Rockefeller Foundation
VC Fund
New York, United States
Rockefeller Foundation is a philanthropy that prioritizes collaboration with partners and grantees and is motivated by science. The Rockefeller Foundation works to advance human welfare on a global scale. Enhancing access to electricity, food, healthcare, and employment opportunities is a major goal of the Rockefeller Foundation's work. To increase the value of data and private capital, Rockefeller Foundation achieves this by forming imaginative partnerships and making cutting-edge investments.
- Total investments:
- 54
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 69%
- Fund size:
- $30M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Rockefeller Foundation invests in
Stages Rockefeller Foundation invests in
Countries Rockefeller Foundation invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 11 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Grant
- $250k–$7.5M
- Series A
- $2M–$9M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Non Profit 11 (20%)
- Financial Services 6 (11%)
- Environmental Consulting 5 (9%)
- Communities 4 (7%)
- Health Care 4 (7%)
Country
- United States 23 (43%)
- Kenya 5 (9%)
- United Kingdom 3 (6%)
- India 2 (4%)
- Singapore 2 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Donna Dean
Chief Investment Officer
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Chief Investment Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Naveen Rao
Senior Vice President, Health Initiative
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Senior Vice President, Health Initiative | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Dr Joseph Curtin
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Fred Dust
Dialogue Designer & Consulting
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Dialogue Designer & Consulting | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Frederick Terrell
Member, Investment Committee
|
Member, Investment Committee | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basecamp Research is a market leader in mapping biodiversity for AI-based design of biological systems. We match and refine novel proteins for our partners' exact industrial, therapeutic or diagnostic applications using BaseGraph™, a new generation of AI design that is powered by the first-ever high-resolution map of global geneticbiodiversity. Understanding the full genetic, evolutionary, and environmental context of each protein allows Basecamp Research to design tailored proteins for specific applications without the need for expensive and time-consuming directed evolution campaigns. We're a team of explorers, scientists and policy experts driven by our ambition to protect and learn from nature's diversity, whilst delivering life-changing breakthroughs to those who need them most. | $140M / Series C / Sep 23, 2026 | ||
| Rize operates as an agritech startup dedicated to transform rice cultivation. | $20M / Series B / Jul 16, 2026 | ||
| JUTI is committed to inspiring individuals and organizations to take bold action that results in equitably shared opportunities and benefits in the transition to a regenerative post-carbon world. | $300K / Grant / Jun 03, 2026 | ||
| The Clean Fight is dedicated to accelerating the transition to clean energy for all. | $1M / Grant / Apr 21, 2026 | ||
| mHUB is a leading independent hardtech and manufacturing innovation center that exists to convene the entrepreneurial ecosystem around physical product innovation to ensure that the manufacturing industry continues to accelerate, grow and thrive. The mHUB community includes over 428 active and alumni startups and small businesses supported by adeep talent pool of product designers and developers, entrepreneurs, engineers and manufacturers, corporate leaders, industry experts, mentors and investors. Since launching in 2017, the mHUB community has generated more than $1.1B in revenue, launched more than 1,256 products, hired more than 4,153 employees, and raised nearly $1.45B in capital. For more information on the innovation center visit mhubchicago.com For more information on how to partner with mHUB's talent pool visit mhubhd.com | $1M / Grant / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| SokoFresh is a social enterprise that offers cold storage solutions and a digital market linkage platform to small and medium-scale farmers. It provides access to reliable, off-grid, first-mile cold storage facilities and digital market linkage services to farmers and buyers in fruit and vegetable value chains. | Grant / Mar 03, 2026 | ||
| BRAC is a development success story, spreading solutions born in Bangladesh around the world – a global leader in creating opportunity for the world’s poor.What started out as a limited relief operation in 1972 in a remote village of Bangladesh has turned into the largest development organisation in the world.Organising the poor usingcommunities’ own human and material resources, BRAC (formerly Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) catalyses lasting change, creating an ecosystem in which the poor have the chance to seize control of their own lives.They do this with a holistic development approach geared toward inclusion, using tools like microfinance, education, healthcare, legal services, community empowerment, social enterprises and BRAC University.Their work now touches the lives of an estimated 135 million people, with staff and BRAC-trained entrepreneurs numbering in the hundreds of thousands, a global movement bringing change to 11 countries in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. | $300K / Grant / Jul 02, 2025 | ||
The Bridgespan Group
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$100K / Grant / Jun 18, 2025 | ||
| Lorien Finance is a cross-border FinTech platform providing affordable student loans and retail banking services to immigrants (students and temporary workers) moving to the US. | $2.3M / Seed / Feb 27, 2025 | ||
| 4P Foods is the logistical linchpin that delivers locally-sourced, sustainably-produced Good Food. The triple-bottom-line – the concept that in addition to profit, businesses should also measure and be accountable for their impacts on people and the planet – is a huge step forward in business consciousness. But at 4P foods, they want to take thingsone step further. Businesses must be responsible for their impacts on the environment as well as the people and the communities they work with. They also must be financially solvent, making enough money to pay good wages and invest in innovation. But you can do all of those things and still have a company that at its best, simply isn’t too bad. They believe that companies must also exist for a purpose. Purpose, People, Planet, Profit – The four P’s of 4P Foods. Their Purpose is to create a just and equitable food system in the United States. This can be done by ensuring that all people have access to farm-fresh, healthy food, grown using sustainable and humane practices and that the people who produce that food are able to earn a fair and dignified living doing so. That’s why 4P foods sources from environmentally responsible family farmers in the Washington DC foodshed. It’s also why they donate 1 bag of food to one of their partners for every 10 bags they deliver. Their partners include Fauquier Food Bank, Local Food Bank Partners, YMCA Capital View. And why they make it as easy as they can for you to get farm-fresh, healthy food delivered right to your building every week. | Grant / Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| See all 54 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Rockefeller Foundation invest in?
Rockefeller Foundation invests primarily in Non Profit, Financial Services and Environmental Consulting startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 54 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Rockefeller Foundation invest in?
Rockefeller Foundation typically joins rounds of $250k–$7.5M at Grant and $2M–$9M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Rockefeller Foundation's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Rockefeller Foundation took part in.
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Who are the partners at Rockefeller Foundation?
The team at Rockefeller Foundation includes Donna Dean (Chief Investment Officer), Naveen Rao (Senior Vice President, Health Initiative) and Dr Joseph Curtin (Managing Director), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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