Agronomics

Agronomics Limited, originally established as Port Erin Biopharma Investments Limited in 2011, is a principal investment firm based in Douglas, Isle of Man. The company specializes in investments focused on the alternative proteins sector, particularly in cellular agriculture and biomanufacturing. Agronomics aims to build a diverse portfolio that includes both quoted and unquoted companies within the biotechnology and biopharmaceutical industries. The firm seeks to invest in companies poised for significant revenue growth through the development of innovative biopharmaceutical drugs. Additionally, Agronomics may engage in co-investments alongside key industry figures to enhance its investment strategy. With a commitment to advancing modern food technologies, Agronomics plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of sustainable food production and biotechnology.

Hamood Al Fanna

Senior Associate

Jim Mellon

Founder

Laura Turner

Principal and Advisory Team Member

21 past transactions

Clean Food Group

Seed Round in 2022
Clean Food Group provides sustainable ‘CLEAN’ alternatives to these fats and oils, ranging from liquid oils like soybean to hard fats like palm oil, cocoa butter, and milk fat. Clean Food Group produces sustainable food ingredients that are better for our environment and health without compromising on teste or performance.

Liberation Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Liberation Labs is a biotech firm developing an industrial agricultural biotechnology system. It focuses on infrastructure that commercializes novel protein manufacturing at the scale. The company invests in infrastructure that commercializes protein manufacture at the market's size and cost structure, allowing biology innovators to compete with animal protein while also providing customers with access to nutritious foods.

CellX

Series A in 2022
CellX is creating the world's first mushroom protein from morel mycelium fermentation. Our ingredient and product solutions can be applied to savory snacks, protein powders, and meat alternatives. We are also licensing existing IPs to help accelerate the commercialization of cultivated meat. Our technology offerings include suspension cell lines and serum-free media that have achieved 30M/ml cell density and <$5/L media cost, tested at the 2,000L scale.

VitroLabs

Series A in 2022
VitroLabs is a startup working on the cutting edge of 3D tissue engineering using stem cell-based technologies. The company develops a fully scalable tissue engineering platform combining the latest breakthroughs in stem cell research and biomaterials. It manufactures real leather without the need to raise and slaughter animals using breakthroughs in stem cell research and tissue engineering. VitroLabs was founded on 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Onego Bio

Seed Round in 2022
Onego Bio is a food-based biotechnology company that produces animal-free egg white protein through precision fermentation. Their ingredient, Bioalbumen, sets a new standard for sustainable protein with identical taste and nutrition, superior functional properties, and over 90% smaller environmental footprint compared to eggs from chickens. Onego’s highly productive and scalable technology caters to the needs of the food industry searching for stable, sustainable functional ingredients. As a game-changer in the field, the company was selected as the Winner of Fast Company’s 2023 World Changing Ideas awards and is a co-founder of two industry associations: Precision Fermentation Alliance and Food Fermentation Europe.

The EVERY Company

Funding Round in 2021
The EVERY Company is the market leader in engineering, manufacturing and formulating animal-free, animal proteins as ingredients for the global food and beverage industry. Leveraging advanced fermentation to produce functional and nutritional proteins from microorganisms, the Company is reimagining the factory farm model that underpins industrial animal agriculture with a more sustainable, kinder, and healthier alternative. Clara Foods is on a mission to decouple the world's most powerful proteins from the animals that make them.

California Cultured

Seed Round in 2021
California Cultured is a food company creating sustainable, lab-grown cocoa that is less bitter and requires less sugar to be tasty. It produces cocoa intended to provide cocoa that is less bitter and requires less sugar. The company's product entices cocoa cells to grow by stimulation by food ingredients that are found in any grocery store and produce cocoa cells that is good for human health, enabling customers to avail premium quality cocoa products. California Cultured was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Davis, California.

VitroLabs

Series A in 2021
VitroLabs is a startup working on the cutting edge of 3D tissue engineering using stem cell-based technologies. The company develops a fully scalable tissue engineering platform combining the latest breakthroughs in stem cell research and biomaterials. It manufactures real leather without the need to raise and slaughter animals using breakthroughs in stem cell research and tissue engineering. VitroLabs was founded on 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Formo

Series A in 2021
Formo is Europe’s first cellular agriculture company developing animal-free dairy products using real, nature-identical milk proteins derived from precision fermentation.

Meatable

Series A in 2021
Meatable is a food production company that produces guilt-free meat. Meatable is a company that creates manufactured meat using stem cell technology. By employing pluripotent stem cells, which have the potential to transform any type of cell from muscle to fat without serum, the company's method eliminates the need to remove any tissue from an animal, allowing consumers to have sustainable food.

Meatable

Venture Round in 2021
Meatable is a food production company that produces guilt-free meat. Meatable is a company that creates manufactured meat using stem cell technology. By employing pluripotent stem cells, which have the potential to transform any type of cell from muscle to fat without serum, the company's method eliminates the need to remove any tissue from an animal, allowing consumers to have sustainable food.

CellX

Pre Seed Round in 2020
CellX is creating the world's first mushroom protein from morel mycelium fermentation. Our ingredient and product solutions can be applied to savory snacks, protein powders, and meat alternatives. We are also licensing existing IPs to help accelerate the commercialization of cultivated meat. Our technology offerings include suspension cell lines and serum-free media that have achieved 30M/ml cell density and <$5/L media cost, tested at the 2,000L scale.

Mosa Meat

Series B in 2020
Mosa Meat produces slaughter-free hamburgers. The burger is harvested from cow cells, rather than raising and slaughtering a whole animal. By growing meat naturally from cells, Mosa Meat strives to accelerate the transition to a truly sustainable global food system.

Solar Foods

Series A in 2020
Solar Foods is a food-tech startup that specializes in testing a technology that uses electricity to produce hydrogen which is combined with carbon dioxide, water, vitamins, and minerals to feed and grow microbial biomass that can be used as edible protein. The industrial biotech startup develops a protein called Solein, a nutritious, sustainable substitute for animal-derived proteins. Solein is created using elements from the air—CO2, water, nitrogen—and electricity. This single-cell protein is cultivated through gas fermentation, essentially deriving edible calories from hydrogen-oxidizing microbes.

Shiok Meats

Convertible Note in 2020
Shiok Meats is cellular aquaculture and cell-based meat company. With a mission to bring clean and healthy meats and seafood by harvesting from cells instead of animals. Shiok Meats brings cell-based crustacean meats that are animal-, health- and environment-friendly. Shiok Meats was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Central Region, Singapore.

Rebellyous Foods

Series A in 2020
Rebellyous Foods is a food manufacturing technology and production company defined solely to catapult meat alternative production toward price parity with animal-based meat. Rebellyous Foods implements food manufacturing equipment and processes in large-scale production to produce low-cost plant-based meat at high volumes. These goals are achieved through uniquely designed food products, the use of high-throughput manufacturing automation and ‘smart’ production centers, and the development and utilization of new innovative low-energy manufacturing tools. Rebellyous Foods was established in 2017 in Seattle, Washington.

GALY

Seed Round in 2020
GALY produces agriculture from cells in a facility, not plants in the field

Formo

Seed Round in 2019
Formo is Europe’s first cellular agriculture company developing animal-free dairy products using real, nature-identical milk proteins derived from precision fermentation.

Bond Pet Foods

Seed Round in 2019
Bond Pet Foods makes pet food from real animal protein, without the animal by working with biotechnology. Bond Pet Foods develops meat proteins obtained from animal cells (no slaughter required) and natural microbes. It is fed a nutrient-rich broth of vitamins, sugars, and minerals in fermentation tanks, without the pharmaceuticals. Bond Pet Foods was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

BlueNalu

Series A in 2019
BlueNalu is a cellular aquaculture company that satisfies the global appetite for seafood in a fresh, sustainable, and humane way. It offers consumers with great tasting, healthy, safe, and trusted seafood products, that support the sustainability and diversity of the oceans.

New Age Meats

Seed Round in 2019
New Age Meats is a biotechnology company that develops healthy cultivated meat grown from animal cells instead of animal slaughter.
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