# The Ahimsa Foundation

> The Ahimsa Foundation is a VC fund in Niwot backing Food and Beverage and Biotechnology. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Niwot, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.theahimsafoundation.com/

The Ahimsa Foundation is a non-harming or non-violence, compassion, kidness to all beings.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 4 | 80% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 60% |
| Food Processing | 3 | 60% |
| Organic Food | 2 | 40% |
| Organic | 1 | 20% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Canada | 1 | 20% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Opalia | Opalia develops food technology focused on producing animal-free dairy using cell-based systems. It creates real milk by cultivating mammary cells in controlled bioreactors, generating proteins, fats, and sugars that match conventional dairy composition. The company provides a platform that produces complete milk rather than isolated ingredients,allowing direct use in products such as cheese, butter, and ice cream. Its offering is structured as a business-to-business model, supplying milk and dairy inputs to food manufacturers and partners for integration into existing production processes.Opalia also develops modular bioreactor systems and production methods designed to scale manufacturing of cell-based dairy. The technology is applied to support food production systems that operate without livestock while maintaining functional properties of traditional dairy. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| Eat Just | Eat Just offers a plant-based egg substitute intended to provide healthy and nutritional food alternatives.It applies cutting-edge science and technology to create healthier, more sustainable foods and the key ingredient is protein from the mung bean and it is cholesterol-free, non-GMO, and packed with as much protein as many animal proteins andwhile it cooks and tastes like eggs. Its ingredients use less water, less land, and emit less CO2e than conventional animal sources, enabling customers to prepare their food items with the required nutrients and protein of an egg.It was founded by Josh Balk and Josh Tetrick in San Francisco, California in 2011. |  |  | Sep 01, 2023 |  |
| Impact Food | Impact Food is a food technology platform that uses plants, biochemistry, and novel process engineering techniques to create cutting-edge whole muscle seafood that tastes and performs just like conventional fish. | $650K | Pre-Seed | May 20, 2022 |  |
| Umaro Foods | Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed. | $3M | Seed | Mar 25, 2022 |  |
| Miruku | Miruku is a molecular farming dairy startup developing advanced dairy proteins through plant technologies that hold the potential to produce animal-free milk proteins cost-effectively. | $2.4M | Seed | Mar 21, 2022 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does The Ahimsa Foundation invest in?

The Ahimsa Foundation invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Biotechnology and Food Processing startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 The Ahimsa Foundation's check size?

The Ahimsa Foundation typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$3M 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 The Ahimsa Foundation participates in.

### When did The Ahimsa Foundation last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for The Ahimsa Foundation closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 5 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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