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Momentum at Linok: Closing Our Seed Round and Welcoming Two Key Team Members We’re excited to share two major milestones that signal strong momentum as we continue building the future of real-time milk quality monitoring. 🚀 Seed Round Closed – Backed by Watchfire Ventures We’ve officially closed our seed funding round, led by Watchfire Ventures, with participation from Barrel Ventures, two exceptional firms that back visionary teams tackling real-world, high-impact problems. Their support validates our approach to bringing lab-grade, reagent-free milk analysis directly into the milking process, and it gives us the resources to accelerate development, scale deployments, and grow our commercial footprint. 👥 Two Key Hires: Omer Arad and Dor Sofer We’re also proud to welcome two exceptional talents to the Linok team: • Omer Arad, who brings deep expertise in AI, IoT, and data-driven systems, designing scalable technologies that power real-world products and drive business innovation. • Dor Sofer, a data scientist with a strong background in signal processing, machine learning, and turning raw data into actionable insights. Their experience and energy strengthen our ability to deliver precision, reliability, and value at scale. With the right partners and the right people, we’re charging ahead, and this is just the beginning. Stay tuned. Team Linok https://linoktech.com

🔔Announcing the 2025 Vertical SaaS 50!🔔 Today, Avid Ventures, Headline, and Bain Capital Ventures recognize 50 new emerging vertical SaaS companies. 🏭 This year, over a third of the honorees are solving problems in the physical world including Caspian, DocUnlock, and Revenue Vessel in logistics, Complement, DiploAI, and Forgepoint in manufacturing, Ichi in construction, and GridStrong, Lumora, and Strobe Power in electricity/utilities. 📝 As in prior years, several honorees are building in the broader professional service landscape including &AI, Crosby, and PointOne in legal, Mako AI in financial services, and Foundation, Novella, and Strala in insurance. 🩺 Most notably, we've seen an increase in healthcare companies like Charta Health, Ferry Health and RoVR as well as Zoomlogi in pharma, Corner Health and Duet in nurse practioner practices, ExaCare AI in senior care, Onos Health in behavioral health, Grove AI in clinical trials, and Lassie and Rondah AI in dental. If you are building a vertical SaaS company or have recommendations for our 2026 list please reach out - we'd love to hear from you!

🌎 #Chicago = THE global capital for the #futureoffood, because of Supply Change Capital and Barrel Ventures. 👏 World Business Chicago was so proud to join Covington & Burling LLP and Mondelēz International for “Appetites-for-#Innovation: Shaping Tomorrow’s #Food Landscape,” by Supply Change Capital, with Barrel Ventures! 🏙️ We welcomed out-of-town investors, food sector executives, and startup founders during Future Food-Tech #Chicago 2025. 🌽 It was a fantastic event which included curated discussions and insights with fast-evolving global #food sector. This included an informative fireside chat about the current #publicpolicy landscape, and its implications for innovation in food & ag, bioeconomyc, #supplychain solutions, and health & nutrition. 🥳 As always, amazing work by my good friends Supply Change Capital Managing Partner Shayna Harris, with Barrel Ventures Managing Partner Nathan Cooper. Two #proChicago leaders who’ve become amazing partners for World Business Chicago, especially with our #ChiVentureSummit series and our innovation and venture programs. What I appreciate the most about them: they always represent #Chicago everywhere they go. 📍Cira by BOKA Restaurant Group in The Hoxton, Fulton Market District, Chicago

Iris turns 1 today🎂🥳 12mo ago we launched into market and so far it has been the most exciting and rewarding year of my life. We've been able to accomplish so much & i am extremely proud of our team for their unrelenting commitment to helping our customers run more profitable businesses with better data and better finance A summary of our accomplishments so far (and we're just getting started): - Reached nearly $1.5m ARR - 95% renewal rate - >150% NRR - Processed >$5B of GMV - Built the most robust data platform in ecommerce - Launched the first ever automated 3 statement & cash flow models for consumer brands - Saved our customers 8 figures on discovering costs while driving better planning - Operating near breakeven Plus, some of our most exciting product announcements coming VERY soon. Thank you to all our customers & investors for making year 1 what it was Now - Iris v2 is underway🤫🤫

Excited to be speaking at Future Food-Tech Chicago on June 2-3. If you're building anything interesting at the intersection of food and technology, or just interested in the space in general come join us! https://lnkd.in/gReUnkCU Maricel Saenz Michael Snodgrass Sarah Lieder Charlie Chappell Brandy Edmonds David VandenEinde Jennifer Kimmel Alex L. Frederick Lars Langhout Beth Conerty Alexandre Zanghellini Ashley Hartman Andy Kleitsch Michael Lavin Shayna Harris Richie Gray Nick Cooney

So proud to have 2 of Barrel Ventures portfolio companies selected to the 2024 FoodTech 500 list by Forward Fooding. Celleste Bio and Helaina. Celleste Bio, a pioneer in Cocoa-tech is innovating in the cocoa supply chain. Helaina is building a technology platform that replicates the functional proteins found in the human body, making them available as new nutrients. To learn more about the FoodTech 500 and download the 2024 list, click here!👇https://lnkd.in/eK9dT-U7 #ForwardFooding #FoodTech500 #FoodTech #AgriFoodTech #Innovation Michal Beressi Golomb Hanne Volpin Laura Katz Paola Delgado

Big news - DocUnlock is on TechCrunch! An exciting milestone, as we announce our recent fundraise and observe the impact our product is having, transforming the businesses of customs brokers everywhere. Link to the story in the comments below. Big thank you to Rebecca Szkutak, senior reporter covering venture and startups at TechCrunch and previously Forbes, for highlighting how DocUnlock is automating away the most costly and time-consuming pain point for customs brokers: the (previously) manual & tedious work of entry-writing and document processing! Special thanks to Nicolas Dessaigne, Peter Kazanjy, Scott Barker, Sophie Buonassisi, Paul Irving, Max Altschuler and the whole GTMfund team, Nathan Cooper, Rob Schoder, Jr., Pukar C. Hamal as well as all of our amazing advisors, angel investors, and friends, for your boundless support and for seeing the vision of how we can dramatically improve the supply chain to be easier, cheaper, and more efficient. Finally and most importantly, a MASSIVE thank you to all of our wonderful customers and our unbelievably talented and dedicated team - the people with whom we have the pleasure of working everyday. Ned Cartmell, Cyrus F, Jack Moberger and I are immensely grateful for the privilege of partnering together with you! Let us know what you think in the comments! 👇

https://lnkd.in/g9wjBiwY Laura Katz is changing the future of #HumanNutrition with Effera and Helaina. Barrel Ventures is lucky to have been along for the ride for almost 5 years now, and many more into the future. #Food #foodInvesting

The world’s cocoa supply challenges are real. As Jacopo Prisco so articulately reports, innovators across the globe are exploring many solutions – and happy for Celleste Bio Ltd. to be spotlighted for its use of cellular agriculture to farm 100% real cocoa. We are a #cocoatech company comprised of chocolate lovers that are committed to producing a sustainable cocoa supply. We are the only solution today that combines the best traditional farming practices with modern technologies to produce 100% real, chocolate grade cocoa butter. Our vision is to scale this to grow anywhere in the world without having to ever cut down a single tree. We think that’s pretty sweet. 🍫 🍫 🍫 Hanne Volpin, Ben Sivan, Silvia Zypman, Radi Aly Nitza Kardish, PhD, Barak Singer, The Trendlines Group Laura Shulman Mondelēz International