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.

Kirk Haney

CEO and Managing Partner

34 past transactions

Scanit Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Scanit Technologies, Inc. develops an agriculture technology that enables outdoor and indoor growers to detect, measure, and identify airborne pathogens. It offers SporeCam, an instrument that combines elements of laboratory equipment using optics and light fusion to obtain data on every particle captured. The company’s technology is used in indoor and outdoor growing applications. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Fremont, California.

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.

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.

Livestock Water Recycling

Seed Round in 2019
Livestock Water Recycling, Inc. manufactures livestock waste recycling systems. It offers manure treatment system which is installed at dairy and hog operations throughout Canada and the United States. The company serves agricultural, industrial, municipal, and commercial environments in North America. Livestock Water Recycling, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Calgary, Canada.

ApisProtect

Private Placement 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.

Scanit Technologies

Private Placement in 2020
Scanit Technologies, Inc. develops an agriculture technology that enables outdoor and indoor growers to detect, measure, and identify airborne pathogens. It offers SporeCam, an instrument that combines elements of laboratory equipment using optics and light fusion to obtain data on every particle captured. The company’s technology is used in indoor and outdoor growing applications. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Fremont, California.

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

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.

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.

BioLumic

Private Placement in 2018
Biolumic Limited provides lighting solutions based on smart light array technology for horticultural producers. It focuses on developing treatments for transplant crop seedling quality; growth and quality regulation of indoor produced leafy vegetables and salad herbs; and pathogenic disease treatments for a range of horticultural crops. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New Zealand.

BioLumic

Series A in 2018
Biolumic Limited provides lighting solutions based on smart light array technology for horticultural producers. It focuses on developing treatments for transplant crop seedling quality; growth and quality regulation of indoor produced leafy vegetables and salad herbs; and pathogenic disease treatments for a range of horticultural crops. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New Zealand.

Telesense

Private Placement in 2018
TeleSense, Inc. is leading the post-harvest data revolution. 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 your computer, smartphone, or tablet. 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 your fingertips. Better data. Better decisions. Better grain. That’s TeleSense.

Impetus AG

Grant in 2024
Impetus Agriculture focuses on developing multiple topical or transgenic insect control products. Products that are safe, effective, and sustainable. Products that are not subject to the same insect resistance that has developed in current commercial products.

Solasta Bio

Grant in 2024
Solasta Bio develops environment-friendly products that meet a global need for new and effective crop protection.

Pluton Biosciences

Series A in 2023
Pluton extracts natural resources from the earth. But the resource we seek is not oil or gas, gold or silver, or even copper or nickel. Their targeted discovery platform "mines"​ microbes from the soil - the bacteria, fungi and viruses that live in and all around us. They call their platform Micromining.

Leaf Agriculture

Private Placement in 2019
Leaf is a data network that connects apps and services to farm data from equipment, sensor, and software platforms. Leaf’s API allows developers to easily validate grower consent, access high quality agriculture data, and scale their products. With Leaf, developers are building a food system that makes us healthier, increases farmers’ profits, benefits the environment, and is accessible to everyone. For more information, visit https://withleaf.io/.

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.

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. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Augean Robotics, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Augean Robotics, Inc. develops robotic machinery for the agriculture industry. It offers Burro, a collaborative robotic platform that autonomously runs cargo around. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania with additional locations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Salinas, California.

Motorleaf

Seed Round in 2018
MotorLeaf provides hardware and software for growers. It offers Motorleaf hardware, a plug n' play solution that enables users to decide which part of grow operation user could control/monitor and automate; and Motorleaf Operating System, an accessible online or offline solution on wireless enabled device, such as desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Sutton, Canada.

Leaf Agriculture

Seed Round in 2022
Leaf is a data network that connects apps and services to farm data from equipment, sensor, and software platforms. Leaf’s API allows developers to easily validate grower consent, access high quality agriculture data, and scale their products. With Leaf, developers are building a food system that makes us healthier, increases farmers’ profits, benefits the environment, and is accessible to everyone. For more information, visit https://withleaf.io/.

Terramera

Series B in 2019
Terramera is a leader in plant intelligence using green chemistry, machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to develop and optimize safer, more effective plant-based replacements to synthetic chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Their mission is to use technology to unlock the power in nature, so they can live healthier, make clean food affordable and feed the world. Terramera is committed to cultivating safe, healthy homes and environments, and developing highly-effective natural products for consumers and farmers.

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.

Motorleaf

Private Placement in 2018
MotorLeaf provides hardware and software for growers. It offers Motorleaf hardware, a plug n' play solution that enables users to decide which part of grow operation user could control/monitor and automate; and Motorleaf Operating System, an accessible online or offline solution on wireless enabled device, such as desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Sutton, Canada.

Aromyx

Private Placement 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.

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.

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.

Leaf International Corporation

Private Placement in 2020
Leaf International Corporation develops digital agriculture network connecting AgTech APIs and data. It helps to access agriculture data, validate user access, and deploy recommendations across data providers. The company offers machine data, field boundaries, and imagery farm data. Leaf International Corporation was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Claremont, California.

Leaf Agriculture

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Leaf is a data network that connects apps and services to farm data from equipment, sensor, and software platforms. Leaf’s API allows developers to easily validate grower consent, access high quality agriculture data, and scale their products. With Leaf, developers are building a food system that makes us healthier, increases farmers’ profits, benefits the environment, and is accessible to everyone. For more information, visit https://withleaf.io/.

Telesense

Series A in 2018
TeleSense, Inc. is leading the post-harvest data revolution. 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 your computer, smartphone, or tablet. 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 your fingertips. Better data. Better decisions. Better grain. That’s TeleSense.

PheroSyn

Seed Round in 2023
PheroSyn develops and produces novel pest pheromones. PheroSyn is a spin-out from Rothamsted Research, the world-leading, non-profit research centre that focuses on strategic agricultural science to the benefit of farmers and society worldwide.