# VegInvest

> VegInvest is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage and Food Processing. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.veginvesttrust.com/

VegInvest is a VC fund in New York focused on Food and Beverage and Food Processing. VegInvest provides early-stage capital and guidance to companies striving to replace the use of animals.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for VegInvest. Shizune tracks 2 team members at VegInvest. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/veginvest?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $400k–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$2M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 13 | 59% |
| Food Processing | 8 | 36% |
| Organic Food | 4 | 18% |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 18% |
| Seafood | 3 | 14% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 27% |
| Seed | 5 | 23% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 45% |
| India | 2 | 9% |
| Israel | 2 | 9% |
| France | 1 | 5% |
| Iceland | 1 | 5% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Amy Trakinski | Managing Directer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-trakinski |
| Jody Rasch Rasch | Managing trustee | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jody-rasch-rasch |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rebellyous Foods | Rebellyous Foods is a food manufacturing technology and production company defined solely to catapult meat alternative production toward price parity with animal-based meat. Rebellyous Foods implements food manufacturing equipment and processes in large-scale production to produce low-cost plant-based meat at high volumes. These goals are achievedthrough uniquely designed food products, the use of high-throughput manufacturing automation and ‘smart’ production centers, and the development and utilization of new innovative low-energy manufacturing tools.Rebellyous Foods was established in 2017 in Seattle, Washington. | $2.4M | Series B | Jan 09, 2025 |  |
| Eat Just | Eat Just offers a plant-based egg substitute intended to provide healthy and nutritional food alternatives.It applies cutting-edge science and technology to create healthier, more sustainable foods and the key ingredient is protein from the mung bean and it is cholesterol-free, non-GMO, and packed with as much protein as many animal proteins andwhile it cooks and tastes like eggs. Its ingredients use less water, less land, and emit less CO2e than conventional animal sources, enabling customers to prepare their food items with the required nutrients and protein of an egg.It was founded by Josh Balk and Josh Tetrick in San Francisco, California in 2011. |  |  | Sep 01, 2023 |  |
| UNCAGED Innovations | Uncaged Innovations develops next-generation materials to recreate bovine and exotic leather through advancements in materials chemistry and digital manufacturing, providing businesses from luxury fashion to automotives with an alternative to animal skin and sustainable and ethical services. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jun 02, 2023 |  |
| Barvecue | Barvecue is a food company that offers barbecues for vegetarians. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Cornelius, North Carolina, United States. | $1M | Seed | Mar 08, 2023 |  |
| Dextrous Robotics | Dextrous Robotics is a robotics company that develops AI-enabled warehouse robots. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. |  |  | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Dextrous Robotics | Dextrous Robotics is a robotics company that develops AI-enabled warehouse robots. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Loki Foods | We're producing sustainable, plant-based foods from the Arctic. Iceland’s first plant-based cod and seafood! | $500K | Pre-Seed | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| Mozza | Mozza engages in developing the science to create real dairy cheese from plants. Its mission is to make cheese from plants that are indistinguishable from cheese that comes from animals. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $9.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 14, 2022 |  |
| Nowadays | Nowadays is building the cheapest and most-scalable manufacturing platform for whole cuts of plant-based meat. | $7M | Seed | Apr 18, 2022 |  |
| Goodmylk | Goodmylk is Making plant-based food affordable and accessible in India.It Handles customer acquisition and delight, talent acquisition and growth, brand strategy and supply chain. | $1M | Seed | Sep 06, 2021 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Stray Dog Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stray-dog-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [CPT Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cpt-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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- [Clear Current Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clear-current-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sustainable Food Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sustainable-food-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does VegInvest invest in?

VegInvest invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Food Processing and Organic Food startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 22 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 VegInvest's check size?

VegInvest typically joins rounds of $400k–$7M at Seed, $500k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $2.5M–$23M 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 VegInvest participates in.

### How do I contact VegInvest?

Public channels for VegInvest include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at VegInvest?

The team at VegInvest includes Amy Trakinski (Managing Directer) and Jody Rasch Rasch (Managing trustee). 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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