23 Founders Backed by Cleveland Avenue (2026)

Cleveland Avenue founders (23)

Cleveland Avenue founders covers 23 founders on Hero Bread, Aigen and AYO Foods and 19 other companies. The most common sectors are E-commerce (4), AI Infrastructure (3) and Climate (3). Members are based in 15 cities, led by Chicago, IL (6), San Francisco, CA (4) and Atlanta, GA (1). The remaining members span AgTech (1), Cybersecurity (1), Foodtech (1), Healthtech (1), Logistics (1), Media (1), Robotics (1) and SaaS (1). Companies represented include CancerIQ, CH4 Global, CurlMix, Eliyan, Eventnoire, Evigence Sensors, FireBolt, Good PLANeT Foods, Intelligent Growth Solutions, NeuReality, NotCo and Open Water, plus 7 more. Every founder below links to a profile with their company, backers, and the filings behind each round.

• Founders listed: 23
• Companies represented: 22
• Top sector: E-commerce (4 founders)
• Top location: Chicago, IL (6 founders)
• Sectors represented: 11
• Locations represented: 15

• Alex Dhillon — Outtake
• Ali Sabeti — Zerocater
• Andrew Lloyd — Intelligent Growth Solutions
• Billy Dec — Sunda New Asian
• Cole Glass — Hero Bread
• David Israel — Good PLANeT Foods
• Eldad Farkash — FireBolt
• Eric Sheinkop — The Desire Company
• Feyi Ayodele — CancerIQ
• Jeffrey Osuji — Eventnoire
• Joshua Aviv — SparkCharge
• Kenny Lee — Aigen
• Kimberly Lewis — CurlMix
• Matias Muchnick — NotCo
• Moshe Tanach — NeuReality
• Nicole Doucet — Open Water
• Patrick Tatera — Sustainable Beverage Technologies
• Perteet Spencer — AYO Foods
• Ramin Farjadrad — Eliyan
• Steve Meller — CH4 Global
• Vincent Tseng — PartnerSlate
• Yoav Levy — Evigence Sensors
• YuChiang Cheng — Hero Bread

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• Cleveland Avenue · E-commerce (4 founders)
• Cleveland Avenue · Climate (3 founders)
• Cleveland Avenue · AI Infrastructure (3 founders)

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