Investors / United States / Cleveland Avenue
Cleveland Avenue
Venture capital · Chicago, IL, United States · North America
Cleveland Avenue is a venture capital firm that invests in lifestyle consumer brands and technology companies. It provides financial resources, expertise and business support to its portfolio companies, and operates a 33,000 square foot innovation facility for R&D, consumer research and showcases.
Invests inFood & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsconsumerfood and beveragesustainabilityhealthappareltechnology
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Or find every investor that fitsCleveland Avenue lists 62 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Food & Agriculture (31%), AI & Machine Learning (20%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (7%). 82% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside GreatPoint Ventures, Techstars and AgFunder.
No funding round on record names Cleveland Avenue yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Cleveland Avenue's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 62. 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Food & Agriculture | 31% | 3% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 20% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 5% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Consumer | 7% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 4% | 15% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| GreatPoint Ventures | 5 |
| Techstars | 5 |
| AgFunder | 4 |
| Backstage Capital | 4 |
| Lightbank | 3 |
| Next Play Ventures | 3 |
| Ossian Capital | 3 |
| S2G Investments | 3 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 89th | 62 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 | 54th | 31% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers62100%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with GreatPoint Ventures
Compare Cleveland Avenue head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
62 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides restaurant equipment repair and maintenance solutions | Food & AgricultureIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and manufactures autonomous, solar-powered robots for outdoor use in various industries, including agriculture and construction. | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| BabyQuip rents baby gear for trips. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Bartesian makes and sells automated cocktail makers and related products. | ConsumerFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Bear Robotics develops and manufactures autonomous mobile robots for hospitality and logistics | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Believer Entertainment is a global games company that creates and serves games | Enterprise SoftwareGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides solutions and services for the global fandom business, combining IT-based platforms with expert consulting. | Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces and sells plant-based protein products. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and implements innovative brewing and supply chain technologies for the production of non-alcoholic beer | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Gin&Juice sells premixed gin drinks in various flavors. | Food & AgricultureConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| CancerIQ helps clinicians identify patients who qualify for screening and diagnostic tests and guide them to completion | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CH4 Global reduces methane emissions from ruminant animals using a feed supplement with whole Aspragopsis seaweed | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Craftable provides back-office software for restaurants and hotels | Food & AgricultureLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| CurlMix sells haircare products | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Bhakti is a company that brews and sells chai | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Open Water sells canned water | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Eliyan develops and provides connectivity solutions for data centers and artificial intelligence systems. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Eventnoire helps event creators and organizations host and manage events | Enterprise SoftwareEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces and sells allergen-friendly snacks | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Evigence measures and manages the freshness of foods across the entire supply chain using sensors and data analytics. | Food & AgricultureDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- clevelandavenue.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 62
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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