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Big Idea Ventures
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Big Idea Ventures is a venture capital fund that runs startup accelerators focused on the new food space. It invests in and supports companies working on proteins, fats, ingredients, sweeteners, flavorings, and mono-crops, and also commercializes university-developed food, protein, and agriculture intellectual property.
Invests inFood & AgricultureHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsalternative proteinfood techingredientssustainabilityfood securityagriculture
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Or find every investor that fitsBig Idea Ventures lists 56 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 33% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Food & Agriculture (42%), Healthcare & Biotech (19%) and AI & Machine Learning (17%). It invests most often alongside Sustainable Food Ventures, Beyond Impact and Blue Horizon.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Big Idea Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Big Idea Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 56. 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.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 33% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 86th | 56 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 54th | 2% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 76th | 42% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 99th | 20 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Food & Agriculture | 42% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 19% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 17% | 18% |
| Fintech | 6% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 4% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 2% | 4% |
| Climate & Energy | 2% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Sustainable Food Ventures | 3 |
| Beyond Impact | 2 |
| Blue Horizon | 2 |
| Collaborative Fund | 2 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| Good Startup | 2 |
| IndieBio | 2 |
| Newtree Impact | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5598%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company12%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Sustainable Food Ventures
Compare Big Idea Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Big Idea Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 18 May 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 31 Mar 2026 | Series B | |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Big Idea Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Big Idea Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
56 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual Veggies produces and sells veggie burgers and other vegetable-based food products. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and sells air filtration systems. | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides custom software and bioinformatic tools, including wet-lab execution, bioinformatics, and AI services | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces and sells handmade tempeh products | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Bayou Best Foods utilizes proven technology to provide delicious plant-based alternatives comparable in taste, texture, and performance to conventional seafood. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Biftek produces growth medium supplements to make cultured meat affordable | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| BioCloak replaces petroleum and synthetic coatings for active ingredients in agriculture, landscaping, and animal nutrition with bio-based solutions. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Biteback provides a service to help restaurants protect their profits from incorrect refund claims on food delivery platforms | Food & AgricultureFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bright Biotech produces recombinant proteins in plant chloroplasts for cell culture and regenerative medicine. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cellcraft builds physical AI and bioprocess systems to turn living cells into reliable, scalable production | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cocuus provides the food industry with innovative technology for the manufacture of new high value-added foods. | Food & AgricultureIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | |||
| De Novo Foodlabs produces precision-fermented bovine lactoferrin | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| KARANA creates plant forward solutions for food-service operators and food manufacturers using jackfruit | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company helps financial firms integrate Generative AI to enhance decisions, streamline processes, and drive real impact. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Extracellular is a CDMO dedicated to supporting animal and plant cell technologies in the non-health biotech industry. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Fybraworks Foods makes synthetic meat in a sustainable and humane way | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Genesea develops ingredients for the food industry from macroalgae | Food & AgricultureSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces functional ingredients from pulses, such as proteins, fibre, and starch from yellow peas, for use in products like plant-based cheese. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Gourmey creates cultivated meat delights | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- bigideaventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 10 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 56
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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