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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Advantage Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1992 and headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, with additional offices across the United States. The firm specializes in equity and debt investments, including growth equity, senior and subordinated debt, and mezzanine financing, with a focus on small businesses and underserved communities. It collaborates with state and federal economic programs to support local economic development and has financed companies in sectors such as manufacturing, technology, business services, energy, and agribusiness, including renewable and solar projects. The firm targets opportunities across growth stages and aims to create lasting economic impact by expanding opportunity in low-income areas through private investment and public-private partnerships.
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.
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.
Agri Investment Fund is a private equity firm based in Leuven, Belgium, founded in 2007. It makes growth, buyout, equity, and venture investments in the agriculture, farming, and food sectors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3one4 Capital is a Bangalore-based early-stage venture capital firm that backs technology-led startups in India and the United States. The firm focuses on themes including SaaS, fintech, digital health, consumer internet, enterprise automation, and related adjacencies, with an emphasis on large, growing markets and distinctive product-market fit. It pursues a deep-involvement approach, collaborating with founders and domain experts to refine strategy, build defensible businesses, and accelerate revenue growth and impact. With a portfolio of over 80 companies and a substantial corpus and assets under management, 3one4 Capital supports portfolio companies through strategic guidance, operational resources, and cross-border insights designed to expand market reach and value creation.
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.
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.
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.
Hiventures is a venture capital investment firm headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. It backs startups across multiple sectors and supports high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises, with the aim of fostering a sustainable and competitive SME and enterprise ecosystem in Hungary and the broader Central and Eastern Europe region. The firm is described as one of the largest and most active venture capital partners in Central and Eastern Europe.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Terra Venture Partners is an Israeli venture capital firm founded in 2006 and based in Jerusalem. It operates as a multi‑stage fund that invests in early‑stage and growth opportunities, with a focus on clean technology, sustainability and related sectors. The firm backs companies in energy, healthcare, transportation, and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy storage, water technologies, and environmental solutions, as well as internet, software and IoT ventures that have environmental or efficiency benefits. Terra Venture Partners aims to accelerate Israeli innovations by providing strategic guidance, partnerships and active support through the growth journey and often leads investments, helping portfolio companies scale from pre‑seed to later stages.
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.
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.
Atooro Fund is an Israeli venture capital firm based in Tel Aviv that focuses on seed- and early-stage investments in technology-driven startups. It aims to support innovative entrepreneurs and help them build global companies, investing across sectors including information technology, cybersecurity, bioinformatics, biology, agriculture and food technology, space, quantum and perceptual computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as natural language processing, computer vision, speech recognition and hacking-prevention solutions.
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.
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.
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.
Northpond Ventures is a science-driven venture capital firm headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, with additional offices in San Francisco and Cambridge. Founded in 2018, the firm invests in life sciences and technology companies across biotechnology, diagnostics, digital health, environmental technologies, and related industries, including AI and machine learning-enabled therapeutics and medical technologies. It targets growth capital and early-stage opportunities, providing capital and strategic support to help scientific innovations reach the market. The firm operates as a registered investment adviser.
BDC Venture Capital is a major Canadian venture capital investor that supports technology-based startups from seed through expansion. It provides financing, consulting services and securitization to help build strong Canadian businesses, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises and high growth potential. Established in 1975, it has invested in more than 400 companies spanning life sciences, telecommunications, information technology and advanced technologies, aiming to help Canadian companies become dominant players in their markets.
TDK Corporation is a global electronics components manufacturer founded in 1935 and rooted in magnetic materials. It was an early pioneer of ferrite and evolved into a major supplier of magnetic recording heads for hard disk drives. Today it supplies capacitors, inductors, ferrites, power supplies and other passive components, as well as sensors and MEMS devices, following the 2017 acquisition of InvenSense which broadened its MEMS portfolio. The company serves automotive, information and communications technology, industrial and consumer electronics markets through a worldwide network of sales, engineering and R&D. It leverages its materials expertise to expand its magnetic sensor business for mobile devices and automobiles, and maintains a global presence to support design and manufacturing across industries.
Cultivian Sandbox Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage agriculture and food technology companies globally. It leverages a hands-on approach, serving as an active board member and advising on strategy, leadership, and capital formation to help portfolio companies scale. The firm draws on the combined expertise of Cultivian Ventures and Sandbox Industries, along with a broad industry network and strategic partnerships, to drive value and accelerate exits in the agriculture and food sectors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Segra International is a plant biotechnology company focused on cannabis, with capabilities in industrial-scale plant micropropagation and plant tissue culture. It develops standardized cannabis tissue culture plantlets and provides DNA fingerprinting services to licensed producers worldwide, enabling scalable production of healthy, robust plant material. Headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, the company was founded in 2014 and operates laboratories to support cannabis genetics and cultivation, delivering plantlets suitable for commercial propagation and regulatory compliance.
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.