Babel Ventures

Babel Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2016. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, primarily targeting driven, impact-oriented entrepreneurs in sectors such as consumer biotechnology, longevity, health and wellness, and food and beverage. Babel Ventures seeks to support innovative start-ups that leverage deep technologies, aiming to make a significant impact in their respective industries.

Daniela Arruda

Partner

BA Minuzzi

Founder and General Partner

Marcelo Valente

Partner

20 past transactions

Nebia

Seed Round in 2017
Nebia was started on the premise of creating great products that fundamentally change the way people think about their relationship to water in their home. Their team is driven by an obsessive passion for creating better experiences, as well as a core belief that they can be more responsible consumers of earth’s most precious resource.

Nabione, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Nabione, Inc. operates as a cannabis distributor. It provides services for the wholesale cannabis market, including warehousing, fulfillment, data analytics, and financial services. The company transport products for licensed cannabis businesses anywhere within California. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Oakland, California.

Finless Foods

Private Placement in 2017
Finless Foods is an early-stage biotechnology company whose mission is to develop and mass manufacture pioneering marine animal food products for human consumption. Their objective is to create seafood sustainably using scientific cellular agriculture technologies, which will provide a cost-effective and appetizing alternative to conventionally-caught and commercially-farmed seafood. Their products will also be healthier to consume and better for the environment than conventionally-produced seafood.

Wild Earth

Seed Round in 2018
Wild Earth is a technology startup that specializes in developing protein pet foods. It is dedicated to reinventing pet food with science to offer healthier foods for pets that are better for the environment and more humane than conventional products. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Cannaly

Seed Round in 2018
Cannaly streamlines the way cannabis brands and dispensaries work together. Enabling easy discovery and purchase of wholesale products.

Nabione, Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Nabione, Inc. operates as a cannabis distributor. It provides services for the wholesale cannabis market, including warehousing, fulfillment, data analytics, and financial services. The company transport products for licensed cannabis businesses anywhere within California. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Oakland, California.

ZBiotics

Seed Round in 2018
ZBiotics Company develops a genetically engineered probiotic drink. It offers ZBiotics, a drink that produces an enzyme that breaks down acetaldehyde, an unwanted byproduct of alcohol that accumulates in gut when alcohol is consumed. The company sells its products online. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Nabis

Series A in 2020
Licensed software-enabled cannabis distributor

Finless Foods

Seed Round in 2018
Finless Foods is an early-stage biotechnology company whose mission is to develop and mass manufacture pioneering marine animal food products for human consumption. Their objective is to create seafood sustainably using scientific cellular agriculture technologies, which will provide a cost-effective and appetizing alternative to conventionally-caught and commercially-farmed seafood. Their products will also be healthier to consume and better for the environment than conventionally-produced seafood.

Forever Labs

Venture Round in 2018
Forever Labs, Inc. is a biomedical research company that cryogenically freeze the stem cells, allowing them to use those cells to fight their age-related diseases in the future. The company is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Mellows

Seed Round in 2019
Mellows is a producer of cannabis-infused marshmallows intended to offer safe and unique confectionery alternatives for adults. Its low-dose and handcrafted marshmallows are medicated using coconut oil infused with solventless hash, enabling customers to enjoy sweets without worrying about dosage and portion splitting. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Cue

Series B in 2018
Cue is a revolutionary device for tracking health information at the molecular level. For the first time, consumers can track 5 key health and lifestyle indicators: inflammation, vitamin D, fertility, influenza, and testosterone in just minutes, at home. Cue sends the data via Bluetooth 4.0 to the user's smartphone, where the free Cue app reveals the interplay of activity, food, and sleep shaping the user at a molecular level.

Vantage Point

Seed Round in 2018
Vantage Point develops and offers employee training programs to corporations. The company uses virtual reality (VR) software to train employees on enterprise training around topics such as diversity, equity and inclusion, and workplace anti-sexual harassment training. The company serves technology, consumer goods, consulting services, school districts, recruiting, and other sectors. Vantage Point was founded in 2017 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

GALY

Pre Seed Round in 2019
GALY Inc. produces cotton from cells in the lab. It uses biomaterial technology to produce cotton. The company sells cellular cotton yarns to the textile industry. GALY Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in the United States.

Nabione, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Nabione, Inc. operates as a cannabis distributor. It provides services for the wholesale cannabis market, including warehousing, fulfillment, data analytics, and financial services. The company transport products for licensed cannabis businesses anywhere within California. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Oakland, California.

Mission Barns

Seed Round in 2018
Mission Barns is making the juicy, savory meats they all love in a sustainable, more efficient way. At Mission Barns, they are cultivating animal cells to sustainably grow meat without the negative impacts of intensive animal agriculture. They start with a handful of cells from select animals, grow them in a nutrient-rich environment, and harvest delicious, savory meat. Working at the convergence of biotech and food science, they’re on the path to creating a more sensible food system for the world.

OccamzRazor

Pre Seed Round in 2017
OccamzRazor is a San Francisco based AI-neuroscience startup that is focused on finding disease modifying treatments for Parkinson's Disease (PD) and other complex diseases. To cure a complex and multifactorial disease like PD, we need to go beyond targeting just a single gene or a single disease mechanism. OccamzRazor consumes and analyzes unstructured and structured biomedical datasets (e.g., published literature, preclinical and clinical trial results), and constructs an exhaustive knowledge graph representing all known information about PD. This graph is used to drive downstream therapeutic insight, augment decision making in biomedical research, and generate strategic therapeutics development.

Forever Labs

Private Placement in 2018
Forever Labs, Inc. is a biomedical research company that cryogenically freeze the stem cells, allowing them to use those cells to fight their age-related diseases in the future. The company is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Vitagene

Seed Round in 2017
Vitagene leverages big data and machine learning to provide personalized, actionable diet, fitness, and supplement recommendations to its members.

California Dreamin

Seed Round in 2018
California Dreamin is a food and beverage start up that manufactures all natural cannabis infused sodas for a light social high. It is simply made of fruit juice, cannabis, and carbonation. It was on their first date that the founders, Amy and Peter discovered their mutual love for starting companies. Amy and Peter knew then wanted to start something, but weren't sure what. With a little reseach, it became clear that the cannabis market was on it's way to becoming huge while only catering to your typical pothead.