Lunch Partners

Lunch Partners is a venture capital firm based in New York, established in 2017 by a group of business leaders. The firm focuses on investing in seed and early-stage companies led by passionate entrepreneurs. It seeks out founder-led businesses across various industries, emphasizing those with strong domain expertise and a clear market demand for their products or services. Lunch Partners provides its portfolio companies with strategic guidance and unique expertise to help them grow. The firm prioritizes teams that utilize consumer intelligence and operational excellence to foster direct connections with their customers.

Amy Israel

Partner

Jeff Kingsley

General and Operating Partner

Lisa Licht

Partner

Ross Martin

General Partner

Sean Moran

Partner

Kern Schireson

Partner

Carl Stern

Partner

Nick Tran

Partner

Mark Weinstein

Partner

11 past transactions

Sundays

Series A in 2022
Sundays for Dogs, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in the manufacture and online retail of dog food. Founded in 2017 by Tory Waxman and Michael Waxman, the company employs a unique air-drying method to produce its dog food, which gently dehydrates ingredients to preserve their nutrients and flavor while effectively eliminating germs. This approach allows customers to purchase high-quality dog food conveniently through the company's online platform, ensuring home delivery for added convenience.

Gemist

Seed Round in 2022
Gemist, Inc. is a jewelry company based in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in designing and manufacturing customizable rings and other jewelry products. The company offers an innovative online platform that allows consumers to create personalized jewelry and accessories. A key feature of Gemist's service is its "Try-and-Buy" experience, which enables customers to receive free replicas of their designs before making a final purchase decision. Founded in 2018 and previously known as Madeline's Rings Co., Gemist aims to engage millennials by providing a seamless and interactive jewelry buying experience through its technology-driven platform. The company focuses on enhancing customer engagement and satisfaction while facilitating the design and selection of unique jewelry pieces.

Air

Series B in 2022
Air brings your content and collaborators together in a space designed for visual work. By giving your team back those hours previously lost each day on menial tasks, Air not only fundamentally changes team efficiency, but also enables more moments of creativity. Air was designed by creators for creators with the hopes of getting more people involved in your brand experience.

Chatdesk

Series A in 2022
Chatdesk Inc. develops software solutions to enhance customer interactions for businesses. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company focuses on improving customer satisfaction by facilitating a shift from traditional voice calls to messaging channels such as Facebook, SMS, and WhatsApp. By leveraging analytics and messaging capabilities, Chatdesk enables companies to provide better customer service tailored to the preferences of their clients, allowing for seamless communication across various platforms.

Qonsent

Seed Round in 2021
Qonsent provides next-practice consent enablement for marketing teams, as well as a first-of-its-kind consumer consent wallet for transparent consent engagements directly between the Consumer and the brand.

MikMak

Series A in 2020
MikMak helps brands better understand consumers by connecting digital investments to online retailer insights. It offers a dashboard that aggregates the eCommerce customer journey across any number of digital channels and retailers. Brands get standardized reporting and benchmarks, so users can act on unbiased insights in real-time. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Qonsent

Seed Round in 2020
Qonsent provides next-practice consent enablement for marketing teams, as well as a first-of-its-kind consumer consent wallet for transparent consent engagements directly between the Consumer and the brand.

PATH

Seed Round in 2019
PATH is a company that specializes in producing and selling purified water in refillable aluminum bottles. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, PATH offers its products through various retail stores and online platforms. The company aims to provide an eco-friendly alternative to traditional bottled water by promoting the use of reusable containers.

Nomadica

Seed Round in 2019
Operator of a wine firm intended to help solve the complexity issue within the wine industry. The company offers sustainably farmed, low intervention, dry, sugar-free, and vegan wines without any chemical manipulation in the cellar and with minimal sulfur across several varietals that focus on sustainable packaging helping them navigate the industry's intricacies, enabling young consumers to access socially validated, regulated, organic, and affordable natural luxury wines.

Sphere

Seed Round in 2019
Developer of an online coaching platform designed for personal development and social and emotional intelligence. The company's platform offers a well-being and self-improvement tool to find a coach and have a one-on-one session to go over personal and professional development goals, enabling users to get online coaching experiences, increase self-awareness and unlock human potential.
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