Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

BioScout builds an AI-powered early warning platform that captures and analyzes airborne crop pathogens before visible field damage occurs. Its automated hardware uses an active wind vane to trap airborne particles onto an internal adhesive tape, which is then positioned beneath a high-resolution robotic microscope for imaging. Proprietary machine learning models analyze the physical morphology of over 40 distinct agricultural threats, including Alternaria and Downy Mildew. The company currently operates a global automated sensor network of about 250 units and plans to scale to 1,000 active deployments by 2029. BioScout intends to expand commercially across Europe and enter the Brazilian soybean market. The company is led by founder and CEO Dr. Lewis Collins and recently raised A$6.75m (US$4.8m) in Seed funding.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

Calice develops computational modeling and AI-driven "virtual trials" that simulate plant–environment–management interactions to predict product performance across climates and regions. Its platform combines environmental sequences with client-provided performance data to reduce the number of physical field experiments and shorten product development timelines; the company reports being able to model future years from one or two years of data and to identify more commercial candidates using fewer test sites. Calice works with major agricultural companies including Syngenta, BASF, Corteva, GDM, TMG, Nufarm, Nuseed and Puna.bio across crops such as soybean, corn, wheat, cotton, sugarcane, barley, canola, carinata, potato and sorghum, with discussions underway for horticulture. Founded in 2022, the company has expanded into Brazil and the United States and employs just over 20 professionals, mainly scientists and agronomists. Financially, it completed a roughly $1 million pre-seed and a $2.5 million seed round to fund expansion, and management plans additional fundraising to accelerate growth.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2026

PlasmaLeap designs, manufactures and sells modular plasma reactors that synthesize ammonia and nitric acid from air, water and renewable power, eliminating the fossil-fuel inputs and heavy transport normally required for nitrogen fertiliser production. Spun out of the University of Sydney, the company targets on-farm or local hub installations that cut growers’ input costs, lower supply-chain risk and slash CO₂ emissions from fertiliser manufacturing, transport and field losses—an impact area that accounts for roughly 2.5 % of global industrial emissions. Its platform is also being engineered to make e-fuels, synthetic hydrocarbons and other industrial chemicals, opening pathways to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors like energy and transport. PlasmaLeap is currently progressing first-of-a-kind fertiliser hubs in New South Wales and Tasmania and expanding field trials to validate commercial performance. Management expects the solution to generate high-quality carbon credits and improve national food security by shielding farmers from global price shocks. Financially, the company has just secured almost A$30 million (US$20 million) in Series A capital to fund these deployments and further R&D, adding to earlier grants such as support from the Gates Foundation.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2024

Peptobiotics is an agricultural-technology solutions provider focused on recombinant antimicrobial peptide technology. The company’s technology is aimed at reducing dependence on antibiotics in the livestock and aquaculture sectors. Peptobiotics announced an oversubscribed $6.2 million Series A financing. The round was led by Hatch Blue via its Blue Revolution Fund. Existing investors including Trendlines Agrifood Fund, Ponderosa Ventures, The Yield Lab Asia Pacific, Seeds Capital, Seventure Partners, GrainCorp Ventures and Farmabase participated. No operating metrics, founding year, or location were disclosed in the article.

Led · Series A · Jul 2023

ZoomAgri offers a SaaS platform that uses AI to determine variety and quality of cereals and oilseeds, supporting testing, inspection, certification and traceability across Agri & Food supply chains. Its AI models are powered by an image database of more than 250 million individual images. The company serves exporters, processors, grain handlers, seed companies, surveyors and laboratories and has customers in over 25 countries. ZoomAgri has offices in Argentina, Brazil, Australia and Spain and is headquartered in Madrid. The startup plans to use new funding to accelerate product development and to expand operations into Canada and the United States in the coming months. Financially, it completed a $6M Series A that brought total capital raised to $11M. ZoomAgri offers a "vision-as-a-service" (VaaS) platform that combines computer vision, machine learning and IoT to digitize testing, inspection and certification (TIC) in agricultural commodities and food. Its first product, ZoomBarley, launched in 2018 and determines the purity of malting barley in real time; it is available on five continents and used by customers including AB InBev, Boortmalt, Soufflet, InVivo, Malteurop, Estrella Damm, Holland Malt, Malteria Oriental, Avangard Malz and Ireks. The company also sells ZoomAgriSpex to assess the physical quality of grains and oilseeds in real time, targeting classification errors, delays, subjectivity, fraud and high costs. ZoomAgri ships hardware to users at zero initial cost and monetizes via per-analysis fees or a monthly unlimited plan. It serves customers across 18 countries and maintains a database of over 100 million unique images of various grains and oilseeds. Headquartered in Spain and mainly operating in Argentina, ZoomAgri positions its tools as a way to improve supply-chain efficiency, traceability and reduce waste and resource use.