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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 Early Stage Venture 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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Finistere Ventures
Finistere Ventures is an agricultural technology and life sciences venture capital investor. Founded in 2005, the company partners with other entrepreneurs and creative thinkers to build innovative companies that have the potential to transform modern agriculture, increase food security, improve nutrition, and enhance sustainability. Their applied experience as operators, and pioneering role in Ag Tech, is actively utilized to benefit its portfolio companies and Partners. Finistere has global access to the best new technologies from centers of Ag Tech excellence in the U.S., Australia, Israel, New Zealand, and Canada through its venture partner networks. Finistere’s locations in San Diego and Palo Alto, California keeps them connected to the centers of mainstream venture investment and the world’s leading innovation ecosystem.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: San Diego, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology, Venture Capital
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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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Greenhouse Capital Partners
Greenhouse Capital Partners is a growth capital firm investing in high growth companies with established business models promoting health and sustainability within the areas of food, agriculture and the environment. The firm believes that an economic revolution is underway, powered by technology and simultaneously shaped by evolving system needs, that is rapidly changing the way we produce, move and consume goods. Greenhouse is at the forefront of investing in this wave of change and partners with values driven teams creating real products built to stand the test of time.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Sausalito, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Industrial, Internet of Things, Venture Capital, Waste Management, Water
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DCVC Bio
DCVC Bio is a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage life science companies driven by deep-tech approaches. Advances in genetic sequencing, artificial intelligence, and automation are converging to transform existing life sciences technologies and speed the development of new ones. The firm is looking for companies affecting deep technological change in synthetic biology, medicine, and agriculture. DCVC Bio was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Biotechnology, Life Science
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Acre Venture Partners
Driven by a mission to redefine food, Acre invests in companies creating systemic change in the food system to address the growing problems of human and environmental health. Acre makes venture-stage investments in highly disruptive platform business across the food value chain, with a particular focus on the agriculture, food tech and consumer verticals. Taken together, these investments have the ability to form the foundation of an integrated new approach to food system evolution.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Venture Capital
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Pontifax AgTech
Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (“Pontifax AgTech”) is a pioneering growth capital investor in food and agriculture technology. We invest globally in growing businesses that improve agricultural productivity, nutrition, health, sustainability and supply chain efficiency.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Venture Capital
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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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Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley
Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley is a venture capital firm that invests in the robotics, food, and AgTech industry. The firm invests in early-stage companies that have product and customer validation. Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley (YMVSV) was founded in 2015 by Hiro Saijou and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, Automotive, Food and Beverage, Transportation, Wellness
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Material Impact Fund
Material Impact Fund seeks out transformative technologies and builds them into valuable products and enduring companies that solve real-world problems. Material Impact is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Industries: Advanced Materials, AgTech, Industrial Manufacturing, Robotics, Space Travel, Sustainability, Venture Capital, Water
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Tekfen Ventures
Tekfen Ventures invests in early-stage companies that have uniquely impactful technologies and business models we believe will change the world. Our primary investment focus is in industrial and enterprise software and hardware technologies. As the corporate venture arm of Tekfen Holdings, a multinational industrial conglomerate, they leverage their unique assets and resources to be a true partner and strategic ally to their portfolio companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: New York, New York, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Building Material, Construction, Finance, Industrial, Industrial Automation, Industrial Manufacturing, Real Estate
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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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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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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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Fifteen Group
Fifteen Group is a private investment firm based in Miami, Florida. The firm has two primary investment divisions: real estate and corporate investments. The firm’s corporate investment activities focus on providing venture, growth, or buyout capital to companies in the following industries: software and technology, tech-enabled business services, consumer services, food and beverage, health & wellness, natural resources, cannabis, water rights, and agriculture services and technology. The firm’s real estate investment activities focus on opportunity-driven, value-added acquisition and development projects across all major real estate asset classes. The firm was founded in 1992 and has an additional office in Los Angeles, California.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Miami, Florida, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, FinTech, Food and Beverage, Information Technology, Natural Resources, SaaS, Software, Wellness
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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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North West Quadrant Ventures ( NWQ Ventures)
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Parker, Colorado, United States, North America
Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Consumer Goods, Farming, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Health Care, Life Science, Software
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Northern Plains Fund
Northern Plains Fund brings together the great entrepreneurial ideas with those who can provide the resources to help them grow. The investment firm emphasis on the following industries of Agtech, e-commerce, healthcare, manufacturing, technology, biosciences, and financial technology. The goal of the Northern Plains Fund is to produce substantial returns for participating fund partners through successful investments and exits from seed and early-stage companies located in the Northern Plains.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Moorhead, Minnesota, United States, North America
Industries: AgTech, FinTech, Health Care, Manufacturing, Venture Capital
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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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