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FOOD-X

Founders Sean O'Sullivan Shen Tong

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Total investments 142
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$147K
Portfolio companies 97
Rounds per year 14.20
Lead investments 4
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.31
Exits 3
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Food and Beverage
  • E-Commerce
  • Food Processing
  • Organic Food
  • Health Care
Summary

In 2014 was created FOOD-X, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the FOOD-X, startups are often financed by SOSV, Ontario Centres of Excellence, M25. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SOSV, The Yield Lab, The Syndicate Fund. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SOSV, The Syndicate Fund, Slingshot Ventures.

The current fund was established by Sean O'Sullivan.

Opposing the other organizations, this FOOD-X works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 17 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The average startup value when the investment from FOOD-X is 1-5 millions dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Wasteless We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Organic Food, Agriculture. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Israel.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bite

Enterprise
Hospitality
Information Technology
Restaurants
Software
$9M09 Apr 2024 New York, New York, United States

Halla

Artificial Intelligence
Delivery
E-Commerce
Grocery
Software
24 May 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Simply Good Jars

Food and Beverage
Organic Food
Vending and Concessions
19 Jan 2021 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Lula

Delivery
Last Mile Transportation
Retail
Retail Technology
SaaS
Software
16 Dec 2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Living Food Company

Brewing
E-Commerce
Farming
Food and Beverage
Nutrition
Organic Food
01 Dec 2020 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

KloveChef (IOK Labs)

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Goods
Cooking
Machine Learning
$1M13 Nov 2020 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Halla

Artificial Intelligence
Delivery
E-Commerce
Grocery
Software
15 Sep 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

Remote Kitchen

Internet
Mobile Apps
14 Apr 2020 Mexico City, Mexico

byLocals

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Local
27 Mar 2020 Mexico City, Mexico

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Total investments 142
Average round size 147K
Rounds per year 14.20
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 4
Follow on index 0.31
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.98

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bite

Enterprise
Hospitality
Information Technology
Restaurants
Software
$9M09 Apr 2024 New York, New York, United States

Halla

Artificial Intelligence
Delivery
E-Commerce
Grocery
Software
24 May 2021 Los Angeles, California, United States

Simply Good Jars

Food and Beverage
Organic Food
Vending and Concessions
19 Jan 2021 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Lula

Delivery
Last Mile Transportation
Retail
Retail Technology
SaaS
Software
16 Dec 2020 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Living Food Company

Brewing
E-Commerce
Farming
Food and Beverage
Nutrition
Organic Food
01 Dec 2020 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

KloveChef (IOK Labs)

Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Goods
Cooking
Machine Learning
$1M13 Nov 2020 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Halla

Artificial Intelligence
Delivery
E-Commerce
Grocery
Software
15 Sep 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

Remote Kitchen

Internet
Mobile Apps
14 Apr 2020 Mexico City, Mexico

byLocals

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Local
27 Mar 2020 Mexico City, Mexico
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