Valley Oak Investments
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Valley Oak Investments is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Agriculture. Valley Oak invests in private companies, funds, and real assets focusing on early-stage companies in food & ag tech, prop tech, and fin tech. Valley Oak manages a permanent capital base and partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs to build enduring companies.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
- Fund size:
- $41M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Valley Oak Investments invests in
Stages Valley Oak Investments invests in
Countries Valley Oak Investments invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (15%)
- Agriculture 4 (15%)
- Food and Beverage 4 (15%)
- SaaS 3 (12%)
- Medical 3 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (42%)
- Series A 4 (15%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (12%)
- Series B 3 (12%)
- Series C 3 (12%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Niko Hrdy
President
|
President | Total investments: 9 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| An audiovisual recording service that integrates with both Zoom and Google Calendar. | $4.7M / Seed / Jan 24, 2022 | ||
| Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based software company helping perishable CPG brands manage excess and slow-moving inventory. Working exclusively at the manufacturing plant or distribution center level, Spoiler Alert offers a best-in-class B2B sales platform that enables food & beverage brands to manage their liquidation processes across a privatenetwork of discount retailers and nonprofit channels - with a heavy focus on maximizing value recovery, strengthening customer relationships, and increasing the effectiveness of supply chain managers tasked with handling these typically manual sales processes. Founded by alumni of MIT, Spoiler Alert works with some of the world's largest brands, including Campbell's, Danone, HelloFresh, KeHE Distributors, and Kraft Heinz, along with a growing network of discount channels committed to increasing affordable food access and reducing food waste. | $11M / Series A / Dec 01, 2021 | ||
| Gradient Works is a seed-stage software company in Austin, TX. At Gradient Works, we're building a dynamic book management product for high-velocity revenue teams. We're founded by experienced entrepreneurs with background across the revenue organization and customer lifecycle. | $2M / Seed / Oct 20, 2021 | ||
| Bear Flag Robotics is an ag-tech company developing autonomous technology for farm tractors to increase productivity and improve safety.The solution gathers data on field patterns to provide predictive analytics that helps growers better plan each season. It can be controlled and commanded from a central mission control who gets real-timeinformation about everything happening on a tractor that enables farmers to reduce input and increase production yield easily.Co-Founders Igino Cafiero and Aubrey Donnellan founded the company in 2017 in Newark, California. | $7.9M / Seed / Jan 21, 2021 | ||
| Pair Team provides an end-to-end operations platform to automate clinical operations and provide high-touch patient support. The platform monitors health plan and system data to trigger automated workflows that engage patients to schedule clinically impactful visits. Pair Team was founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California. | $2.7M / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2019 | ||
| Pair Team is on a mission to build the primary care infrastructure for America’s most vulnerable communities.They are the first tech-enabled care team that empowers safety-net primary care systems and the Medicaid & Medicare patients they serve. They act as an extension of the clinical staff to provide a personalized, high-touch careexperience while addressing patients' barriers to care such as lack of transportation, housing/food insecurity, and mobile phone access. Internally, they are building a unique care delivery platform to ensure clinical best practices, integrate care with community-based organizations, and automate administrative work so that clinicians can focus on time with our patients. | $2.7M / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2019 | ||
| Hazel Technologies develops biotechnology for reducing waste in the agricultural supply chain. Their product development is funded in part by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and their product performance has been validated by 3rd party academic research institutions such as Cornell University. The company provides USDA-funded1-MCP technology conditions the storage atmosphere to reduce respiration rate & increase resistance to ethylene.Hazel Technologies offers horticultural consulting services to growers and shippers, as well as develops new solutions to reduce food waste to improve the fresh produce supply chain. It also provides shelf-life extension technologies and services to combat the global food waste problem and improve profitability for its customers.Hazel Technologies was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA. | $13M / Series B / Aug 12, 2019 | ||
| Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based software company helping perishable CPG brands manage excess and slow-moving inventory. Working exclusively at the manufacturing plant or distribution center level, Spoiler Alert offers a best-in-class B2B sales platform that enables food & beverage brands to manage their liquidation processes across a privatenetwork of discount retailers and nonprofit channels - with a heavy focus on maximizing value recovery, strengthening customer relationships, and increasing the effectiveness of supply chain managers tasked with handling these typically manual sales processes. Founded by alumni of MIT, Spoiler Alert works with some of the world's largest brands, including Campbell's, Danone, HelloFresh, KeHE Distributors, and Kraft Heinz, along with a growing network of discount channels committed to increasing affordable food access and reducing food waste. | $2.5M / Seed / Oct 18, 2018 | ||
| Bear Flag Robotics is an ag-tech company developing autonomous technology for farm tractors to increase productivity and improve safety.The solution gathers data on field patterns to provide predictive analytics that helps growers better plan each season. It can be controlled and commanded from a central mission control who gets real-timeinformation about everything happening on a tractor that enables farmers to reduce input and increase production yield easily.Co-Founders Igino Cafiero and Aubrey Donnellan founded the company in 2017 in Newark, California. | $3.5M / Seed / Aug 31, 2018 | ||
| Hazel Technologies develops biotechnology for reducing waste in the agricultural supply chain. Their product development is funded in part by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and their product performance has been validated by 3rd party academic research institutions such as Cornell University. The company provides USDA-funded1-MCP technology conditions the storage atmosphere to reduce respiration rate & increase resistance to ethylene.Hazel Technologies offers horticultural consulting services to growers and shippers, as well as develops new solutions to reduce food waste to improve the fresh produce supply chain. It also provides shelf-life extension technologies and services to combat the global food waste problem and improve profitability for its customers.Hazel Technologies was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA. | $3.3M / Series A / Mar 15, 2018 | ||
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FAQ
What does Valley Oak Investments invest in?
Valley Oak Investments invests primarily in Software, Agriculture and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 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 Valley Oak Investments?
The team at Valley Oak Investments includes Niko Hrdy (President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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