Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for AgTech startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
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Upfront Ventures | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Santa Monica, California, United States, North America | ||
Innova Memphis | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Memphis, Tennessee, United States, North America | ||
Cultivation Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed | St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America | ||
Promus Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America | ||
Fledge | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed | Seattle, Washington, United States, North America |
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We’ve ranked the top AgTech Seed investors in United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top AgTech Investors & Funds (United States)
Upfront Ventures
Upfront Ventures is proud to be an early investor and long-term partner to the most exciting founders and startups. Founded in 1996 in Los Angeles with investing professionals based in LA, San Francisco, and Paris, Upfront has backed standout teams across all technology sectors, including Ring (acq. by Amazon), TrueCar (NASDAQ: TRUE), Bird, Maker Studios (acq by Disney), GOAT, Apeel Sciences, thredUP, Invoca and Kyriba (acq by Bridgepoint). We invest about half of our capital in the fast-growing Southern California ecosystem, with the balance across the country as well as investments in Europe and Israel. Upfront Ventures is led by Managing Partners Yves Sisteron, Mark Suster, and Kara Nortman.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Cyber Security, Digital Media, FinTech
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Innova Memphis
Founded in 2007 by the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, Innova is a pre-seed, seed and early-stage investor focused on starting and funding high-growth companies in the Biosciences, Technology and AgBio fields across the state of Tennessee. Innova links capital with great ideas to create groundbreaking products and services. At Innova we invest in start-up companies, help them grow, and then assist them in linking with established corporations for licensing, buy-outs or further investments. We provide the synergy of experienced management, market expertise and venture capital to accelerate the development of new products and services into viable business units that can stand on their own and then take their place with a mature market leader, if desired. Whether an innovation is still on the drawing board or stalled in the market place the Innova staff has the expertise, skills, and experience to envision and create a functioning business unit that is prepared to thrive in the market place. Technical know-how, market-proven staffing, and “just-right” funding assure the greatest chance possible for success.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Memphis, Tennessee, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, B2B, Logistics, Medical, Supply Chain Management, Venture Capital
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Cultivation Capital
Cultivation Capital is a venture capital firm that manages a family of funds focused on early-stage investing. Most of our initial investments are during a startup’s Seed or Series A phase, and our initial checks range from $500k – $3.5M. Our industries of focus include life sciences and health tech, software and IT, agriculture tech, and geospatial tech.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, FinTech, Geospatial, Life Science, Software, Venture Capital
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Promus Ventures
Investing in visionary and tenacious early-stage software and hardware teams.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Aerospace, AgTech, FinTech, Robotics, Software, Space Travel, Venture Capital
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Fledge
Fledge is a network of business accelerators operating around the world, working with startups in every country. Our focus is on mission-driven for-profit companies, i.e. companies that are working on meaningful problems of the world, using a for-profit business model to solve those problems. Problems like poverty and hunger in emerging markets, recycling and sustainability, green energy, inequality, and more. Each city where Fledge operates is unique. Some like Seattle seek entrepreneurs globally, working on any problem. Some like The Land Accelerator focus on specific themes in specific geographies. Some like Peru and Barcelona are in between. Then there is the Impact Startup Visa Program, which focuses on companies that want to relocate to Canada, and Start.coop, which focuses on cooperative companies. If you are running an impactful startup, we have a program that fits what you do.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Clean Energy, CleanTech, Financial Services, GreenTech, Recycling, Renewable Energy, Social Impact, Sustainability
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SVG Ventures
SVG Ventures|THRIVE is an investment and advisory firm that partners with public and private organizations on strategy, innovation and global expansion. Formed in 2010 and based in Silicon Valley, SVG Ventures|THRIVE invests in early stage technology companies. The SVG Ventures|THRIVE team consists of accomplished technology leaders from all over the globe. With its vast network, SVG gets deeply involved with portfolio companies to support their success.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Los Gatos, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Cloud Computing, Food and Beverage, Internet, Mobile, Venture Capital
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AgFunder
AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world’s food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, FinTech, Food and Beverage
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iSELECT FUND
The iSELECT FUND provides accredited clients of financial advisors with access to a diversified portfolio of promising early-stage private ventures that have been evaluated by an elite committee of accomplished entrepreneurs and venture investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Advanced Materials, AgTech, Finance, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Venture Capital
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Bread and Butter Ventures (fka The Syndicate Fund)
Bread and Butter Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage companies. Formerly known as The Syndicate Fund Bread and Butter Ventures was founded in 2017 by Brett Brohl and is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Food and Beverage, Retail Technology, Robotics, Supply Chain Management
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The Yield Lab
The Yield Lab is focused on bridging the critical gap between innovation and successful businesses by supporting agriculture technology companies. The Yield Lab provides new AgTech companies with $100,000 in funding, mentors, and connections supported by an agriculturally solid framework of organizations and businesses from the St. Louis area. Companies selected to take part in the accelerator program will receive hands-on training, mentoring, and networking opportunities with the top agricultural research and development intuitions in the region. The program is 9 months long. Relocation is not required. 2 days of programming every month over 9 months (Jan-Sept).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, CleanTech, Natural Resources, Social Entrepreneurship
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Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator
Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator is our first program focused on the tech/digital side of food and agriculture. Partnered with Cargill and Ecolab, the program is looking for the best entrepreneurs across the entire food value chain, from AgTech, manufacturing and supply chains, to food safety, waste reduction and traceability. The program is based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.
Stages: Seed
Location: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, North America
Industries: Advice, AgTech, Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Supply Chain Management, Training
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Evergreen Climate Innovations (formerly Clean Energy Trust)
Evergreen Climate Innovations, formerly Clean Energy Trust, provides catalytic capital and support to entrepreneurs and startups that bring impactful climate technologies to market. The nonprofit pioneered its 501vc® Investment Fund to align philanthropic and corporate contributions to deliver environmental, economic, and social impact. Evergreen advances and expands access to innovation across the Greater Midwest and cultivates an ecosystem of investors, donors, and collaborators. For over a decade, Evergreen Climate Innovations has invested in startups that have raised $41 for every $1 invested. Learn more at evergreeninno.org
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: Advanced Materials, AgTech, Clean Energy, CleanTech, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Transportation
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FoodFutureCo
Food Future is a Scale-Up Accelerator for established yet small organizations (on track to grossing more than $1 million annually) that are providing unique products and solutions across our food system. Their focus areas include consumer products, agriculture, food hubs, ag tech, supply chain, food tech, and SaaS. They support companies with scale-up business models through consulting, global distribution, financing, operation scaling, buyer meetings, and financial exit. They partner with advisors and mentors that not only provide expertise, but support impact, mission, and setting cultural trends. Four to eight companies will be selected for each cohort cycle, which runs for five months. The Cohort companies will receive an investment of up to $10k per company at the start of the program, and there is the possibility for follow-on investment.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Consumer, Consumer Goods, Green Consumer Goods, Impact Investing, Restaurants, SaaS, Sustainability
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Darling Ventures
Darling Ventures is your partner from Day 1. We lead pre-seed rounds of software businesses, investing throughout North America with first checks up to $750K. Then we get to work on your successful go-to-market. Our firm partners before others muster up their conviction. We make concentrated investments and seek to be the most active and thoughtful investor throughout your Seed phase as your startup finds its footing. We’ve specialized our post-investment support to developing your effective go-to-market strategy. From defining value proposition to the right business model and pitch collateral, we spend the time and deploy our bench of GTM operators to make your market entry a success. While doing so, we value strong integrity, humility and those who hold themselves up to their own highest standards.
Stages: Seed
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Construction, Enterprise Software, FinTech, Industrial, Information Technology, Software
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Cavallo Ventures
Cavallo Ventures is the venture capital arm of Wilbur-Ellis, a privately owned family business approaching its centennial anniversary. They invest their own capital and are looking for pioneering entrepreneurs that insist upon building successful companies without taking shortcuts.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Finance, Venture Capital
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R7 Partners
R7 Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies building transformational technologies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Air Transportation, Enterprise Software, Finance, FinTech, Robotics, Transportation
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Almanac Insights
Committed to being a positive force in the broader food ecosystem, Almanac makes early-stage investments and serves as an operational partner for a limited number of next generation CPG, experiential retail, and agriculture and hospitality technology companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Food and Beverage, Hospitality, Supply Chain Management
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Better Food Ventures
Better Food Ventures is exclusively focused on investing in scalable technologies to transform and improve the food and agriculture sectors. With a team of international investors, the company looks to identify and develop companies that can improve the performance of the food and agriculture industries through the application of information and communications technology. To meet the changing market demands of today and the future, the Better Food Ventures team believes the food and agriculture industries need to more fully embrace technologies such as mobile and cloud-based computing, sensor technologies, IoT, robotics, data analytics, and artificial intelligence, collaborative production and consumption platforms.
Stages: Seed
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Cloud Computing, Food and Beverage, Machine Learning, Retail Technology
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Germin8 Ventures
Germin8 Ventures is a multi-stage, strategically-oriented venture capital firm investing in disruptive Food & AgTech companies across the value chain, in various stages, globally. It is a group of like-minded industry veterans and sophisticated investors providing investment and strategic resources to transformative Food & Agriculture Technology companies that are addressing major demand trends and improving the global food system through disruptive technologies and solutions.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Carbon Ventures
Carbon Ventures is a VC fund focused on delivering top quartile returns, while reducing carbon emissions through early stage tech investing. Technologies: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing. Industries: Energy, Transportation, Agriculture, Industrial Processes, Waste Management.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Advanced Materials, AgTech, Artificial Intelligence, Clean Energy, CleanTech, Energy, Machine Learning, Robotics, Transportation, Waste Management
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Sente Foundry
At Sente, we believe that innovation opportunities are everywhere. ​Founded in 2008, Sente manages an international technology startup program that brings corporations, public institutions, investors, and startups together to scale innovative ideas from around the globe in one of the largest and most diverse B2B ecosystems in the world: Chicago. We work with our investor partners, corporations, and institutions to connect startups with innovative, scalable opportunities. Through our robust methodology and expertise in technology development and innovation management, we have assisted dozens of startups from more than 15 countries that have grown from the idea stage into the ​growth stage. Our extensive network of corporations, technology industry executives, and domain experts in the US help these startups enter into US markets based on a well-thought and tested commercial development plan.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Internet of Things, Logistics, Retail, Venture Capital
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Iowa AgriTech Accelerator
The Iowa AgriTech Accelerator, based in Des Moines,Iowa, is a mentor-led accelerator focused on AgTech innovations. Led by innovators and leaders in several areas of agriculture, The Accelerator seeks startups ready to change the status quo.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Des Moines, Iowa, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming, Finance
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Supply Change Capital
Supply Change Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing at the intersection of food, culture, and technology. The firm is led by two GPs, Noramay Cadena and Shayna Harris, who combine food domain expertise with tech and investing experience. The firm was founded in 2020 and is based in Chicago and Los Angeles.
Stages: Seed
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Supply Chain Management
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Lever
Lever is a non-profit organization that specializes in social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, and youth empowerment. It aims to create and grow enterprises that leverage the assets of Northern Berkshire County. In addition to supporting existing businesses and help launch new enterprises. Lever was founded in 2014 and headquartered in North Adams, Massachusetts.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: North Adams, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Aerospace, AgTech, Clean Energy, E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet, Life Science, Medical Device, Software, Wellness
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Agroecology Capital
Agroecology Capital is an AgTech VC fund based in Palo Alto. The fund invests in early-stage technology ventures that help agriculture to transition toward practices focused on Safety, Sustainability, Productivity, and Equitability (Agroecology). Agroecology Capital invests from bioengineering to data and software solutions.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Animal Feed, Aquaculture, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Genetics, Life Science, Nutrition, Software
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WIRE Accelerator
WIRE Accelerator serves as a relationship builder between corporations and startups. Corporations get a first look at technology that could help solve current problems or needs, create efficiencies in systems and offer enhanced customer experiences. The startup gets access to industry experts, customer discovery opportunities and product testing.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Amarillo, Texas, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Energy, Finance, FinTech, Oil and Gas, Small and Medium Businesses, Transportation, Wind Energy
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Mesia Ventures
Mesia Ventures is a new Bio VC, based in NYC. We believe that Bio will be the next coding platform, and Bio will become the next Tech. Mesia brings the Tech startup studio model to Bio. We internally conceive and vet ideas, and then make pre-seed and seed investments in the best ones. We believe Bio will disrupt every industry, just like software and the internet did. We are interested in Healthcare, Food, Agriculture, Materials and Consumer products. We create practical solutions. We take a Product-Centric approach to venture building. With the evolution of science, we have enough scientific building blocks to enable this approach. Our drive is solving challenges that matter to each and every one of us.
Stages: Seed
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Beauty, Biotechnology, Consumer Goods, Food and Beverage, Health Care, Wellness
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AgSprint
AgSprint is unifying a vast array of resources to support innovation in AgTech. It brings together researchers, regulatory consultants, public or private funders, ag-business experts, and technical resources under one roof. This is enhanced through AgSprint’s powerful on-demand partner network and ecosystem from which assets can be instantly accessed.
Stages: Seed
Location: Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Finance
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Stoneshire Berkeley
Stoneshire Berkeley is a Small Market Private Equity Office based in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, providing capital & consulting services to small-sized businesses across America. Our goal is to partner with businesses to reach their next level of growth. We can assist with capital investment if needed, or help create a company exit strategy with maximum cash in hand. Our Stoneshire Berkeley team of consultants & investment professionals have been successful in increasing company growth and profitability while providing business owners options for their exit plans. At Stoneshire Berkeley, we partner directly with entrepreneurs to understand their businesses and overall objectives. Whether we are providing capital, hold an equity investment in the company or selling the businesses, our mission is to align with companies to unlock hidden value.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Dallas, Texas, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Construction, Consulting, E-Commerce, FinTech, Health Care, IT Infrastructure, Real Estate, Software, Solar
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