# Stray Dog Capital

> Stray Dog Capital is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage and Food Processing. See 56 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leawood, United States
- Total investments: 56
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Fund size: $26M
- Last fund: Dec 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stray-dog-capital
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/straydogcapital
- Website: https://straydogcapital.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/straydogcapital

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.7M–$7M |
| Series A | $8.1M–$27M |
| Series B | $6M–$29M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 27 | 48% |
| Food Processing | 15 | 27% |
| Biotechnology | 12 | 21% |
| Organic Food | 6 | 11% |
| Consumer Goods | 4 | 7% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 22 | 39% |
| Series A | 12 | 21% |
| Series B | 4 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 5% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 30 | 54% |
| Israel | 4 | 7% |
| Germany | 2 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lisa Feria | Managing Partner & CEO | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lisa-feria |
| Chuck Laue | Founder & Chair | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chuck-laue |
| Jennifer Laue | Founder and Vice Chair | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-laue-b139 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pacifico Biolabs | Pacifico Biolabs offers fermentation biotechnology for development, production and distribution of sustainable and food alternatives. | $8.1M | Series A | May 27, 2026 |  |
| Helios Artificial Intelligence | Helios Artificial Intelligence, Inc., is building the world’s most predictive AI software for supply chain disruptions. Our vision is to build an AI platform that analyzes billions of signals in real-time to identify and predict supply chain disruptions before they happen, helping our customers identify risks from political, economic, and climatechanges. | $4.7M | Seed | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| Cascade Biocatalysts | Cascade Biocatalysts creates productive enzymes for economical biomanufacturing of sustainable chemicals. | $2.8M | Seed | Sep 09, 2025 |  |
| NuCicer | 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 | 4AG Robotics develops fully automated harvesting devices to replace manual labor in commercial mushroom farms. | $29M | Series B | Jul 29, 2025 |  |
| Companion Protect | 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 | 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 | Triplebar provides sustainability, biotechnology, and synthetic biology research. |  |  | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Triplebar | Triplebar provides sustainability, biotechnology, and synthetic biology research. | $20M | Series A | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Treetoscope | 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 |  |

10 of 56 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [New Crop Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-crop-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [CPT Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cpt-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
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- [Rocana Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rocana-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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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 is Stray Dog Capital's check size?

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 ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Stray Dog Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Stray Dog Capital?

Public channels for Stray Dog Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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.

### 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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