Organization · Micro VC
Vice Ventures
Vice Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund based in Brooklyn, New York, focusing on investments in startups within traditionally stigmatized industries. The fund aims to achieve strong financial returns by targeting sectors such as cannabis, alcohol, and psychedelics.
Overview
What Vice Ventures does
What Vice Ventures is
Vice Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund based in Brooklyn, New York, focusing on investments in startups within traditionally stigmatized industries. The fund aims to achieve strong financial returns by targeting sectors such as cannabis, alcohol, and psychedelics.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports funder capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Micro VC
- Founded
- Founded in 2018
- Approximate age
- About 8 years
- Structured capabilities
- Funder
- Last reviewed
- April 9, 2026
Official channels
Find Vice Ventures elsewhere
Open the official website or a supported primary organization account.
Capability profile
Vice Ventures as a funder
Investment thesis
Vice Ventures targets investments in stigmatized industries that are often overlooked by traditional venture capital, aiming to capitalize on the unique opportunities these sectors present.
Focus narrative
Vice Ventures invests in early stage startups across non-traditional verticals, including but not limited to alcohol, cannabis, energy, nicotine, psychedelics, sex tech, wellness, skill-based betting, and sports betting. The fund is dedicated to supporting companies that challenge societal norms and operate in industries that are often underfunded.
Value beyond capital
Vice Ventures provides strategic support and industry expertise to its portfolio companies, leveraging its unique focus on stigmatized sectors to help them navigate challenges and capitalize on market opportunities.
Terms and economics
- Typical check
- $1,000,000–$2,500,000
- Sweet spot
- $1,500,000
Focus and fit
- Stages
- Seed
- Sectors
- ConsumerCommerce & Retail
- Regions
- United States
Availability
- Currently deploying
- Yes
Portfolio and track record
Portfolio context
Notable portfolio companies include Recess, a CBD and adaptogen sparkling water beverage; Ten To One, a premium rum maker; Bev, a California wine in a can; Indose, a precision cannabis vaporizer; and Lucy, which offers harm-reduction nicotine products.
Common questions
What to know about Vice Ventures
Upseed classifies Vice Ventures under the Micro VC organization type. Its current public profile includes funder capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
Know what this page is based on
Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
April 9, 2026
Known limits
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