# Sustainable Food Ventures

> Sustainable Food Ventures is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Raleigh, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sustainable-food-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/SFV_RollingFund
- Website: https://www.sustainablefoodventures.com/

Sustainable Food Ventures is a VC fund in Raleigh focused on Food and Beverage and Biotechnology. SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $934k–$3.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $150k–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 24 | 56% |
| Biotechnology | 15 | 35% |
| Food Processing | 12 | 28% |
| Alternative Protein | 6 | 14% |
| Plant-Based Foods | 4 | 9% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 22 | 51% |
| Seed | 11 | 26% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 5% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |
| Series A | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 30% |
| India | 3 | 7% |
| Germany | 3 | 7% |
| South Africa | 2 | 5% |
| Chile | 1 | 2% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mariliis Holm | Co-Founder and Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mariliis-holm |
| Ryan Bethencourt | Co-founder and Partner | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-bethencourt |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Peruvian Veef | Peruvian Veef is an offline and online store that offers real burgers, grilled seitan, crispy cravings, and vegan nugget products. | $320K | Pre-Seed | May 20, 2024 |  |
| Propel Foods | Startup that creates plant-based and hybrid protein through technology. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Atlantic Fish Company | Atlantic Fish Company is developing cultivated seafood via cellular agriculture and is headquartered in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Another Food | Another Food is a plant cell culture platform which develops sustainable food from plant cells, starting with coffee. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 30, 2023 |  |
| Farmless | A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | May 10, 2023 |  |
| Tiamat Sciences | Tiamat is a start-up producing affordable animal-free growth factors and biomolecules using plants as bioreactors. Thanks to its propriety platform, the company can manufacture a wide range of high-value proteins from antigens to growth factors.The company has already achieved a 10x cost reduction and at scale can get costs down 1000x even at 80%growth-margins, giving them a wide ability to price strategically. the coming years. The low investment needed to build a facility (up to 40x less than current solutions) combined with its unique technology makes Tiamat the ideal partner in production scale-up for promising markets that will soon become enormous such as cellular agriculture or cell & gene therapy. | $2M | Seed | Mar 09, 2023 |  |
| Daisy Lab | Daisy Lab, based in New Zealand, is developing novel methods to produce high-quality, dairy-identical proteins without the use of cows. The technology produces these proteins using microbes, which has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as land and water use in an animal-friendly manner. Daisy Lab's missionis to assist in addressing some of the most pressing issues confronting our planet, such as climate change and food insecurity. | $933.6K | Seed | Mar 03, 2023 |  |
| Myodenovo | Myodenovo is bringing the next generation of cultivated meats to mass market | $105K |  | Feb 18, 2023 |  |
| Atlantic Fish Co | Developing sustainable, cultivated seafood using cellular agriculture | $525K | Pre-Seed | Jan 10, 2023 |  |
| Meat.The End | Imagine plant-based meat alternatives that offer the texture, flavour, and appearance of animal proteins. Using innovations in extrusion processing, we develop new protein texturizing technologies that create plant-based products that mimic the texture of animal proteins. The texture of plant-based protein products still poses a barrier toconvincing consumers to adopt alternatives to meat. But current approaches to creating plant-based meat substitutes are falling short in building a protein structure that mirrors a meaty texture experience. We help plant-based protein producers satisfy consumers’ desire for meaty texture and appearance. By improving texture, our techniques enhance the eating experience of plant-based products. The result: a more convincing and satisfying alternative to replace animal-based foods. | $3.1M | Seed | Dec 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Big Idea Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-idea-ventures) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [Capital V](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-v) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Cult Food Science](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cult-food-science) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Sustainable Food Ventures invest in?

Sustainable Food Ventures invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Biotechnology and Food Processing startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 43 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 Sustainable Food Ventures's check size?

Sustainable Food Ventures typically joins rounds of $934k–$3.7M at Seed and $150k–$2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sustainable Food Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Sustainable Food Ventures?

Public channels for Sustainable Food Ventures 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 Sustainable Food Ventures?

The team at Sustainable Food Ventures includes Mariliis Holm (Co-Founder and Partner) and Ryan Bethencourt (Co-founder and Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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