Ceres Partners

Ceres Partners is a specialist investment manager focused exclusively on food and agriculture. Ceres Partners manages two investment vehicles with distinct strategies and investment objectives. Ceres Farms invests in farmland, and Ceres Food & Agriculture Opportunity Fund, which invests growth equity in emerging operating businesses in food and agriculture. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in South Bend, Indiana.

3 past transactions

IUNU

Series B in 2022
IUNU is an industrial computer vision company that connects plants, facilities, and people through a single interface. Luna turns commercial greenhouses into precise, predictable, demand-based manufacturers. Luna is an AI born in the heart of Seattle; trained in Silicon Valley and the greenhouses of Skagit Valley; accessible from everywhere. Founded in 2013, iUNU is an industrial computer vision company headquartered in Seattle, with offices in San Francisco and San Diego.

Tortuga AgTech

Series A in 2021
Tortuga AgTech empowers growers by using robots that perform a variety of labor-intensive tasks on the farm, with an emphasis on the harvest. Tortuga AgTech's mission is to build a healthier society, and a thriving ecosystem, through smarter farming. To do this, they want to enable growers to sell better produce - unique, tasty, nutritious food. They're doing this by building Digital Horticulture systems, made up of powerful technology like robotics, automation, and precision data analytics and machine learning. These systems will enable advanced growing methods to compete with scale agriculture, which means growers will be able to grow better produce that's also better for the planet. The automation of picking, packing, and trimming will reduce significantly the manual labor hours needed to grow to produce. It will also increase yields through denser layouts and optimized grow conditions. And, they'll help create full-time local technical jobs as well. And they do all of that while providing fresher, healthier, and more sustainable products to the humans living near their grower customers' operations.
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