# Rich Products Ventures

> Rich Products Ventures is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Buffalo, United States
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.richproductsventures.com/

Rich Products Ventures is a venture capital arm of Rich Products Corporation.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$3.5M |
| Series A | $6M–$42M |
| Series B | $10M–$347M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 11 | 46% |
| Biotechnology | 5 | 21% |
| Food Processing | 4 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 13% |
| Organic Food | 3 | 13% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 29% |
| Series B | 6 | 25% |
| Seed | 3 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 63% |
| China | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Israel | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dinsh Guzdar | Managing Director, Corporate Venture Fund | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dinsh-guzdar-6b32 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jesse & Ben’s | Ben and Jesse think that people should be able to enjoy their favorite cuisine without the junk. Despite being the fastest-growing french fry brand in the nation, Jesse & Ben's still has a long way to go | $10M | Series A | May 07, 2026 |  |
| Ripple Foods | Ripple Foods specializes in making non-dairy milk with just as much protein as milk and half the sugar. Ripple has 8x the protein of almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk. It’s high in bioavailable calcium (50% more than milk), potassium and provides a good source of omega-3s. It’s lower in calories than milk and best of all, it has thecreamy, delicious texture our dairy-free friends are missing. No more thin, chalky almond/ soy/ cashew milk.It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Emeryville, California. | $17M |  | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| Lula Commerce | Lula commerce is a digital platform that democratizes digital commerce and delivery enablement for convenience stores. | $8M | Series A | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Phytolon | Phytolon revolutionizes the way food colors are produce, by Leveraging a novel and sustainable technology for production of healthy food colors in high quality at low costs. Phytolon's mission is to exploit scientific advancement promote human health and environmental sustainability |  |  | Aug 13, 2025 |  |
| Doughlicious | Doughlicious is famous for making the very best gourmet gluten-free cookie dough using only the finest natural ingredients. | $5M |  | Aug 04, 2025 |  |
| Phytolon | Phytolon revolutionizes the way food colors are produce, by Leveraging a novel and sustainable technology for production of healthy food colors in high quality at low costs. Phytolon's mission is to exploit scientific advancement promote human health and environmental sustainability |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 11, 2024 |  |
| Marqii | Marqii’s automated system removes the daily pain points associated with updating content across consumer-facing platforms. Marqii revolutionizes the way restaurants, bars, coffee shops and dispensaries publish their menus, location data, and specials to potential customers. This process creates consistent and accurate content which leads to anincrease in unbranded local search. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Wilkinson Baking Company | Wilkinson Baking Company designs and manufactures a fully-automated bread-making machine. The Wilkinson Baking Company's BreadBot is revolutionizing the bread industry by automatically producing fresh, all-natural, delicious bread. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Walla Walla, Washington. | $3M | Seed | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| Kitchen United | Kitchen United offers a turnkey solution that eliminates barriers to growth and enables restaurant brands to profitably expand. It is introducing a new commercial kitchen for rent opportunity for food service providers to realize their fullest business potential. For restaurants, this means providing a top-tier food production facility combinedwith insights and ideas on how to profitably expand into the food delivery business. Entrepreneurial caterers, pop-ups, mobile food vendors, and start-ups provide shared commercial kitchen space, business intelligence, and resources to succeed with minimal risk and capital outlay. | $100M | Series C | Jul 25, 2022 |  |
| Atomo Coffee | Atomo Coffee is a developer of molecular coffee. Atomo has reverse-engineered the coffee bean to create a smooth cup of coffee, made of naturally derived ingredients, and more sustainable than current commercial coffee. | $41.6M | Series A | Jun 28, 2022 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [S2G Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s2g-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Rich Products Ventures invest in?

Rich Products Ventures invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Biotechnology and Food Processing startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 24 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 Rich Products Ventures's check size?

Rich Products Ventures typically joins rounds of $3M–$3.5M at Seed, $6M–$42M at Series A and $10M–$347M 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 Rich Products Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Rich Products Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Rich Products Ventures?

The team at Rich Products Ventures includes Dinsh Guzdar (Managing Director, Corporate Venture Fund). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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