# Rhapsody Venture Partners

> Rhapsody Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Biotechnology. See 50 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Total investments: 50
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 56%
- Fund size: $41M
- Last fund: Jan 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rhapsody-venture-partners/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Rhapsody_VP
- Website: http://www.rhapsodyvp.com

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$12M |
| Series A | $3.3M–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 5 | 10% |
| Food and Beverage | 4 | 8% |
| Industrial Engineering | 4 | 8% |
| Mechanical Engineering | 4 | 8% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 6% |

53 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 38% |
| Series A | 12 | 24% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 10% |
| Series B | 3 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 22 | 44% |
| Canada | 4 | 8% |
| Finland | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carsten Boers | Managing Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carsten-boers |
| Jason Whaley | General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-whaley |
| Bernard Lupien | General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bernard-lupien |
| Jessica Freyer | Principal | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jessica-freyer-33a9 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nuclear Turbine | 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 | 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 | Spindrive creates customized levitation technology pushing energy efficiency to the maximum level and promoting oil-free solutions. |  |  | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Lasso | Lasso is a food tech company, focusing on innovative technology that transforms simple ingredients into premium food items. | $6.5M | Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Lasso | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Lasso | 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. | $11M | Series A | Jun 17, 2024 |  |
| Wavelogix | Wavelogix develops an IoT sensing and data analytics platform for infrastructure testing and monitoring. The company's main focus is the public infrastructure, vertical and other commercial construction, and precast concrete markets. | $3M | Series A | May 28, 2024 |  |

10 of 50 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Rhapsody Venture Partners invest in?

Rhapsody Venture Partners invests primarily in Biotechnology, Food and Beverage and Industrial Engineering startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 50 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–$12M at Seed and $3.3M–$16M at Series A. 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.

### How do I contact Rhapsody Venture Partners?

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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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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