FTW Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$5.0M Checks)
FTW Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California investing in Food / AgTech. The firm typically writes $250K–$5.0M checks and has 23 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$5.0M
- Portfolio
- 23 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- AUM
- $1B
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Food / AgTech
- HQ
- San Francisco, California
Last verified: 2026-11-12
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $5.0M
$1.0B
23+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Early-stage fund focused on technologies that improve the global food system, including supply chain solutions. Strong adjacent fit for forecasting software used by food and beverage CPG companies and distributors.
How FTW Ventures invests
FTW Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Food / AgTech.
FTW Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$5.0M per investment, backed by approximately $1B in assets under management. Our records include 3 funds raised by the firm.
Investing since at least 2015, FTW Ventures has backed 23 companies in our records, including Heritable, Snowline, Brilliant Harvest.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Funds
Fund III
Fund II
Fund I
Recent Activity
Invested in Snowline
2024 · portfolio records
Invested in Heritable
2024 · portfolio records
Invested in Brilliant Harvest
2023 · portfolio records
Invested in Earthodic
2022 · portfolio records
Invested in Quorum Bio
2022 · portfolio records
Invested in Izote Biosciences
2022 · portfolio records
Invested in Boston Bioprocess
2022 · portfolio records
Raised Fund III ($400M)
2021 · fund records
Portfolio Companies (23)
2024
Heritable
Combines AI, breeding, and gene editing to drive down costs in the agriculture industry.
Snowline
Builds AI-powered smart temperature-controlled platforms for trucking.
2023
Brilliant Harvest
An AI-powered platform for equipment dealer teams and their customers across the customer experience.
2022
Quorum Bio
Designs next-gen biological fertilizers for sustainable and climate-smart farming.
Izote Biosciences
Enables oxygen-free industrial fermentation to revolutionize the production of high-value compounds.
Boston Bioprocess
A platform for bringing microbes to industrial scale, providing strain evaluation, process development, and scale-up solutions.
Earthodic
Creates bio-based coatings for sustainable paper-based packaging.
2021
Nfinite Nanotech
Building solutions to eliminate plastic waste with sustainable, biodegradable packaging.
2020
ALTR
A beverage technology platform transforming the binary nature of drinking, allowing customization of alcohol content.
Sylvan Health
A nutrition navigation platform connecting patients with nutrition-related chronic conditions to personalized food interventions.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Food / AgTech — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $5.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Brian Frank, General Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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