# Zintinus

> Zintinus is a VC fund in Berlin backing Food and Beverage and Organic Food. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 62%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zintinus/
- Website: https://zintinus.com/

Zintinus is a VC fund in Berlin focused on Food and Beverage and Organic Food. Zintinus engages in Food Tech innovation technology.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $8.3M–$30M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $2.7M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 5 | 38% |
| Organic Food | 2 | 15% |
| Sustainability | 2 | 15% |
| Food Processing | 2 | 15% |
| Fruit | 1 | 8% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 31% |
| Series B | 3 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 23% |
| Seed | 2 | 15% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 3 | 23% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 15% |
| France | 1 | 8% |
| Finland | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Brown | Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-brown |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Planted Foods | Planted is an ETH Spinoff that uses cutting-edge technology to turn four natural ingredients into plant-based meat that mimics the taste, texture, and mouthfeel of traditional animal meat. It takes only the best raw materials from plants and creates that tasty, nutritious, high-protein, and juicy planted that the customers love.It was founded in2019 and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 17, 2024 |  |
| Planet A Foods | Planet A Foods specializes in the production of cocoa-free chocolate. The company strives to produce food locally, with minimal impact on land and resources, and reduce carbon emissions globally. | $30M | Series B | Dec 05, 2024 |  |
| KITRO | KITRO is simplifying food waste management for commercial kitchens. Harnessing the power of technology, KITRO provides the food service industry with an AI-driven SaaS solution automating food waste management. Customers are empowered to save 2-8% of their annual food cost and reduce their avoidable food waste by minimum 20%. |  |  | Nov 27, 2024 |  |
| Blue Stripes | Blue Stripes Cacao Shop enables further go-to-market opportunities by offering experiential retail that combines the goodness of cocoa with a unique customer experience. | $20M | Series B | Oct 15, 2024 |  |
| La Vie | La Vie is developing a 100% vegetable edible fat with the ambition of offering different types of vegetable meats. | $25.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 04, 2024 |  |
| Blue Farm | Blue Farm offers vegan dairy alternatives for maximum freshness and minimal waste. It focuses on rethinking how milk is produced, delivered, and consumed. Blue Farm's products reduce packaging waste and emissions significantly while tasting amazing. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 24, 2023 |  |
| Lykon | Empower people to live a healthy life. This is not only the vision of our founder Tobias Teuber, but of the entire team. We are a digital health company that was founded in 2018 and will change the healthcare system for the longterm. Our vision is to empower people to take their health into their own hands. We currently offer a wide range of DNAand blood tests. A few drops of blood or saliva are enough for us to provide customers with tailored nutrition and action recommendations to help them achieve their health goals. With our product, we are active in innovative and exciting fields, such as personalized nutrition and personalized medicineHow does it work?You order these tests online, perform them easily at home and send them back to us by post. After our certified partner laboratories have successfully analyzed the blood and DNA samples, you will receive the test results in your private Lykon profile presented in a clear and easy-to-understand way, and at the same time, you will receive recommendations on how to improve your blood values if necessary.Lykon does not replace medical advice, however, we enable you to control your health - without long waiting hours at the doctor's office. | $2.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 17, 2023 |  |
| It's Fresh! | It’s Fresh! Food Freshness Technology company, delivering freshness solutions to the fresh produce industry, based on consumer-friendly advanced materials innovations. Our discrete It's Fresh! controllers purify the air around perishable produce, inside the pack from field to fork; helping our customers deliver fruit that is fresher forlonger, thereby significantly increasing sales, and slashing unnecessary waste - right into the consumer's home. www.itsfresh.com | $8.3M | Series B | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Blue Farm | Blue Farm offers vegan dairy alternatives for maximum freshness and minimal waste. It focuses on rethinking how milk is produced, delivered, and consumed. Blue Farm's products reduce packaging waste and emissions significantly while tasting amazing. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. | $3.3M |  | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| Blue Farm | Blue Farm offers vegan dairy alternatives for maximum freshness and minimal waste. It focuses on rethinking how milk is produced, delivered, and consumed. Blue Farm's products reduce packaging waste and emissions significantly while tasting amazing. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. | $2.9M | Seed | Sep 21, 2022 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Zintinus invest in?

Zintinus invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Organic Food and Sustainability startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series B stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Zintinus's check size?

Zintinus typically joins rounds of $8.3M–$30M at Series B and $2.7M–$25M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Zintinus participates in.

### How do I contact Zintinus?

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### Who are the partners at Zintinus?

The team at Zintinus includes David Brown (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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