List of the 400 largest AgTech Venture Capital Investors [2023]

List of 3 important AgTech venture capital investors

The digitalized world is taking over and optimizing processes in all sectors. Thus, AgTech (=Agricultural Technology) describes the use of technology in the agriculture sector. Innovations ranging from robots and mechanization to biological materials and new agricultural systems. The market for AgTech is expanding rapidly and so are start-ups and businesses with new ideas. This article highlights three interesting AgTech venture capital investors from our curated AgTech VC funds list.

 1. SP Ventures (Brazil)

SP Ventures is a Brazil-based VC investment firm that strives to find new approaches for challenges facing our world, such as climate change, decreasing natural resources and inequality. The company invests in early-stage businesses that focus on technology driven solutions for agriculture and food across Latin America. Genica, for example, is a portfolio company that focuses on the development and distribution of biological pesticides and Adeagro is a software, which measures the future and past production of rural properties in real time.

 2. AgriTech (Poland)

With over 370 AgTech-related keywords on their website, AgriTech, is one of the leading VC funds in this sector, and the first and only such fund in Poland. They invest in research and development projects in early- and late-stage businesses and choose to support innovations all the way to the commercial end customer. A promising company in their portfolio is Plantalux, a family enterprise from the Lublin region that invented an LED lamp that is essential for photosynthesis and allows almost all electricity to be converted into light that is then absorbed by the plants.

3. Nordic Foodtech VC (Finland)

Nordic Foodtech VC was founded in 2020 in Helsinki. They have set the goal to transform the global food system for health, the climate, and the planet. They attempt to solve the underlying problems in farming using new technologies, scientific discoveries, and engineering.  The fund consists of 42 million € that can be invested in approximately 20 companies in the Nordics and Baltics. Companies they have funded so far are, for example, Chromologics, a company developing natural food colors through fungal fermentation, and Tracegrow, a business researching organic fertilizers made from used batteries.

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Included information in our AgTech investor list

Our keyword analysis-based list include the following general columns:

• Name of the VC fund
• Country of origin
• URL
• E-mail (general)
• Investment focus (if data available)
• Corporate VC (yes/no)

The following columns are based on the keyword crawler, which is a Python-based, in-house developed tool that crawls every page for at least 45 seconds to find the respective keywords.

• total_frequency (e.g.: 460) – total counted occurrences of keywords on the VC website
• average_keyword_rate (e.g. 0.02) – average rate of keyword occurrences per subpage in relation with total number of words
• most_common_keyword (e.g. „agritech“) – keyword that was counted the most often on respective VC website
• most_common_keyword_frequency (e.g. 655) – number of times the most common keyword was counted
• sub_url_highest_rate (e.g. https://www.spventures.com.br././#comp-kx4oyc5n) – sub url with the highest number of found keywords
• highest_rate (e.g. 0.15) – highest keyword rate per subpage
• frequency_per_keyword: {‘agtech’: 21, ‘agritech’: 210, ‘agriculture’: 96, ‘farming’: 34, ‘indoor farming’: 0, ‘vertical farming’: 0, ‘crop science’: 0, ‘crop protection’: 0, ‘precision farming’: 0, ‘farming systems’: 0, ‘farm robots’: 0, ‘soil’: 2, ‘irrigation’: 0, ‘harvest management’: 0, ‘farm management’: 0, ‘crop health’: 0} – dictionary of number of keyword occurrences per keyword

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Results of our keyword analysis

In the next paragraph, we are focusing on insights derived from our keyword research, which was based on our list of the 2,500 largest VC investors worldwide.

Percentage of VC funds that invest in AgTech

Our keyword crawler analyzed more than 2,500 venture capital funds regarding AgTech investment keywords. We found out that 23.2 % of the global VC funds mention AgTech, agriculture, farming, and other related areas like soil and irrigation.

Focus on Agriculture, AgTech, and farming

This bar chart shows the most important keywords from our keyword search, however most companies use the keyword Agriculture or AgTech to refer to the sector.