Lunch Partners

Lunch Partners is a group of business leaders that invests together in early-stage companies with passionate leaders. It supports its portfolio companies with unique expertise and strategic guidance. The firm reviews founder-led companies, at seed and early A rounds, across industries, with a bias towards passionate entrepreneurs who are supported by teams with substantial domain expertise. They look for products and services that demonstrate clear purpose, market demand, and massive potential. It prioritizes teams that leverage consumer intelligence and operational excellence to establish and grow a direct, one-to-one connection with consumers. In 2017, the New York, New York-based company was formed by a group of business leaders.

Amy Israel

Partner

Jeff Kingsley

Partner

Lisa Licht

Partner

Kern Schireson

Partner

Mark Weinstein

Partner

14 past transactions

Sundays for Dogs

Series A in 2022
Sundays for Dogs engages in the online retail of dog foods. Its products are made by an air-drying method that gently dehydrates food low and slow to preserve nutrients and flavor while killing germs. The company was co-founded by Tory Waxman and Michael Waxman and is based in New York.

Gemist

Seed Round in 2022
Gemist is the first-ever D2C custom jewelry company focused on the way millennials engage jewelry. We have made it easy to custom design jewelry through our branding, technology and namely our unique home “Try-and-Buy” experience.

Air

Series B in 2022
Air is the Creative Operations System for marketing and creative teams. Find, organize, share, and collaborate on your images and videos. It's a visual workspace where your images and videos can be easily stored, shared, managed, and finalized. Say goodbye to legacy tools like Dropbox, Google Drive, and traditional DAMs. Air’s intuitive UI is purpose-built for visual assets. Find files faster with visual search and AI autotagging. Share files securely. Fast-track projects and feedback. Customize workflows. Your team can save countless hours managing digital assets with Air.

Chatdesk

Series A in 2022
Chatdesk helps companies maximize the ROI of their customer interactions on Email, Chat, Social, and SMS by leveraging AI + utilizing 43,000 local brand experts in 60+ languages. Our BrandScript technology ensures that responses match clients’ brand voice powered by Generative AI.

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.

Jupiter

Seed Round in 2021
Jupiter is a manufacturer of personal care products intended to treat scalp discomforts like dandruff, dry scalp, redness, irritation, and scaling. The company's products are sulfate-free, paraben-free, phthalate-free, and safe for color-treated and chemically-treated hair.

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.

Religion of Sports

Series A in 2020
Religion of Sports is a Santa Monica, CA-based sports media company that provides scripted and unscripted videos, podcasts, feature films, and social content about sports. Founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, and Gotham Chopra, Religion of Sports creates best-in-class content and is building a brand focused on human/emotional storytelling in and around the world of sports.

Gemist

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Gemist is the first-ever D2C custom jewelry company focused on the way millennials engage jewelry. We have made it easy to custom design jewelry through our branding, technology and namely our unique home “Try-and-Buy” experience.

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.

Brightland

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Brightland products including olive oils, vinegar, and honey are available. Their products include fruit-forward vinegar and extra virgin olive oils. On purchases of $80 or more, delivery is free.

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.

BlackBird

Series A in 2019
At BlackBird, we believe that driving shouldn’t be the only option for personal transportation. Over the last fifty years we’ve lost the freedom and endless possibility that cars used to represent and simply accepted traffic and the limitations of driving as a way of life. In fact, we view the world through a car-centric lens, choosing where we live and work based on how long driving between them will take. We limit our weekend trips based on how long it will take to drive there and back. No matter who you are, no matter what you do, we all face challenges, obstacles, rules, limitations and frustrations—this daily struggle is gravity that pulls us down and tries to keep us from reaching our potential. Together we will defy gravity.

Sphere Guide

Seed Round in 2019
Sphere is a revolutionary app that has over 170+ vetted professional and personal coaches.
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