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Listen
Venture capital · Chicago, IL, United States · North America
Listen is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 that invests in consumer-obsessed entrepreneurs and helps them build consumer brands. It combines proprietary consumer research with a creative team that turns consumer insights into brand stories for its portfolio companies.
Invests inFood & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsconsumerbrandsconsumer researchhealthcannabissexual wellness
Your fit with Listen
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Or find every investor that fitsListen lists 26 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Food & Agriculture (28%), Healthcare & Biotech (25%) and Consumer (13%). 94% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Bluestein Ventures, 1809 Capital and 53 Stations.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Listen, 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 Listen's whole history. Rounds on record name 7 companies; its own site lists 26. 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 roundListen 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 5 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 64th | 27 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 90th | 19% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 46th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Food & Agriculture | 28% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 25% | 15% |
| Consumer | 13% | 3% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 6% | 18% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 6% | 6% |
| Fintech | 6% | 12% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Bluestein Ventures | 2 |
| 1809 Capital | 1 |
| 53 Stations | 1 |
| Able Partners | 1 |
| Accel | 1 |
| Actions Capital | 1 |
| Advancit Capital | 1 |
| Astir Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers26100%
- 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 Bluestein Ventures
Compare Listen head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Listen| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 26 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 27 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 30 Jan 2026 | Debt | |
| 29 Jul 2025 | Debt |
Round details for Listen
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Listen's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
26 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bakr sells cookie dough products | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Black Buffalo produces and sells nicotine pouches and long cut dip as a tobacco alternative | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company provides an AI assistant for tasks such as email, scheduling, travel, and phone calls. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces and sells hemp-derived THC seltzers and spirit bottles with various flavors and doses. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces and sells fizzy electrolyte tablets for daily hydration. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Smearcase produces frozen cottage cheese ice cream | Food & Agriculture | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Factor75 delivers fully prepared meals to customers | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Go Brewing produces non-alcoholic craft beer | Food & Agriculture | Jan 2026Debt | Page + round | |
| KiwiCo provides monthly subscription crates with fun and enriching projects for people of all ages. | EducationE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Legato Hearing produces and sells hearing aid glasses with embedded hearing technology | Healthcare & Biotech | Aug 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company sells booze-free drinks with cannabinoids derived from natural hemp. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company sells cookies and other baked goods online. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Miss Grass sells cannabis products, including THC gummies and other weed products, in several US states. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Modern Pediatrics provides in-home visits and 24/7 virtual care for pediatric patients | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bevimi is a cognitive health innovation company that develops and sells brain supplements | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Outro Health helps people safely stop taking antidepressant medication with personalized taper plans and support from licensed clinicians. | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Own Up helps people find and compare mortgage deals from various lenders. | FintechReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| The company sells household and personal care products online. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Raise operates a platform where users can earn rewards on their everyday purchases | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- listen.co
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 18 May 2022
- Companies checked
- 26
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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