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Babel Ventures
Venture capital
Babel Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage consumer biotech investments. It describes itself as often the first VC check in its portfolio companies and has been operating since its launch in 2017.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechFood & Agriculture
In its own wordsconsumer biotechbiotechearly stagesustainability
Your fit with Babel Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsBabel Ventures lists 16 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (32%), Food & Agriculture (18%) and Consumer (14%). 80% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Able Partners and BBQ Capital.
No funding round on record names Babel Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Babel Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 16. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 32% | 15% |
| Food & Agriculture | 18% | 3% |
| Consumer | 14% | 3% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 9% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 9% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
| Climate & Energy | 5% | 1% |
| Human Resources | 5% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| Able Partners | 2 |
| BBQ Capital | 2 |
| Seaside Ventures | 2 |
| Soma Capital | 2 |
| Trust Fund | 2 |
| Alloy Fund | 1 |
| Angel Collective Opportunity Fund | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 42th | 16 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 57th | 32% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers16100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Babel Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
16 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blueland sells eco-friendly cleaning products for home use | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Cove develops biobased fiber bottles that recycle as paper and perform at global scale. | Food & AgricultureConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Forever Labs cryopreserves and decodes customers' cells for potential future medical use | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| GALY grows and crafts biocrafted cocoa and cotton products | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| MadeMan sells skincare products for men | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Mellows sells various flavored treats, such as cakes and cookies. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company sells wholefoods and other products through its stores and online platform. | Food & AgricultureE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Quim created products related to vaginal health and sexual wellness. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Nabis operates a cannabis wholesale platform supplying licensed dispensaries with cannabis products from various brands. | Climate & EnergyHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| OccamzRazor builds the infrastructure that transforms data into impactful research in neurodegeneration | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides executive search and training services to various industries. | Human ResourcesEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Quinn operates an app for audio erotica. | Enterprise SoftwareEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Vitagene offers at-home health and wellness tests, including food sensitivity, vitamin D, sleep, and DNA health tests | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Wild Earth produces and sells vegan pet food for dogs and cats | Food & AgricultureConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Zbiotics develops and sells genetically engineered probiotics | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- babel.ventures
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 16
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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