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FTW Ventures
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
FTW Ventures is a venture firm that invests in technology for the global Food and Agriculture industries. It backs founders, advises corporations, and deploys capital from investors.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine LearningFood & Agriculture
In its own wordsfoodtechagtechbiotechnologysupply chainautomationsustainability
Your fit with FTW Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsFTW Ventures lists 20 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (29%), AI & Machine Learning (26%) and Food & Agriculture (19%). 85% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Redstick Ventures, Cavallo Ventures and Acre Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name FTW 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 FTW Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 20. 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 roundFTW Ventures does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| 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 | 1 | 1 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 51th | 20 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 77th | 10% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 49th | 29% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 29% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 26% | 18% |
| Food & Agriculture | 19% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 10% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 7% | 3% |
| Consumer | 3% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 3% | 6% |
| Enterprise Software | 3% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Redstick Ventures | 4 |
| Cavallo Ventures | 3 |
| Acre Venture Partners | 2 |
| Astanor | 2 |
| Bluestein Ventures | 2 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| Cultivian Sandbox Ventures | 2 |
| Doon Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1890%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company210%
- 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 Redstick Ventures
Compare FTW Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with FTW Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Feb 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Seed |
Round details for FTW Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in FTW Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
20 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALTR develops technology for precision alcohol reduction in beverages, starting with wine. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Jul 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Boston Bioprocess provides services for biotech companies, including development, scale up, and manufacturing, as well as software for lab execution and optimization. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Brilliant Harvest is an AI-powered Helpdesk made to empower equipment dealer teams across the entire customer experience | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Debut combines AI and biotechnology to create beauty products | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Earthodic develops and produces bio-based coatings for paper packaging to make it recyclable and water-resistant. | Space & DefenseSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| FreshFry creates innovative frying oil solutions for restaurants of any size. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Galley Solutions provides a culinary resource planning system for kitchens. | Food & AgricultureEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Geltor creates bespoke animal-free proteins for various industries, including beauty and personal care, specialty nutrition, and medical and life sciences. | Healthcare & BiotechFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Heritable uses artificial intelligence and plant science to predict and improve plant genetics and growth | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Izote Biosciences develops a new approach to fermentation, starting with how microbes breathe, and creates fermentation routes to specialty ingredients, with a focus on flavors and fragrances. | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | |||
| People Science provides clinical research services and platforms for the health and wellness industry | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Phytoform Labs accelerates crop evolution to build a resilient and future-secure food system by redesigning and developing novel crop traits using Artificial Intelligence and genome editing. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Plantible Foods is a biology company that unlocks the power of plants to produce ingredients for food. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Snowline develops and sells electric transport refrigeration units for trucks | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Spoiler Alert helps companies manage and sell excess inventory, particularly in the consumer packaged goods industry. | ConsumerE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Sylvan Health provides personalized nutrition support to healthcare providers | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Thombar provides back-office software for specialty crop growers | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Arise provides treatment for eating disorders | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Yali Bio makes climate-friendly fats for use in food products like butter and ice cream | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- ftw.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 9 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 20
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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