Supply Change Capital

Investment decisions are made by Co-Founders and General Partners Shayna Harris and Noramay Cadena. Harris brings two decades of operating and investing experience in food and supply chains, including as COO of Farmer's Fridge, while Cadena is a former Boeing engineer and two-time venture firm founder. They have executed over 100 investments together and lead a team that includes dedicated portfolio and operations professionals.

The firm sources through its partners' deep operating networks in the food industry — including relationships built at Mars, Stonyfield, and Farmer's Fridge — and through its fellowship program, which embeds graduate students from MIT, University of Chicago Booth, and other top programs into deal-sourcing and portfolio-support roles. Cadena's role on the board of Latinx VC and Harris's partnerships with food-tech accelerators provide additional, non-traditional pipeline into founder communities that generalist funds often miss.

The firm targets early-stage companies, concentrating on pre-seed and seed rounds. Its portfolio is built around startups where a technical or operational breakthrough is still in development — companies like Celleste Bio, which engineers cocoa without trees, and 99 Counties, which builds regenerative-meat supply chains — rather than later-stage growth or pre-IPO rounds.