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Culinary Ventures

VC
New York, NY

Culinary Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in New York, NY investing in Other, Food / AgTech, SaaS. The firm typically writes $50K–$250K checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$50K–$250K
Portfolio
2 companies on record
Partners
1 listed
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Other, Food / AgTech, SaaS
HQ
New York, NY
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-07-09

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$50K – $250K

Portfolio

2+ companies

Team

1 partner

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focused exclusively on transformative technologies for restaurants and foodservice, like AI-driven operations, guest management, and supply-chain optimization.

How Culinary Ventures invests

Culinary Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Food / AgTech, SaaS. It does not invest in Consumer Packaged Goods.

Culinary Ventures typically writes checks of $50K–$250K per investment.

Culinary Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including TableCraft AI, GrillOps.

Partners & Team

AR

Alex Rivera

Managing Partner

Restaurant Tech
AI Ops
Hospitality Tech

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Food / AgTech
SaaS

Does Not Invest In

Consumer Packaged Goods

Portfolio Companies (2)

Other

TA

TableCraft AI

Restaurant Tech
GR

GrillOps

Food Tech
How to pitch Culinary Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Other, Food / AgTech, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $50K – $250K check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Alex Rivera, Managing Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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