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    Relish Works

    Chicago, Illinois, United StatesFounded 2017

    Relish Works is a corporate venture capital firm and innovation hub that focuses on disrupting the food and foodservice industry. Their strategy involves generating innovative solutions to customer problems through partnerships, new solution design, and strategic early-stage investments, often facilitated by their Food Foundry accelerator program.

    75% of their portfolio is in Food & Agriculture. Their most common stage is seed (75% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $6.1M (across 4 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    4

    Fund Size

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    0

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    4 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    meez logomeezSeed$6.5MJan 2022
    Pod Foods logoPod FoodsSeries A$13MDec 2021
    Ripe.io logoRipe.ioSeed$2.4MSep 2018
    WWorkChewSeed$2.5M

    Top Co-Investors

    Harlem Capital1 shared
    Wilshire Lane Capital1 shared
    Techstars1 shared
    Struck Capital1 shared
    Industrious1 shared
    Moment Ventures1 shared
    K2 Global1 shared

    Last updated: 4 May 2026