A family business, investing in new ones.
Shree Lakshmi Ventures invests its own capital in early-stage food, beverage, and technology companies. We write early checks, answer quickly, and stay useful where we genuinely can.
How we work.
We invest our own money rather than someone else's. There is no fund clock, no investment committee, and no pressure to deploy on a schedule — which means we can take the time to understand a business and stay patient long after we've invested.
Our family has spent years in the food and beverage industry. That background shapes how we read a consumer business — margins, packaging, what makes a product repeat. Where that experience is useful to a company, we offer it. Where it isn't, we say so and get out of the way.
Our own capital
No fund clock and no committee to convince. We can decide quickly, and we don't need an exit on anyone else's timeline.
Industry familiarity
Years around food and beverage inform how we evaluate consumer businesses — unit economics, packaging, and what actually drives repeat purchase.
Straight answers
A fast yes or no, and honesty about where we can help and where we can't. We would rather be a useful small shareholder than an overcommitted one.
What we back.
We invest at the earliest stages, usually alongside founders who are still proving the thing works. We are generalists within two areas we know well.
- Stage
- Pre-seed and seed
- Instruments
- SAFEs, convertibles, priced equity
- Sectors
- Food & beverage, consumer, technology
- Geography
- United States
- Check size
- $50K – $250K
- Ownership
- No board seats required
Two generations, one table.
Ram Patel
Ram leads the firm's investing and day-to-day operations. He began his career as an investment banking analyst at Guggenheim Partners and has since worked in strategic finance and product at venture-backed technology companies, currently at Anaconda. He also runs an independent finance consulting practice. Ram studied economics at the University of Michigan and got his first exposure to early-stage investing at a venture firm in Cape Town.
John Patel
[PLACEHOLDER BIO — John. Two to three sentences: decades in beverage distribution, what he brings to founders, and one detail that makes him human.]
Tell us what you're building.
We read everything that comes in and reply to the ones we can help. A short note beats a long deck — tell us what the product is, who buys it, and where you are stuck.
Prefer email?
info@shreelakshmiventures.com