Participated · Series B · Oct 2025

Agtonomy is a South San Francisco–based software and services company that brings autonomous operation to agriculture, turf, and broader land-maintenance markets. Its physical AI platform is integrated directly into commercial equipment through partnerships with leading original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs), enabling machines to navigate and work autonomously in orchards, vineyards, fields, and managed green spaces. The technology is designed to reduce labor costs, boost safety, and promote more sustainable farming and land-care practices. Agtonomy generates revenue by licensing its software and providing related automation services to OEM partners and end-customers. To date, the company has secured $18 million in Series B funding and counts investors such as DBL Partners, Nuveen, Autotech, Allison Transmission, Rethink Food, and Black Forest Ventures on its cap table. The new capital will be used to enhance the platform’s capabilities, broaden equipment integrations, and scale commercial deployments into adjacent off-road industries.

Participated · Series A · May 2022

Planet FWD builds a carbon-management platform and an emissions-reduction engine that helps consumer brands model GHG Protocol Scope 3 emissions across supply chains and design lower-emission products. The company expanded its capabilities after acquiring CleanMetrics in 2021 and has assembled what it describes as the largest life-cycle analysis database for agricultural production systems in North America. Planet FWD serves about 25 customers, including Kashi, Pangaia, Just Salad, Numi Organic Tea, Healthy Hippo, Toodaloo and Sweet Loren’s. The startup hired a climate science team to expand its data and modeling and is focused on adding more predictive emissions-reduction features to its product. Time-sensitive regulatory and consumer pressures are cited as drivers of demand for its solution. Financially, the company recently raised a $10M Series A and has raised $16.8M to date. Planet FWD launched Moonshot Snacks, a carbon-neutral, organic, kosher, plant-based, non-GMO and no-sugar-added cracker available in sourdough sea salt, rosemary garlic and tomato basil, priced at $5.99 per box. Moonshot Snacks begins shipping via the company's website, will be available December 16 at plastic-free grocer Zero, and has a broader retail launch planned next year. The company sources ingredients from farmers using regenerative agriculture practices and aims to use consumer demand to encourage more farms to adopt those techniques. Planet FWD is alpha testing a carbon impact assessment tool that breaks down greenhouse-gas impact across packaging, ingredients and distribution and recommends ways to reduce emissions. The startup plans additional products such as cookies and chips, with a roadmap driven by supply-chain opportunities to convert farms to regenerative practices. Financially, Planet FWD announced an additional $2.5 million in funding led by Emerson Collective, Concrete Rose, MCJ Collective and Arlan Hamilton, on top of $2.7 million announced earlier this year, bringing announced funding to $5.2 million; investors also include BBG Ventures, January Ventures and Kapor Capital. Planet FWD builds a climate-friendly food platform and snack brand focused on ingredients sourced from regenerative agriculture. The company has assembled an exhaustive library of farms practicing regenerative techniques and is building software to codify and map that information. Its software is powering the startup’s food production pipeline. Planet FWD’s first product is a cracker scheduled to launch later this year, with chips planned next. The company’s mission is to demonstrate consumer demand for climate-friendly products and to encourage more farmers to adopt regenerative practices. Planet FWD recently closed seed funding to support these efforts.

Participated · Series B · Jun 2021

Motif FoodWorks is a Boston-based food technology company led by CEO Jonathan McIntyre that aims to make plant-based foods taste better and be more nutritious. Originally spun out of Ginkgo Bioworks in 2019, the company develops ingredients and technologies for plant-based cheese and meat applications. It has secured licensing partnerships with the University of Guelph and Coasun Inc. for technologies that create melting and stretching characteristics in plant-based cheeses, and for fat alternatives that marbleize plant-based meats. The company recently opened a 10,600 sq. ft. office and lab in Boston's Seaport neighborhood. Motif raised $226M in a Series B to expand research and development, scale and commercialize its technologies, and grow its people and facilities footprint. The funding is intended to accelerate commercialization of its product portfolio and support expansion efforts. Motif Ingredients, now operating as Motif FoodWorks, is an ingredients innovation company focused on discovering ingredients that improve human health and animal welfare while reducing the environmental impact of animal agriculture. The company is based in Boston, MA. It announced $27.5M in funding and a rebrand to Motif FoodWorks. With the new funding, Motif plans to add to and accelerate its product pipeline, expand academic collaborations across molecular food science disciplines, scale its science and regulatory staff, and deepen its research and development efforts. The company recently added three senior management hires: Janet Collins as Head of Regulatory, Government and Industry Affairs; Julie Post-Smith as Director of Business Development; and Morgan Keim as Business Development Manager. Jon McIntyre serves as CEO. Motif Ingredients is a Ginkgo Bioworks spinoff focused on developing proteins via biotechnology and fermentation to serve as meat and dairy replacements. The company aims to produce affordable, sustainable ingredients for food and beverage brands, chefs, and consumers. Ginkgo will retain a minority stake and provide engineering, design, and initial R&D support on roughly six to nine product lines. Motif will pay Ginkgo cost plus a slight overhead for ingredients and manufacturing services. Jonathan McIntyre, a longtime food-and-beverage R&D veteran, is leading the company. Motif began forming around February–March 2018 and plans to bring its first products to market within the next two years. The company has raised financing to accelerate development and commercialization.