# The Middleby Corp

> The Middleby Corp is a VC fund in Elgin backing B2B and Tea. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Elgin, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/middleby-corporation
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/middlebycooking
- Website: http://www.middleby.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Middleby-Corporation-Brands/75913092198

The Middleby Corp is a VC fund in Elgin focused on B2B and Tea. The Middleby Corporation is a provider of the foodservice and food processing equipment industry. The company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of commercial foodservice and food processing equipment. The company’s Commercial Foodservice Equipment Group manufactures cooking equipment for restaurants andinstitutional kitchens. Its Food Processing Equipment group manufactures food preparation, cooking, packaging, and food safety equipment for the food processing industry. Middleby has received numerous prestigious awards and recognitions including "Forbes Best Small Company", "Business Week Hot Growth Company", "Fortune Fastest Growing Company", "Crain’s Chicago Business, Fast Fifty". The Middleby Corporation was founded in 1888 and is based in Elgin, Illinois

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| B2B | 1 | 25% |
| Tea | 1 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 25% |
| Coffee | 1 | 25% |
| Retail | 1 | 25% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Series C | 1 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| Ireland | 1 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Marshall | Co-Founder | 0 | — |
| Joseph Middleby | Co-Founder | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sustainable Beverage Technologies | Sustainable Beverage Technologies focuses on unlocking unprecedented efficiencies in brewing, distribution, and draft beer. The company's brewery specializes in producing beer concentrate that mixes with water and carbon dioxide in a bottle, enabling hikers and adventurers to get the taste of delicious beer while traveling.It wasincorporated in 2010 and is based in Denver, Colorado. | $6M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 29, 2025 |  |
| Leslie | Leslie provides hospitality industry players across the UK with a simplified and efficient way to order, tip and pay. The company’s technology, accessible to the end-user via a QR code, with no app download required, delivers an easy customer experience and checkout process, enabling customers to pay for food and drink via their smartphoneinstantly. |  | Seed | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| Botrista Technology | Botrista is a robotics company based in Silicon Valley. They provide an end to end beverage solution to F&B retail chains. They have the capability to automate drink menus and pour an array of drinks including delicious and high profitable non-alcoholic mixed beverages. The Robot Barista increases drink selection, quality, and consistency whilereducing labor. It can also be modified to mix premium cocktails.The Botrista Team combines decades of robotics expertise and beverage industry experience to develop end-to-end automation solutions to help beverage retailers address the shifting demands from today’s health-conscious consumer. It leverages manufacturing techniques and integrates software to revolutionize the way fresh beverages are prepared and produced. | $10M | Series A | Mar 31, 2021 |  |
| Fresco | Fresco is the only technology that seamlessly brings appliances, home cooks, and recipes together. Partnering with the world's biggest appliance makers like BOSCH, Electrolux, GE Appliances, Instant Brands, Kenwood, LG Electronics, Panasonic, and Thermomix, Fresco knows that almost no kitchen has appliances from a single brand. TheKitchenOS–Fresco's neutral, cross-brand platform–is the seamless way consumers interact with their kitchen through whatever interface or appliance they choose. Fresco delivers an effortless cooking experience by connecting dots in the kitchen. Founded in 2012, Fresco currently operates globally and has offices in Dublin, Ireland, and Zaragoza, Spain. To learn more visit: https://kitchenos.com/ | $17.6M | Series C |  |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Act Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/act-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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## FAQ

### What does The Middleby Corp invest in?

The Middleby Corp invests primarily in B2B, Tea and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at The Middleby Corp?

The team at The Middleby Corp includes John Marshall (Co-Founder) and Joseph Middleby (Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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