Bluestein Ventures
Family officeChicago · Seed–Series A · 8 people tracked
Also known as BLUESTEIN VENTURES MANAGEMENT LLC
Investment thesis
Bluestein Ventures backs game-changing early-stage ventures across the food industry that reshape how consumers pursue health and wellness. Its investments span the entire value chain, covering both consumer-facing and business-facing companies, and concentrate on four areas: high-growth consumer brands, proprietary foodtech, next-generation commerce, and value-add digital technology. Beyond capital, the firm contributes time, experience, and network to help portfolio companies refine their go-to-market strategy, reach product-market fit, and build a foundation for scale. As a purpose-driven, family-based firm, it emphasizes putting entrepreneurs first.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 8 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 14 of 32 portfolio companiesFoodTech ×6Consumer ×4SaaS ×4AI & Machine Learning ×3Biotech ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2Direct to Consumer ×2Healthtech ×2
HQs:United States×13
Investments · 32 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathChicago, US
Board seatAndrew BluesteinAshley Hartman· per SEC Form D · $7.3M raise · filed Nov 2025
Kansas City, US
EMILY BROWN(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)ANDREW BLUESTEIN(Director)ELISE BATES(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Board seatAndrew Bluestein· per SEC Form D · $4.7M raise · filed May 2024
Advanced ManufacturingBrooklyn Center, US
Andrew Healy(Director)Andrew Bluestein(Director)Alexander J. French(Executive Officer, Director)Ryan T. Bennett(Executive Officer)Andrew Blustein(Director)
Board seatAndrew Bluestein· per SEC Form D · $5M raise · filed Feb 2026
Boulder, US
David Tomizuka(Director)Ryan Pollock(Director)Eric Adam Edelman(Executive Officer, Director)Andrew Bluestein(Director)Don C. Bell III(Director)
Board seatAndrew Bluestein· per SEC Form D · $5.5M raise · filed Jul 2025
Attane Health provides nutritious groceries and educational resources tailored for people with chronic health conditions.
Digital HealthFoodTechHealthtechWellness & Fitness
Emily Brownin
Base Culture is a bakery producing clean-label breads and baked goods, offering both gluten-free and gluten options made without refined sugar, oils, or artificial ingredients.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerFoodTechClearwater, US
Jordann Windschauer(Executive Officer, Director)Robert Windschauer(Executive Officer, Director)
BiomeSense builds an end-to-end gut microbiome platform, spanning automated data collection through expert analysis, aimed at clinical researchers studying the human microbiome.
BiotechHardwareHealthtechChicago, US
Dylan Nichols(Director)inKevin Honaker(Executive Officer, Director)inVanessa Rollings Giannis(Director)Orhan Ertughrul(Director)
BoardAshley Hartman(Director)Andrew Bluestein(Director)
Chowly is a restaurant technology platform that integrates third-party delivery apps with point-of-sale systems and offers bi-directional menu sync, dynamic pricing, dispute management, and AI marketing.
FoodTechSaaSChicago, US
Sterling Douglass-Barnes(Executive Officer, Director)Sterling Douglass(Co-Founder & CEO)Justin McNally(Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer)Joseph Lawton(Chief Operating Officer)Tom Lawton(Chief Revenue Officer)Mark Whittle(Chief Technology Officer)
Crafty provides workplace pantry management services, combining expert-led food and beverage delivery with a proprietary platform to manage office snacking programs across multiple locations.
B2B MarketplacesFuture of WorkSaaSChicago, US
Faisal Masud(Director)Christopher Ritter(Executive Officer, Director)Cameron Lawrence(Executive Officer)Brian Hirsch(Director)Elaine Russell(Director)Nathan Rosenstock(Executive Officer, Director)
A website related to meat and the future thereof, with an AI conversational interface named Stan for educational purposes.
FoodTech
Santa Monica, US
Casey Steidle(Director)Eugene J. Merkert(Director)Kelly Ramey(Executive Officer, Director)Rachelle Lynch(Director)
Miami, US
Abu Kamara(Executive Officer, Director)Peter Groverman(Executive Officer, Director)
Hireology provides a recruiting and applicant tracking platform that helps businesses hire staff, with features including career sites, digital onboarding, hiring analytics, employee referral management, and an AI recruiting assistant.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSChicago, US
Adam Robinson(Chief Executive Officer, President and Director)Michael Krupka(Director)Bill Pescatello(Director)Michael Krasman(Secretary and Director)
Meati produces meat alternatives made from mycelium, the root structure of fungi, offering a plant-based protein source with complete amino acids and additional nutritional benefits.
ConsumerFoodTech
Motista offers a predictive intelligence platform that combines proprietary data and AI, linking people's motivations, behaviors and financial health to forecast income growth for commercial real estate investors and operators and lifetime value growth for consumer and B2B brands.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructurePropTechSan Mateo, US
Alan Zorfas(Executive Officer)Steve Baroni(Executive Officer)Patrick Gross(Director)Scott Magids(Executive Officer, Director)Andrew Seasoms(Director)
BoardBram Bluestein(Director)
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Bluestein Ventures invest at?
- Bluestein Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Bluestein Ventures focus on?
- Bluestein Ventures focuses on Consumer, E-commerce, FoodTech, Wellness & Fitness.
- Where is Bluestein Ventures located?
- Bluestein Ventures is headquartered in Chicago, US.
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Co-investors · 3
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Mayfield Fund is a venture capital firm publishing perspectives on artificial intelligence, focusing on what it calls the Collaborative Intelligence era where humans and AI work together.
Schematic Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund based in San Francisco that invests in technology companies across supply chain, manufacturing, and software infrastructure.
Firms observed investing alongside Bluestein Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Bluestein Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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