Investors / Germany / Purple Orange Ventures
Purple Orange Ventures
Venture capital · Berlin, Germany · Europe
Purple Orange Ventures is an early-stage investor in food and biotech companies worldwide. It focuses on alternative proteins and cellular agriculture, including cultivated meat, microbial fermentation and plant-based innovation.
Invests inFood & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsalternative proteinscellular agriculturecultivated meatfermentationplant-basedfoodtech
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Or find every investor that fitsPurple Orange Ventures lists 15 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Pre-seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Food & Agriculture (48%), Healthcare & Biotech (26%) and AI & Machine Learning (9%). 56% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Mudcake, Creative Destruction Lab and IQT.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Purple Orange 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 Purple Orange Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 15. 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 | 50% |
| Seed | 50% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 39th | 15 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 82th | 48% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Mudcake | 3 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| IQT | 2 |
| IndieBio | 2 |
| Leap Venture Studio | 2 |
| Lever VC | 2 |
| Norrsken VC | 2 |
| SOSV | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1493%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company17%
- 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
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Food & Agriculture | 48% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 26% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 9% | 18% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 4% | 3% |
| Consumer | 4% | 3% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 4% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Purple Orange 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 Purple Orange Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 24 Sept 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Purple Orange Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Purple Orange Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
15 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aspyre Foods produces healthy and functionally identical animal-free proteins at scale, using duckweed, one of nature’s fastest-growing plants. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| BLUU develops marine ingredients through controlled biomanufacturing | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| FermX produces proteins and food ingredients using synthetic biology and precision fermentation | 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 | ||
| Locus Lock develops software-defined GNSS receivers for precise positioning in contested environments. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Sept 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Lypid develops and manufactures food products using its PhytoFat technology, which is designed to reduce fat and calories in food while maintaining flavor. | Food & AgricultureFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company creates nutritional and highly functional proteins from non-GMO fungi for use in food products. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | |||
| The company sells dog food and supplements. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Prolific Machines develops and provides bioprocessing solutions for biomanufacturing using optogenetics, enabling control over protein expression with light. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| ReGen Villages develops opensource orchestration software for the design and operation of resilient land developments | Real Estate & ConstructionAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Senara Bio produces cell-based milk using a sophisticated process that involves taking real cow cells, multiplying them, and producing enough milk to nourish the world | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces plant-based cultured cheese products. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Syncrowin provides operational intelligence for industrial sites using AI to understand, predict, and optimize complex physical systems. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Wild Earth produces and sells vegan pet food for dogs and cats | Food & AgricultureConsumer | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- purpleorange.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 24 Sept 2026
- Companies checked
- 15
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