solutions for any building, enables data-driven decisions, and sources the best offers from Station A's expanding provider network. The company was founded in 2018 and isheadquartered in San Francisco, California. | $8M | Series A | Jun 16, 2025 |  |
| SHARE Mobility | SHARE Mobility is a cloud-based transportation management platform built for fleet operators, NEMT providers, municipalities, and private employers. The platform handles scheduling, dispatch, driver management, and rider communication for any transit model, from on-demand paratransit to employee shuttles, without hardware requirements or customdevelopment. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. SHARE supports fixed-route, on-demand, microtransit, flex-route, and demand-response operations from a single instance. The dispatch dashboard provides real-time GPS tracking, route status, and fleet visibility. AI-powered routing optimizes trips based on rider demand, vehicle capacity, and timing constraints. The platform includes three apps: an admin portal for dispatchers, a driver app with turn-by-turn navigation, and a rider app available in 11 languages. All apps support full white-label branding. Software-only, cloud-based, no proprietary hardware or on-premise servers required. | $12M | Series A | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| HOLOS | HOLOS is reinventing breakfast with organic, plant-protein overnight muesli designed for modern, health-conscious consumers. |  | Seed | Feb 25, 2022 |  |
| Electrum | Electrum is a managed, online bidding platform for homeowners to find competitive offers on home solar, battery storage, and electrification products. The traditional solar sales process was too difficult for homeowners to navigate alone. Max and Chris made it their mission to simplify the process, drive down costs and provide the consumer advocacynecessary for home electrification to achieve broad market success. Electrum's marketplace makes great pricing from vetted installers available to all. Electrum was founded under the name PickMySolar in 2014 by Max Aram and Chris Blevins. In January 2021, PickMySolar rebranded to Electrum in order to capture the full scope of the home electrification offerings available today. | $11M | Series A | Oct 31, 2021 |  |
| Fresh Prep Foods | Fresh Prep Foods is a weeknight dinner solution providing meal kit delivery service for busy people. It specializes in delivering everything needed to make meals at home including fresh, locally-sourced, pre-chopped ingredients that are delivered in reusable cooler bags, thus allowing customers access to an affordable and diverse range of cuisinesthat can be prepared within thirty minutes.It was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. | $16.7M | Series B | Sep 02, 2021 |  |
| Station A | Station A is a clean-tech company that offers an AI-powered clean energy marketplace. Station A's technology automatically evaluates available clean energy solutions for any building, enables data-driven decisions, and sources the best offers from Station A's expanding provider network. The company was founded in 2018 and isheadquartered in San Francisco, California. | $4M | Seed | Jul 22, 2020 |  |
| Swiftly | Swiftly develops enterprise software that helps transit agencies and cities improve urban mobility. The platform harnesses billions of data points and sophisticated algorithms to improve transit system performance, service reliability, and real-time passenger information. | $22.8M | Series A | Jul 09, 2020 |  |

10 of 48 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Export Development Canada](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/export-development-canada) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Fondaction](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fondaction) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Renewal Funds invest in?

Renewal Funds invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Software and Organic Food startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 48 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 Renewal Funds's check size?

Renewal Funds typically joins rounds of $2M–$24M at Series A and $3M–$30M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Renewal Funds participates in.

### How do I contact Renewal Funds?

Public channels for Renewal Funds 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 Renewal Funds?

The team at Renewal Funds includes Carol Newell (Co-Founder), Catherine Storey (Partner) and Catherine Storey (Partner), among 11 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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