Meet Typcal cofounders Dr. Eduardo Bittencourt Sydney (left) and Paulo Ibri (right), who are blazing a trail in the Latin American market with mycoprotein which they claim grows more rapidly, on a broader range of feedstocks, than competitive fungi strains... #altmeat #alternativeprotein #biomassfermentation #foodtech #fungi #meatalternatives #mycelium #Brazil #LatinAmerica #LATAM
AgFunder
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
San Francisco, California 43,055 followers
AgFunder invests in exceptional founders transforming food & agriculture. #agrifoodtech #food #health #agriculture
About us
AgFunder is a Bay Area VC firm investing in exceptional and bold entrepreneurs who are aiming to build the next generation of great food tech and agtech companies. AgFunder has $170m AUM and invests pre-seed to Series A with $500k - $5m checks. AgFunder also runs AgFunderNews (AFN) a publication which has a full time media team, with nearly 5,000 article written. To learn more we can be reached at [email protected]
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https://linkin.bio/agfunder
External link for AgFunder
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Privately Held
- Specialties
- Agriculture, Networking, Investment, and Crowdfunding
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845 Market St
San Francisco, California, US
Employees at AgFunder
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Tom Shields
I work on things that matter with people I care about. Mostly doing CEO/CTO coaching and advisory work.
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Cliff Hinrichs
Venture Investor | ex-Google | INSEAD MBA
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John F. Diener
CEO Vertical Oceans | AgFunder Mentor | Trendlines Investment Committee
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Frank Leffelaar
Agri-food Tech Strategy & Growth, Mentor, Connector, Board Advisor, Angel & Impact Community Supporter, Transformative Innovation, Sustainability…
Updates
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🌱 Superfruit specialist Agrovision closes $100m round with $1bn+ valuation after period of ‘meteoric growth’ 🌱 Applied Carbon rakes in $21.5m Series A to sequester carbon at scale via biochar 🌱 Leaf Agriculture raises $11.3m Series A to build ‘the lingua franca’ of ag data 🌱 Minimally processed alt meat startup Millow.co nets $2.6m EIC grant, plans new facility 🌱 Blue Tree Technologies Ltd. nets $2.26m to expand sugar reduction tech for beverages 🌱 Shiru and Ajinomoto Co., Inc. team up on AI-powered sweet protein discovery journey 🌱 From stealth to shelf: Diamond Brew™’s instant coffee breakthrough 🌱 ReaGenics deploys plant cell culture to create potato biomass with 31% protein content 🌱 Cultivated meat is down but not out, says meat industry veteran and new CEO at Meatable 🌱 Yeast-powered RNAi is the future of precision pest management, says Renaissance BioScience Corp. Read The Week In AgriFoodTech ➡ https://lnkd.in/gMdR8f6b Subscribe to The Week In AgriFoodTech ➡ https://lnkd.in/gazfFNTV #agtech #agritech #foodtech #carbon #agriculture #protein #altprotein #altmeat #sugar #sugarreduction #foodwaste #fermentation #microbiome
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Meet the winners of FoodShot Global’s latest innovation challenge, which focused on water – and how tech can help protect water as a resource for food and agriculture... #agbiotech #aquaculture #smallholderfarmers #water #waterconservation Laura Condon | Daniel Russek | Atarraya Inc | Alexandra Pounds | ThinkAqua
A quarter of the planet faces extremely high water stress. Meet the innovators trying to change that
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Meet Fashol co-founders Sakib Hossain and Numair Hussain, whose entrepreneurial journey has evolved from selling a few chickens during Covid-19 to launching a Bangladeshi agribusiness marketplace that stabilizes food prices and reduces food waste. Members of AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator Cohort 5, they caught up with AFNs’ Jennifer Marston to talk origin story, streamlining supply chains and raising $1M in 2023. #goGROW #AgFunder #agribusiness #agribusinessmarketplaces, #producers #smallholderfarmers #supplychain
Bangladesh’s Fashol tackles the agrifood supply chain to stabilize food prices for farmers and reduce food waste
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“Cultivated meat and seafood can be made to order, it doesn’t have the issues with land, water, disease… avian flu, swine flu, animal welfare, antibiotics… it can address the issues that consumers care about and have already shown they will pay extra for, so if we can do it efficiently, why wouldn’t people buy it?” - Jeff Tripician, CEO Meatable. #alternativeprotein #cellularagriculture #cultivatedmeat #meat #meatalternatives #USA
Cultivated meat is down but not out, says meat industry veteran and new CEO at Meatable
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Renaissance BioScience Corp.'s "simple and elegant solution" enables RNA to be stored at ambient temperatures for lengthy periods and helps prevent it from degrading rapidly in the field, plus it doesn’t lose its efficacy when mixed with other crop inputs such as herbicides or fungicides or adjuvants. #biopesticide #biologicals #biologicalinputs #cropprotection #RNA #pestcontrol #potatobeetle John Husnik
Yeast-powered RNAi is the future of precision pest management, says Renaissance Bioscience
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This week in agrifoodtech: https://lnkd.in/gANYW8te 🌱 Monarch Tractor bags record $133m, eyes global expansion for its all-electric, autonomous machines 🌱 Exclusive: InnerPlant bags $30m Series B led by its ‘ideal investors’: an alliance of North American farmers 🌱 The 7 biggest farm robotics deals of 2024 so far 🌱 Edison Agrosciences lands fresh funds to make natural rubber from sunflower crops 🌱 InnerPlant raises $30m Series B led by its ‘ideal investors’: an alliance of North American farmers 🌱 Micropep Technologies raises $29m in Series B funding 🌱 Portuguese seafood company Oceano Fresco secures €17M for sustainable aquaculture 🌱 NoPalm Ingredients bags €5M to produce sustainable palm oil alternative #agtech #foodtech #agritech #agrifoodtech #autonomousmachines #robotics #aquaculture #palmoil #soilhealth #biome #deeptech #altmeat #altprotein
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We're hiring a dynamic and driven individual to join our AgFunder team as a Marketing and Community Manager. This unique role combines elements of investor relations, portfolio support, and marketing & communications, with a special emphasis on our Japanese stakeholders and market opportunities. Ideally based in Japan or Singapore (although we're open to exploring remote working arrangements) this is the perfect role for someone who's excited about fostering community engagement, building strategic relationships, and supporting the world’s most exciting startups. Link to application form in the job ad. #marketing #communications #recruitment #partnerships #strategicrelationships #stakeholdermanagement #AgFunder #Japan #Singapore
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Known as the “Glastonbury of the farming world,” UK regenerative ag festival Groundswell Agriculture attracts a diverse audience of players from across the agriculture and food value chain and is an invaluable resource for investors looking to understand the realities of agricultural practices on the ground, and to forge relationships with pioneering regenerative farmers. Groundswell 2024 attendee and guest columnist Alessia Lenders shares four key takeaways for investors from this year's event... #farmers #foodevent #soil #soilhealth #sustainability #farming #agriculture #plantbiology #regenerativeagriculture #regenag #UK
Guest article: Lessons for regenerative agriculture investors from Groundswell 2024
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"Our VC platform is like no other, integrating AI, news, and an exceptional team to dive deeper into technologies that drive growth and human progress," said Partner Manuel E. Gonzalez as AgFunder announced it had closed its fourth early-stage fund. Rob Leclerc, PhD | Michael Dean | Louisa Burwood-Taylor | Tom Shields | Andrew Finkelstein, MBA | John Friedman | Angela Tay | Ryan Lee | Sofía Ramírez Calvo | Elaine Watson | Jennifer Marston | Quinten Eggink #investmentfund #fundclose #deeptech #agrifoodtech #agriculture #food #health #agtech #agritech #foodtech #AgFunder #AgFunderNews
AgFunder VC closes Fund IV oversubscribed on $102m, reveals deep tech portfolio focus
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