S2G Ventures

S2G Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm established in 2014 that focuses on investing in the food and agriculture sectors. The firm aims to support entrepreneurs who are addressing the growing consumer demand for healthy, sustainable, and locally sourced food. S2G Ventures targets various stages of investment, including seed, early, mid, late, and growth capital, as well as investments in venture capital funds. The firm's investment portfolio encompasses areas such as agriculture, ingredients, infrastructure and logistics, food safety and technology, retail and restaurants, and consumer brands. By identifying sectors within the food system that require innovation, S2G Ventures seeks to catalyze change and promote sustainable practices in the industry.

Sanjeev Krishnan

CIO and MD

Rachel O'Connell

Associate

Cristina Rohr

Principal

Aaron Rudberg

MD and COO

Chuck Templeton

MD

Matthew Walker

MD

193 past transactions

Dexer

Convertible Note in 2022
AgVoice is a hands-free enabled, voice-interactive mobile technology for food and agriculture professionals to capture insights on the go. Users can improve productivity and workflow management, increase documentation accuracy, and gain valuable insights to optimize the use of resources in crop and animal production for a sustainability and environmental impact, by using proprietary analytics and processing of raw voice files including captured time stamps and location data. AgVoice is designed for use across the food and agriculture ecosystem, including livestock and crop production, agronomy, animal health and wellness, and machinery repair.

Ripple Foods

Series C in 2018
Ripple exists to make dairy-free as it should be: high in protein, low in sugar, loaded with nutrition and delicious. That’s where Ripple comes in. Ripple has 8x the protein of almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk. It’s high in bioavailable calcium (50% more than milk), potassium and provides a good source of omega-3s. It’s lower in calories than milk and best of all, it has the creamy, delicious texture our dairy-free friends are missing. No more thin, chalky almond/ soy/ cashew milk.

Hi Fidelity Genetics

Series A in 2018
Hi Fidelity Genetics LLC develops hardware and software for plant-breeding applications. It offers tools to measure and predict plant traits. The tools help for maintaining a sufficient supply of food as the world's population grows and its climate changes. The company is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

Shiru

Series A in 2022
Shiru, Inc., a food technology company, develops and produces proteins. The company focuses on producing edible proteins to replace dairy products and eggs in the food industry. Shiru, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Oakland, California.

New Culture

Series A in 2021
New Culture Inc. produces cheese from protein. The company uses microflora to make dairy proteins and dairy products. New Culture Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in San Leandro, California.

Once Upon a Farm

Series D in 2022
Once Upon a Farm Kiddo Meals are processed using High Pressure Processing, which uses pressure instead of heat to kill off any potential harmful ingredients. This process also allows for a more nutrient dense food. Further, the brands that are currently on the shelves usually contain a large percentage of water, fillers, sugars and preservatives, which take away from the natural state of the food. This in turn takes away from optimal nutrition for babies, since optimal absorption of nutrients occurs when food is in its most natural state.

Territory Foods

Series B in 2021
Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by a proprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating. Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

tado°

Venture Round in 2023
Tado° is The Heating App for private homes and small businesses. It adjusts to the residents' behavior in real time and also takes current weather forecasts and building characteristics into account. tado° GmbH is a Munich based Tech Startup bringing Internet of Things into the Cleantech Market. It was founded by Christian Deilmann, Johannes Schwarz, Valentin Sawadski and Leopold von Bismarck in 2011. A team of qualified young professionals has been working on the development of tado° for approximately two years in Munich.

Soli Organic

Venture Round in 2015
Shenandoah Growers is a grower, packer, and shipper of fresh organic culinary herbs. The company provides a 365-day supply of fresh, organic herbs to grocery stores, so millions of consumers can now eat locally all year. Their products are healthy, delicious, and aimed at making the world a lot more flavorful.

Believer Meats

Private Placement in 2019
Future Meat Technologies is a Jerusalem-based biotechnology company aiming to transform global meat production through distributive manufacturing of fat and muscle cells, increasing food safety and reducing ecological impact worldwide. They aim to turn the timeless vision of animal-free meat production into a reality. Their cutting edge cellular agriculture technology was developed by award-winning biologists and bioengineers and brought into reality by world-renowned innovative chefs at Jerusalem’s singular culinary scene.

Good Eggs

Series D in 2021
Online market that delivers good groceries to customers' homes throughout the bay area, seven days a week

Sentera

Series C in 2023
Sentera is provides decision support and insights to growers, advisors, and enterprise customers. Our products use machine learning, modeling, and data sciences tools to gather data, organize it, and quickly turn it into insights that improve outcomes for growers, advisors, and retailers. We deliver the best insights from high-resolution drone imagery, satellites, field equipment, and other sensors, and combine it with advanced modeling and analytics tools at scale.

Blue Prairie

Series A in 2016
Blue Prairie Brands is introducing innovative ingredients and related food products rich in prebiotics, which in conjunction with probiotics, help maintain a healthy digestive system. It's flagship product is rich in the prebiotic inulin, yet Blue Prairie Brands delivers it in a whole-food, gluten-free, non-GMO form. The Company's proprietary approach to production also provides farmers a profitable rotation crop that utilizes their existing equipment and experience.

Big Bold Health

Series A in 2022
Big Bold Health® is a platform company providing immune health solutions through nature's wisdom and modern science.

Livekindly

Venture Round in 2021
LIVEKINDLY, Inc., also known as LK, publishes news stories and press releases on sustainable living. The company offers news related to health, ethics, business, environment, celebrity, and beauty and fashion that highlights sustainable way of living. It also provides information, such as vegan recipes, vegan restaurants, and vegan family vacation location. The company also operates a club Kindmind where it provides plant based meal plans, shopping guides, and session with experts. Livekindly is based in Vancouver, Canada.

AppHarvest

Series C in 2020
At AppHarvest, their mission is to bring Appalachia into the next generation of agriculture and employ the hardworking men and women in the region. they will develop large-scale hi tech greenhouses growing fresh vegetables for local communities in the US. The average US meal travels 1,500 miles by the time it reaches your plate and in many cases is imported from other countries. AppHarvest will be able to to deliver their fresh produce to the Northeast, Southeast and Midwest of the US within a day's drive.

Believer Meats

Series B in 2021
Future Meat Technologies is a Jerusalem-based biotechnology company aiming to transform global meat production through distributive manufacturing of fat and muscle cells, increasing food safety and reducing ecological impact worldwide. They aim to turn the timeless vision of animal-free meat production into a reality. Their cutting edge cellular agriculture technology was developed by award-winning biologists and bioengineers and brought into reality by world-renowned innovative chefs at Jerusalem’s singular culinary scene.

Footprint

Series A in 2020
Footprint is a sustainable technology firm that is focused on reducing or eliminating plastics through the development and manufacturing of revolutionary technologies and products. It designs, develops, and implements the next generation of manufacturing technologies for fiber-based packaging solutions on a global scale. Footprint also develops and manufactures injection molded parts with advanced polymer blends and recycled materials that do better for the environment. Footprint was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Gilbert, Arizona.

Sound Agriculture

Series C in 2020
Sound Agriculture uses molecular discovery to create climate-resilient crops, enhancing harvest yields for growers. They also use an innovative life science approach to sustainably increase farming productivity. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Terramera

Private Placement 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.

NewLeaf Symbiotics

Series C in 2017
NewLeaf Symbiotics develops and commercializes the bacteria found in Pink Pigmented Facultative Methylotrophs. NewLeaf Symbiotics has also filed its own related patents and is actively developing new technologies related to PPFMs. The Company is engaged in laboratory, greenhouse, and field product trials and expects to commercialize and license products beginning in 2014.

NourishedRx

Seed Round in 2022
NourishedRx is a provider of personalized food solutions for a health plan and providers' most vulnerable members such as those facing diet-sensitive chronic health conditions and who are often at risk of nutrition insecurity. The company also offers education and encouragement to individuals to create lasting behavior change. Their custom solutions deliver increased member engagement and satisfaction, improved clinical outcomes, and meaningful cost savings. It was founded in 2019 in Stamford, Connecticut.

Avant Meats

Venture Round in 2022
They focus on technology, commercial product innovation, and branding as well as intellectual property portfolio building in the area of ‘cell-based’ animal protein food products.

Farmer Focus

Venture Round in 2017
Farmer Focus is an organic chicken production company specializing in meat and chicken processing. Their mission is to provide the highest quality of Organic chicken that is humanely raised. Free from all growth hormones, pesticides, antibiotics and animal byproducts healthy and delicious. Farmer Focus sources all of its chicken through local farms located in the Shenandoah Valley, and uses it's sister company Shenandoah Processing to process and package all product.

UCAN

Series D in 2018
The UCAN Company is creating a new generation of scientifically proven, energy products for the new generation of health-conscious consumers. There DREAM is to REDEFINE the field of consumer and sports nutrition with products that are natural, safe and healthy; products that QUESTION the existing approach and INSPIRE a new generation to COMPETE to their fullest ability and TRIUMPH the healthy way. There discovery is SuperStarch, the only energy source of its kind that enhances performance, sustains energy and burns fat.

Flashfood

Series A in 2022
The Flashfood app allows grocery stores and restaurants to sell high-quality, surplus food at steep discounts to savvy shoppers. Shoppers see deals in their area and purchase items directly through Flashfood - saving money for shoppers, increasing revenue for vendors and lessening there collective environmental impact

Soli Organic

Venture Round in 2021
Shenandoah Growers is a grower, packer, and shipper of fresh organic culinary herbs. The company provides a 365-day supply of fresh, organic herbs to grocery stores, so millions of consumers can now eat locally all year. Their products are healthy, delicious, and aimed at making the world a lot more flavorful.

Yali Biosciences

Seed Round in 2022
Yali Biosciences is a food tech company that uses synthetic biology and genomics tools to make climate-smart, sustainable foods.

IUNU

Convertible Note in 2020
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.

SafeTraces

Series A in 2018
SafeTraces provides on-food traceability solutions that trace the product, not the package. Edible, invisible, odorless, tasteless, FDA approved barcodes are applied to fresh or processed foods, pharmaceuticals, and many other commodities. The barcodes carry complete traceability information across the supply chain. SafeTraces also has wide applicability in environmental monitoring, healthcare, and other industries.

Sentera

Series C in 2021
Sentera is provides decision support and insights to growers, advisors, and enterprise customers. Our products use machine learning, modeling, and data sciences tools to gather data, organize it, and quickly turn it into insights that improve outcomes for growers, advisors, and retailers. We deliver the best insights from high-resolution drone imagery, satellites, field equipment, and other sensors, and combine it with advanced modeling and analytics tools at scale.

Trace Genomics

Venture Round in 2019
Trace Genomics has developed the first analytics engine that learns as it maps the living soil. Founded in 2015 to serve the farming community, Trace Genomics helps growers maximize the value of every acre. The company is building the largest, most actionable body of soil intelligence, making thousands of growers experts on what’s underground. Working collaboratively across the agriculture ecosystem, Trace Genomics helps growers optimize costs, manage risk and protect their soil as a capital asset. Headquartered in Silicon Valley—and led by two female founders—Trace Genomics has raised $22 million in financing.

Shiru

Series A in 2021
Shiru, Inc., a food technology company, develops and produces proteins. The company focuses on producing edible proteins to replace dairy products and eggs in the food industry. Shiru, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Oakland, California.

Greenlight Biosciences

Series D in 2020
GreenLight Biosciences, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops RNA-based solutions for agriculture and pharmaceutical applications. The company provides technology for the biological conversion of renewable substrates to valuable products. It offers Unconstrained Metabolism, a technology platform that delivers solutions for the production of chemicals and fuels from renewable resources. It also engages in developing mRNA-based vaccine candidates to potentially prevent individuals from contracting SARS-CoV-2. The company also provides research and analysis services. GreenLight Biosciences, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Medford, Massachusetts. It has an additional location in North Carolina.
Intelligent Growth Solutions Ltd develops and provides plug-and-play vertical farming technology to indoor farms for food production in any location. The company's product includes an indoor vertical farming demonstration facility with IOT-enabled power & comms platform which comprises patented electrical, electronic and mechanical technologies. Intelligent Growth Solutions Ltd was founded in 2013 and is based in Dundee, United Kingdom.

Ripple Foods

Series E in 2021
Ripple exists to make dairy-free as it should be: high in protein, low in sugar, loaded with nutrition and delicious. That’s where Ripple comes in. Ripple has 8x the protein of almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk. It’s high in bioavailable calcium (50% more than milk), potassium and provides a good source of omega-3s. It’s lower in calories than milk and best of all, it has the creamy, delicious texture our dairy-free friends are missing. No more thin, chalky almond/ soy/ cashew milk.

Burro

Series A in 2021
Burro is a mobile application for Android and iOS devices that offers delivery and on-demand moving services to its users. The application enables its users to request pickups by filling up their personal information and items required. The platform offers its services to individuals and businesses. Its delivery portfolio consists of household goods, carpets, wood, and retail store items. Burro was launched in 2014 by Jason Ervin and Ethan Hurtado and is based in Texas.

Brilliant Planet

Series A in 2022
Brilliant Planet is unlocking the power of algae as an affordable method of permanently and quantifiably sequestering carbon at the gigaton scale. The company's innovative process enables vast quantities of microalgae to grow in open-air pond-based systems on coastal desert land.

Everytable

Series A in 2020
Everytable, PBC, doing business as Everytable, owns and operates grab-and-go restaurants. It offers food and meals, including chicken caesar and cobb salads, Puebla chicken tinga, Jamaican jerk chicken, Cajun blackened fish food, pozole rojo, Yucatan chili, and more; and kids meals, such as spaghetti and meatballs, and picnic party boxes. Everytable, PBC was formerly known as Harvest Fresh Foods, PBC and changed its name to Everytable, PBC in November 2017. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Sound Agriculture

Series C in 2021
Sound Agriculture uses molecular discovery to create climate-resilient crops, enhancing harvest yields for growers. They also use an innovative life science approach to sustainably increase farming productivity. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Emeryville, California.

SafeTraces

Series A in 2017
SafeTraces provides on-food traceability solutions that trace the product, not the package. Edible, invisible, odorless, tasteless, FDA approved barcodes are applied to fresh or processed foods, pharmaceuticals, and many other commodities. The barcodes carry complete traceability information across the supply chain. SafeTraces also has wide applicability in environmental monitoring, healthcare, and other industries.

Hazel Technologies

Series C in 2021
Hazel Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures packaging inserts to reduce the spoilage of fruits and vegetables. It offers packaging inserts called sachets that are placed in boxes of the produce by growers at the time of harvest, extending the shelf-life of produce by slowing aging in produce and preventing fungus or decay. The company also provides agricultural and horticultural consulting services. Hazel Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional location in Salinas, California.

Beyond Meat

Series E in 2015
Beyond Meat specializes in providing plant-based meat. The company aims to make a positively impact on four growing global issues such as human health, climate change, constraints on natural resources, and animal welfare. Its plant-based meats are made by combining expert innovation with simple, non-GMO ingredients. Beyond Meat's products offer greater or equal protein levels than their animal counterparts, no cholesterol, less saturated fat, and no antibiotics or hormones.

Terramera

Series B in 2020
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.

Hi Fidelity Genetics

Private Placement in 2018
Hi Fidelity Genetics LLC develops hardware and software for plant-breeding applications. It offers tools to measure and predict plant traits. The tools help for maintaining a sufficient supply of food as the world's population grows and its climate changes. The company is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

NewLeaf Symbiotics

Series D in 2020
NewLeaf Symbiotics develops and commercializes the bacteria found in Pink Pigmented Facultative Methylotrophs. NewLeaf Symbiotics has also filed its own related patents and is actively developing new technologies related to PPFMs. The Company is engaged in laboratory, greenhouse, and field product trials and expects to commercialize and license products beginning in 2014.

Benson Hill

Series B in 2017
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.

Believer Meats

Private Placement in 2018
Future Meat Technologies is a Jerusalem-based biotechnology company aiming to transform global meat production through distributive manufacturing of fat and muscle cells, increasing food safety and reducing ecological impact worldwide. They aim to turn the timeless vision of animal-free meat production into a reality. Their cutting edge cellular agriculture technology was developed by award-winning biologists and bioengineers and brought into reality by world-renowned innovative chefs at Jerusalem’s singular culinary scene.

Upon A Farm LLC

Private Placement in 2018
Upon A Farm LLC produces cold-pressed and organic baby products. It offers mango and pears flavored food to babies aged above five months; veggie, avocado, blueberry, and green kale and apple-flavored food products to babies aged above seven months; strawberry, carrot and coconut, and porridge flavored products for babies aged above nine months; and chocolate and other flavored products for babies aged above 18 months. The company sells its products through local stores, as well as online in the United States. Upon A Farm LLC was formerly known as PureJoy, LLC. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Ripple Foods

Series E in 2021
Ripple exists to make dairy-free as it should be: high in protein, low in sugar, loaded with nutrition and delicious. That’s where Ripple comes in. Ripple has 8x the protein of almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk. It’s high in bioavailable calcium (50% more than milk), potassium and provides a good source of omega-3s. It’s lower in calories than milk and best of all, it has the creamy, delicious texture our dairy-free friends are missing. No more thin, chalky almond/ soy/ cashew milk.

ShopWell

Series C in 2015
ShopWell Labs, Inc. develops a website and mobile application that provides personalized nutrition recommendations, allergy alerts, and ingredient analysis for various foods to consumers. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Carlos, California. ShopWell Labs, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Innit, Inc.

Apeel Sciences

Series B in 2016
Apeel Technology, Inc., doing business as Apeel Sciences, develops pre-and post-harvest products from natural plant extracts to protect food crops and keep produce fresher for farmers worldwide. Its portfolio of agricultural products includes Edipeel, a solution to protect food surfaces from the environment; and Invisipeel, a solution that protects against pre-harvest problems. Apeel Technology, Inc. was formerly known as aPEEL Technologies, Inc. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Goleta, California.

Maple Hill Creamery

Venture Round in 2015
Maple Hill Creamery is a farm-family owned dairy manufacturer founded in 2009, and is widely recognized as the preeminent leader in the emerging 100% grass-fed dairy category. They are the first dairy brand to receive the Pennsylvania Certified Organic 100% Grassfed Certification. Since day one, Maple Hill has stood by their conviction that 100% grass-fed organic dairy farming is better for everyone from cows to consumers. 100% grass-fed dairy farming produces the highest quality milk, supports the healthiest lifestyle for cows, improves the fertility of grazing land, and allows farmers to prosper.

Project Well

Convertible Note in 2020
Project Well, Inc. delivers prepared meals, meal kits, produce boxes, and food gift cards online. It provides personalized food and nutrition solutions to Medicare advantage members with nutritionally chronic disease and at risk of food insecurity. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut.

Good Eggs

Series C in 2018
Online market that delivers good groceries to customers' homes throughout the bay area, seven days a week

Sentera

Private Placement in 2018
Sentera is provides decision support and insights to growers, advisors, and enterprise customers. Our products use machine learning, modeling, and data sciences tools to gather data, organize it, and quickly turn it into insights that improve outcomes for growers, advisors, and retailers. We deliver the best insights from high-resolution drone imagery, satellites, field equipment, and other sensors, and combine it with advanced modeling and analytics tools at scale.

Hazel Technologies

Series A in 2018
Hazel Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures packaging inserts to reduce the spoilage of fruits and vegetables. It offers packaging inserts called sachets that are placed in boxes of the produce by growers at the time of harvest, extending the shelf-life of produce by slowing aging in produce and preventing fungus or decay. The company also provides agricultural and horticultural consulting services. Hazel Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional location in Salinas, California.

Hazel Technologies

Private Placement in 2018
Hazel Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures packaging inserts to reduce the spoilage of fruits and vegetables. It offers packaging inserts called sachets that are placed in boxes of the produce by growers at the time of harvest, extending the shelf-life of produce by slowing aging in produce and preventing fungus or decay. The company also provides agricultural and horticultural consulting services. Hazel Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional location in Salinas, California.

Ripple Foods PBC.

Private Placement in 2017
Ripple Foods PBC. produces plant-based food products. It offers plant-based milk, yogurt, frozen desserts, and protein powder and shakes. The company sells its products through stores, as well as online. Ripple Foods PBC. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Intelligent Growth Solutions

Convertible Note in 2020
Intelligent Growth Solutions Ltd develops and provides plug-and-play vertical farming technology to indoor farms for food production in any location. The company's product includes an indoor vertical farming demonstration facility with IOT-enabled power & comms platform which comprises patented electrical, electronic and mechanical technologies. Intelligent Growth Solutions Ltd was founded in 2013 and is based in Dundee, United Kingdom.

Greenlight Biosciences

Series D in 2017
GreenLight Biosciences, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops RNA-based solutions for agriculture and pharmaceutical applications. The company provides technology for the biological conversion of renewable substrates to valuable products. It offers Unconstrained Metabolism, a technology platform that delivers solutions for the production of chemicals and fuels from renewable resources. It also engages in developing mRNA-based vaccine candidates to potentially prevent individuals from contracting SARS-CoV-2. The company also provides research and analysis services. GreenLight Biosciences, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Medford, Massachusetts. It has an additional location in North Carolina.

Growers Edge

Private Placement in 2020
Growers Edge puts grower profits first by delivering grower income assurance through data-driven financial technology products, solutions, and tools for the agricultural sector. Empowering farmers to adopt new technologies to increase profitability, Growers Edge solves the financial gaps of farmers by changing how agricultural inputs and services are sold, allowing them to capture more value and improve profits. Led by a proven team of crop management leaders and backed by top agtech investors, the company is headquartered in Johnston, Iowa.

Hazel Technologies

Private Placement in 2019
Hazel Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures packaging inserts to reduce the spoilage of fruits and vegetables. It offers packaging inserts called sachets that are placed in boxes of the produce by growers at the time of harvest, extending the shelf-life of produce by slowing aging in produce and preventing fungus or decay. The company also provides agricultural and horticultural consulting services. Hazel Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional location in Salinas, California.

MycoTechnology

Series D 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.

MycoTechnology

Series B in 2017
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.

Arable

Series B in 2020
Arable Labs, Inc. manufactures and develops a solar-powered IoT (Internet of Things) device with advanced sensors to handle in-field crop monitoring. Its device enables farmers to digitize and optimize their decisions by providing data on how weather and other factors affect yield, quality, and harvest timing. The company also develops software tools that enable growers to collect and synthesize site-specific agricultural data. It serves agriculturalists, farmers, mid-size consultancies, universities, governments/NGOs, global food brands, agrichemical giants, insurers, lenders, and international communications firms. It sells its products online. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Princeton, New Jersey.
Intelligent Growth Solutions Ltd develops and provides plug-and-play vertical farming technology to indoor farms for food production in any location. The company's product includes an indoor vertical farming demonstration facility with IOT-enabled power & comms platform which comprises patented electrical, electronic and mechanical technologies. Intelligent Growth Solutions Ltd was founded in 2013 and is based in Dundee, United Kingdom.

Trace Genomics

Private Placement in 2018
Trace Genomics has developed the first analytics engine that learns as it maps the living soil. Founded in 2015 to serve the farming community, Trace Genomics helps growers maximize the value of every acre. The company is building the largest, most actionable body of soil intelligence, making thousands of growers experts on what’s underground. Working collaboratively across the agriculture ecosystem, Trace Genomics helps growers optimize costs, manage risk and protect their soil as a capital asset. Headquartered in Silicon Valley—and led by two female founders—Trace Genomics has raised $22 million in financing.

Dexer

Convertible Note in 2019
AgVoice is a hands-free enabled, voice-interactive mobile technology for food and agriculture professionals to capture insights on the go. Users can improve productivity and workflow management, increase documentation accuracy, and gain valuable insights to optimize the use of resources in crop and animal production for a sustainability and environmental impact, by using proprietary analytics and processing of raw voice files including captured time stamps and location data. AgVoice is designed for use across the food and agriculture ecosystem, including livestock and crop production, agronomy, animal health and wellness, and machinery repair.

Shiru

Private Placement in 2019
Shiru, Inc., a food technology company, develops and produces proteins. The company focuses on producing edible proteins to replace dairy products and eggs in the food industry. Shiru, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Oakland, California.

Good Eggs

Private Placement in 2018
Online market that delivers good groceries to customers' homes throughout the bay area, seven days a week

Terramera

Venture Round in 2016
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.

Believer Meats

Convertible Note in 2021
Future Meat Technologies is a Jerusalem-based biotechnology company aiming to transform global meat production through distributive manufacturing of fat and muscle cells, increasing food safety and reducing ecological impact worldwide. They aim to turn the timeless vision of animal-free meat production into a reality. Their cutting edge cellular agriculture technology was developed by award-winning biologists and bioengineers and brought into reality by world-renowned innovative chefs at Jerusalem’s singular culinary scene.

MycoTechnology

Series C in 2019
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.

Sound Agriculture

Private Placement in 2019
Sound Agriculture uses molecular discovery to create climate-resilient crops, enhancing harvest yields for growers. They also use an innovative life science approach to sustainably increase farming productivity. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Aquaconnect

Series B in 2024
Aquaconnect was founded in 2017 as a full-stack aquaculture technology venture to offer data-driven farm advisory solutions and market place solutions to Shrimp and Fish farmers. As a part of promoting sustainable farming practices in aquaculture ecosystem, we have launched an Artificial Intelligence farm advisor 'FarmMOJO' - a friendly farm companion. FarmMOJO's data intelligence improves farm productivity and connects farmers with aquaculture industry stakeholders under its market place. Aquaconnect works with about 3000 farmers in Indian states of Andhra, Tamilnadu, and Gujrat to improve their farm revenues through technology intervention.

TechMet

Funding Round in 2023
TechMet is a private industrial company that is building projects to secure the supply of the key metals critical to the future growth of EVs, Energy Storage and Renewable Energy. TechMet currently holds interests in both production and development assets in Africa, North America, and South America.

Electra

Venture Round in 2022
ElectraSteel uses intermittent renewable energy for the electrification and decarbonization of iron and steelmaking. ElectraSteel's investors include leading sustainability-focused global venture capital funds with $300B+ assets under management.

LineVision

Series C in 2022
LineVision enables utilities to improve transmission line capacity, resilience and safety through advanced, non-contact sensors and analytics. LineVision’s solution provides utility clients with previously unavailable visibility on asset health and safety for optimized asset management. LineVision’s turnkey, non-contact systems can be rapidly deployed without the need for outages, live line work or specialized equipment. LineVision is dedicated to helping utilities optimize the performance of the electric power grid.

Matter.

Series A in 2023
Matter is a tech startup from Bristol, is an innovation company that pioneers technology solutions for capturing, harvesting and recycling microplastics.

Sound Agriculture

Series D in 2022
Sound Agriculture uses molecular discovery to create climate-resilient crops, enhancing harvest yields for growers. They also use an innovative life science approach to sustainably increase farming productivity. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Emeryville, California.

IUNU

Venture Round in 2021
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.

Climax Foods

Private Placement in 2020
Climax Foods Inc. produces plant based food using its artificial intelligence (AI) tool. Its products match the taste and texture of animal based food using data science and machine learning. The company's technology consists of multiple synergistic, data science, simulation, machine learning, and predictive model frameworks to accelerate the food innovation processes. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Berkeley, California.

3Bar Biologics

Seed Round in 2021
3Bar Biologics Inc., a bioscience company, provides a microbe inoculant system that helps farmers to increase crop yield. The company provides Bio-YIELD, a microbe inoculant system that uses naturally occurring microbes that are matched to specific crops and soil environments. It offers natural microorganisms that help to produce healthier crops with higher yields. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

Corvus Robotics

Convertible Note in 2022
Corvus Robotics make indoor drones for warehouses Inventorying. They provide an advanced inventory & inspection solution for warehouse and manufacturing facilities.

Crop Pro Insurance

Series A in 2017
Crop Pro Insurance Services, Inc. is a Managing General Agency ( MGA) specializing in federal and private crop insurance for GuideOne Mutual Insurance Company. They help independent agents differentiate from other agents in the market by bringing innovative private product solutions that solve real needs to increase yield and lower operating costs that work in good stewardship with the land.

Sentera

Series D in 2022
Sentera is provides decision support and insights to growers, advisors, and enterprise customers. Our products use machine learning, modeling, and data sciences tools to gather data, organize it, and quickly turn it into insights that improve outcomes for growers, advisors, and retailers. We deliver the best insights from high-resolution drone imagery, satellites, field equipment, and other sensors, and combine it with advanced modeling and analytics tools at scale.

Back to the Roots

Series A in 2016
Back to the Roots offers gardening kits to grow organic and gourmet mushrooms at homes. Founded in 2009 by Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora as a 100% sustainable urban mushroom farm, BTTR has transformed into a company focused on bringing sustainable grow-at-home products into households. Their Grow-at-Home Mushroom Garden is completely indoors and can grow up to 1lb of oyster mushrooms in as little as 10 days. They provide a simple, eco-friendly, and quick way to have fresh oyster mushrooms right in the kitchen.