Bread and Butter Ventures

Bread and Butter Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Minnesota. It invests globally but draws on its home state's corporate connections, commercial openings and industry knowledge to help the founders it backs.

Products and services

• Seed-stage investment: the firm sometimes leads rounds and always helps bring in co-investors.
• Food technology: backing for tech-enabled companies anywhere in the food chain, from farms to supply chains, manufacturing, restaurants and grocery.
• Healthcare technology: software and other technology for digital health, value-based care and better patient outcomes.
• Enterprise technology: software and platforms that help organisations operate and scale.
• Post-investment support: a platform that connects founders with people, resources and partners.

Who it serves

The firm works with entrepreneurs at seed stage. It says it can invest across many sectors but concentrates on the three above, and it points to Minnesota's large healthcare companies, networks, payors and hospital systems as a help to health startups.

Key facts

• Based in: Minnesota, USA
• Stage: seed
• Focus sectors: food, healthcare and enterprise technology