Food Technology

Maki.vc (Web3)

Check: Maki's stated sweet spot is first rounds below EUR 5 million from day zero; this describes target round size, not Pauliina's personal check authority. The firm continues to support later rounds selectively.

Pauliina leads a sector-agnostic Nordic first-round strategy centered on exceptional technical founders with global ambition. Her attributed portfolio work spans clinical sensing, autonomous-mobility safety, consumer products, voice agents, quantum, fintech, and sustainability. She favors non-consensus decisions, products rooted in a clear user problem, strong design and customer experience, and teams capable of building category leaders from the Nordics.

Khosla Ventures

Check: In a 2020 first-person interview, Samir described a typical Khosla Seed Fund investment as roughly $1M–$2M, used as option-value capital to remove key risks before a larger Series A/B decision. Khosla's current Main Fund covers early through later stages, including total financings above $10M. These are historical/firm-level guideposts, not a guaranteed current personal range.

Samir prefers large, known markets where a radical technical risk can produce a 10x-better product. He treats small seed checks as option-value experiments: identify a potential billion-dollar outcome, use capital to remove a binary technical, team, or market-development risk, then redo the diligence and concentrate capital if the evidence improves. He rejects mechanical pro-rata, values non-consensus decisions, and believes uncapped upside justifies bold technical bets rather than conservative hit-rate optimization.

Craft Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Craft invests from angel/seed through venture and growth; amounts in Bryan's investment announcements are total company rounds, not his personal or standard Craft checks.

Bryan applies a growth, revenue, and marketplace lens shaped by building Reddit's New York revenue organization and Twitter's startup advertising business. His investments favor products that remove expensive operational friction, demonstrate clear founder-market fit, delight customers enough to produce strong advocacy, and can use software, AI, services, or community-led distribution to create a meaningful performance advantage.

Maki.vc (Web3)

Check: Maki's published sweet spot is first rounds below EUR 5 million from day zero; this is a firm round-size criterion, not Paavo's personal check range. Fund III is the active new-investment vehicle, with selective follow-ons from older funds.

Paavo backs Nordic deep-tech founders at their first institutional round when a radical scientific or engineering advance can overhaul an industry. He requires a credible technical foundation, balanced technical and commercial talent, control of a valuable position in the value chain, deep customer understanding, and a distinctive brand capable of making complex technology category-defining.

Lux Capital

Check: Lux does not publish a dependable personal check range for Deena. Her investments span stages, including first institutional rounds and later healthcare financings; founders should confirm vehicle, initial ticket, ownership, reserves and stage fit with the partnership.

Deena backs transformative technologies that improve health, access and economic opportunity, often with extraordinary underdog founders attacking problems conventional pattern recognition overlooks. Her health thesis pairs breakthrough science and AI with clinical value, infrastructure and community delivery: technology matters only when it improves outcomes for populations historically underserved by fragmented systems.