Dan Rowe brings an unusually hands-on restaurant operating background to venture investing, having started as a dishwasher and cook before becoming a franchisee who helped grow a bagel concept to 200 units and later built Qdoba into a national brand. He specializes in finding small concepts with long lines serving underserved demographics like Middle Eastern or Indian food and scaling them nationally through his combined roles as founder of Fransmart and co-managing partner of The Kitchen Fund.
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Kitchen Fund
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Food & Ag, Consumer, CPG / D2C, Retail Tech, AI
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Seed - Series A
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$100K - $5M
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Kitchen Fund is a venture capital fund that specializes exclusively in emerging restaurant brands trying to change the way we eat, with co-founder Dan Rowe bringing two decades of franchise-scaling experience from concepts like Five Guys and QDOBA. The fund was an early institutional backer of purpose-driven fast-casual brands like Sweetgreen and CAVA before mission-led, health-oriented restaurant concepts became mainstream, and portfolio companies describe Kitchen Fund as a hands-on partner that provides strategic guidance rather than just capital.
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