Advantage Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1992 and headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, with additional offices across the United States. The firm specializes in equity and debt investments, including growth equity, senior and subordinated debt, and mezzanine financing, with a focus on small businesses and underserved communities. It collaborates with state and federal economic programs to support local economic development and has financed companies in sectors such as manufacturing, technology, business services, energy, and agribusiness, including renewable and solar projects. The firm targets opportunities across growth stages and aims to create lasting economic impact by expanding opportunity in low-income areas through private investment and public-private partnerships.

Torch Capital is a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs consumer technology companies and the infrastructure layers that power them. It supports visionary founders using technology to transform how consumers and businesses operate, focusing on opportunities in the consumer and technology sectors.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1995, that focuses on seed to growth investments in deep technology across health, environmental tech, hardware, robotics, and cross border software, with a particular emphasis on Asia. The company runs accelerator style startup development programs, including HAX and IndieBio, which provide facilities, engineering resources, and lab equipment to help founders accelerate product development, acquire customers, and attract later stage funding. SOSV pursues a limited number of high potential startups, offering extensive hands on support to speed commercialization and scale, and aims to back innovations that improve human and planetary health.

AVAC is a Canada-based venture capital firm established in 1997 and based in Calgary, Alberta, that targets early-stage opportunities in agricultural technology, clean tech, and life sciences. The firm pursues direct investments as well as fund-of-funds strategies, focusing on pre-commercial to seed-stage and growth ventures, with a preference for agrivalue companies, medical devices, agriculture research, and life science products. In information and communications technology it covers areas such as animal health, crop genetics, biomass, big data, precision farming, and smart farming applications, while in life sciences it backs new or enhanced foods, nutraceuticals, therapeutics, devices, and health-related products. AVAC typically invests modest amounts and seeks active board participation, sometimes pursuing royalties in pre-commercial deals, and it has historically operated with emphasis on opportunities in Alberta and the western Canada ecosystem. The firm may also provide grants to public research and not-for-profit entities supporting agrivalue innovation.

AccelFoods is an accelerator based in New York City that invests in early-stage food and beverage companies. It provides industry access, expertise, and infrastructure to help founders develop unique products and bring them to market. The company links startups with the broader food and beverage ecosystem to supply resources needed to create enduring brands.

Mumbai Angels is a Mumbai-based angel and venture capital firm established in 2006. It provides early-stage funding and serves as a platform for incubated ventures, helping startups in India scale and fostering collaborations with larger corporations and financial investors seeking growth opportunities. The firm focuses on identifying promising ideas, offering mentorship and access to capital to accelerate development across various sectors. Mumbai Angels has been acquired by 360 ONE.

Renewal Funds is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm that supports early growth stage companies with a focus on sustainability in food, water, and climate. The firm targets technology investments across energy, water, mobility, the built environment, food and agriculture, and the circular economy, with particular emphasis on organics, environmental technology, and related sectors in Canada and the United States.

S2G Investments is a multi-stage investment firm that targets venture and growth-stage companies in food and agriculture, oceans, and energy sectors. It provides capital to businesses shaping the future of food systems and energy resources and supports entrepreneurs and leadership teams with market-driven solutions intended to deliver greater value, improved results, and superior performance relative to conventional options.

Halogen Ventures is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups founded or led by women, with a focus on consumer technology and B2B software. The firm invests across pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds and prioritizes companies with female founders on the founding team. It provides active, hands-on support to portfolio companies, helping them build networks, gain brand exposure, recruit talent, raise follow-on rounds, and navigate exits such as acquisition or IPO.

DSG Consumer Partners is a Singapore-based venture capital firm that focuses on identifying and investing in consumer brands in India and Southeast Asia. It typically takes minority equity stakes but will pursue control transactions with the right management team, and provides capital for growth with liquidity options via secondary exits. Since 2004 it has backed leading consumer brands, including Sula Wines, Saffronart, Cleartrip, Bakers Circle, Mocha, Salt Water Café, Redmart, Mswipe Technologies, Exito Gourmet, Tierra Food, Saraf Foods and Veeba Food Services, aiming for long-term value creation in the consumer sector.

InvestEco Capital is a Canada-based private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2002 that targets investments in the food and agriculture sector across North America. The firm concentrates on companies that promote health, sustainability, and environmental outcomes, with an emphasis on sustainable food and agriculture. Based in Toronto, it has built significant expertise in this sector and has invested in a range of food and agriculture brands across North America. Its investment approach supports growth in companies developing sustainable farming, processing, distribution, and related technologies, aligning financial returns with environmental and health objectives.

At One Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 2020 that backs early-stage startups with a focus on disruptive deep tech and technology-enabled solutions. The firm seeks companies in consumer and business products, energy, information technology, materials, and resources sectors, including climate tech, cleantech, agtech, and food tech, aiming to improve unit economics while reducing environmental footprint. It invests primarily at seed and Series A stages and pursues opportunities worldwide, with activity across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania. The firm emphasizes ventures that are regenerative for planetary health and have the potential to scale into healthy, durable businesses, integrating strong teams, scalable business models, and meaningful environmental impact. In short, At One Ventures supports teams that strive to create a net-positive impact on nature through technological innovation.

SVG Ventures|THRIVE is an investment and accelerator firm based in Los Gatos, California, focused on sustainable agri-food, agritech, food tech, and related supply chains. The company provides support, acceleration, mentorship, validation, and venture-building services to early-stage technology companies, often in collaboration with public and private partners on strategy, innovation and global expansion. It prioritizes climate-smart and ESG-oriented opportunities and backs startups operating in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Since its formation in 2010, SVG Ventures|THRIVE has built a network to help portfolio companies scale through strategic guidance and industry connections.

SIDBI Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of the Small Industries Development Bank of India, based in Mumbai. It makes direct investments and fund of funds investments across India, targeting seed to growth-stage micro, small and medium enterprises. The firm adopts a sector-agnostic approach with focus areas including life sciences, clean technology, retail, light engineering, food processing, information technology, healthcare, infrastructure services, logistics, water and sanitation, agriculture, and education. It typically invests with equity or equity-type instruments, aims for minority board representation, and can partner with other VC funds. Incubation support is part of its offering. Investments are concentrated in India, with activity centered in several states. Established in 1999, SIDBI Venture Capital operates as the investment arm of SIDBI to help SME growth and development.

Katjesgreenfood is a venture capital investor focused on early to mid-stage opportunities in plant-based and sustainable food brands. It targets consumer staples, including agricultural products, packaged foods and organic offerings, and seeks investments primarily in the United States and Europe. The firm typically provides equity up to $2 million and requires revenue of at least €1 million. Based in Berlin, with an office in Venice, California, Katjesgreenfood operates as part of the Katjes Group.

Five Seasons Ventures is a Paris-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the food and agriculture supply chain across Europe. It backs innovative food technology companies and consumer food products aimed at healthier choices, cleaner labels, sustainability, and new business models. The firm provides capital, technology, and a broad industry network to help entrepreneurs develop new food categories, improve processes and ingredients, and deploy technology-driven approaches. It typically participates in seed and early-stage rounds, often taking minority stakes and engaging with portfolio companies through board seats, with a geographic emphasis on Europe, particularly France and Italy.

Founded in Calgary, Canada in 2016, District Ventures Capital is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage companies within the food and beverage sectors, with a particular emphasis on health and wellness.

Established in 2020, the European Innovation Council supports innovative startups and researchers with promising ideas, focusing on early-stage companies with positive environmental, social, or governance impacts. It co-invests alongside private investors.

Vibrant Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Venice, California, providing early-stage backing to companies developing plant-based consumer products and related categories. The firm concentrates on plant-based CPGs and adjacent areas such as beverages, clean snacks, plant-based whole foods, mushrooms, adaptogens, textiles, and animal husbandry, with an emphasis on global consumer trends and economics to support growth in the plant-based economy.

Fireside Ventures is a Bengaluru-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage consumer brands and digital startups in India, focusing on consumer products and services across sectors.

CAVU Venture Partners is an investment firm focused on branded consumer brands, specializing in the better-for-you segment across Food and Beverage, Wellness, Beauty and Personal Care, and Pet products. Founded in 2015, it targets high-growth, iconic consumer brands and partners with founders to scale category-leading companies. The firm pursues early-stage and growth opportunities in the consumer goods and retail space, leveraging deep industry experience to support brand-building, product development, and go-to-market execution.

Melitas Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that invests in early-stage food and beverage companies across the value chain, with a focus on better-for-you products.

Organic X Labs is a United States–based venture capital firm, established in 2018 and headquartered in Irvine, California, that targets early- and mid-stage investments in companies operating in or related to the USDA Organic sector. The firm focuses on supporting growth for businesses within the organic industry, aiming to help portfolio companies scale while staying aligned with organic principles. By providing strategic value beyond capital, Organic X Labs seeks to back ventures that advance the organic ecosystem in the United States.

SFC Capital is a United Kingdom-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that makes early-stage investments in UK startups, including pre-seed and seed rounds. It backs companies across sectors such as software, technology, e-commerce, consumer, enterprise, green tech, medical technology, and hospitality, providing capital plus strategic guidance to support growth and product development. The firm operates a model that combines an angel network with seed funds to back SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, aiming to offer exposure to a diversified portfolio while delivering hands-on support to portfolio companies.

Ridgeline Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in Boulder, Colorado, established in 2013. The firm focuses on natural foods and active lifestyle companies, investing in founders and businesses that seek more than just financial support. Ridgeline Ventures provides strategic guidance, operational expertise, and access to a broad network, drawing from its team’s experience as former operators. The firm is particularly interested in brands that emphasize healthy living and have strong, passionate teams. Ridgeline Ventures prioritizes flexibility in its investments, allowing it to engage at various stages of company development and lead investment rounds when appropriate. Their commitment to helping companies make a positive impact on people's lives drives their investment strategy.

Boulder, Colorado-based venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2004, Greenmont Capital Partners concentrates on investments in the emerging lifestyles of health and sustainability market and related sectors. It targets early to growth-stage opportunities across energy, health, organic foods and beverages, environment, clean technology, and impact-oriented consumer products, primarily in North America and the United Kingdom. The firm typically commits between $0.5 million and $5 million per company in its primary rounds, and often participates in or leads syndicates totaling $3 million to $10 million, usually via preferred equity. It prefers management-led opportunities and seeks board seats but avoids controlling stakes. Greenmont aims to back companies with measurable social or environmental impact alongside financial returns, helping them scale within LOHAS and related markets.

New Mexico Angels is an angel investment group and private membership organization based in Albuquerque, founded in 1999. It brings together qualified angel investors to invest in seed and early-stage companies in New Mexico and the Southwest, with a focus on information technology sectors and a goal of delivering strong financial returns while accelerating portfolio companies toward market leadership.

BIGR Ventures is a Colorado-based private equity and growth equity firm focused on early-stage natural and organic product companies. Based in Boulder, the firm provides capital and strategic partnerships to help promising brands scale, drawing on extensive experience in the natural products sector and strong industry relationships to accelerate growth.

301 is the corporate venture capital arm of General Mills, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It partners with emerging food brands and makes direct equity investments in early-stage food businesses to support breakthrough innovations and help these brands scale.

Vegan Business operates an equity crowdfunding platform focused on the plant-based market. The platform co-invests in deals and provides strategic support to founders seeking capital, enabling vegan and plant-based startups to raise funds by connecting investors with opportunities.

Magic Hour is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2017. It focuses on investments in startups across human wellness, social consciousness, environment, food, and fashion, seeking opportunities at the intersection of health, sustainability, and social impact. The firm's portfolio emphasizes wellness, environmental stewardship, and consumer brands within these sectors.

GroundForce Capital is a growth-focused investment management firm based in San Francisco that makes expansion investments in California, focusing on consumer, retail and food technology companies. It backs ventures that promote human and environmental health and longevity, providing capital to scale operations and market reach. The firm supports portfolio companies through growth and domestic expansion.

Mana Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area that concentrates on early-stage investments in frontier technologies, artificial intelligence, and other deep tech sectors, with a focus on disrupting traditional industries. The firm supports portfolio companies in refining their vision, building strong teams, developing the right products, and securing subsequent funding, while helping technology and consumer brands navigate growth and strategic challenges.

AngelList is a U.S.-based platform for startups, angel investors, and job seekers that enables fundraising, recruiting, and product discovery. It operates AngelList Venture, AngelList Talent, and Product Hunt, and has backed more than 20 unicorns. The platform supports millions of job seekers and has helped founders launch over 100,000 products. AngelList India offers a startup platform to fundraise, recruit, and launch in the Indian market.

Global Brain is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm founded in 1998 that backs technology companies from seed stage through growth rounds. It targets a broad range of sectors including AI, cloud and software, fintech, robotics, life sciences, media, and mobility, and pursues global investments across Europe, North America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. The firm emphasizes hands-on support and resources for portfolio companies, aiming to help them scale beyond financing. It operates a pure investment fund alongside corporate venture funds formed with leading public companies across telecom, real estate, financial services, beverages, agriculture and food, logistics, and electronics.

Santatera Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Guadalajara, Mexico, founded in 2022. It makes global investments in startups within the Food and Beverage sector, with a focus on consumer packaged goods and technologies that improve products, distribution, supply chains, logistics, and sustainability.

Keiretsu Forum is an international investment community of accredited private equity investors, venture capitalists and corporate/institutional investors. Founded in San Francisco in 2000, it operates as a worldwide network that structures access to high-quality deal flow and investment opportunities through regional chapters across the United States, Europe and Asia. It is described as the world’s largest invitation-only angel investor network, with thousands of investor members who participate in funding opportunities for early- to growth-stage companies in technology, healthcare, energy, consumer products and other sectors. The forum emphasizes collaboration among members and partner resources to support due diligence, syndication and capital deployment, enabling private capital to back high-potential ventures.

Rainmatter Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of Zerodha, based in Bangalore, India. It funds and incubates early-stage Indian fintech startups and health ventures, with a focus on the capital markets space. The organization offers mentorship, workspace support, and investment, typically ranging from $100,000 to $1 million in exchange for minority stakes, to startups across the country. Through its programs, Rainmatter Capital aims to accelerate innovation in fintech and related sectors by providing capital and hands-on resources to entrepreneurs.

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that invests in early-stage technology startups. It specializes in pre-seed and seed rounds for capital-efficient companies, with a focus on the United States and Canada and occasional activity in Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. The firm typically makes 75 to 100 investments per year, with round sizes from 50,000 to 500,000 and pre-money valuations ranging from 1,000,000 to 3,500,000. Portfolio companies are typically located outside the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and the firm aims to provide a clear yes or no on opportunities within about two weeks.

Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm and the corporate venture capital arm of Fidelity International, with offices in the United Kingdom, China, India, Japan and the United States. It manages a substantial asset base and has backed hundreds of companies across technology, healthcare, financial services and consumer technologies, including software, SaaS, enterprise tech and fintech. The firm typically makes early to growth‑stage investments, often takes minority stakes and seeks board representation in its portfolio companies. With an international footprint, Eight Roads Ventures supports growth across Europe, Asia and North America, including Greater China, and collaborates with associated funds to back technology‑driven businesses.

Blue Horizon Corporation is a Zurich-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that backs European companies in agriculture, food tech, beverages, and related sectors. The company focuses on plant-based and other innovations that improve the food system and works with farmers, food producers, and distribution networks to advance sustainable products and processes across the value chain. It operates in European B2B and B2C markets, seeking to combine capital with strategic guidance to help portfolio companies scale and reach customers while delivering environmental and social impact.

Service Provider Capital is a Colorado-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that funds seed-stage technology companies across domains such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, cybersecurity, fintech, e-commerce, education technology, hardware, robotics, information technology, health tech, and cannabis. The firm also co-invests in Series A rounds led by institutional venture funds, providing capital and guidance to startups in the United States, including the Midwest and Southeast regions.

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. The firm backs entrepreneurs with venture assistance, strategic guidance, and capital, focusing on bold, early-stage technology companies. It invests across sectors including AI, climate and sustainability, enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technologies. Based in Menlo Park, the firm manages several funds to support startups across stages, prioritizing ventures that address large markets and have potential for significant social and economic impact.

Innovation Capital is a venture capital firm based in Sofia, Bulgaria, founded in 2019. It provides equity and quasi-equity funding to Bulgarian startup companies and focuses on high-potential sectors including enterprise software, e-commerce, financial services, education, automotive and transport, logistics, healthcare, entertainment, media, food and consumer goods, cybersecurity, travel, and related areas. The firm aims to support the growth and scaling of startups by applying professional innovation management and by helping them connect with international partners and innovation leaders to facilitate integration and expansion abroad.

Manna Tree is a Colorado-based investment firm focused on health and wellness through food. Based in Vail, it targets growth-stage and buyout opportunities in consumer sectors that improve health, especially foods and related ecosystems. The firm builds value through authentic partnerships, disciplined operations, and world-class research, aiming to connect food, systems, and health. Its portfolio includes Verde Farms, MycoTechnology, Nutriati, Vital Farms, Health-Ade, Gotham Greens, True Food Kitchen, Tandem Foods, Urban Remedy, New Primal, Infinant Health, and Kimelo, among others. The firm emphasizes human health and sustainable food supply chains through strategic investments in companies spanning fermentation, plant-based foods, and wellness brands.

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.

Titan Capital is a venture capital investment firm founded in 2011 and based in Gurugram, India. It prioritizes early-stage investments in companies headquartered in India and the United States, spanning consumer, internet, direct-to-consumer brands, health tech, business-to-business services, software-as-a-service, and fintech sectors. The firm supports world-class entrepreneurs aiming to generate wide-scale positive impact in India and globally.

Rx3 Growth Partners is a growth equity investment firm based in Newport Beach, California. Founded in 2018, it targets growth capital investments in consumer-facing businesses and technology-driven sectors, including consumer products and services, information technology, and software-as-a-service. The firm aims to accelerate growth for brands by leveraging its network of partners and influencers to expand reach and market presence.

Redalpine Venture Partners is a pan-European venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments in disruptive technologies, including software and health tech. It combines capital with operational expertise, coaching, and an international network to help entrepreneurs turn ambitious visions into scalable businesses. Founded in 2007, the firm has backed more than 70 portfolio companies across Europe and manages about USD 1 billion in assets, with activity across Europe from its offices in Zurich and Berlin. The firm supports portfolio companies with hands-on strategic and operational guidance and pursues a broad Europe-wide investment approach.

Quadia is a regulated investment manager focused on social and environmental finance. It provides equity and debt financing and investment solutions to institutional, private and corporate clients. The firm targets investments in circular products and materials, sustainable food and agriculture, energy efficiency, smart energy, sustainable consumption and production, health and nutrition, education and urban infrastructure, with a view that sustainability supports risk management and economic valuation. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, Quadia operates primarily in Europe and maintains an office in Luxembourg. Founded in 2010, it concentrates on growth capital and direct impact investments, aligning capital with sustainable development objectives.