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Great Circle Ventures
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Great Circle Ventures is an early-stage investment firm focused on the evolution of food and consumer health. It invests in companies that combine strong fundamentals with clear differentiation, with products powered by science, culture, and execution.
Invests inFood & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsfoodconsumer healthnutritionsupplementswellnessconsumer
Your fit with Great Circle Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsGreat Circle Ventures lists 23 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Food & Agriculture (46%), Healthcare & Biotech (21%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (11%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Tonic Ventures, Better Ventures and Juniper.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Great Circle 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 Great Circle Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 23. 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 | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| 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 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 57th | 23 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 62th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 81th | 46% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Food & Agriculture | 46% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 21% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 11% | 6% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 7% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 4% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 4% | 8% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 4% | 3% |
| Fintech | 4% | 12% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Tonic Ventures | 6 |
| Better Ventures | 3 |
| Juniper | 3 |
| Meach Cove Capital | 3 |
| Vanquish Equity | 3 |
| Western Technology Investment | 3 |
| Able Partners | 2 |
| Acre Venture Partners | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers23100%
- 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 Great Circle 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 Great Circle Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 9 Oct 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Great Circle Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Great Circle Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
23 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alec's Ice Cream produces and sells ice cream products. | Food & Agriculture | Oct 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| California Cultured produces chocolate using natural fermentation to cultivate cocoa. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Dispatch Goods provides reusable packaging solutions for food delivery services. | Food & AgricultureSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| The company sells mayonnaise and related merchandise. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Croots makes and sells croutons in various flavors. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces and sells protein-enriched food products such as bread and pasta | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company operates a marketplace for fans to sell and buy fan-made merchandise and event tickets. | Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| FitJoy Foods, Inc produces and sells various snack foods, including pretzels and cracker rounds. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Hedgehog grows and sells mushrooms using robotic fungi farms and regenerative farming methods. | Food & AgricultureRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Kioga restores beneficial, nature-derived microbes that humans co-evolved with for hundreds of thousands of years to target stress, mood, and chronic disease at their biological origin. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Lucille sells nutrition shakes for seniors | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company operates an e-commerce platform selling various food and beauty products. | E-commerce & MarketplacesFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Mealogic empowers businesses to deliver chef-crafted, nutrition-led meals through their end-to-end commerce solution. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| microTERRA develops functional ingredients that transform the taste and texture of food into deeper, more complex, and memorable sensory experiences. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| MOSH sells protein bars and other snack products. | Food & Agriculture | May 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| One Bio develops and sells fiber supplements to restore the missing fiber signal in the human body | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Pow.Bio develops and provides continuous fermentation technology for biomanufacturing | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| VERO provides a risk management platform for multifamily properties, including resident screening software and application management services. | Real Estate & ConstructionFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Serve Robotics builds and operates robots to deliver items to customers | Robotics & HardwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- greatcircle.vc
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 9 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 23
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