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Dao Foods
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Dao Foods is an impact-oriented investment and advocacy firm that invests in and supports plant-based and alternative protein companies based in China and focused on the Chinese market, as well as non-Chinese companies with strategic value to China. It also runs ecosystem-building programs and a mentorship incubator for alternative protein entrepreneurs.
Invests inFood & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsalternative proteinplant-basedfood techimpact investingchina
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Or find every investor that fitsDao Foods lists 4 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Food & Agriculture (43%), Healthcare & Biotech (43%) and AI & Machine Learning (14%). 50% of its companies are based in Canada. It invests most often alongside Bluestein Ventures, Congruent Ventures and Creative Destruction Lab.
No funding round on record names Dao Foods yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Bluestein Ventures | 1 |
| Congruent Ventures | 1 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 1 |
| NYA Ventures | 1 |
| Nadarra Ventures | 1 |
| Purple Orange Ventures | 1 |
| Strategxy Ventures | 1 |
| Verdex Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4100%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Food & Agriculture | 43% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 43% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 14% | 18% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Bluestein Ventures
Compare Dao Foods head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
4 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AuX Labs produces milk proteins using fermentation for use in dairy functional foods. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company cultivates microalgae as a sustainable food source and produces high-quality microalgae biomass for human consumption. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Liven develops animal-free protein ingredients that help plant-based foods achieve their full potential in delivering taste, texture, and cooking experience. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Zero Limit builds and runs consumer health products for the US market and embeds senior engineering teams into partner products | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- daofoods.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 4
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