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SOSV

SOSV is a global venture capital firm founded in 1995 and headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Specializing in seed-to-growth stage investments, SOSV operates multiple accelerator programs worldwide, including HAX for hardware, IndieBio and RebelBio for life sciences, Chinaccelerator and MOX for cross-border internet ventures, Food-X for innovative food solutions, and dlab for blockchain technology. The firm focuses on investments in revolutionary deep technologies aimed at improving human and planetary health, as well as cross-border markets, particularly in Asia. SOSV invests in approximately 150 startups annually, providing support through its resources to accelerate product development and scaling. Over its two-decade history, SOSV has established a strong reputation, consistently ranking among the top venture capital firms globally.

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Audrey Chen

Investor Relations Manager

Daniel Eichner

Partner

Sheng Ge

Partner

Benjamin Joffe

Partner

Kelly Kirkpatrick

Director of Investor Relations

Vivian Law

Senior Associate

Steve McCann

Chief Financial Officer & General Partner

Sean O'Sullivan

Founder & Managing General Partner

Duncan Turner

General Partner

Qiyu Wu

Operations Director

Past deals in Agriculture

Beeflow

Convertible Note in 2023
Beeflow S.A. is a company that specializes in professional pollination services, focusing on the enhancement of bee health and efficiency. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Beeflow employs scientific techniques and organic compounds to improve the immune systems of bees, enabling them to effectively pollinate specific crops. The company has demonstrated significant success in increasing crop yields, with reported improvements ranging from 20% to 90% in various fruits such as blueberries, almonds, raspberries, and kiwifruit. Since its inception, Beeflow has expanded its operations to the United States and continues to grow its presence, particularly in Ventura County, California. The company's efforts aim to address the challenges of declining bee populations while supporting agricultural productivity.

Tensorfield Agriculture

Convertible Note in 2022
Tensorfield Agriculture develops and manufactures agricultural machines for specialty row crops. It offers robots that perform non-invasive, no-herbicide weeding with thermal micro-dosing. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Jose, California.

Unicorn Biotechnologies

Seed Round in 2022
Unicorn Biotechnologies is developing a fully automated manufacturing platform to enable cellular agriculture producers to seamlessly scale products from the lab bench to supermarket shelves. Our full stack platform combines hardware, software and analytics to completely automate cellular agriculture manufacturing, reducing costs and increasing product quality. By providing a clear path to scale cellular agriculture from grams to tons, we will improve human and planetary health and drive the transition to animal free agriculture.

Innatrix

Convertible Note in 2022
Innatrix is an agricultural biotechnology company developing novel biological and chemical products based on patented protein evolution technology, to control untreatable crop diseases, pests, and weeds.

Innatrix

Seed Round in 2022
Innatrix is an agricultural biotechnology company developing novel biological and chemical products based on patented protein evolution technology, to control untreatable crop diseases, pests, and weeds.

LiveKuna

Series A in 2021
A vertically-integrated superfood company working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good.

LiveKuna

Convertible Note in 2021
A vertically-integrated superfood company working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good.

Beeflow

Series A in 2021
Beeflow S.A. is a company that specializes in professional pollination services, focusing on the enhancement of bee health and efficiency. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Beeflow employs scientific techniques and organic compounds to improve the immune systems of bees, enabling them to effectively pollinate specific crops. The company has demonstrated significant success in increasing crop yields, with reported improvements ranging from 20% to 90% in various fruits such as blueberries, almonds, raspberries, and kiwifruit. Since its inception, Beeflow has expanded its operations to the United States and continues to grow its presence, particularly in Ventura County, California. The company's efforts aim to address the challenges of declining bee populations while supporting agricultural productivity.

Tensorfield Agriculture

Convertible Note in 2021
Tensorfield Agriculture develops and manufactures agricultural machines for specialty row crops. It offers robots that perform non-invasive, no-herbicide weeding with thermal micro-dosing. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Jose, California.

Unicorn Biotechnologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Unicorn Biotechnologies is developing a fully automated manufacturing platform to enable cellular agriculture producers to seamlessly scale products from the lab bench to supermarket shelves. Our full stack platform combines hardware, software and analytics to completely automate cellular agriculture manufacturing, reducing costs and increasing product quality. By providing a clear path to scale cellular agriculture from grams to tons, we will improve human and planetary health and drive the transition to animal free agriculture.

Tensorfield Agriculture

Convertible Note in 2020
Tensorfield Agriculture develops and manufactures agricultural machines for specialty row crops. It offers robots that perform non-invasive, no-herbicide weeding with thermal micro-dosing. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Jose, California.

Amber Agriculture

Seed Round in 2020
Amber Agriculture, Inc. develops Internet of things-based sensor and analytics solutions to automate farmer’s grain storage monitoring and management. Its technology is used to manage, protect, and market grain. Amber Agriculture, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Fieldcraft

Convertible Note in 2020
Fieldcraft is a B2B ingredient marketplace that streamlines marketing and sourcing from farm to foodtech, locally and globally. Buyers include thousands of emerging brands to 6 of the 10 largest food companies in the world like Nestle and PepsiCo, as well as retail chains like Whole Foods Market. Suppliers range from a 50 acre orchard to a 40,000 acre operation, and from global manufacturers to consumer brands. Fieldcraft is where innovation starts. Our platform is making it easier to do business along the supply chain and across borders and cultures. As we continue to expand, our team is building even more tools to help buyers simplify sourcing from discovery to delivery and empower the next generation of food.

LIVIN farms

Seed Round in 2019
LIVIN farms is a technology company in the alternative protein sector. It empowers everyone to start a food revolution out of their kitchen.

Tensorfield Agriculture

Convertible Note in 2019
Tensorfield Agriculture develops and manufactures agricultural machines for specialty row crops. It offers robots that perform non-invasive, no-herbicide weeding with thermal micro-dosing. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Jose, California.

Alora

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Agrisea is an ocean agriculture company building the technology of today to bring peace tomorrow. The company solution genetically fortifies their crops so that they may grow in the oceans, similar to hydroponics. They create a cellular cycle of original and independent genes to promote a system that works together, rather than alone, distributing the pressure of saltwater over a more capable group of genes. Agri design mimics nature and recreates these natural effects using the genetic material already found in their land crops. Their farms are designed with spatial optimization and a hydroponic basis in mind, wave motion is mitigated and the plant roots are positioned to absorb the necessary nutrients directly from the surrounding saltwater.

LIVIN farms

Seed Round in 2019
LIVIN farms is a technology company in the alternative protein sector. It empowers everyone to start a food revolution out of their kitchen.

Amber Agriculture

Convertible Note in 2019
Amber Agriculture, Inc. develops Internet of things-based sensor and analytics solutions to automate farmer’s grain storage monitoring and management. Its technology is used to manage, protect, and market grain. Amber Agriculture, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Industrial/Organic

Seed Round in 2018
Industrial/Organic is an organic waste solutions provider that offers infrastructure-as-a-service to waste industry. The company converts food scraps into high-value resources in a distributed facility model.

Tensorfield Agriculture

Seed Round in 2018
Tensorfield Agriculture develops and manufactures agricultural machines for specialty row crops. It offers robots that perform non-invasive, no-herbicide weeding with thermal micro-dosing. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Jose, California.

LiveKuna

Convertible Note in 2018
A vertically-integrated superfood company working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good.

Beeflow

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Beeflow S.A. is a company that specializes in professional pollination services, focusing on the enhancement of bee health and efficiency. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Beeflow employs scientific techniques and organic compounds to improve the immune systems of bees, enabling them to effectively pollinate specific crops. The company has demonstrated significant success in increasing crop yields, with reported improvements ranging from 20% to 90% in various fruits such as blueberries, almonds, raspberries, and kiwifruit. Since its inception, Beeflow has expanded its operations to the United States and continues to grow its presence, particularly in Ventura County, California. The company's efforts aim to address the challenges of declining bee populations while supporting agricultural productivity.

Industrial/Organic

Seed Round in 2017
Industrial/Organic is an organic waste solutions provider that offers infrastructure-as-a-service to waste industry. The company converts food scraps into high-value resources in a distributed facility model.

Amber Agriculture

Convertible Note in 2017
Amber Agriculture, Inc. develops Internet of things-based sensor and analytics solutions to automate farmer’s grain storage monitoring and management. Its technology is used to manage, protect, and market grain. Amber Agriculture, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Nonfood

Seed Round in 2017
Nonfood, operating under the name Aqua Forma, is a California-based corporation founded in 2016. The company specializes in the production of algae-based nutritional food products, emphasizing sustainability and innovation. By utilizing algae, Nonfood aims to create foods that significantly lower the environmental impact associated with traditional agriculture, thereby reducing both resource consumption and carbon emissions. The company focuses on offering convenient and nutritious food options that appeal to consumers seeking healthier alternatives.

LiveKuna

Convertible Note in 2017
A vertically-integrated superfood company working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good.

LiveKuna

Convertible Note in 2017
A vertically-integrated superfood company working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good.

LiveKuna

Seed Round in 2017
A vertically-integrated superfood company working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good.

BoosterAgro

Angel Round in 2017
BoosterAgro is the largest farmer digital-community in South America We help farmers make better decisions and improve efficiency with digital tools and content around topics like weather, precipitation, crop health satellite imagery, smart spraying, seasonal forecasts, among others. Currently we're serving over 80.000 users across the main agricultural countries in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia. Farmers freely access on-demand to all this content through their mobile phones and tablets. To help users further their agronomic goals, we also connect farmers directly with suppliers. Users seeking for products and services for their farm are immediately matched to a vendor in their area who meets their needs.

LiveKuna

Seed Round in 2017
A vertically-integrated superfood company working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good.

Amber Agriculture

Convertible Note in 2016
Amber Agriculture, Inc. develops Internet of things-based sensor and analytics solutions to automate farmer’s grain storage monitoring and management. Its technology is used to manage, protect, and market grain. Amber Agriculture, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Amber Agriculture

Seed Round in 2016
Amber Agriculture, Inc. develops Internet of things-based sensor and analytics solutions to automate farmer’s grain storage monitoring and management. Its technology is used to manage, protect, and market grain. Amber Agriculture, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Industrial/Organic

Seed Round in 2016
Industrial/Organic is an organic waste solutions provider that offers infrastructure-as-a-service to waste industry. The company converts food scraps into high-value resources in a distributed facility model.

LIVIN farms

Seed Round in 2015
LIVIN farms is a technology company in the alternative protein sector. It empowers everyone to start a food revolution out of their kitchen.

Agrilicious.com

Seed Round in 2014
First-of-its-Kind National Destination and Marketplace For All Things Local Food and Handmade Goods. Agrilicious.com is at the heart of the food movement providing an exciting way to participate in the local food experience while expanding the family-to-farmer connection. A resource for all things local food – individuals, families, farmers, restaurants, grocery and meal delivery services, distributers, educators and experts all come together through Agrilicious to share ideas, connect, and make a difference!