SVG Ventures

SVG Ventures is an investment and advisory firm based in Silicon Valley, established in 2010. The firm focuses on early-stage technology companies and engages closely with its portfolio to foster their growth and success. In addition, SVG Ventures manages the Thrive Fund, a venture capital fund located in Los Gatos, California, which targets sectors such as software, agriculture, ag tech, and food tech. Founded in 2013, Thrive operates a series of accelerators aimed at supporting sustainable agri-food companies. The firm offers a range of services, including acceleration, mentorship, validation, and venture-building, leveraging its extensive network of technology leaders to drive innovation and global expansion for its partners and portfolio companies.

John Hartnett

CEO and Founder

Past deals in Food Processing

Napigen

Seed Round in 2022
We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elite backgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.

FarmWise

Series B in 2022
FarmWise Labs, Inc. specializes in the development and manufacturing of robotic machinery aimed at improving agricultural practices. The company focuses on creating vegetable weeders that offer effective weeding and thinning solutions, while also monitoring the growth of herbicides. Founded in 2016 and located in San Francisco, California, FarmWise employs mechanical engineering to enhance farming efficiency and streamline operations, ultimately supporting increased food production. The company was previously known as DeepLook, Inc.

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.

Iamus Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Iamus Technologies Limited is an artificial intelligence and robotics company based in Ireland that focuses on developing advanced technology for the poultry industry. The company has created robotic systems specifically designed to assist poultry farmers in making informed and safer production decisions. Over the past two years, Iamus has collaborated with poultry processors worldwide to identify key performance indicators that its robots can continuously monitor within poultry sheds. This technology captures automatic and accurate data regarding the birds and their environment, allowing for real-time analysis and intervention. By utilizing machine learning, Iamus transforms visual, environmental, and biometric data into actionable insights, thereby addressing the increasing demands of modern, intensive broiler production and helping producers optimize their operations.

Cattler

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a farming management platform designed to assist cattle farmers in running all their operations in one place. The company platform offers integrating data that is dispersed and underutilized in daily operations along with bringing data from different third-party devices and systems, together under in one dashboard for farm management, enabling farmers to run their daily tasks like feeding, cattle management and animal health management seamlessly from beginning to end.

Foodlocker

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Foodlocker Limited operates a platform for foodstuff and grocery items in Africa. It offers baby food, baking, biscuit, cereals, condiments, drinks, fish, fruits, kitchen items, meat, oil, pasta, poultry, processed food, provisions, snacks, staples, sweets, tubers, and vegetables. The company is based in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Milk Moovement

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Milk Moovement is a Developer of a dairy supply chain management platform designed to track milk pick-ups and monitoring milk production. The company's platform is a comprehensive tool that tracks dairy production and quality by using a cloud-based web and mobile solution, giving users access to key information in real-time, enabling all supply chain stakeholders (producers, processors, transporters, testing labs, and cooperatives) to have access to milk performance metrics and in-depth information on current production, quality, and historical data right at their fingertips.

Livestock Water Recycling

Venture 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.

Livestock Water Recycling

Venture 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.

Alesca Life

Venture Round in 2019
Alesca Life Technologies, Inc. manufactures agricultural machinery. It offers Every Day Nutrition product, a solution that enables commercial-scale farming; and EDN Fresh, enables fresh onsite production of hard to procure micro-greens, baby-leaf greens and wheatgrass. Additionally, it also offers EDN Sprout, a smartphone app directly linked to the Alesca Life analytics and optimization platform. The company is headquartered in Beijing, China.

ProteoSense

Venture Round in 2019
ProteoSense, LLC develops a platform to detect food-borne pathogens, such as E-coli, salmonella, listeria, and campylobacter. It offers RapidScan, a handheld testing system to test results on key food-borne pathogens in time-critical and remote applications. It serves growers, packers, processors, shippers, and wholesalers in food industry in the United States. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Orbis MES Ltd.

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Orbis MES Ltd. specialise in the supply of Manufacturing Intelligence Systems combining Information and Analytics for the Food and Beverage Industry. Orbis MES have built deep domain experience over 20 years.

Napigen

Pre Seed Round in 2018
We are the genome editing company specialized for mitochondrial engineering. We address unmet needs of future food supplies by creating hybrid crop plants to boost their yields to an unprecedented level. The company’s technology creates robust male sterile lines that are ideal over conventional lines because of their stability and elite backgrounds. This allows the production of non-GM hybrid seeds in crop plants that are currently mostly non-hybrid such as wheat. Our technology solution is expected to fulfill the highest level of public acceptance and aspiration.

AgShift

Seed Round in 2018
AgShift solution blends Deep Learning with Computer Vision to autonomously inspect produce and other commodities for defects. It does quality assessments and makes judgements as per USDA specifications or organizations' own specifications. The patented deep learning models analyze the defects in the sample images and predict the overall quality of the sample. The platform relies on curated, extensive real-world image data sets to teach our software to analyze defects with high consistency and accuracy - every time. The solution augments manual inspections - providing objective, consistent and standardized quality interpretation across the supply chain - every single time.

FarmWise

Seed Round in 2017
FarmWise Labs, Inc. specializes in the development and manufacturing of robotic machinery aimed at improving agricultural practices. The company focuses on creating vegetable weeders that offer effective weeding and thinning solutions, while also monitoring the growth of herbicides. Founded in 2016 and located in San Francisco, California, FarmWise employs mechanical engineering to enhance farming efficiency and streamline operations, ultimately supporting increased food production. The company was previously known as DeepLook, Inc.

AgShift

Pre Seed Round in 2017
AgShift solution blends Deep Learning with Computer Vision to autonomously inspect produce and other commodities for defects. It does quality assessments and makes judgements as per USDA specifications or organizations' own specifications. The patented deep learning models analyze the defects in the sample images and predict the overall quality of the sample. The platform relies on curated, extensive real-world image data sets to teach our software to analyze defects with high consistency and accuracy - every time. The solution augments manual inspections - providing objective, consistent and standardized quality interpretation across the supply chain - every single time.

3Bar Biologics

Series A in 2017
3Bar Biologics Inc. is a bioscience company located in Columbus, Ohio, focused on enhancing agricultural productivity through innovative solutions. Established in 2013, the company specializes in the development of Bio-YIELD, a microbe inoculant system that utilizes naturally occurring microbes tailored to specific crops and soil conditions. This all-natural product aims to increase crop yields and produce healthier plants by employing beneficial microorganisms. Bio-YIELD was first introduced to farmers in the eastern Corn Belt in 2014 and is supported by over 15 years of research conducted by scientists at The Ohio State University. The firm is committed to expanding its reach to global markets as it gathers further data to support its products, promoting sustainable farming practices that protect farmers' investments in their land and seeds.

Wheyhey

Venture Round in 2016
Wheyhey makes ice cream for everyone living outrageously well – the busy mums and the commuters, the 6am gym-goers AND the sweet-toothed cravers.Wheyhey isn’t just about providing a tasty and fun way to get more protein into your diet, it’s about enabling you to live a healthier, more outrageous life.

California Safe Soil

Venture Round in 2014
California Safe Soil is a fresh food recycler that increases the productivity of farms at a low cost. It provides a unique full-cycle process that will assist their supermarket customers to recycle their organics, improve store hygiene, and reduce costs, in addition to helping their agricultural customers save money, increase crop yield, and reduce nitrate runoff. They are committed to producing a safe, low cost, high volume, and high-quality liquid fertilizer product, Harvest-to-Harvest. As a result, they will greatly improve their air, water, and soil environment, while employing safe, efficient, and effective solutions that meet the needs of their customers.