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.
NY headquarters plus offices in Accra, Cairo and Nairobi combine global capital-market access with local operator proximity; ex-Bridgewater/Morgan Stanley founders and repeat backer of Africa's B2B e-commerce leaders.
Women-led VC systematically backs clinically rigorous, behaviorally grounded wellbeing startups tackling stigmatized areas—alcohol use disorder, menopause, mental health—using stigma as an investing edge and insisting on consumer-grade UX.
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.
Seed-stage investor in for-profit startups building new products or business models to expand high-quality financial services for underserved populations, offering support to founders.
A climate-focused agrifood fund evolved from corporate-backed to institutional VC, offering founders rare food-policy and regulatory expertise through partner Sam Kass.
Early-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.
Focuses on impactful companies 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 startups to off-balance-sheet institutional real-estate capital and facilities.
Leads mega-rounds for frontier-tech visions; provides a 150+ person platform (recruiting, marketing, technical); doubles as a media company producing podcasts and research, and pursues aggressive crypto and illiquid-asset investments.
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.
Led by a former Google X founder, they apply a moonshot lab prototyping mindset and formal Triad thesis—deep tech, transformed unit economics, climate-positive outcomes—offering prototyping and unit-economics reverse-engineering.
Founded by Arlan Hamilton while homeless, it requires one founder be a woman, person of color, or LGBTQ, treats capital allocation as activism, and argues underestimated founders are mispriced assets create alpha.
Pre-seed investor focused on India, led by a solo GP with operator and startup-studio experience, dual Pune–San Francisco HQ, 200+ portfolio companies and intentionally small-and-early focus.
Global alternative-protein accelerator with a five-month program (New York, Singapore, Paris), backing consumer and enabling-tech startups and providing direct access to incumbents like AAK, Bel, Bühler, Givaudan, Tyson Ventures.
Specialized growth-equity investor in natural and organic CPG offering founders privileged deal flow and distribution insight via Presence Marketing ties and 70+ years of sector-specific operating and deal experience.
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.
Invests from napkin-stage through IPO using an evergreen own-capital model for patient, flexible long-term support; active early-stage investor (~180 deals) focused on deep bio and frontier software/crypto.
Former senior operators act as de facto cofounders and interim CEOs/CTOs/CMOs/CFOs, running a studio that provides day-to-day product, engineering, growth, finance and marketing support and a $43M+ follow-on fund.
Seed-stage investor in food tech, health tech, and supply-chain/commerce software that leverages Minnesota Fortune 500 relationships for customer pilots and partnerships, offering food-tech expertise and Google startup-program leadership.
Long 20-year horizon investor requiring portfolio tech to avoid ≥500M tons CO2 annually by 2050, offering former ARPA‑E scientists' technical expertise and policy/advocacy/deployment ecosystem to validate ambitious climate hardware.
Writes ten $300k–$500k checks annually to founders who relocate to a Chattanooga founder outpost, living there until $1M annual revenue, with always-on, portfolio-run operational support.
Full-stack creative agency acting as lead creative partner for U.S. consumer brands, providing naming, packaging, advertising and go-to-market systems driven by a proprietary cultural-insights engine and product-culture fit frameworks.
Seed and early-stage lead/co-lead investor backing experienced teams in education, safety & care, and environment/climate, offering Goldman-level analytical rigor and explicit, quantified impact theses.
Mandated to deploy 75% to Black- and Hispanic-owned, 75% to Chicago's South/West Sides, and 50% to women-founded food & beverage companies, offering operating support via a ~50-person restaurant team.
SPACE structure blending profit-sharing with equity lets Black founders buy back equity as they return multiples, targets Black entrepreneur cities, and returns capital by year three through profitability.
Invests at the pre-venture stage, applies a proprietary Villain Test to avoid future-harmful giants, offers rapid small grants to de-risk climate ideas, and backs culture-shaping consumer brands.
Early-stage and continuity backer that enters as a first check, leveraging deep cleantech cycles experience and multidisciplinary underwriting to support 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.
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.
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.
Led by MassRobotics co-founder Fady Saad, the fund leverages deep robotics ecosystem ties, access to founders, corporates and talent, and offers playbooks, conferences and business-model rigor for robotics founders.
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.
Integrated venture, nonprofit platform, and research arm offering health-only expertise across human, health tech, and animal health, plus an animal-health franchise with Mars and links to ARPA-H initiatives.
Early-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).
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.
Earliest-stage Indiana startups receive hands-on assistance from a team of experienced operators.
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.
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.
Operator-heavy team of repeat entrepreneurs that disproportionately backs pre-product deep-tech moonshots addressing civilization-scale problems, applies a strict Mr. Burns test, and runs 5050 to help scientists become founders.
Pre-seed, first institutional investor (including pre-incorporation) focused on overlooked emerging markets (Pakistan, Venezuela, Nigeria, Brazil), offering hyper-operator growth and performance-marketing and hands-on go-to-market experimentation for fintech and marketplaces.
Originating 80–100 explorations per year and founding ProtoCos→NewCos→GrowthCos, as principal founder building bioplatforms with proprietary discovery engines and in‑house drug development unit partnered with Pfizer and Novo Nordisk.
Specialized exclusively in the food value chain, operating as a hands-on studio offering intensive regulatory, scale-up and technical support (strain development, food safety) with an evidence-first approach.
Invests at seed and early stages in purpose-driven, trailblazing entrepreneurs with unique ideas capable of reinventing entire industries.
Seed-stage, nearly two-decade-old firm that writes small initial checks ($50k–$500k) as first investor to pre-traction founders, offering low-noise support and cross-sector expertise across consumer and infrastructure.
Early-stage investor specializing in female-founded consumer technology companies.
Exclusive synthetic biology investor focused on companies replacing industrial inputs with biology-based alternatives, led by a UCSF-trained PhD cell biologist offering deep research expertise and global Latin America–Europe reach.
Leads early rounds for technically intense AI teams tackling physical-world, regulated domains (wastewater epidemiology, precision agriculture, industrial robotics), bringing founders first‑hand experience commercializing hard AI products.
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.
Partners with founders at the forefront of innovation with a clear vision toward positive change, differentiating by leveraging domain expertise to ensure value creation.
Oakland-based firm investing in industry-transforming startups that prioritizes building a more fair, just, and equitable society for low-income and underrepresented communities of color.
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.
Invests in emerging restaurant brands transforming food, offering hands-on strategic guidance from co-founder Dan Rowe's two decades of franchise-scaling experience and early institutional track record with Sweetgreen and CAVA.
Seed-stage investor for high-growth Upstate New York startups, unique nonprofit CDFI operating an evergreen seed fund and offering long-term pro bono mentorship with regional community-impact focus.
Invests in 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.
Leads deep-tech, hardware-heavy climate investments across cutting emissions, carbon removal, and time-buying solutions, backing nonprofit research and offering in-house scientific expertise plus hands-on technical, hiring, and regulatory support.
Early-stage, first-in investor focused exclusively on materials science, spinning university tech into startups and acting as hands-on initial operators to build companies from the lab bench up (≈30 portfolio).
Consumer-only investor that leads Series A, runs small funds, uses an 18-month pre-round relationship-building process, and focuses on personalized consumer experiences in health, productivity and knowledge.
Seed-stage, female-founded pan–Latin America fund helping startups scale into and out of Brazil with hands-on support, 400+ hiring and 200+ commercial introductions, Slack community and mentoring.
Hands-on co-developer for Northern European deeptech climate startups in advanced and biomanufacturing—from university spin-out to scale-up—providing technical and operational support, shaping commercial strategy via industrially embedded partners, one-company-at-a-time commitment.