# RSE Ventures

> RSE Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Food and Beverage and Sports. See 49 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 49
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/rse-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/RSEventures
- Website: http://rseventures.com

RSE Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Food and Beverage and Sports. RSE is a private investment firm made up of builders, innovators, partners and founders who focus on companies across sports and entertainment, media and marketing, food and lifestyle, and technology. By combining a deep understanding of a founder’s mission with the strategic resources of its network, RSE elevates businesses at inflectionpoints. Capabilities range from real estate strategy execution to marketing campaign development, and everything in between, while the RSE family includes the Miami Dolphins, International Champions Cup, VaynerMedia, SkOUT Secure Intelligence, Momofuku, Milk Bar and &pizza.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 9 | 18% |
| Sports | 7 | 14% |
| Software | 5 | 10% |
| Restaurants | 4 | 8% |
| Apps | 3 | 6% |

86 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 13 | 27% |
| Series B | 9 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 18% |
| Seed | 8 | 16% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 8% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 40 | 82% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caroline Sizer | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caroline-sizer |
| Cathy Gao | Director, Cyber Strategy | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cathy-gao |
| John Berberich | Managing Director, F&B Concepts | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-berberich-d8f1 |
| Matt Higgins | CEO and Co-Founder | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-higgins-2 |
| Nick Perkins | Senior Vice President | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-perkins-969b |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FPF Defense | FPF Defense is a U.S.-based defense manufacturing company focused on lightweight military technologies, advanced armors, ammunition, packaging systems, and related R&D/manufacturing work for defense and commercial markets. | $10M | Seed | Jul 24, 2026 |  |
| FPF Defense | FPF Defense is a U.S.-based defense manufacturing company focused on lightweight military technologies, advanced armors, ammunition, packaging systems, and related R&D/manufacturing work for defense and commercial markets. | $10M | Seed | Jul 24, 2026 |  |
| Breakaway Group | Breakaway Music Festival is a performing arts company of pop, dance, and hip-hop music festival series. Breakaway Music Festival hosts college students and young professionals annually, touring college campuses across the US, and activating a small army of college student ambassadors. Founded by Adam Lynn in 2016 and is located in Columbus,Ohio. | $48.9M | Series B | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Brooklyn Dumpling Shop | Brooklyn Dumpling Shop specializes in serving various dumplings combining traditional and innovative dumpling flavors. The restaurant uses a contactless automat system, which ensures a seamless and modern way to enjoy their food. Brooklyn Dumpling Shop is located in New York, they offer a variety of dumplings with creative fillings like Korean BBQ,mac and cheese, smashed apple pie, signature creamy peanut sauce, and exclusive smashed burgers. | $616.7K | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 11, 2025 |  |
| Brooklyn Dumpling Shop | Brooklyn Dumpling Shop specializes in serving various dumplings combining traditional and innovative dumpling flavors. The restaurant uses a contactless automat system, which ensures a seamless and modern way to enjoy their food. Brooklyn Dumpling Shop is located in New York, they offer a variety of dumplings with creative fillings like Korean BBQ,mac and cheese, smashed apple pie, signature creamy peanut sauce, and exclusive smashed burgers. | $616.7K | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 11, 2025 |  |
| Napster (Formerly Infinite Reality) | Infinite Reality (iR) helps clients with audiences develop immersive experiences that maximize the value between audiences, creators, and brands. iR powered virtual experiences enable brands and creators to fully control the ways in which they distribute content, engage audiences, commercialize their creations, and communicate with theircommunities. With deep expertise in Hollywood production, iR develops world-class Metaverse experiences that redefine the possibilities in connected digital environments. Services and Advisory teams manage, design, and oversee custom builds, leveraging the Technology team’s platform development excellence. Entertainment and Content Creation divisions produce breathtaking original content and live events from iR's 150,000 sq. ft. Los Angeles studio. iR’s Agency attracts, cultivates, and builds client audiences while iR’s digitally native brands, including championship esports organizations Rogue and the London Royal Ravens and premier influencer management agency TalentX Entertainment, increase awareness and adoption of Web3 opportunities. | $350M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 09, 2024 |  |
| Breakaway Group | Breakaway Music Festival is a performing arts company of pop, dance, and hip-hop music festival series. Breakaway Music Festival hosts college students and young professionals annually, touring college campuses across the US, and activating a small army of college student ambassadors. Founded by Adam Lynn in 2016 and is located in Columbus,Ohio. |  | Series A | Jun 14, 2023 |  |
| Assembly OSM | Assembly OSM delivers architecturally distinctive high-rise buildings through their innovative building systems. Assembly OSM achieve buildings that are both beautiful and innovative — high-quality in performance, high-end in aesthetics, green in materials, and highly cost-effective in componentry, fabrication, delivery, and operating expense.Perhaps most importantly, Assembly buildings entail a significantly reduced time to completion, with vastly improved cost- and schedule-certainty, compared to conventional projects. | $38M | Series A | Jul 12, 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 |  |
| Flowcarbon | Flowcarbon's versatile team merges investment banking, project finance, tax credit and other financial markets expertise to streamline access to creative capital solutions for the world’s most innovative companies in the infrastructure, decarbonization, and other niche sectors. Flowcarbon is headquartered in New York, United States and wasfounded in 2021. | $70M | Series A | May 24, 2022 |  |

10 of 49 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does RSE Ventures invest in?

RSE Ventures invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Sports and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 49 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact RSE Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at RSE Ventures?

The team at RSE Ventures includes Caroline Sizer (Vice President), Cathy Gao (Director, Cyber Strategy) and John Berberich (Managing Director, F&B Concepts), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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