# Tin Shed Ventures

> Tin Shed Ventures is a VC fund in Ventura backing Textiles, Biotechnology and Sustainability. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ventura, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 71%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/17991260/
- Website: http://www.tinshedventures.com/

Tin Shed Ventures is a VC fund in Ventura focused on Textiles and Biotechnology. Tin Shed Ventures is Patagonia’s corporate venture capital fund, which invests in start-ups that offer solutions to the environmental crisis. Originally launched as $20 Million and Change in May 2013, Tin Shed Ventures partners with businesses focused on building renewable energy infrastructure, practicing regenerative organic agriculture,conserving water, diverting waste and creating sustainable materials.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Textiles | 2 | 29% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 29% |
| Sustainability | 2 | 29% |
| AgTech | 1 | 14% |
| Hardware | 1 | 14% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 57% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Edacious | Edacious is a Public Benefit Corporation that develops a radical transparency-based food verification system. | $8.1M | Seed | Feb 06, 2025 |  |
| Fibe | We make sustainable fibres for textiles out of potato waste. Our material uses 99.7% less water, no additional land and produces 82% less CO2e than cotton. We partner with fashion brands who share our sustainability vision, to ensure the garments are sustainable and remain recyclable. Our fibre is biodegradable on land and sea, compostable andrecyclable with other natural textiles such as cotton. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Apr 18, 2024 |  |
| Rubi Laboratories | Rubi Laboratories develops biocatalyst solutions that manufacture carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry. Its technology offers a natural resource for making things and directly synthesizes the threads that help clients produce viscose that is carbon-negative, water-chemical, land-neutral, traceable, and biodegradable. | $8.7M | Seed | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| Rubi Laboratories | Rubi Laboratories develops biocatalyst solutions that manufacture carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry. Its technology offers a natural resource for making things and directly synthesizes the threads that help clients produce viscose that is carbon-negative, water-chemical, land-neutral, traceable, and biodegradable. | $8.7M | Seed | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| Circ | Circ helps industries meet consumer expectations for sustainability without compromises in quality, price, or convenience. It recycles discarded clothing to produce the basis of petroleum- and plant-based fabrics. Tyton’s virgin-equivalent, market-grade dissolving pulp, and petroleum monomers can be sold at the same cost as virgin materials tomanufacturers who make fibers. Whether cotton, poly-cotton, polyester, nylon, or other fibers, it aims to cost-effectively recycle these materials using water as a solvent. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Danville, Virginia. | $8M | Series A | Jan 10, 2020 |  |
| NuMat Technologies | NuMat Technologies builts an Operating System for the commercialization of programmable chemistries. It is creating the future of precision engineering by designing and building molecularly-programmed systems that unlock paradigm shifts in resource creation and use. The company's expertise lies in the design and integration of MOFs intonext-generation storage, separation, and purification systems. In doing so, NuMat enables previously unachievable form factors, performance and cost-advantaged production economics. NuMat provides a total solutions platform for product commercialization, pairing world-class material discovery software with application development and manufacturing expertise. | $12.4M | Series B | Apr 26, 2018 |  |
| NuMat Technologies | NuMat Technologies builts an Operating System for the commercialization of programmable chemistries. It is creating the future of precision engineering by designing and building molecularly-programmed systems that unlock paradigm shifts in resource creation and use. The company's expertise lies in the design and integration of MOFs intonext-generation storage, separation, and purification systems. In doing so, NuMat enables previously unachievable form factors, performance and cost-advantaged production economics. NuMat provides a total solutions platform for product commercialization, pairing world-class material discovery software with application development and manufacturing expertise. | $7M | Series A | Aug 10, 2016 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Collaborative Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collaborative-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [H&M Group Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/h-m-co-lab) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Talis Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/talis-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alante Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alante-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Evergreen Climate Innovations](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clean-energy-trust-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Necessary Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/necessary-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Tin Shed Ventures invest in?

Tin Shed Ventures invests primarily in Textiles, Biotechnology and Sustainability startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Tin Shed Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tin Shed Ventures closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 7 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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