Stray Dog Capital
VC Fund
Leawood, United States
Stray Dog Capital is a VC fund in Leawood focused on Food and Beverage and Food Processing. Stray Dog Capital provides capital and support to early-stage businesses to help them grow. Stray Dog Capital drives alternatives to the use of animals in the supply chain through investments, expertise, and support. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Leawood, Kansas.
- Total investments:
- 56
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
- Fund size:
- $26M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Stray Dog Capital invests in
Stages Stray Dog Capital invests in
Countries Stray Dog Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.7M–$7M
- Series A
- $8.1M–$27M
- Series B
- $6M–$29M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 27 (48%)
- Food Processing 15 (27%)
- Biotechnology 12 (21%)
- Organic Food 6 (11%)
- Consumer Goods 4 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 22 (39%)
- Series A 12 (21%)
- Series B 4 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (7%)
- Convertible Note 3 (5%)
Country
- United States 30 (54%)
- Israel 4 (7%)
- Germany 2 (4%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
- Australia 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lisa Feria
Managing Partner & CEO
|
Managing Partner & CEO | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Chuck Laue
Founder & Chair
|
Founder & Chair | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jennifer Laue
Founder and Vice Chair
|
Founder and Vice Chair | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacifico Biolabs offers fermentation biotechnology for development, production and distribution of sustainable and food alternatives. | $8.1M / Series A / May 27, 2026 | ||
| Identify agricultural supply chain disruptions before they happen with the Helios AI platform | $4.7M / Seed / Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| Cascade Biocatalysts creates productive enzymes for economical biomanufacturing of sustainable chemicals. | $2.8M / Seed / Sep 09, 2025 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 4AG Robotics develops fully automated harvesting devices to replace manual labor in commercial mushroom farms. | $29M / Series B / Jul 29, 2025 | ||
| Companion Protect is a national business-to-business pet insurance and pet wellness service administrator for well-known companies in the property and casualty insurance, employee benefits, retail, affinity, and animal welfare industries. Companion Protect offer attractive pet health products and employ our cutting-edge PALS technology platform tooffer insurers and policyholders a streamlined, user-friendly experience. | $20.3M / Series A / Aug 13, 2024 | ||
| Clever Carnivore is a cell-cultured meat startup that uses stem cell biology, recombinant protein, and bioengineering to create cost-effective lab grown meats. With the company's high-efficiency model, cruelty-free, environmentally friendly, and cost-competitive technology it aims to produce sausage, burgers, and chicken nuggets. | $7M / Seed / Dec 04, 2023 | ||
| Triplebar provides sustainability, biotechnology, and synthetic biology research. | Oct 25, 2023 | ||
| Triplebar provides sustainability, biotechnology, and synthetic biology research. | $20M / Series A / Oct 25, 2023 | ||
| The first and only commercial device that senses the internal water flow of a plant and directly measures its water consumption and real-time irrigation needs. without extrapolations based on indirect sensing technologies.Treetoscope offers a SaaS irrigation management platform, based on direct plant sensing technology. We tackle one of the mostcrucial challenges farmers face today: water scarcity and irrigation optimization. Our groundbreaking ag-tech enables the unprecedented measurement of real-time actual water use of trees (based on our patented single probe Sap Flow sensor). Through the Treetoscope solution, growers gain great value as a result of the affordability, scalability, and ease of deployment of our technology. | $7M / Seed / Sep 20, 2023 | ||
| See all 56 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Stray Dog Capital invest in?
Stray Dog Capital invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Food Processing and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 56 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 Stray Dog Capital invest in?
Stray Dog Capital typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$7M at Seed, $8.1M–$27M at Series A and $6M–$29M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Stray Dog Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Stray Dog Capital took part in.
How do I contact Stray Dog Capital?
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Who are the partners at Stray Dog Capital?
The team at Stray Dog Capital includes Lisa Feria (Managing Partner & CEO), Chuck Laue (Founder & Chair) and Jennifer Laue (Founder and Vice Chair). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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