Agriculture investors
Targets hard, capital‑intensive sustainability technologies other VCs avoid, bridging solutions from developed markets into China and developing countries (energy, food, health, environment) to build traction back into developed markets. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
NY headquarters plus offices in Accra, Cairo alongside Nairobi combine global funding-space entry with local operator proximity. A key differentiator: ex-Bridgewater/Morgan Stanley venture leaders alongside repeat backer of Africa's B2B e-commerce leaders.
Women-led VC systematically backs clinically rigorous, behaviorally grounded wellbeing nascent-stage companies tackling stigmatized areas—alcohol use disorder, menopause, mental health—using stigma as an investing edge and insisting on consumer-grade UX. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Seed-stage fund founded by Ramtin Naimi whose boom-bust-resurgence background runs an institutionalized super-angel network that orchestrates targeted introductions to top multi-stage funds, boosting Series A graduation. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Seed-stage investor in for-profit emerging ventures building new products or business models to expand high-quality financial services for underserved populations, delivering support to founders. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
A climate-focused agrifood fund evolved from corporate-backed to institutional VC, presenting founders rare food-policy and regulatory expertise through partner Sam Kass. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Formative-stage investor allocating around 80% to breakthrough climate technologies (carbon-negative concrete, atmospheric carbon removal), acting as a first believer through a venture-and-philanthropy platform backed by the Fukutake family. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Is dedicated to impactful businesses aiming to positively transform the world's food system.
Founder GPs who speak a founder's language run formal 90-day Field Study research sprints to pre-identify opportunities and connect emerging ventures to off-balance-sheet institutional real-estate capital and facilities. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Leads mega-rounds for frontier-tech visions; delivers a 150+ person platform (recruiting, marketing, technical); doubles as a media company producing podcasts and research, and pursues aggressive crypto and illiquid-asset investments. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Invests at day zero—pre-idea/pre-team—running 8–10 week residencies across 30+ cities that screen tens of thousands, match co-founders and pressure-test teams before investing. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Spearheaded by a former Google X founder, the firm brings a moonshot lab prototyping philosophy anchored in a structured Triad investment thesis encompassing deep technology, reimagined unit economics, and climate-positive outcomes. It stands out by offering hands-on prototyping assistance and reverse-engineering of unit-economics models for its portfolio.
Established by Arlan Hamilton while homeless, it requires one entrepreneur be a woman, person of color, treats capital allocation as activism, and argues under-the-radar entrepreneurs are mispriced assets create alpha. Notably, or LGBTQ.
Pre-seed investor geared toward India, led by a solo GP with operator and startup-studio experience, dual Pune–San Francisco HQ, 200+ invested companies and intentionally small-and-early focus. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Global alternative-protein accelerator with a five-month program (New York, Singapore, Paris), backing consumer and enabling-technology-driven emerging ventures and extending direct access to incumbents like AAK, Bel, Bühler, Givaudan, Tyson Ventures. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Specialized growth-equity investor in natural and organic CPG providing founders privileged deal flow and distribution insight via Presence Marketing ties and 70+ years of sector-specific operating and deal experience. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Invests very early (seed, $1–3M) with a solo GP enabling rapid decisions, leveraging an operator-heavy LP network for sourcing and delivering data-driven diagnostics plus structured playbooks to find PMF. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Invests from napkin-stage through IPO using an evergreen own-capital model for patient, flexible long-term support; active nascent-stage investor (~180 deals) oriented toward deep bio and frontier software/crypto. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Former senior operators act as de facto cofounders and interim CEOs/CTOs/CMOs/CFOs, running a studio that delivers day-to-day product, engineering, growth, finance and marketing support and a $43M+ follow-on fund. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Seed-stage investor in food tech, health tech, and supply-chain/commerce software that leverages Minnesota Fortune 500 relationships for customer pilots and partnerships, providing food-tech expertise and Google startup-program leadership. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Long 20-year horizon investor requiring portfolio tech to avoid ≥500M tons CO2 annually by 2050, presenting former ARPA‑E scientists' technical expertise and policy/advocacy/deployment ecosystem to validate ambitious climate hardware. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Writes ten $300k–$500k checks annually to startup leaders who relocate to a Chattanooga entrepreneur outpost, living there until $1M annual revenue, portfolio-run operational support. What distinguishes the firm is that it featuring always-on.
Full-stack creative agency acting as lead creative partner targeting U.S. consumer brands, extending naming, packaging. Standing apart by advertising and go-to-space systems driven by a proprietary cultural-insights engine and offering-culture fit frameworks.
Seed and formative-stage lead/co-lead investor backing veteran teams in education, safety & care, and environment/climate, delivering Goldman-level analytical rigor and explicit, quantified impact theses. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Mandated to deploy 75% to Black- and Hispanic-owned, 75% to Chicago's South/West Sides, alongside 50% to women-founded food & beverage businesses. What distinguishes the firm is that it delivering operating support via a ~50-person restaurant group.
SPACE structure blending profit-sharing with equity lets Black entrepreneurs buy back equity as they return multiples, focuses on Black entrepreneur cities, and returns funding by year three via profitability.
Invests at the pre-venture stage, applies a proprietary Villain Test to avoid future-harmful giants, features rapid small grants to de-risk climate ideas, and backs culture-shaping consumer brands. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
The approach combines two elements: early-phase and continuity backer that enters as a first check, alongside leveraging deep cleantech cycles experience alongside multidisciplinary underwriting to backing technically complex hardware-plus-software climate founders through valley of death.
Analytics-driven co-investor making rapid decisions (days–two weeks) using a proprietary predictive model, writing small flexible checks ($100k–$4M) across 100+ companies only alongside leads, avoiding board seats or friction. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Targets companies addressing labor shortages in manufacturing, construction, logistics, and food production; cutting healthcare costs from aging and chronic disease; and enabling sustainable food production for growing populations. With a clear focus on healthcare innovation, the firm brings both capital and domain expertise.
Early, dedicated food and agriculture VC with founder-operators from Monsanto/Dow, a patient, technically sophisticated focus on ag-biotech and food infrastructure, and a 32-land-grant-university evaluation network. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Led by MassRobotics co-founder Fady Saad, the fund leverages deep robotics ecosystem ties, access to founders, corporates and talent, and features playbooks, conferences and business-model rigor for robotics founders. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Targets companies applying modern computation (AI, simulation) to agriculture, mining, manufacturing, health and defense, leveraging partners' hard‑science and national‑security expertise to navigate regulation and dual‑use challenges. With a clear focus on healthcare innovation, the firm brings both capital and domain expertise.
Integrated venture, nonprofit platform, and research arm delivering health-only expertise across human, health tech, and animal health, plus an animal-health franchise with Mars and links to ARPA-H initiatives. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Nascent-stage tech investor led by a founder with a film/entertainment financing lens and foster-care perspective, prioritizing diverse perspectives, ESG and policy advocacy, with a $5M no-fee SPV (min $50K). Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Black- and female-co-founded VC investing in cell-, plant- and fermentation-based food tech, delivering hands-on sales, customer and regulatory support, Harvard Law expertise, 1.9x return, alongside Greylock and General Catalyst. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Earliest-stage Indiana emerging ventures receive hands-on assistance from a team of accomplished operators. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Invests seed–pre‑IPO (and venture debt), giving founders direct access to utility operator decision‑makers and internal research mapping pain points and co‑designing customer‑backed theses for hardware‑heavy grid and industrial decarbonization. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Built and led by Black women operators, this VC invests exclusively in women-of-color–led businesses and leverages the founders' media backgrounds for public advocacy and DEI-focused visibility. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Operator-heavy group of repeat innovators that disproportionately backs pre-product deep-tech moonshots addressing civilization-scale problems, and runs 5050 to assistance scientists become founders. Notably, applies a strict Mr. Burns test.
Pre-seed, first institutional investor (including pre-incorporation) geared toward overlooked emerging markets (Pakistan, Venezuela, Nigeria, Brazil), delivering hyper-operator growth and performance-marketing and hands-on go-to-market experimentation for fintech and marketplaces. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Originating 80–100 explorations per year and founding ProtoCos→NewCos→GrowthCos, as principal organization builder building bioplatforms with in-house discovery engines alongside in‑house drug advancement unit partnered featuring Pfizer alongside Novo Nordisk.
Specialized exclusively in the food worth chain, running as a hands-on studio offering intensive regulatory, scale-up and technical backing (strain advancement, food safety) with an evidence-first methodology.
Invests at seed and early stages in purpose-driven, trailblazing innovators with unique ideas capable of reinventing entire industries. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Seed-stage, nearly two-decade-old firm that writes small initial checks ($50k–$500k) as first investor to pre-traction founders, presenting low-noise support and cross-sector expertise across consumer and infrastructure. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Nascent-stage investor with expertise in female-founded consumer technology companies. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Exclusive synthetic biology investor centered on companies replacing industrial inputs with biology-based alternatives, led by a UCSF-trained PhD cell biologist providing deep research expertise and global Latin America–Europe reach. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Leads early rounds for technically intense AI teams tackling physical-globe, regulated domains (wastewater epidemiology, precision agriculture, industrial robotics), bringing organization builders first‑hand track record commercializing hard AI offerings.
Founded by Natalie Massenet and Nick Brown, the fund targets culture-defining digitally native consumer brands using a customer-wallet, consumer-journey lens, backing underrepresented founders and sustainable, Web3-enabled retail. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Works alongside company builders at the forefront of innovation with a clear vision toward positive change, distinguishing itself by utilizing domain domain knowledge to ensure value creation.
Oakland-based firm investing in industry-transforming emerging ventures that prioritizes building a more fair, just, and equitable society for low-income and underrepresented communities of color. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
An aggressive techno-optimist investor that tolerates ~70% failure to back capital‑intensive, science‑heavy climate, healthcare and deep‑tech bets, embracing extreme technical risk and non‑consensus opportunities. The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Channels investment into emerging restaurant brands transforming food, delivering hands-on strategic guidance from co-founder Dan Rowe's two decades of franchise-scaling experience and early institutional proven history with Sweetgreen and CAVA. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Seed-stage investor for high-growth Upstate New York early-phase companies, unique nonprofit CDFI operating an evergreen seed fund and presenting long-term pro bono mentorship with regional community-impact focus. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Channels investment into consumer internet and SMB tech at breakout growth, uniquely embracing regulation-heavy markets and using deep transaction-level data analysis globally to underwrite 5–10+ year customer durability. With a disciplined investment approach, the team drives value for both founders and investors.
Leads deep-tech, hardware-heavy climate investments across cutting emissions, carbon removal, and time-buying solutions, backing nonprofit research and presenting in-house scientific expertise plus hands-on technical, hiring, and regulatory support. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Nascent-stage, first-in investor focused exclusively on materials science, spinning university tech into emerging ventures and acting as hands-on initial operators to build companies from the lab bench up (≈30 portfolio). The firm continues to build its presence across the venture capital landscape.
Consumer-only investor that leads Series A, runs small funds, uses an 18-month pre-round relationship-building process, and is dedicated to personalized consumer experiences in health, productivity and knowledge. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Seed-stage, female-founded pan–Latin America fund empowering startup founders scale into and out of Brazil with hands-on support, 400+ hiring and 200+ commercial introductions, Slack community and mentoring. Through targeted capital deployment, the fund plays an active role in the startup ecosystem.
Hands-on co-developer for Northern European deeptech climate ventures in sophisticated and biomanufacturing—from university spin-out to scale-up—providing technical and operational backing, shaping commercial roadmap via industrially embedded collaborates, one-organization-at-a-time commitment.