# Bread and Butter Ventures

> Bread and Butter Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 103 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Saint Paul, United States
- Total investments: 103
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 23%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bread-and-butter-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/bread_buttervc
- Website: https://www.breadandbutterventures.com/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$5M |
| Pre-Seed | $350k–$2.7M |
| Series A | $6M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 20 | 19% |
| Health Care | 14 | 14% |
| SaaS | 12 | 12% |
| Food and Beverage | 12 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 11% |

108 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 52 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 18 | 17% |
| Series A | 9 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 7% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 65 | 63% |
| Canada | 3 | 3% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mary Grove | Managing Partner | 23 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mary-grove |
| Brett Brohl | Managing Partner | 100 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brett-brohl |
| Don Loeb | Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/don-loeb |
| Stephanie Rich | Head of Platform | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephanie-rich |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Intellectible | 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 |  |
| Intellectible | 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 | 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 |  |
| Snout | 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 | 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 Labs | 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 | Nimblemind.ai enables healthcare providers to organize and enrich multimodal clinical data through labeling and curation. | $2.5M | Seed | Mar 14, 2025 |  |
| VoiceCare AI | VoiceCare AI operates as a Healthcare Administration General Intelligence (HAGI) company. | $4.5M | Seed | Feb 14, 2025 |  |
| Tradeverifyd | Tradeverifyd is an innovative AI-driven platform that automatically identifies and mitigates supply chain risks. | $8M | Series A | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Delfina | 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 |  |

10 of 103 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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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 103 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–$5M at Seed, $350k–$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 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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