Bread and Butter Ventures
VC Fund
Saint Paul, United States
Bread and Butter Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Minnesota, the Bread and Butter State, investing globally while leveraging our state and region’s unparalleled access to strong corporate connections, commercial opportunities, and industry expertise for the benefit of our teams. Led by Brett Brohl and Mary Grove, we investin founders at the seed stage across foodtech, digital health and enterprise saas.
- Total investments:
- 105
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
- Fund size:
- $40M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Bread and Butter Ventures invests in
Stages Bread and Butter Ventures invests in
Countries Bread and Butter Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$4.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $145k–$2.7M
- Series A
- $6M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 21 (20%)
- Health Care 14 (13%)
- SaaS 13 (12%)
- Food and Beverage 12 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 52 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 18 (17%)
- Series A 9 (9%)
- Funding Round 4 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (4%)
Country
- United States 65 (62%)
- Canada 3 (3%)
- India 1 (1%)
- Mexico 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mary Grove
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 24 | Find email | |
Brett Brohl
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 107 | Find email | |
Don Loeb
Mentor
|
Mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Stephanie Rich
Head of Platform
|
Head of Platform | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intellectible is a leading provider of AI-powered proposal writing solutions, and it supports advanced AI workflows that complete complex proposal actions. | $3M / Seed / Jun 04, 2026 | ||
| Q-rounds is a real-time, virtual queue that patients, families, and providers can access while in the hospital to ensure that everyone is aware of when rounds are scheduled. Q-rounds has telehealth technology through which it takes the responsibility of caring. This relieves the patient's burden of sharing information by ensuring that othershear directly from the provider and can ask questions in real-time. | $1.8M / Seed / Mar 02, 2026 | ||
| SnoutID is a veterinary technology solution that helps the practice support team to concentrate on customer service and patient care. | $10M / Series A / Jan 28, 2026 | ||
| Parento provides research on employee retention, recruitment, and satisfaction in parents enabling companies to retain and elevate working parents, especially working moms, through a holistic approach to paid parental designed to support the modern workforce at the most critical juncture in their professional and personal paths. | $5.9M / Seed / Sep 09, 2025 | ||
| Salmon is the AI engine for enterprise growth teams to autonomously accelerate revenue generation by providing real-time, accurate prospect insights at scale. The company helps the growth function – revenue ops, marketing/sales ops, pipeline expansion – quickly and accurately source, verify, and qualify their prospects. | $2.6M / Seed / May 05, 2025 | ||
| Nimblemind.ai enables healthcare providers to organize and enrich multimodal clinical data through labeling and curation. | $2.5M / Seed / Mar 14, 2025 | ||
| VoiceCare AI operates as a Healthcare Administration General Intelligence (HAGI) company. | $4.5M / Seed / Feb 14, 2025 | ||
| Tradeverifyd is an innovative AI-driven platform that automatically identifies and mitigates supply chain risks. | $8M / Series A / Jan 28, 2025 | ||
| Delfina provides a personalized prenatal care system that uses the power of data to keep moms and babies safe during pregnancy. Their data-driven approach is uncovering unique insights in prenatal care to pave the way for clinical innovation. | $17M / Series A / Jan 28, 2025 | ||
| SocialCrowd automates employee incentives by tracking progress towards goals, reminding them of the work they have left, and instantly rewarding employees – so you can save time and stay focused! | $2.5M / Seed / Oct 24, 2024 | ||
| See all 105 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Bread and Butter Ventures invest in?
Bread and Butter Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 105 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 Bread and Butter Ventures's check size?
Bread and Butter Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$4.5M at Seed, $145k–$2.7M at Pre-Seed and $6M–$20M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bread and Butter Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Bread and Butter Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Bread and Butter Ventures?
The team at Bread and Butter Ventures includes Mary Grove (Managing Partner), Brett Brohl (Managing Partner) and Don Loeb (Mentor). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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