Stella Capital
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Stella Capital is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Food and Beverage and Consumer Goods. Founded in 2022, Stella Capital is an early to late-stage venture capital fund spin-off from an Asian and US based family office focused in commodities brokering, commercial real-estate investments, and distressed asset acquisition.At Stella Capital we aim to invest in businesses through compounding moats which we find promising with a clear pathfrom 0 to 1 across all industry sectors. Our team’s ideology focuses around investing strategic capital over a long period of time in both early funding rounds and secondary markets.
- Total investments:
- 38
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 3%
Last updated:
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Industries Stella Capital invests in
Stages Stella Capital invests in
Countries Stella Capital invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $320k–$9M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 6 (16%)
- Consumer Goods 5 (13%)
- Software 3 (8%)
- E-Commerce 3 (8%)
- Manufacturing 3 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (34%)
- Series A 6 (16%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (16%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (5%)
- Series B 2 (5%)
Country
- United States 20 (53%)
- Hong Kong 2 (5%)
- United Kingdom 2 (5%)
- Ghana 1 (3%)
- Taiwan 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Buddy Bites
|
Buddy Bites focuses on providing convenient and healthy dog food, delivered directly to customers' doors. | $1M / Seed / Apr 28, 2025 | |
Sino Indo Pacific Group
|
Sino Indo Pacific Group in Functional Snacks for Mass Market Indonesia | Pre-Seed / Mar 31, 2025 | |
Lick
|
Lick building a disruptive home decor brand that is obsessed with helping people transform their home with ease and a smile. | Series B / Mar 30, 2025 | |
Ascend
|
Ascend 24/7 travel concierge membership that helps frequent travelers save time and money. | Seed / Dec 19, 2024 | |
Gourmet Master
|
Gourmet Master is a supplier of bakery products. They provide products that include food, coffee, cakes, and dairy products. They offer products that are available for shopping online. | Post-IPO Equity / Dec 06, 2024 | |
KEATH.ai
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Empowering institutions with educational assessment AI. | Series A / Oct 16, 2024 | |
In The Clouds
|
A six-year-old Iranian refugee, Sara, sneaks out with her sister to explore their new London estate. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 01, 2024 | |
Veygo
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Veygo is a car rental company that focuses on making car rentals more accessible for student renters. | Seed / Jul 31, 2024 | |
Oze
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Oze brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an Oze Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOze to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 150,000 registered users, Oze is the largest online community of SMEs in West Africa. The most exciting thing is that Oze works; 97% of businesses that have used Oze for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both! | Seed / May 10, 2024 | |
Apothékary
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Apothékary provides a tailored, holistic approach to medicine and wellness to clients in over 23 countries globally. Rooted in Eastern medicine and over 5,000 years of research and tradition, the company puts out both traditional medicinal practice and goods to meet the requirements of their clients in natural sleep, stress, skincare, and more. Theproduct portfolio of the company is prepared with products from Mother Nature's pantry, driven by the notion that food is medicine. | $500K / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 02, 2024 | |
| See all 38 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
14Peaks Capital
1 deal together
35V
1 deal together
AfterWork Ventures
1 deal together
Alpha Dhabi
1 deal together
Atlas Capital
1 deal together
Babylist
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Stella Capital invest in?
Stella Capital invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 38 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 Stella Capital's check size?
Stella Capital typically joins rounds of $320k–$9M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Stella Capital participates in.
When did Stella Capital last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Stella Capital closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 38 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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