SOSV is a global venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1995, that focuses on seed to growth investments in deep technology across health, environmental tech, hardware, robotics, and cross border software, with a particular emphasis on Asia. The company runs accelerator style startup development programs, including HAX and IndieBio, which provide facilities, engineering resources, and lab equipment to help founders accelerate product development, acquire customers, and attract later stage funding. SOSV pursues a limited number of high potential startups, offering extensive hands on support to speed commercialization and scale, and aims to back innovations that improve human and planetary health.
SVG Ventures|THRIVE is an investment and accelerator firm based in Los Gatos, California, focused on sustainable agri-food, agritech, food tech, and related supply chains. The company provides support, acceleration, mentorship, validation, and venture-building services to early-stage technology companies, often in collaboration with public and private partners on strategy, innovation and global expansion. It prioritizes climate-smart and ESG-oriented opportunities and backs startups operating in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Since its formation in 2010, SVG Ventures|THRIVE has built a network to help portfolio companies scale through strategic guidance and industry connections.
The Yield Lab is a venture capital firm and accelerator focused on agtech and agrifood technology. Based in Saint Louis, Missouri, it operates a global network with regional activities in Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The firm provides early-stage investments in agriculture technology startups and supports them through accelerator programs to advance product development, commercialization and scale across the food and farming value chain.
Established in 2020, the European Innovation Council supports innovative startups and researchers with promising ideas, focusing on early-stage companies with positive environmental, social, or governance impacts. It co-invests alongside private investors.
S2G Investments is a multi-stage investment firm that targets venture and growth-stage companies in food and agriculture, oceans, and energy sectors. It provides capital to businesses shaping the future of food systems and energy resources and supports entrepreneurs and leadership teams with market-driven solutions intended to deliver greater value, improved results, and superior performance relative to conventional options.
AgFunder is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. It invests in agriculture technology and food technology companies worldwide, targeting startups that can positively transform the food system and deliver measurable environmental and social impact. The firm focuses on automation, digitization of the supply chain, food waste reduction, alternative proteins, nutrition, and related agtech and foodtech sectors. AgFunder manages a portfolio of more than 50 companies across multiple funds and maintains a global network to support portfolio growth. It also operates AFN, a media platform that engages a global ecosystem of subscribers around food tech and agtech topics.
Omnivore Capital Management is a Mumbai-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that focuses on early-stage investments in India's agriculture and food sectors. It backs entrepreneur-led ventures across farmer platforms, finance technology for farming, rural resilience farm-to-consumer brands, precision agriculture, climate, post-harvest technologies, agtech, and agri-food life sciences, with a focus on India-centric opportunities. The firm aims to support innovations that enhance farm productivity, supply chain efficiency, and rural livelihoods by funding technology-enabled solutions across software and hardware in agriculture and food value chains.
Innova Memphis is a Tennessee-based venture capital firm founded in 2007 with roots in the Memphis Bioworks Foundation. It focuses on pre-seed, seed, and early-stage investments in high-growth biosciences, technology, and agri-tech companies in Tennessee. The firm supports startups from concept to market by providing capital, strategic guidance, and access to industry networks, including connections with established corporations for licensing, buy-outs, or further investments. By combining experienced management, market expertise, and venture capital, Innova Memphis aims to accelerate product development and create viable business units capable of standing independently and collaborating with mature market leaders when appropriate.
Big Idea Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on food technology and alternative proteins. It invests in early-stage and growth-stage startups globally, with emphasis on plant-based and cell-based protein solutions, and manages funds that support the development of new protein technologies and the commercialization of related university intellectual property. The firm collaborates with strategic partners and governments to advance food security and the creation of new food ecosystems, maintaining an international presence and a broad portfolio across multiple countries.
SP Ventures is a venture capital firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2007. It focuses on early-stage, technology-driven startups across Latin America, with emphasis on information technology, agribusiness, and medical technology. The firm backs ventures in sectors such as agriculture, information and communication technologies, health technologies, new materials, nanotechnologies, and climate technology, and seeks founders with proprietary technology that demonstrates high scalability and large addressable markets. Typical investments target São Paulo-based companies or those serving the São Paulo ecosystem, leveraging a regional network and sector expertise to support growth.
Cavallo Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Wilbur-Ellis Holdings, based in San Francisco. It invests its own capital in early-stage ventures across livestock feed, pet nutrition, aquafeed, and related ingredients and formulation, including cosmetics and nutrition products for humans and animals. The firm looks for innovative solutions in areas such as water management, irrigation, soil biology, and resource conservation, and supports startups advancing agricultural and ecological sustainability. By partnering with entrepreneurs, Cavallo Ventures aims to accelerate commercialization of scalable technologies that align with Wilbur-Ellis’ core feed, nutrition, and agrochemical interests.
Artesian Capital Management is an Australian-based alternative investment management firm with a global footprint. Founded in 2004, it began with credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies and later expanded into principal investments in seed and early-stage ventures. The firm operates from Sydney and Melbourne and has extended to international locations, launching early-stage venture funds including a China-focused vehicle and outlining plans for Southeast Asia. It partners with accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs to back high-potential ventures and manages funds across equity and debt investments, currently overseeing over AUD 255 million.
Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.
Antler is a global venture capital firm based in Singapore that backs early-stage technology companies. It runs incubation programs and provides a global community of co-founders, access to talent, expert advisors, expansion support, and capital to help startups grow. The firm targets a broad range of sectors, including healthcare, finance, software, energy, consumer and B2B technologies, and operates through regional programs across Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and beyond.
Founded in 2021, Ponderosa Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York. It focuses on investing $100-750k in pre-seed and seed-stage companies operating within the food, agriculture, and ocean sectors.
Astanor Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on the agri-food sector, including agriculture, and technology-enabled companies across the agri-food value chain. The firm backs innovators in agtech and foodtech with the aim of creating nourishing, regenerative, and sustainable food systems. It emphasizes impact and climate outcomes, blending capital with deep sector knowledge and a broad network of entrepreneurs, researchers, farmers, technologists, and policymakers to support portfolio companies. With a Europe-focused footprint and investments that span across regions, Astanor Ventures seeks scalable solutions that advance food security, sustainability, and transparency throughout the food value chain.
Trendlines Group is a venture capital and incubator focused on medical technology and agrifood innovations. It discovers, invests in, and incubates early-stage technologies through incubators in Israel and Singapore, its in-house innovation center Trendlines Labs, and affiliated programs such as Trendlines Agrifood Fund and the Bayer Trendlines Ag Innovation Fund. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Misgav, Israel, the group operates Trendlines Medical Israel and Trendlines Medical Singapore as incubation platforms and supports startups across medical devices, healthcare technology, and related fields.
Villgro is an incubator and early-stage investor headquartered in Chennai, India, focused on supporting social impact startups. It backs ventures across healthcare, education, agriculture technology, energy and related sectors, including healthtech, edtech, agtech, clean technology and non-financial services, by providing incubation support and seed funding. The firm typically undertakes equity or quasi-equity investments of up to about Rs 6 million (roughly US$0.1 million) to eligible startups. Established to nurture ventures at the earliest stages within the Indian region, Villgro operates as a platform to develop innovative solutions addressing social needs.
Serra Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Champaign, Illinois. Founded in 2008, it invests in technology companies at early and growth stages across the United States, with select international activity, focusing on information technology, deep technology, instrumentation, devices, B2B software as a service, and agricultural technologies.
Alexandria Venture Investments is the strategic venture capital arm of Alexandria Real Estate Equities. It provides seed through growth capital to life science and technology companies developing breakthrough therapies, diagnostics, research tools, agrifoodtech, agtech, digital health, and related platforms. Backed by the parent company’s industry experience and scientific advisory network, the firm leverages long-standing relationships and domain expertise to support early to growth-stage ventures aiming to translate scientific advances into practical healthcare and technology solutions.
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Rye, New York, Ospraie Ag Science is a venture capital firm specializing in growth capital investments within the agriculture sector. The company invests in both public and private markets, leveraging its commercial experience and extensive network across the agricultural value chain to source unique investment opportunities.
At One Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 2020 that backs early-stage startups with a focus on disruptive deep tech and technology-enabled solutions. The firm seeks companies in consumer and business products, energy, information technology, materials, and resources sectors, including climate tech, cleantech, agtech, and food tech, aiming to improve unit economics while reducing environmental footprint. It invests primarily at seed and Series A stages and pursues opportunities worldwide, with activity across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania. The firm emphasizes ventures that are regenerative for planetary health and have the potential to scale into healthy, durable businesses, integrating strong teams, scalable business models, and meaningful environmental impact. In short, At One Ventures supports teams that strive to create a net-positive impact on nature through technological innovation.
Breakthrough Energy Ventures is an investor-led venture capital firm based in Kirkland, Washington, providing patient capital to climate and energy technology companies across seed, early, and later stages. It concentrates on environmental services, climate change, climate technology, and cleantech, investing minority stakes to back technologies that deliver reliable, affordable power while reducing emissions and advancing zero-emission energy solutions.
Agronomics is an Isle of Man–based investment firm focused on biotechnology, cellular agriculture, biomanufacturing and related biopharma sectors. It manages capital across funds, equity and equity-related products, and invests in both listed and private companies to build a diversified portfolio in biotechnology and modern foods. The firm originated in 2011 as Port Erin Biopharma Investments, underscoring a long-standing emphasis on biopharma and biotech opportunities.
Pymwymic is a co-owned community of European wealth holders focused on impact investing that prioritizes people and the planet. Founded in 1994, it comprises more than 150 individuals, including families, entrepreneurs and angel investors from diverse backgrounds. The organization directs capital toward ventures that conserve and restore ecosystems, with an emphasis on sustainable food systems, and operates through the Pymwymic Healthy Ecosystems Impact Fund. The community combines knowledge, passion and resources to advance higher standards in impact investing and to promote investing with care for people and the planet as a norm.
Demeter Partners is a Paris‑based private equity and venture capital firm focused on the energy transition and environmental sustainability. Founded in 2005, it funds companies from seed through growth and infrastructure across Europe, with activity in select North American opportunities, and typically pursues minority stakes with board representation. The firm targets eco‑industries and climate technologies, including water, air and waste treatment, energy efficiency, renewable energy, green buildings, and related environmental services, as well as software, services, and industrials aligned with sustainable development.
Katapult Group is an Oslo-based accelerator and venture firm founded in 2016 that invests in early-stage technology startups, with a focus on climate and ocean-related initiatives. The company operates Katapult Accelerator, a program that supports startups in environmental, societal, and exponential technologies, and Katapult Ocean, an ocean-focused venture initiative. Together, these platforms aim to steward capital and innovation toward sustainable development, aligning impact with technology and fostering multi-stakeholder collaboration.
Radicle Growth is an investment company that focuses on ag and food tech startups, carefully selecting innovative ventures for investment while accelerating their growth. It provides a proprietary company-building platform and value-creation initiatives designed to help founders scale technologies from concept to market. The firm positions itself as a partner beyond funding, seeking disruptive solutions in the agriculture and food industries and has pioneered initiatives like The Radicle Challenge to proactively identify top entrepreneurs solving pressing industry problems.
Germin8 Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive Food & AgTech companies across the value chain worldwide. It focuses on agrifood technology, frontier science, and computation with applications in agriculture, food, and nutrition. Supported by a group of industry veterans and sophisticated investors, the firm provides capital and strategic resources to transformative Food & Agriculture Technology ventures addressing major demand trends and aiming to improve the global food system through innovative technologies and solutions.
Aqua Spark is a venture capital firm based in Utrecht, Netherlands, founded in 2013. It invests in small and medium-sized companies operating in the aquaculture sector across the value chain, prioritizing technologies, alternative proteins and feed ingredients, and sustainable farming solutions. The firm seeks long-term investments that balance financial returns with environmental and social benefits, supporting entrepreneurs who aim to scale innovative, responsible aquatic-food businesses to address global food security and ocean health.
Leaps by Bayer is the corporate venture capital unit of Bayer, focused on funding paradigm-shifting advances in the life sciences. Based in Leverkusen, Germany, and founded in 2015, it concentrates on biotechnology, agriculture, and healthcare, making significant and sustained investments in disruptive biotechnologies with the potential to have the greatest impact on humanity.
Founded in 2022, Tall Grass Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Calgary, Canada. It focuses on investing in early-stage agrifood tech solutions, supporting Canada's role as a leader in the evolving food economy.
Ankur Capital is a Mumbai-based early-stage venture capital firm that funds seed and early-stage technology companies in India. It backs a broad range of sectors including business and consumer products and services, financial services, information technology, health technology, education technology, agtech, energy, and advanced manufacturing, with a focus on digital and deep science ventures. The firm is known for pursuing contrarian bets in overlooked Indian markets and for backing notable early-stage startups such as Captain Fresh, Cropin, Rupifi, String Bio and Vegrow. It also emphasizes impact-oriented opportunities in education, agriculture and health.
Lowercarbon Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Jackson, Wyoming. It invests in companies developing technologies to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a focus on sectors including energy, impact, transportation, industrial materials, and agriculture. The firm supports research and commercialization of emissions-reducing solutions and backing for entrepreneurs pursuing ways to lower emissions, remove carbon, and actively cool the planet.
Brinc is a Hong Kong-based accelerator and early-stage venture firm that runs 15 multidisciplinary accelerator programs across seven countries. It accelerates startups in blockchain, artificial intelligence, connected hardware, robotics, climate tech, clean energy, food technology, and the Internet of Things, aiming to advance sustainable, inclusive innovation. Brinc also supports corporations with distributed innovation strategies, sourcing of new startups and technologies, and venture-building for Web3-enabled businesses. The company collaborates with a diverse network of global corporations, government bodies, universities, fast-growing companies, and investors to run programs and pilot joint initiatives, helping entrepreneurs access mentorship, pilots, and opportunities for subsequent funding through partnerships. Brinc positions itself as a bridge between startups and strategic partners to accelerate product development and market access.
Beyond Next Ventures is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm established in 2014 that supports seed-stage and early-growth-stage companies in Japan and India. It focuses on deep tech and science-driven ventures across sectors including agriculture, food tech, climate tech, digital, space, drug discovery, biotech, electronics, robotics, medtech, and healthcare, with the aim of nurturing transformative technology and bringing innovations to market to benefit society.
CPT Capital is a London-based venture capital firm specializing in seed-stage and longer-term investments in the food and materials technology sectors, with a focus on alternative proteins such as plant-based, recombinant, and cell-based meat. The firm backs visionary founders to drive the transformation of the supply chain and to replace animals in production, pursuing opportunities across seed through potential exit via sale or IPO. Founded in 2017, CPT Capital emphasizes investments in food and materials technology and seeks to support companies that accelerate the food revolution.
Acre Venture Partners is a Santa Monica, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that backs companies redefining the food system. It invests in platform businesses across the food value chain, with emphasis on agriculture, food tech, climate tech, and consumer verticals. The firm seeks disruptive ventures that address large-scale human and environmental health problems by delivering scalable, systemic improvements in food and agriculture.
Ag Ventures Alliance is a company based in Mason City, Iowa, founded in 1998, that provides agriculture-focused business support services to the industry.
Trailhead Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, focused on investments in the agriculture and agriculture technology sectors. It backs entrepreneurs pursuing a regenerative future for food and agriculture while aiming to generate strong financial returns alongside positive societal and environmental impact.
Aliment Capital is a growth equity investor based in Santa Monica, California, focusing on life science, food and nutrition, agriculture technology, precision farming, and health across nutrition, the food system, and the supply chain. It makes global investments in growing businesses that boost agricultural productivity, nutrition, health, sustainability, and supply chain efficiency.
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, established in 2013. It targets individual accredited investors who previously had limited access to venture capital by enabling alumni from top entrepreneurial schools to invest together in ventures led by fellow alumni. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with sector expertise. It offers focused funds that provide accredited investors access to a diversified venture portfolio by type, sector, stage, and geography. The organization engages in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments across technology, consumer, financial services, health care, life sciences, and other sectors.
Xperiment Ventures is a venture capital firm and venture studio founded in 2019 and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It invests in seed-stage Agtech and Climate Tech startups from idea to scale, adopting an active, hands-on approach through operating partners to support founders. The firm seeks world-class entrepreneurs and believes in partnering with ambitious, independent thinkers who aim to digitalize and decarbonize nature-based supply chains.
iSelect Fund is a venture capital firm based in St. Louis, Missouri, focused on early-stage and growth investments across agriculture, food tech, healthcare, software and life sciences. The firm backs seed through Series A and B rounds and targets opportunities in the United States, Canada, Europe and other markets, with a regional emphasis on the United States Midwest and Great Lakes. It prioritizes companies advancing plant sciences, seed genetics, sustainability, immunotherapy and personalized medicine, as well as business-to-business software, resource efficiency and related sectors. iSelect Fund seeks to build a portfolio through long-term, value-added partnerships, supporting companies from startup to scale-up as they develop innovative solutions in food, health and related industries. The firm operates across multiple markets.
Navus Ventures is a Netherlands-based venture capital firm founded in 2013, focused on high-tech and sustainable start-ups and scale-ups with emphasis on transitions in food and energy. It operates as an independent family-office backed investor, not tied to the Lely family business strategy, and typically invests across seed to growth stages in the Netherlands, in sectors such as sustainable food, software, hardware, energy technology, and related areas like food and agriculture, mobility and waste. Navus takes an active, hands-on approach as a shareholder, aiming for quick decisions and long holding periods, and provides strategic and operational support with short lines of communication to portfolio management. It seeks board representation in portfolio companies and emphasizes transparency and honesty in relationships with start-ups and co-investors.
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company that develops, manufactures, and distributes insulin and other diabetes medicines to treat chronic diseases. It pursues scientific breakthroughs and aims to expand access to its medicines, with the ultimate goal of preventing and curing disease.
Aavishkaar is a Mumbai-based venture capital firm, founded in 2001, specializing in early-stage investments across Asia Pacific and Africa. It focuses on sectors such as finance, sustainable agriculture, and essential services, and emphasizes environmental, social, and governance considerations. The firm has been noted for pioneering the early-growth stage VC approach and for targeting underserved geographies and sectors, often overlooked by traditional funding.
Middleland Capital is a venture capital firm based in Washington, DC, with an additional office in London. It focuses on early-stage technology opportunities and partners with exceptional management teams to commercialize innovations, accelerate growth, and create long-term value globally. The firm’s investments cover agtech, foodtech, crop technology, digital agriculture, supply chain technology, and related health and tech sectors, spanning the full food value chain from upstream inputs to downstream products. It targets startups worldwide and seeks to back companies at the intersection of technology and global markets, supporting them as they scale across industries and geographies.
Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that invests in early-stage technology startups. It specializes in pre-seed and seed rounds for capital-efficient companies, with a focus on the United States and Canada and occasional activity in Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. The firm typically makes 75 to 100 investments per year, with round sizes from 50,000 to 500,000 and pre-money valuations ranging from 1,000,000 to 3,500,000. Portfolio companies are typically located outside the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and the firm aims to provide a clear yes or no on opportunities within about two weeks.
SFC Capital is a United Kingdom-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that makes early-stage investments in UK startups, including pre-seed and seed rounds. It backs companies across sectors such as software, technology, e-commerce, consumer, enterprise, green tech, medical technology, and hospitality, providing capital plus strategic guidance to support growth and product development. The firm operates a model that combines an angel network with seed funds to back SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, aiming to offer exposure to a diversified portfolio while delivering hands-on support to portfolio companies.