Syngenta Group Ventures

Syngenta Group is a leading agriculture innovation company with a history spanning over 250 years. Headquartered in Switzerland and owned by a Chinese parent company, it employs around 48,000 individuals across more than 100 countries. The company focuses on transforming agriculture through the development of advanced products and technologies that support the global food chain, ensuring safe and sustainable food production while respecting the environment. Syngenta Group operates through four primary business units: Syngenta Crop Protection, Syngenta Seeds, ADAMA, and Syngenta Group China, each dedicated to providing industry-leading solutions to customers worldwide.

Shankar, Shubhang

Managing Director

4 past transactions

Tarfin

Series A in 2021
By leveraging the power of technology and data science, Tarfin is creating Europe’s first and most advanced fintech lending solution for farmers and retailers.

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.

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.

Valagro

Acquisition in 2020
Valagro is a global leader in the production and commercialization of biostimulants and specialty nutrients for use in agricultural production, lawns, gardening and various industrial applications. Valagro also produces special ingredients for animal feed, human food and cosmetics. The Company was founded in 1980 in Abruzzo, Italy, and currently has 13 subsidiaries located throughout the world with over 600 employees. In addition to its production site and R&D center in Atessa, Italy, the company has two other active production facilities in Norway and three others in India. Valagro most recently acquired the Indian company SriBio in 2015, which is recognized for its contribution to the development of environmentally-friendly and sustainable biological solutions in agriculture. Valagro’s distribution network currently reaches over 80 countries.
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