SVG Ventures

Founded in 2010, SVG Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. It focuses on investing in early-stage technology companies operating within the agrifood, supply chain, sustainability, and climate sectors.

John Hartnett

Founder and CEO

Past deals in Food Processing

Heritable Agriculture

Seed Round in 2025
Heritable Agriculture is a technology-driven company specializing in agricultural innovation. It employs advanced breeding techniques, biotechnology, and genetic research to enhance crop resilience against diseases, pests, and environmental stress. The company's mission is to develop crop varieties that yield more, require fewer resources, and adapt better to changing climates. By leveraging artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and traditional breeding methods, Heritable Agriculture aims to create a more sustainable and efficient agricultural system, offering clients services such as phenotype prediction, causal gene identification, and genome editing design.

Convergent Bio

Grant in 2024
Convergent Bio specializes in developing sustainable agriculture technologies. Their innovative systems aim to enhance food production while minimizing environmental impact. The company employs a multi-disciplinary approach, integrating bioconvergence, biodelivery, and biosystems technologies. This enables farmers to achieve higher crop yields using fewer resources, thereby promoting a healthier food supply and a cleaner environment.

ShareFarm

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
ShareFarm operates a digital farmers market application that connects local vendors and consumers, facilitating access to fresh produce and artisan goods throughout the year. By centralizing the local supply of these products, ShareFarm addresses the evolving preferences of consumers while supporting local farmers and artisans. The platform allows sellers to effectively market and list their offerings in real-time, enabling customers to purchase from their favorite vendors at any time. This approach not only strengthens local communities but also fosters a sustainable food system by integrating traditional practices with modern technology.

Converte

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Converte is a manufacturer and supplier of agricultural products, specializing in biostimulants, biofertilizers, and micronutrient solutions. Their comprehensive range includes seed treatments, foliar sprays, and livestock supplements, designed to enhance soil health, improve crop yields, and promote animal well-being. By offering these products, Converte helps farmers and growers boost efficiency and reduce costs.

LiVA Bio

Grant in 2023
LiVA Bio specializes in developing bio-preservation and bio-control solutions aimed at extending food shelf life and enhancing crop protection. The company utilizes innovative technology that leverages human-friendly bacteria to provide environmentally friendly alternatives for food protection. This approach not only reduces the reliance on traditional pesticides but also addresses issues of antimicrobial resistance. LiVA Bio's solutions are designed to be affordable, easy to handle, and non-toxic, offering a broad range of applications. By focusing on sustainability, the company contributes to food security while prioritizing consumer safety and minimizing environmental impacts, such as carbon footprint.

LiVA Bio

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
LiVA Bio specializes in developing bio-preservation and bio-control solutions aimed at extending food shelf life and enhancing crop protection. The company utilizes innovative technology that leverages human-friendly bacteria to provide environmentally friendly alternatives for food protection. This approach not only reduces the reliance on traditional pesticides but also addresses issues of antimicrobial resistance. LiVA Bio's solutions are designed to be affordable, easy to handle, and non-toxic, offering a broad range of applications. By focusing on sustainability, the company contributes to food security while prioritizing consumer safety and minimizing environmental impacts, such as carbon footprint.

Autonomous Pivot

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Autonomous Pivot develops an AI-powered platform that converts center-pivot irrigation into a robotics-based system for autonomous irrigation, fertigation, and crop protection. The platform leverages on-pivot Ground Penetrating Radar to continuously sense soil water content and combines deep learning and AI agronomist capabilities to enable fully automatic symptom detection and precision management. It offers automated, real-time adjustments for irrigation, fertigation, and crop protection, with remote management, precise application, and environmental monitoring to help farmers optimize resource use, increase yields, and support sustainable agriculture.

Labby

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Labby Inc. is a technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializing in smartphone-based optical spectrometry for agricultural applications. Founded in 2017, Labby develops an artificial intelligence-driven platform that translates raw optical data into actionable insights, primarily for farmers and dairy processors. Its flagship product allows for rapid and precise testing of milk composition, facilitating early mastitis detection and enabling timely intervention. Additionally, Labby's technology is applicable across various sectors, including the detection of spoilage, adulterants, and contamination in the supply chain, as well as providing analytics for tracking harvest cycles and meteorological data mapping. The company also caters to the beer and wine industries, offering portable testing devices for quality control and counterfeit detection, serving a diverse clientele that ranges from large breweries to homebrewers.

Pikassist

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Pikassist manufactures innovative equipment designed to streamline mushroom harvesting. Its primary product automatically cuts the stem off mushrooms and gently folds them into packaging such as tills, punnets, or boxes, enhancing harvesters' efficiency.

Canadian Rockies Hemp

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Canadian Rockies Hemp operates a hemp fiber decorticator facility that processes Canadian hemp for fiber, dust, and products. The company works with farmers to integrate hemp into their crop rotation, increasing farm profits and reducing disease pressures.

Picketa Systems

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Picketa Systems develops a real-time plant tissue analysis platform. It enables growers to make timely data-driven decisions by eliminating turnaround time in sample analysis, tracking field performance, and measuring the impact of different varieties, fertilizers, and techniques.

California Cultured

Grant in 2022
California Cultured is a food company that uses cellular agriculture to produce cocoa and coffee, with the aim of delivering sustainable, lab-grown ingredients. Its cocoa is described as less bitter and requiring less sugar to achieve flavor, enabling premium quality products with a smaller environmental footprint. The company seeks to address social and environmental concerns linked to traditional cocoa production by avoiding practices such as slavery, deforestation, and child labor. California Cultured was founded in 2020 and is based in Davis, California.

Prairie Vertical Farms

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Prairie Vertical Farms is a commercial-scale vertical farm operator dedicated to transforming the fresh food supply chain. The company specializes in creating vertical super farms that produce high-quality leafy greens, aimed at supplying both local and national retailers. By focusing on the cultivation of fresh, locally grown produce, Prairie Vertical Farms seeks to eliminate the reliance on imported goods. The company's practices contribute to reduced water consumption and lower greenhouse gas emissions within the leafy greens supply chain, thereby promoting sustainability while providing reasonably priced products to consumers.

Smart Agri Labs

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Smart Agri Labs develops an AI-powered platform for agriculture, initially focused on seed variety recommendations. It has since expanded to cover a wider range of crop inputs like biologicals, enabling farmers and agribusinesses to make data-driven decisions for enhanced productivity and climate resilience.

FarmWise

Series B in 2022
FarmWise, established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing and manufacturing robotic machinery for agriculture. The company's primary product is a mechanical weeder, designed to track and remove weeds in vegetable crops, enhancing farm efficiency and reducing herbicide usage. FarmWise also offers comprehensive training and support to ensure optimal use of its technology.

Food4All

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Food4All operates a platform focused on reducing food waste and providing affordable food options. By leveraging data analysis, the company connects partners, such as supermarkets, with consumers seeking discounted products that are nearing their best before dates. This approach allows customers to save money while simultaneously helping retailers turn potential losses into profits. Ultimately, Food4All's services promote environmental sustainability by minimizing food waste and facilitating access to quality food at reduced prices.

Nurture Growth Bio Fertilizer

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Nurture Growth produces liquid organic fertilizers using biotechnology. They transform food waste into eco-friendly microbial fertilizer, helping farmers enhance plant health, boost crop yields, improve soil quality, and reduce reliance on chemicals.

Autonomous Pivot

Seed Round in 2021
Autonomous Pivot develops an AI-powered platform that converts center-pivot irrigation into a robotics-based system for autonomous irrigation, fertigation, and crop protection. The platform leverages on-pivot Ground Penetrating Radar to continuously sense soil water content and combines deep learning and AI agronomist capabilities to enable fully automatic symptom detection and precision management. It offers automated, real-time adjustments for irrigation, fertigation, and crop protection, with remote management, precise application, and environmental monitoring to help farmers optimize resource use, increase yields, and support sustainable agriculture.

Intello Labs

Series A in 2020
Intello Labs is a technology company that specializes in using image matching and machine learning to assess the quality of agricultural crops. It has developed an advanced analytics platform that employs artificial intelligence, computer vision, and deep learning to facilitate decision-making within the food commodities sector. The company's image recognition technology enables the grading and quality monitoring of agricultural products, providing transparency and standardization for growers, traders, retailers, and food service companies. By offering smartphone applications that utilize these image-based technologies, Intello Labs aims to reduce value risk and minimize wastage in agricultural supply chains.

Milk Moovement

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2018, Milk Moovement is a Canadian software company specializing in dairy supply chain management. It offers a cloud-based platform that tracks milk pick-ups, monitors production, and provides actionable intelligence to optimize processes and maximize profitability.

Persistence Data Mining

Venture Round in 2018
Persistence Data Mining specializes in advanced soil analysis using hyperspectral imaging technology. This enables efficient, large-scale soil nutrient mapping, benefiting global food production, climate change mitigation, and water quality improvement.

Persistence Data Mining

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Persistence Data Mining specializes in advanced soil analysis using hyperspectral imaging technology. This enables efficient, large-scale soil nutrient mapping, benefiting global food production, climate change mitigation, and water quality improvement.

AgShift

Seed Round in 2018
AgShift develops AI-based food quality inspection systems designed to provide objective and consistent quality control across the food supply chain. Its Hydra platform automates the quality assessment and grading of fresh produce and edible nuts using computer vision, IoT, and machine learning to deliver scalable, unbiased evaluations, generate digitized inspection reports, monitor quality trends, and maintain audit trails. The solution aims to reduce food waste, minimize recalls, and improve operational efficiency by enabling faster, data-driven decisions and standardized quality practices throughout the chain.

FarmWise

Seed Round in 2017
FarmWise, established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing and manufacturing robotic machinery for agriculture. The company's primary product is a mechanical weeder, designed to track and remove weeds in vegetable crops, enhancing farm efficiency and reducing herbicide usage. FarmWise also offers comprehensive training and support to ensure optimal use of its technology.

Persistence Data Mining

Venture Round in 2017
Persistence Data Mining specializes in advanced soil analysis using hyperspectral imaging technology. This enables efficient, large-scale soil nutrient mapping, benefiting global food production, climate change mitigation, and water quality improvement.

AgShift

Pre Seed Round in 2017
AgShift develops AI-based food quality inspection systems designed to provide objective and consistent quality control across the food supply chain. Its Hydra platform automates the quality assessment and grading of fresh produce and edible nuts using computer vision, IoT, and machine learning to deliver scalable, unbiased evaluations, generate digitized inspection reports, monitor quality trends, and maintain audit trails. The solution aims to reduce food waste, minimize recalls, and improve operational efficiency by enabling faster, data-driven decisions and standardized quality practices throughout the chain.

Nuritas

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Nuritas Ltd., established in 2012 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is a biotechnology company specializing in the discovery of bioactive peptides from food sources using artificial intelligence and genomics. The company's proprietary platform combines computational biology with nutritional science to identify and extract health-benefiting components hidden within food, enabling it to create functional foods and cosmetics. Nuritas collaborates with industry partners to co-develop new ingredients, with applications in human and animal nutrition, beverages, dietary supplements, and cosmetics.
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