Radicle Growth

Radicle carefully selects innovative ag and food tech start-ups for investment, ensuring that powerful, disruptive technologies reach their full potential. We provide a company building platform, a fertile environment for visionaries in the ag space, not just to grow but to flourish. Their proprietary platform is the only one of its kind in the agriculture industry, thus filling a huge void in the market by identifying the most innovative technologies and accelerating them with a range of value-creation initiatives. Radicle Growth pioneered a concept called The Radicle Challenge to proactively seek out the best and brightest entrepreneurs solving a problem or looking to disrupt an existing business model in the ag and food industries.

Neal Gutterson

Partner and CTO

Kathy Shelton

Venture Partner

23 past transactions

Leaf Agriculture

Seed Round in 2022
Leaf Agriculture is the provider of a unified farm data API and it builds the future of food and agriculture.

Full Harvest

Series B in 2021
Full Harvest helps growers get the most out of a harvest and food companies save money by bringing farm excess to market. We are a B2B platform connecting large farms to food businesses to sell significantly discounted, yet perfectly good surplus and imperfectly shaped produce that would have otherwise gone to waste. Approx. 20 billion pounds of produce go to waste in the U.S. annually simply because they are not perfectly shaped for strict retailer standards. We aim to solve this problem by creating a marketplace for this unutilized edible and delicious produce. Our vision is three-fold: bring an additional revenue stream to farmers, lower the cost of healthy food production, while significantly reducing wasted food and resources. A win-win for everyone.

Burro

Series A in 2021
Burro is a developer of an autonomous farming platform for farm use and in other outdoor environments. It follows people and can autonomously run cargo around, relieving people of strenuous tasks which add little value, so that they can focus on more valuable work.

Aromyx

Series A in 2021
Aromyx has built a platform for the digital capture of scent and taste – including the EssenceChip™ taste and scent sensor – that puts the human olfactory and taste receptors onto a disposable biochip, with a digital readout. The Aromyx platform includes the Allegory software suite, AromaGraph family of visual analytics, recommended taste/scent recording standards, access to the growing Aromyx online database of taste and scent data and related machine-learning algorithms. Unlike chemical sensors or mass spectrometry, the Aromyx EssenceChip system shows the biochemical signals that a cup of coffee, a sniff of perfume or a glass of wine send to the brain, as mediated by the human nose and tongue.

BlueNalu

Convertible Note in 2021
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.

BlueNalu

Grant in 2020
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.

MycoTechnology

Grant in 2020
MycoTechnology utilizes fungi-based food-processing platforms to transform the flavor and value of agricultural products. The platform can be used to solve a variety of challenges faced by the food, beverage, and flavor industries. MycoTechnology has released ClearTaste, an all-natural, GMO-free, organic bitter blocker that is Kosher and Halal certified. ClearTaste improves the flavor of various agricultural products. MycoTechnology also engages in fermenting agricultural products with strains of gourmet fungi. The company offers myceliated chocolate as well as robusta and arabica coffee beans. It develops and licenses technology to the industry to naturally improve the flavor of robusta and arabica coffee. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Aurora, Colorado.

Leaf Agriculture

Seed Round in 2020
Leaf Agriculture is the provider of a unified farm data API and it builds the future of food and agriculture.

Scanit Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Scanit Technologie provides a way to physically detect airborne disease before infection enabling preventative action. Their proprietary platform captures, inspects, classifies, and alerts growers of the presence of harmful airborne pathogen spores. The result is growers can take preventative actions, optimize pest management practices, minimize yield losses and have efficacy proof that their actions are working to control the disease.

WeedOut

Grant in 2019
WeedOut is a biotechnology company focusing on providing weed control solutions. The company’s goal is to reduce the need for toxic herbicides and higher herbicide doses.

Terramera

Series B in 2019
Terramera offers agriculture technology platforms to deliver alternatives to chemical pesticides and fertilizers. It focuses on fusing artificial intelligence, science, and nature to transform how to grow foods and offer a healthy, safe environment free of toxic chemicals for agriculture and public health.

Livestock Water Recycling

Seed Round in 2019
LWR is a cleantech, watertech, energytech, and agtech startup company that provides value-additive manure and digestate processing equipment to improve the economic and environmental sustainability of livestock farming, food processing, and green energy production. The company's patented on-farm fertilizer PLANT isolates, concentrates and digitally analyzes manure to create two distinct fertilizers for precision nutrient application while recovering clean water. As a women-led Startup, LWR has been recognized globally as the leader in resource recovery technologies. Its award-winning on-site fertilizer PLANT and First Wave system provide livestock farms, anaerobic digesters, and food processing operations with the ability to recycle clean water and fertilizers from nutrient-laden liquids, achieving triple-bottom-line outcomes. LWR has systems operating in the US, Lebanon, and Northern Ireland, and is looking to increase their strategic alliances and visibility among industry influencers, regulators, and potential customers. With skyrocketing fertilizer prices and a booming renewable natural gas sector, the current value opportunity for manure is unprecedented. LWR is in the process of scaling up to meet the global demand, with a focus on product development and continued innovation. The company is completing a $20M fundraise while continuing to drive the global transformation of protein production towards data-driven, climate-smart manure management. By digitizing manure and increasing agricultural productivity with their PLANT system, LWR is creating NET ZERO food systems and contributing to the production of a safe and abundant food supply.

Aromyx

Seed Round in 2019
Aromyx has built a platform for the digital capture of scent and taste – including the EssenceChip™ taste and scent sensor – that puts the human olfactory and taste receptors onto a disposable biochip, with a digital readout. The Aromyx platform includes the Allegory software suite, AromaGraph family of visual analytics, recommended taste/scent recording standards, access to the growing Aromyx online database of taste and scent data and related machine-learning algorithms. Unlike chemical sensors or mass spectrometry, the Aromyx EssenceChip system shows the biochemical signals that a cup of coffee, a sniff of perfume or a glass of wine send to the brain, as mediated by the human nose and tongue.

Telesense

Convertible Note in 2019
TeleSense is an Agtech company providing environmental monitoring and control solutions for the food and grain industry. Using an advanced suite of sensors, TeleSense provides grain managers with actionable insights about their stored grain, so that they can make storage decisions easily, quickly, and accurately. The easy-to-use sensors continuously monitor grain, and will automatically send alerts to the TeleSense app on their computer, smartphone, or tablet. They help manage risks in the world’s perishable commodities supply chain by using machine learning algorithms. TeleSense also retrofits traditional temperature cables to make them wireless. Imagine never having to manually check your cables again, and having that information available 24/7, right at their fingertips. The company is digitizing the post-harvest grain supply chain using advanced Internet of Things, real-time environmental monitoring, and cloud-based artificial intelligence. Whether assets are stationary or moving, TeleSense uses cloud-based technology to simplify monitoring. Their solutions help eliminate human error, improve operational efficiency, and increase profitability. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Sunnyvale, California, United State.

Burro

Seed Round in 2019
Burro is a developer of an autonomous farming platform for farm use and in other outdoor environments. It follows people and can autonomously run cargo around, relieving people of strenuous tasks which add little value, so that they can focus on more valuable work.

Leaf Agriculture

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Leaf Agriculture is the provider of a unified farm data API and it builds the future of food and agriculture.

ApisProtect

Seed Round in 2018
ApisProtect develops an agricultural technology designed for the management and care of bees. The company uses an in-hive sensor network with long-range, cellular, and satellite-powered communication to monitor bee colonies and help beekeepers prevent losses and improve productivity. It combines the sensor data on hive conditions, health, and activity levels with its proprietary big data and machine learning techniques. ApisProtect was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Cork, Ireland.

Telesense

Series A in 2018
TeleSense is an Agtech company providing environmental monitoring and control solutions for the food and grain industry. Using an advanced suite of sensors, TeleSense provides grain managers with actionable insights about their stored grain, so that they can make storage decisions easily, quickly, and accurately. The easy-to-use sensors continuously monitor grain, and will automatically send alerts to the TeleSense app on their computer, smartphone, or tablet. They help manage risks in the world’s perishable commodities supply chain by using machine learning algorithms. TeleSense also retrofits traditional temperature cables to make them wireless. Imagine never having to manually check your cables again, and having that information available 24/7, right at their fingertips. The company is digitizing the post-harvest grain supply chain using advanced Internet of Things, real-time environmental monitoring, and cloud-based artificial intelligence. Whether assets are stationary or moving, TeleSense uses cloud-based technology to simplify monitoring. Their solutions help eliminate human error, improve operational efficiency, and increase profitability. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Sunnyvale, California, United State.

Full Harvest

Series A in 2018
Full Harvest helps growers get the most out of a harvest and food companies save money by bringing farm excess to market. We are a B2B platform connecting large farms to food businesses to sell significantly discounted, yet perfectly good surplus and imperfectly shaped produce that would have otherwise gone to waste. Approx. 20 billion pounds of produce go to waste in the U.S. annually simply because they are not perfectly shaped for strict retailer standards. We aim to solve this problem by creating a marketplace for this unutilized edible and delicious produce. Our vision is three-fold: bring an additional revenue stream to farmers, lower the cost of healthy food production, while significantly reducing wasted food and resources. A win-win for everyone.

Motorleaf

Seed Round in 2018
Motorleaf is an agriculture technology company specializing in artificial intelligence tools for greenhouse production. We design algorithms and data-driven products using techniques in machine learning to deliver insights that help farmers maximize yield and reduce operational costs in commercial greenhouses. Our team of data scientists specialize in model development and data mining to produce products that help farmers manage greenhouses, get insights on plant health optimization, and preemptively address potential farming issues. The results speak for themselves: our technology can reduce error in harvest forecasting by 50% to 70% from the start and becomes even more accurate with time. AI-powered estimates are typically more than twice more accurate than those made by a human. Situated within a global hub of innovation in artificial intelligence, Motorleaf is a Montreal-based company founded in 2016.

BioLumic

Series A in 2018
BioLumic develops light signals that activate plant growth and unlock the natural genetic potential of crops. The company's photogenics platform leverages innovation in plant science, light technology and genetic insights. Demonstrated results include higher yield, improved vigor, increased disease and pest resistance, and improvements in crops composition. These results have been across a variety of seeds and seedling: soybean, cannabis and vegetable and fruit crops. It is a clean technology that does not require the use of chemicals or amendments. BioLumic is a private company and was founded in 2013.

AgGenetics

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Global demand for protein will double in the next few decades. The only way to meet this demand in a way that is both respectful of animal well being and preserves or increases wild spaces is to make livestock that are better adapted to their environment, and which use fewer resources to produce the same amount of protein. In this way, their solutions can help the livestock, the planet, and the producer, all at the same time. See the video presentation or the links below for an overview of their current projects.

Full Harvest

Seed Round in 2017
Full Harvest helps growers get the most out of a harvest and food companies save money by bringing farm excess to market. We are a B2B platform connecting large farms to food businesses to sell significantly discounted, yet perfectly good surplus and imperfectly shaped produce that would have otherwise gone to waste. Approx. 20 billion pounds of produce go to waste in the U.S. annually simply because they are not perfectly shaped for strict retailer standards. We aim to solve this problem by creating a marketplace for this unutilized edible and delicious produce. Our vision is three-fold: bring an additional revenue stream to farmers, lower the cost of healthy food production, while significantly reducing wasted food and resources. A win-win for everyone.
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