Barrel Ventures Management, LLC
barrelvc.com Direct investor
Barrel Ventures is a seed fund based in Evanston, Illinois, that invests in early-stage food companies. It focuses on better-for-you consumer brands, food and ingredient technology, supply chain innovation, and vertical AI.
Barrel Ventures Management, LLC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Evanston, United States. It invests directly in companies, at seed, in food, beverage, health and wellness and food and ingredient technology.
“We invest in the category-defining companies fixing it.”
— Barrel Ventures Management, LLC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Seed
- Headquarters
- Evanston, United States
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- food, beverage, health and wellness, food and ingredient technology, supply chain, vertical AI
Team, as Barrel Ventures Management, LLC publishes it
- Nate Cooper Partner
- Carey Cooper Partner
- Michael Krutz Principal
- Joel Warady Strategic Advisor
- Elliot Wheeler Advisor
- Rob Schoder, Jr. Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on barrelvc.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 41 co-investors found.
- Matchstick Ventures 2 shared companies: silkline.ai, soona.co
- Founder Collective 2 shared companies: irisfinance.co, waystationai.com
- Collaborative Fund 2 shared companies: drinkolipop.com, dailygem.co
- Left Lane Capital 2 shared companies: drinkolipop.com, takeultra.com
- Siddhi Capital 2 shared companies: jumbotail.com, mokufoods.com
- Superangel 1 shared company: kea.ai
- 25madison Ventures Management Company, LLC 1 shared company: silkline.ai
- Origin Ventures 1 shared company: silkline.ai
- Valia Ventures Limited 1 shared company: silkline.ai
- 2048 Ventures 1 shared company: soona.co
and 31 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Barrel Ventures Management, LLC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.barrelvc.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status
- https://www.barrelvc.com/teampeople
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Record 4019 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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