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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Invaio Sciences is a technology company focused on applying breakthroughs in natural systems and biology to address agriculture, nutrition, and environmental challenges. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional locations in Durham, North Carolina; Basel, Switzerland; and São Paulo, Brazil, it develops multi-platform solutions that leverage insights into natural systems and insect physiology to help farmers reduce pesticide use, conserve water, and improve crop health.

Bioceres Crop Solutions is a global provider of crop productivity technologies, offering solutions throughout the entire crop cycle to enhance yields and promote sustainable farming practices. Its portfolio includes seeds, seed treatments, biologicals, adjuvants, fertilizers, inoculants, and crop protection products.

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.

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.

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.

Insignia Ventures Partners is a Singapore-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that concentrates on early-stage technology investments in Southeast Asia. It backs startups across software, fintech, e-commerce, enterprise technology, and other technology-enabled sectors, with an emphasis on scalable business models and regional growth. The firm actively supports companies in areas such as B2B, consumer tech, education, healthcare, and logistics, helping founders navigate the regional market. It is led by Yinglan Tan, a former Sequoia Asia partner, and focuses on building enduring relationships with founders to accelerate product development and market expansion in Southeast Asia.

Sofinnova Partners is an independent venture capital firm based in Paris, France, focusing on life sciences from seed to later-stage investments. It backs startups, early-stage companies, corporate spin-offs and occasionally turnaround situations in biopharmaceuticals/biotech, medical devices, and industrial biotechnology. The firm typically takes a lead or cornerstone role, often serving as the first institutional investor in Series A rounds, and actively supports portfolio companies through formation and beyond, including board participation. The firm manages more than €2 billion in life sciences assets.

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.

New Mexico Angels is an angel investment group and private membership organization based in Albuquerque, founded in 1999. It brings together qualified angel investors to invest in seed and early-stage companies in New Mexico and the Southwest, with a focus on information technology sectors and a goal of delivering strong financial returns while accelerating portfolio companies toward market leadership.

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.

Iron Nation is a venture capital firm based in Ra'anana, Israel, founded in 2023. It invests in Israeli startups across sectors including deep technology, climate technology, life sciences, retail, fintech, enterprise software, SaaS, energy, automotive, and artificial intelligence, providing early-stage capital and strategic mentorship to help portfolio companies scale.

Lewis & Clark Ventures is a Saint Louis, Missouri-based private equity firm founded in 2014 that focuses on early-stage investments in healthcare and technology. It targets high-potential B2B software, fintech, and digital health companies and aims to be a trusted partner to entrepreneurs, providing support to help portfolio companies scale and achieve lasting impact.

Bidra Innovation Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2022 and located in San Francisco, California. The firm focuses on investing in sectors such as agriculture, energy transition, and sustainable technology. By targeting these areas, Bidra Innovation Ventures aims to support innovative companies that contribute to sustainable development and address pressing global challenges.

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.

Established in 2001, Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is a Canadian organization that funds and supports innovative cleantech projects. It focuses on moving groundbreaking technologies to market, creating jobs, driving economic growth, and promoting environmental benefits. SDTC operates independently but collaborates with various stakeholders from private industry, academia, and governments.

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.

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.

Spruce Capital Partners is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in 2013, focused on life sciences and biogreentech. Its principals are experienced investors and advisers who support entrepreneurs with capital, strategic guidance, and domain expertise to build next-generation biogreentech companies. The firm emphasizes developing industry talent, providing thought leadership, and promoting innovation across life sciences globally, including activity in the United States and Malaysia.

Morningside is a Boston-based investment firm founded in 1986 as a family office for the Chan family. It makes venture capital investments in companies with novel science and technology, with deep expertise in life sciences, digital health, artificial intelligence, materials, and technology. The firm takes a long-term approach to building companies and emphasizes ethical conduct. In addition to its investment activities, Morningside supports charitable initiatives in education, research and healthcare, including collaborations with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, UMass Chan Medical School, and the MIT Morningside Academy for Design.

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.

SIS Ventures is an Edinburgh-based investment firm operating in the asset management space, established in 2018. It focuses on supporting high-impact social and environmental ventures by providing equity or debt capital to purpose-driven companies. The firm aims to be a partner for social entrepreneurs, pursuing conventional financial returns alongside social and/or environmental outcomes.

Founded in 2021, Endeavor8 is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco. It focuses on early-stage investments in technology innovations that impact the food value chain.

Founded in 2009, Capital Eleven is an investment firm specializing in private equity and early-stage venture capital. It focuses on business-to-business, consumer durables, media, retail, financial services, information technology, non-financial services, real estate technology, software as a service, e-commerce, education technology, financial technology, food technology & manufacturing sectors within the United States.

DCVC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that backs entrepreneurs developing deep technologies across artificial intelligence, exascale computing, climate, engineering, materials science, robotics, space, water, biology, defense, security, and related deep tech sectors. The firm emphasizes combining advances in science and technology with computing and algorithmic advantage to enable more with less and to reduce capital expenditure and operating costs for portfolio companies. DCVC operates as a registered investment adviser and invests across stages to support transformational breakthroughs that benefit society.

Novalis LifeSciences is a venture capital firm focused on life sciences. Founded in 2017 and based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, it invests in small to mid-sized life science companies operating in biopharma therapeutics, diagnostics, and life science tools. The firm functions as a registered investment adviser.

Anterra Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Amsterdam that invests in fast-growing companies in the food, agricultural, health, nutrition, technology, and wellness sectors across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and Latin America. It backs firms spanning the food supply chain—from novel agro inputs and precision farming to smarter logistics and consumer safety—and pursues long-term value creation. The firm acts as a lead investor with significant minority equity positions and takes an active role on boards, typically supporting companies that already generate revenue and show strong growth potential. Investments range from EUR 1 million to EUR 15 million per company, and the firm often assists portfolio companies in raising additional capital from professional investors. It emphasizes close collaboration with management to build lasting value and sustainable scale.

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.

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.

IRDI Gestion is a regional investment capital firm with a focus on fostering economic growth and job creation in the Southwest of France. With over 35 years of experience, they manage €150 million and offer financial support to SMEs in various stages of development, ranging from creation to transmission. Through a partnership approach, IRDI Gestion works closely with companies to provide equity ranging from €100,000 to €5,000,000. The group comprises three SCR entities: IRDI, MPcroissance, and IRDInov, each dedicated to supporting industrial growth, small businesses, and innovative startups, respectively. Approved by the AMF in 2015, IRDI Gestion is committed to structuring the group and driving new development projects to support the regional economy.

Supernova Invest is a Paris-based European private equity and venture capital firm employing a multi-stage approach to back deep-tech startups and scale-ups. It invests across seed to growth stages in France and Europe, focusing on digital technologies, healthcare, industrial technologies, energy and environment, ecological transition, and related areas such as electronics, advanced materials, and instruments. The firm provides patient capital and strategic support to help portfolio companies scale globally, drawing on a network that includes CEA Investissement to connect start-ups with resources and services. It operates from Paris with an additional office in Grenoble and has a history of exiting portfolio companies through IPOs and M&A.

European Circular Bioeconomy Fund is a late-stage venture capital fund established in 2020 and based in Bonn, Germany. It invests in biotechnology and life sciences companies in Europe, with a focus on the circular bioeconomy and impact outcomes. The fund seeks to accelerate growth by partnering with entrepreneurs to scale late-stage circular bioeconomy ventures, prioritizing ventures that advance sustainable resource use and circular processes. Managed by ECBF Management, it adheres to EU SFDR Article 9 requirements to provide transparent impact reporting.

Founded in 2003, bm-t is a regional venture capital firm based in Erfurt, Germany. It focuses on investing in innovative companies with strong growth potential across various sectors and stages of development within the State of Thuringen.

Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen is a Leipzig-based venture capital firm founded in 2008 that concentrates on early-stage investments in high-tech startups located in Saxony, Germany, a region known for its semiconductor cluster. The firm backs ventures with strong growth potential across sectors including information technology, energy, healthcare, life sciences, clean technology, climate technology, advanced manufacturing and digital health. It has funded more than 120 companies to date, including more than 40 investments from its current fund, reflecting an active approach to portfolio development in the Germany region.

Kairos Ventures is a Beverly Hills, California-based venture capital firm that funds early-stage companies in life sciences, healthcare, physical sciences, and technology. It focuses on translating scientific research and university discoveries into commercial ventures by backing scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs and helping them turn ideas and patents into viable businesses. The firm aims to generate substantial societal impact by supporting the development of innovations that can improve lives across generations, while pursuing meaningful returns for stakeholders.

The FSE Group is a UK-based not-for-profit investment group consisting of several subsidiaries that deliver funds and related services. Surpluses are reinvested to support its mission rather than being distributed to shareholders. The group provides funding through its subsidiary finance and fund management entities, including Finance East, which funds businesses in the East of England, and a regulated fund manager that delivers regulated activities. The organization focuses on early-stage and growth-stage ventures in renewables and social enterprise, aiming to support startups and growing businesses with regional and sector-specific funding.

Icebreaker.vc is a Helsinki-based venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage software investments in Finland and the Nordic region. Founded in 2016, it has invested in more than 50 fast-growing tech startups led by domain-expert founders from companies such as Rovio, Nordea, Pipedrive, Eniram, IBM and BCG, and it runs a community of over 1,000 founders and pre-founders with at least five years of industry experience. The firm provides early-stage funding to help portfolio companies reach a position of strength, with initial ticket sizes described in sources as ranging from tens of thousands to a few hundred thousand euros. Icebreaker emphasizes a hands-on approach, leveraging its ecosystem to support portfolio companies in growth and execution.

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.

Qbic Fund is a venture capital firm based in Ghent, Belgium, focused on early-stage investments in life sciences, new materials and information technology. It supports spin-off companies from the Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp university associations and from VITO, using a close partnership with these institutions to gain early access to promising research projects. The firm conducts in-depth, independent review followed by hands-on involvement and strategic support for portfolio companies, targeting software, deeptech, biotech and medtech alongside broader healthcare and life science opportunities. With more than €30 million under management, it operates across multiple sectors and emphasizes collaboration with academia to nurture research-driven startups.

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.

Rubio Impact Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, founded in the mid-2010s, that pursues impact-driven investments in mid- to growth-stage companies primarily operating in the Netherlands. The firm backs businesses across a broad range of sectors, including healthcare, education, nutrition and wellness, technology, energy, climate, agriculture, and related fields, emphasizing ventures with social and environmental benefits. It makes equity investments typically between €0.5 million and €8 million, supporting scalable solutions in both B2B and B2C models, including technology-enabled platforms such as AI, software and education technology.

IP Group is a London-based venture capital firm that focuses on commercialising intellectual property from research-intensive institutions. It creates value by identifying early-stage IP, developing it into commercially viable opportunities, and forming strategic partnerships to support portfolio companies. The firm provides capital, strategic guidance, and industry insight to science- and technology-based businesses, with emphasis on clean technology, life sciences, and deep tech. With more than twenty years of experience, IP Group supports the growth of science and technology companies from inception toward scale, helping translate research into market-ready products and accelerate their impact.

Biosciences Research and Commercialization Center is the venture capital investment arm of Western Michigan University, established in 2003 and based in Kalamazoo. It funds early-stage life sciences and medical device ventures in Michigan focusing on commercialization, with emphasis on startups that have a substantial Michigan presence and links to Southwest Michigan. The center leverages Kalamazoo's scientific talent and pharmaceutical commercialization heritage to support entrepreneurs, scientists, university technology transfer offices and corporate clients as they advance products in pharmaceuticals, medical devices and diagnostics. It provides startup and gap funding to promising ventures entering commercialization, typically investing between 25,000 and 250,000 per deal.

Inventures Investment Partners is an impact investment firm based in Brussels, Belgium, established in 2011. It engages in impact venture capital investments in early-stage European SMEs that deliver social, environmental, and economic value and align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The firm focuses on opportunities across sectors such as health, education, environment, economic growth, and social progress, aiming to generate positive societal outcomes alongside financial returns.