Investors / W23
W23
Venture capital
W23 is a global venture capital fund backed by five grocery retailers: Ahold Delhaize, Tesco, Woolworths Group, Empire and the Shoprite Group. It invests in start-ups and scale-ups deploying technology to transform retail and create a better planet.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces
In its own wordsretailgroceryretail techsustainabilitycommerce
Your fit with W23
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Or find every investor that fitsW23 lists 7 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 43% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (33%), E-commerce & Marketplaces (25%) and Consumer (8%). 71% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Bright Pixel Capital, Collaborative Fund and 14B Venture Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name W23, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundW23 does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 14% |
| Series A | 29% |
| Series B | 43% |
| Growth | 14% |
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 | 3 | 3 |
| '26 | 4 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 12th | 7 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 56th | 14% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 62th | 33% 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 33% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 25% | 6% |
| Consumer | 8% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Education | 8% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 8% | 7% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7100%
- 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.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Bright Pixel Capital | 2 |
| Collaborative Fund | 2 |
| 14B Venture Capital | 1 |
| Alumni Ventures | 1 |
| Amplifica Capital | 1 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
| Angeles VC | 1 |
| Asahi Kasei Ventures | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Bright Pixel Capital
Compare W23 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 W23| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Nov 2026 | Series A | |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 5 May 2026 | Series B | |
| 24 Nov 2025 | Series B Led | |
| 17 Nov 2025 | Series C+ Led | |
| 28 Jul 2025 | Series B Led |
Round details for W23
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in W23's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
7 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harmonya provides a product intelligence platform for consumer packaged goods and retail companies | ConsumerE-commerce & Marketplaces | Jul 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Helios provides personalized commodity intelligence for teams in various industries | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Nov 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |||
| Larridin helps enterprise organizations understand the impact of their AI investment | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Nov 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Moment Energy repurposes electric vehicle batteries for clean and reliable energy storage. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | May 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| Procuros provides a platform for automating trade workflows and connecting suppliers and retailers | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Oct 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Topsort connects advertising, discovery and intelligence to monetize and improve every customer experience | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Nov 2025Series B | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- w23.vc
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 28 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 7
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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