Bluestein Ventures

Crafty is a platform that streamlines food, beverage, and supply management for workplaces, supporting in-office, remote, and hybrid teams worldwide. Crafty partners with global brands to enhance workplace experiences and productivity by managing services for over 260 offices and 300,000 employees monthly.

New Culture is a food and beverage company that focuses on revolutionizing how cheese is made. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Jellatech is a B2B biotech business based in Raleigh, NC, and with R&D in Wageningen, Netherlands. Jellatech is producing high-quality, pure, animal-free collagen and gelatin. Founded by a group of innovators, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and scientists, Jellatech is eliminating the dependency on animals, to make better ingredient products - starting with collagen and gelatin.

Torch is designing a wireless router that can filter content and help schedule kids’ internet use, all with one device. Torch is also giving parents visibility into how their kids use the internet in order to stimulate conversations at home. Where a child goes online says a lot about who they are and who they are becoming. Parents should feel empowered to help their kids lean into the discoveries that technology affords, not feel threatened or powerless to them. With Torch, parents can manage all the connected devices in the home through one point--the router. Setup and management is easy and intuitive. No network engineering degrees required. Parenting in the digital age doesn't ever need to be in the dark again.

They believe there is a better way to do logistics. A more valuable, less invasive way where customers are earned rather than bought. They are obsessively passionate about it, and their mission is to help people achieve it. They focus on connecting people and solving problems. It's one of the least understood and least transparent aspects of freight, and we see that as an opportunity: They are excited to simplify logistics for everyone through our technology, experience , and service.

Cultured Decadence is a cellular aquaculture startup creating novel methods to make crustacean products using cell culture and tissue engineering techniques. The company was founded in 2020 and based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Grovara is the 1st B2B Global Marketplace for US Wellness Brands, connecting natural and organic brands with international retailers. Our marketplace connects wellness brands and global retailers on a single B2B platform, streamlines the entire product discovery, order processing and fulfilment for export, while empowering brands and retailers with wellness focused insights-driven data to accelerate growth and scale.

New Culture is a food and beverage company that focuses on revolutionizing how cheese is made. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

We are building a new kind of paper company. One that cares about helping the planet and our fellow humans while providing a fantastic, eco-friendly alternative to consumers. Reel paper is made from 100% sustainable bamboo. Our subscription box is conveniently delivered directly to your door, so you’ll never run out of toilet paper again. Plus, for each box of Reel toilet paper sold, we donate a biodegradable toilet bag to one of the 2.4 billion people globally that don’t have access to one.

Mori is a developer of an edible and natural biomaterial coating that extends the shelf life of perishable foods. It uses salt and water to extract the protein from natural silk and creates a protective layer that keeps food fresher for longer enabling it to economically and sustainably transform the food supply by developing and commercializing technologies for the food, agriculture, and packaging industries. It was founded in 2016 by Adam Behrens and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that provides fungi-based meat alternatives to everyone. It focuses on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutrient-dense, plant-based meat alternatives that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day. Meati Foods was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boulder, United States.

Pear Chef provides reimagined room service amenities for apartment buildings. Their service works onsite, on-demand, and delivers a hot, fresh, seasonally inspired menu to your door. They also offer professional catering services, private cooking classes, and in-home personal dining experiences for residents and their guests.

Yerbae is a sparkling water technology company that specializes in plant-based energy beverages. It aims to deliver an enhanced experience that stimulates the body and focuses the mind without the jitters and crashes typically associated with energy drinks.

Vive Organic is an organic, function-focused line dedicated to providing the highest quality wellness shots. It has assessed hundreds of farms around the world, and exclusively source their ingredients from the top tier of organic farms. It never uses artificial colors or any type of sweeteners – not even stevia, honey, or sugar. They believe that nature alone should determine the color and flavor of its Wellness Shots. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Venice, California.

Buddy Nutrition, Inc. develops and produces a range of nutritional products. The company provides vitamin shots also known as buddy shots. It offers ultra-customizable and natural nutrition solutions. The company also provides its products through customer order. Buddy Nutrition, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Rethink Brands is a solution-based beverage company that is focused on optimizing the products of everyday life. It is a drink for all occasions, may it be birthday parties, soccer game refreshments, and lunch table concessions, children could see a good bit of sugar over the course of any given day.

Alex and Andrew started Bizzy, a coffee brewing company that offers organic cold brew coffee. Their passion for cold brew coffee started years ago after graduating from college. At the time, both had corporate jobs, were training for a 24-hour obstacle race, and were running a group fitness company. Because of their busy schedules and drive to succeed, sleep became less important to them. In order to be their best, they needed something that could give them a quick jolt of energy. At first, they would drink anything that would keep them awake. As former college students, they started with what they knew - energy drinks. They quickly found that this was an extremely unhealthy option and one that would leave them with a hard crash once the sugar wore off. As they looked further into what was actually in these products they were disgusted at the amount of sugar and synthetic ingredients they were consuming. So, as any corporate employee would do, they turned to their trusty friend, coffee. Every morning they would wake up 15 minutes early just to brew a pot of drip coffee, but just like everything else they tried, it had several drawbacks. The coffee took way too long to brew, produced a terrible tasting product, and wasn't convenient to take with them. Three things in their mind were unacceptable. In the summer of 2012, they stumbled upon cold brew coffee. It fulfilled all of their requirements for the perfect source of energy, it was natural, sugar-free, and simple, but there was one very significant drawback, it wasn't at all convenient. To make it on their own took them 24 hours and if they wanted to buy it they had to wait in line at a coffee shop. Over the next several years their love for cold brew grew, and so did their frustration with its lack of convenience and availability. They spent the next 2-years researching a way to create the highest quality product, in the most convenient way, and in 2015 they launched Bizzy - the healthiest and most convenient coffee on the market.

Factor is a subscription-based prepared meal delivery service that delivers dietitian-designed, chef-crafted meals. The company a fully-prepared meal delivery service that specializes in providing fresh, ready-to-eat meals with a focus on health and wellness. Its rotating menu of breakfast, lunch,and dinner options feature keto, Paleo, low-carb, vegetarian, plant-based, and high protein meals that can be heated in the microwave or oven and are ready in minutes. Factor only uses fresh ingredients from its trusted partners and assures that the meals are free of hormones, antibiotics, gluten, refined sugars, and GMOs. Factor is supported by leading consumer investors Listen Ventures, Bluestein Ventures, and Marcy Venture Partners Mike Apostal and Nick Wernimont founded Factor 75 in Batavia, Illinois in 2013.

Monument is a smart storage device that collects personal photos and videos from smartphones, cameras and provides a dead simple way to store, organize, share and view them. Monument’s Artificial Intelligence analyzes and organizes photos by date, location, camera type, faces, and what’s in them; even if they have not tagged them before.

Occasion is an online tool that assists firms in connecting with their customers. The platform offers analytics, calendars, integration, management, payment, promotion, publishing, and support services to its clients. Analytics consists of dashboard, google analytics, and sales, trend, export, and tax reports. Calendars consist of calendar synchronization, display, and personalization. Integration consists of email marketing, accounting, and automation. Management consists of customer profiles, accounts, and online and retail synchronization. Payment consists of taxes, payment gateways, store credit, and automatic taxes. Promotion consists of gift cards, vouchers, discounts, and promotional dashboards. Publishing consists of website sales, personalized URLs, Facebook, and twitter. Occasion was launched in 2013 by Pelle ten Cate, Aksh Gupta, Eric Di Silvestro, and Kieran Klaassen and is based in Chicago.

Factor is a subscription-based prepared meal delivery service that delivers dietitian-designed, chef-crafted meals. The company a fully-prepared meal delivery service that specializes in providing fresh, ready-to-eat meals with a focus on health and wellness. Its rotating menu of breakfast, lunch,and dinner options feature keto, Paleo, low-carb, vegetarian, plant-based, and high protein meals that can be heated in the microwave or oven and are ready in minutes. Factor only uses fresh ingredients from its trusted partners and assures that the meals are free of hormones, antibiotics, gluten, refined sugars, and GMOs. Factor is supported by leading consumer investors Listen Ventures, Bluestein Ventures, and Marcy Venture Partners Mike Apostal and Nick Wernimont founded Factor 75 in Batavia, Illinois in 2013.

As the leader in AI-driven supply chain transformation, FourKites pioneered the Intelligent Control Tower™ powered by the world’s largest real-time visibility network. Our platform creates comprehensive digital twins of your supply chain with AI-powered digital workers to automate resolution, improve collaboration and drive outcomes across all stakeholders. Unlike traditional control towers, we enable true real-time execution and intelligent fulfillment, transforming both your supply and customer-facing operations.