Forward Dough Ventures
Forward Dough Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Chicago, IL investing in Other, Food / AgTech, Consumer. The firm typically writes $500K–$3.0M checks and has 1 portfolio company in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$3.0M
- Portfolio
- 1 company on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Food / AgTech, Consumer
- HQ
- Chicago, IL
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-05-19
Pre-Seed, Seed
$500K – $3.0M
1+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Investing in tools and technologies improving workflow efficiency for small restaurants and stores.
How Forward Dough Ventures invests
Forward Dough Ventures is a vc firm based in Chicago, IL. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Food / AgTech, Consumer. It does not invest in Hardware.
Forward Dough Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$3.0M per investment.
Forward Dough Ventures has backed 1 company in our records, including Popmenu.
Partners & Team
Anita Gomez
GP
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (1)
Other
Popmenu
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Food / AgTech, Consumer — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $3.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Anita Gomez, GP.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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