# Top 50 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in May 2026 ## Distill Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits, Winery Distill Ventures provide investment and support for spirits entrepreneurs who want to create the global drinks brands of the future. They are an independent venture built by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs – because they believe the most exciting innovation in the drinks industry is coming from founder-led brands.They created Distill Ventures tobe the perfect partner for ambitious entrepreneurs who are creating the global brands of the future. Between them, they have years of experience working with businesses of all types and they have a deep understanding of, and passion for, drinks. They know the challenges facing founder-led businesses and they are committed to using this experience to support your founding team and grow your brand. ## CircleUp - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, E-Commerce Learn more about CircleUp Growth Partners, what we look for in early-stage consumer brands, and the brands we have funded. ## Club Italia Investimenti 2 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital. ## DN Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit). ## ATX Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech ATX Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm in Austin Texas with funds investing in B2B software, marketplaces, and applications. ## Blue Slide Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Snack Food Blue Slide Ventures is an early stage personal and SPV investment vehicle focused on backing consumer, brand centric companies. Blue Slide Ventures is hands on at the seed stage to support key business needs and utilize our trusted network of partners. ## James Robertson - Type: Angel - Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage James Robertson ## Döhler Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Food Processing Döhler Ventures is a long-term oriented & entrepreneurial investor empowering early-stage startups in the nutrition & technology ecosystem. ## Max Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software Max Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in consumer tech and health-tech companies. Max Ventures primarily invests in digital commerce, digital media, fintech, and digital Health. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States. ## Fabrice Grinda - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com. ## Hayden Zou - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage Hayden Zou ## Wavemaker Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds. ## Angels Den - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software Angels Den is an angel-led investment platform that connects fast-growing companies with experienced investors. ## Hillhouse Capital Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Changyang, Beijing, China - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software Hillhouse Capital Group is an investment management firm that invests with a long-term time horizon. Hillhouse owns companies across equity stages, spanning the range from new start-ups to the world’s most established public companies. It may invest in a company as a start-up and continue to hold it in the portfolio as a public equity investment.This stage-agnostic investment style allows them to focus on multi-year results, rather than on quarterly earnings.Hillhouse Capital Group invests globally, with a particular focus on Asia. Independent, proprietary research lies at the heart of our investment process. Our team members are sector experts in consumer, Internet, media, and healthcare. Hillhouse Capital Group was founded in 2005 and is based in Beijing, China. ## CapTable - Type: VC Fund - Location: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech Captable is a startup investment platform that operates transactions through crowdfunding. They exist to simplify and make startup investments viable, as well as to connect the entire ecosystem, by leveraging business growth with high return potential for investors who want to contribute to the growth of startups. It makes connections at variouslevels for various agents in the innovation market with the goal of encouraging entrepreneurship through investment in startups. CapTable was founded in 2018 by Guilherme Enck and Paulo Deitos Filho. ## CPE - Type: VC Fund - Location: Beijing, Beijing, China - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology CPE is a leading alternative asset manager, with asset classes spanning private equity, mezzanine and the public market. Founded in 2008 by a world class team of investment professionals and supported by over 200 domestic and international investors, CPE knows China like no one else and is a globally minded long-term value investor. The firm usesits sector expertise to generate deal flow and drive the value creation work during the post-investment stage. CPE follows a disciplined investment approach to preserve and grow its investors’ capital. The firm’s private equity portfolio of more than 100 companies is highly diversified by sector and stage of investment. CPE takes pride in its forward-looking investment philosophy and works hard to create value over the long-term for its investors and a better world. For more information, please visit www.citicpe.com. ## Great Oaks Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care Great Oaks Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to support and invest in the most innovative and disruptive startups. Visit our home page to learn more about our portfolio companies, investment approach, and the experienced team behind our success. ## AfterWork Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups. Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a ## InvestBev - Type: VC Fund - Location: Winnetka, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Wine And Spirits, Winery, Food and Beverage Investing strategic capital across all facets of the adult beverage industry. ## Greycroft - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Venture capital and technology investments ## CSA Partners LLC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Enterprise Software CSA Partners, LLC is a venture fund that invests in early stage, high growth companies. ## Simon Szewach - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage Simon Szewach - Managing Partner @ The Legats Group ## Jeff Olyniec - Type: Angel - Location: Roseville, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage Jeff Olyniec has been the CEO of New Vision Display since the company formed in 2012. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration- Marketing from Mississippi State University.Jeff previously worked at International Display Works (which was later acquired by Flextronics and is now the current NVD) in senior management roles includingsales and supply chain. He then moved on to Solar Power Inc, a worldwide leader in the design and construction of solar power generating facilities, overseeing all of the company’s operations in Asia as the EVP of the company.Jeff has lived and worked in China since 1996 and speaks fluent Chinese. ## LaunchCapital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New Haven, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile LaunchCapital invests in entrepreneurs who build the future. It focuses on the seed and early stages of development. They plan to make significant follow-on investments in exceptional companies as they continue growing. ## P101 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree ## Atomico - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world. ## Kima Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries. ## BA Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Jingan, Shanghai, China - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series D - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Retail BA Capital is a venture capital firm focused on the consumer sector. ## Balaji Srinivasan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide. ## Gaingels - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments. ## Blumberg Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in leading Seed & Series A rounds and partnering with founders from inception to exit. Learn more. ## LAUNCHub Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software LAUNCHUB is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe. ## Dave McClure - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics. ## Backend Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Finance Investing in the next billion dollar engineers ## BAM Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet BAM Ventures is an early-stage consumer-focused fund based in Los Angeles, CA. ## JamJar Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage JamJar Investments is a venture capital firm that invest in high growth consumer brand businesses in both digital and non-tech.Its combination of operational, commercial and brand experience was honed over 14 years taking innocent from scratch to sale to Coca Cola for north of half a billion £. That journey means the company understand thejourney of entrepreneurs, the highs the lows, the challenges and some of the solutions. JamJar is the consumer Venture Capital fund run by the innocent drinks founders. ## Italian Angels for Growth - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed. ## Source Code Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chaoyang, Liaoning, China - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence Founded in 2014, Source Code Capital is a leading China VC focused on the broad TMT sectors and investing in both early stage start-ups and growth stage companies. With $1.5 billion and RMB 3.5 billion under management, Source Code Capital has been successfully partnering with close to 150 leading Chinese technology founders since inceptionincluding Bytedance, Meituan, Homelink, among many others. Source Code is focused on the “Big 3” fundamental drivers, which are Internet+, AI+, and Global+ , and invests along sectors such as media and entertainment, consumer services, enterprise, finance, retail, transportation, housing, education, and healthcare. ## Brand Foundry Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness Brand Foundry Ventures they invest in early-stage companies operating in the consumer and business sectors. ## Structure Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Internet, Marketplace We are Structure Capital. We help passionate teams build great companies by investing seed-stage capital, time, experience and relationships ## Revolution - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Revolution invests in people and ideas that can change the world. Our mission is to build disruptive, innovative companies that offer more choice, convenience, and control in the lives of consumers and businesses. ## Caixa Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Caixa Capital is the Private Equity and Venture Capital arm of banking Group Caixa Geral de Depósitos and has a track record spanning over two decades of activity, since the industry was created in Portugal. It is a leading investor in terms of funds under management, portfolio size and diversity.Caixa Capital´s mission is to invest in fundsand companies, led by highly qualified management teams, with high growth and valuation potential, that enable our funds to achieve an attractive risk adjusted return and for society at large to benefit sustainably from our activity.Currently with more than 700 million Euros under management and a portfolio of over 80 investments, Caixa Capital is a reference in this area with special links to the respective European sector associations. ## William Zeqiri - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits William Zeqiri Passionate technology entrepreneur, product creator and angel investor. ## Russel Simmons - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, News, Mobile Russ co-founded Yelp Inc. in July 2004 with former colleague and friend Jeremy Stoppelman.Prior to Yelp, Russ was one of the early employees and the lead software architect at PayPal. He led a team of top engineers on critical projects related to security, scalability, stability, and internationalization as the company scaled rapidly. Followinghis time at PayPal, Russ joined Max Levchin's (co-founder of PayPal) incubator, where he teamed up with Jeremy.Russ holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois. ## Resolute Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brentwood, Tennessee, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Medical, Software Resolute Venture Partners is the newest angel investment vehicle in a family of funds created by Clayton Associates. Following the start of Nashville-based Rolling Hills Ventures in 2013, Resolute is one of only a few institutional groups in the United States to take the formal processes and resources of later-stage venture capital firms and applythose to the traditionally unstructured arena of early-stage angel investing.Led by Managing Partner Jay Zeidman and a team of senior healthcare executives, Houston-based Resolute Venture Partners was created to uniquely capitalize on the region’s large reimbursement markets, shortage of major investment sources in the Houston area, booming patient population, and long-term healthcare industry growth expectations. Resolute’s typical investment is approximately $500,000 up to $2,000,000 and focuses on early stage funding for health care IT, digital health, mobile health, and technology enabled services. ## M3 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail M3 Ventures is a New York based strategic investment partner to visionary founders in the fashion, lifestyle and wellness spaces. Managed by former creative artists agency executive Martin Dolfi, M3 Ventures provides early-stage capital to companies based in the United States. ## Midlands Engine Investment Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Debt Financing, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Software MEIF is an investment firm that operates equity investment towards growth capital. The firm aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands and to realize the region’s potential to achieve economic growth through enterprise. It is a collaboration between the British Business Bank and ten Local Enterprise Partnerships(LEPs) in the West Midlands and East and South East Midlands. MEIF provides over £250m of investment to boost small and medium business (SME) growth in the Midlands. ## Golden Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Golden Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture capital fund, based in Toronto and investing across North America. We back bold teams and their transformative ideas. ## Winklevoss Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, E-Commerce, Internet At Winklevoss Capital, we believe in determined entrepreneurs. Risk-taking is just in their blood. By providing guidance, relationships and capital, we reinforce their pursuit of a frictionless world and a better human experience. Because those who dare to fail greatly, dare to achieve greatly. ## Creandum - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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