The Venture Codex

Participated · Series A · Oct 2025

Bettani Farms, recently rebranded from Climax Foods, is a Berkeley-based food-technology company focused on creating dairy-free cheeses. Its products—including mozzarella and feta—are built on a proprietary ingredient called Caseed, designed to mimic the functional properties of casein while remaining completely plant-based. The company positions its cheeses as protein-rich and free of common allergens such as nuts and soy. To strengthen execution, Bettani Farms has added industry veterans: former Califia Farms CFO Sandeep Patel now serves as CEO and chairman, while new senior hires span R&D, sales, and process engineering. The fresh leadership aims to accelerate product development and commercialization. Although specific revenue or user metrics were not disclosed, the firm plans to deploy new capital to expand operations and intensify R&D efforts, signaling a focus on scaling production and market reach.

Led · Equity · Feb 2025

Little Otter provides AI-powered virtual mental health care that treats children (0–18) and their families with a holistic, evidence-backed suite of services. Its platform uses advanced AI to triage patients, personalize services, and scale assessments alongside human clinicians. The company is available in 15 states and plans to expand state coverage to reach millions of families covered by Medicaid and commercial insurance. In 2024 Little Otter achieved 2.5x revenue growth and delivered over 56,000 care visits, with 85% of families reporting progress within six sessions and 71% of children achieving remission after 12 sessions. The company is unveiling a brand refresh and intends to continue leveraging data-backed outcomes to improve access and effectiveness. Founded in 2020 by Dr. Helen Egger and Rebecca Egger, Little Otter emphasizes clinical excellence across mild to severe conditions. Little Otter offers a precision digital mental health platform that assesses family needs via a questionnaire, delivers a personalized report, and matches families with a personal care lead who builds a tailored care plan. The platform provides virtual, on-demand integrated care with parenting specialists, early childhood-trained therapists, couples therapists and pediatric psychiatrists. Co-founded in May 2020 by Rebecca Egger and Dr. Helen Egger, the company emphasizes treating the whole family and uses proprietary assessment methods and data visualization. Little Otter reports 45% month-over-month growth and says 85% of families using its care plans reach clinical improvements within six sessions. It is currently available in California, Colorado, North Carolina and Florida and plans to be available nationally by 2023. The company aims to become an in-network benefit covered by insurance plans and employers while investing in a state-of-the-art tech and data platform and hiring a chief technology officer to scale.

Participated · Series A · Jan 2025

Twentyeight Health is a NYC-based digital-first women’s healthcare platform that makes reproductive and sexual healthcare affordable through telemedicine consultations, fast at-home deliveries, and ongoing access to providers for services such as birth control and herpes treatments. The company accepts almost every commercial insurance and Medicaid plan, positioning itself as a broadly accessible alternative to traditional care. It currently serves more than 100,000 users across 43 states. Twentyeight Health raised $10M in a Series A, bringing its total capital raised to $25M. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and accelerate product development. Bruno Van Tuykom serves as CEO. Twentyeight Health operates a women’s virtual healthcare platform focused on sexual and reproductive care, accepting Medicaid and partnering with culturally competent clinicians. The platform is bilingual (English and Spanish) and aims to serve medically underserved, low-income, and non-urban populations. Since founding in 2018, the company has expanded from six to 34 states and now covers more than 85% of women of reproductive age in the U.S. It has helped over 60,000 individuals access care, with 55% of users on Medicaid, 58% identifying as BIPOC, and 60% living in non-urban areas; 63% of its birth-control users previously lacked access to prescriptions. The company offers free birth control to uninsured users through a partnership with the Contraceptive Access Fund of Bedsider and donates 2% of revenues to related organizations. With recent funding, Twentyeight Health plans to expand nonprofit partnerships, grow its services and footprint, and improve the quality of its telehealth offerings. Twentyeight Health offers telemedicine reproductive-health services focused on contraception, providing online medical questionnaires reviewed by U.S. board-certified doctors and access to more than 100 FDA-approved birth control options. Customers receive shipments within three days and ongoing care via audio consultations and doctor follow-up messages. The company emphasizes serving Medicaid, underinsured, and uninsured women and works with partners such as Bottomless Closet and eight CUNY colleges to reach underserved populations. Twentyeight Health is the only telemedicine contraception provider noted in the article that accepts Medicaid and also partners with Bedsider’s Contraceptive Access Fund to provide free birth control to uninsured patients. The company donates 2% of its revenue to Bedsider and the National Institute for Reproductive Health. Launched in 2018, Twentyeight Health currently operates across Florida, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania and plans to use new funding to expand services across the U.S.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2024

itselectric is a Brooklyn-based company building curbside electric vehicle charging infrastructure and offering a UL-certified detachable cable charger. The company manages installation, operation, and maintenance of chargers at no cost to municipalities or building owners. Through partnerships with cities and property owners, itselectric provides drivers charging options while offering property owners monthly passive income. The startup positions its service to help cities meet decarbonization targets and actively reduce carbon emissions. It plans deployments across seven U.S. cities in 2024, including Boston, Los Angeles, Detroit, Jersey City, and San Francisco. Financially, the company has raised a total of $11.8M to date following its recent seed round. itselectric builds urban networks of Level 2 curbside EV charging posts and partners with cities to install, operate, and maintain chargers at no cost to cities or host property owners. The company’s model lets property owners earn passive income while avoiding the infrastructure upgrades typically required for on-street charging. It aims to help cities meet carbon reduction targets and reduce capital expenditure. Led by CEO Nathan King and COO Tiya Gordon, itselectric has a fully functioning prototype described as a minimum viable product (MVP). The company plans to use recent funding to move that prototype to a certified market-ready product (MRP) for on-street deployments across the U.S. Financially, itselectric completed a $2.2M pre-seed financing to support product certification and deployment efforts.

Participated · Series C · Jul 2023

Everytable prepares and sells affordable healthy meals such as wraps and salads, with menu prices that vary by each store’s location. It distributes through company stores, branded vending machines and delivery channels. The company tripled its number of stores in 2022 and says it strives for each store to be individually profitable. Management notes that keeping prices affordable can complicate scaling and that stores are only one part of the business’s cost base. Everytable plans to expand its retail footprint and hopes to open 25 stores in the latter half of 2023. Founder and CEO Sam Polk has said he’s seen growing investor interest in mission-driven startups in recent years. Everytable operates a multi-channel fresh-prepared, ready-to-eat food business blending storefronts, subscriptions, and SmartFridges supplied by a central kitchen, with meals priced according to neighborhood. Led by founder and CEO Sam Polk, the company focuses on making nutritious food accessible and affordable. It has expanded beyond greater Los Angeles into Orange County and San Diego County and this spring launched an e-commerce delivery service in the Bay Area with plans to open storefronts there in 2023. Everytable also opened its first three New York locations this spring and has three more stores slated to open by the end of the year. The company recently closed a $55m Series C to fund its growth and channel expansion. Everytable operates a multi-channel fresh-prepared food business combining grab-and-go storefronts, a subscription delivery service and SmartFridges supplied by a central kitchen. The company prices meals according to neighborhood to improve affordability and reach. Everytable partners with institutions and public agencies to serve vulnerable populations and has provided more than 4 million meals to Los Angeles’ most vulnerable, including housebound seniors, homeless individuals and food-insecure college students. It works with partners such as The City of Los Angeles, The Department of Aging, Santa Monica College and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Founded in 2016 and led by CEO Sam Polk, Everytable plans to use new funding to accelerate growth throughout Southern California via new grab-and-go stores, expanded institutional food service partnerships and a larger subscription delivery footprint. The company is mission-driven and focused on scaling access to affordable, fresh-prepared meals through multiple channels.