Venture Pill E148: AI Nutrition App, Functional Beverage Beast, and Detroit Style Pizza
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And now for this week’s prescription:
On this week’s dose, we start (1:59) with Alma, an AI-powered nutrition app using natural language processing to simplify meal tracking, fresh off a $2.9M pre-seed round led by Menlo Ventures’ Anthology Fund in partnership with Anthropic. Next (14:27), we pop open a deep dive on Olipop, the gut-friendly soda brand shaking up the functional beverage space, following a $50M Series C that brings its valuation to a bubbly $1.85 billion. Finally (24:01), we slice into Via 313 Pizzeria, the fast-growing Detroit-style pizza chain that just secured $32.5M in growth capital to fuel expansion across the U.S.Sources:
https://menlovc.com/anthology-fund/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/former-whoop-execs-new-app-alma-uses-ai-for-all-things-nutrition/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/olipop-valued-1-85bn-following-125054362.html
https://www.utahbusiness.com/press-releases/2025/02/05/via-313-raises-32-million-double-footprint/
https://www.nrn.com/restaurant-finance/via-313-pizzeria-raises-32-5m-in-growth-capital
Music Credit: Chapter One by Cole Bauer and Dean Keeton