Rhapsody Venture Partners
VC Fund
Cambridge, United States
Rhapsody Venture Partners is a VC fund in Cambridge focused on Biotechnology and Food and Beverage. Rhapsody Venture Partners specializes in bringing to market breakthrough science innovation in industrial sciences (non-life science). The firm was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
- Total investments:
- 53
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 55%
- Fund size:
- $60M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Rhapsody Venture Partners invests in
Stages Rhapsody Venture Partners invests in
Countries Rhapsody Venture Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$20M
- Series A
- $3.3M–$16M
- Series B
- $13M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 6 (11%)
- Food and Beverage 6 (11%)
- Manufacturing 4 (8%)
- Industrial Engineering 4 (8%)
- Mechanical Engineering 4 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (40%)
- Series A 13 (25%)
- Series B 4 (8%)
- Funding Round 3 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (6%)
Country
- United States 22 (42%)
- Canada 4 (8%)
- United Kingdom 2 (4%)
- Finland 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Carsten Boers
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 14 | Find email | |
Jason Whaley
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
|
Bernard Lupien
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Jessica Freyer
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polaris Electro-Optics empowers integrated photonics for communications and computation. | $50M / Series B / Sep 15, 2026 | ||
| Relativity Networks stands as the foremost provider of Hollow Core Fiber at scale, significantly boosting the speed of light in fiber optics. The company has developed technology that enables data to travel nearly 50% faster and farther without unacceptable delays by substituting air for glass. This innovation tackles the significant powerchallenges of the present day, including the demand for data centers with superior performance in the AI era. | $22M / Seed / Aug 19, 2026 | ||
| Nuclear Turbines is an energy firm that is creating tiny modular nuclear technologies to make clean nuclear power more affordable than fossil fuels. | $20M / Seed / Jul 27, 2026 | ||
| pH7 is a cleantech firm that develops and implements methods for the sustainable extraction and refining of strategic metals, which are required for the transition to renewable energy. This pilot project will offer the industry a solution for the sustainable extraction of Platinum Group Metals from secondary and primary resources using green,biodegradable, and recyclable solvents rather than smelting methodologies. | $25.6M / Series B / Dec 04, 2025 | ||
| Spindrive creates customized levitation technology pushing energy efficiency to the maximum level and promoting oil-free solutions. | Oct 28, 2025 | ||
| Lasso is a food tech company, focusing on innovative technology that transforms simple ingredients into premium food items. | $6.5M / Seed / Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| Tender Food is a plant-based and cultured meat company in the Greater Boston Area, a hub for biotech research and innovation. It specializes in creating alternative meats with authentic textures. | $6.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| NuCicer is unlocking chickpea’s full potential - transitioning it from “interesting ingredient” to “staple superfood” by launching new varieties with ground-breaking agronomic and quality traits that deliver better nutrition, improved flavor, and more economical ingredients. NuCicer’s technology combines the world's most diverse chickpeabreeding library and their proprietary breeding innovation platform, built on deep roots in plant genetics and machine learning, to create value across the agri-food system. | $11.5M / Series A / Jul 30, 2025 | ||
| ChEmpower is an advanced materials company that develops chemically reactive, abrasive-free planarization pads to improve chip yields and sustainability in semiconductor manufacturing. | $18.7M / Series A / Apr 24, 2025 | ||
| Adden Energy is a developer of stable, lithium-metal, solid-state batteries. With demonstrated charge times as low as 3 minutes and capacity retention for over 10,000 cycles in a lab-scale cell, Adden Energy develops cutting-edge technologies to enable mass adoption of EVs around the world and contribute greatly to a cleaner future. | $15M / Series A / Sep 03, 2024 | ||
| See all 53 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Rhapsody Venture Partners invest in?
Rhapsody Venture Partners invests primarily in Biotechnology, Food and Beverage and Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 53 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 Rhapsody Venture Partners's check size?
Rhapsody Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$20M at Seed, $3.3M–$16M at Series A and $13M–$50M 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 Rhapsody Venture Partners participates in.
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Who are the partners at Rhapsody Venture Partners?
The team at Rhapsody Venture Partners includes Carsten Boers (Managing Partner), Jason Whaley (General Partner) and Bernard Lupien (General Partner). 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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