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S2G

1101 W Fulton Market Fl 2, Chicago, Illinois, 60607, United States

Overview

S2G Ventures is a food and agriculture venture fund that invests in entrepreneurs whose products and services meet the shifting demands for healthy and sustainable food. The firm's mission is to catalyze innovation to meet consumer demands for healthy, sustainable, and local food. S2G will identify sectors across the food system that are ripe for change, and form a multi-stage portfolio including seed, venture, and growth-stage investments. It seeks to invest in agriculture, ingredients, infrastructure and logistics, food safety and technology, retail and restaurants, and consumer brands. S2G Ventures was established in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Total investments
139
Lead investments
66
Investments · 12mo
11
Active investors
14

Sector focus

  • Agriculture
  • Financial Services
  • Food and Beverage
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • SWARM Engineering

    Led · Series A · Jun 2026

    SWARM Engineering builds operational AI that combines domain-trained intelligent agents and optimization algorithms to deliver verified, auditable decisions for supply chain, workforce, and logistics in agrifood and manufacturing. Its platform is built on an operational ontology for these industries, ingests real-time data, preserves institutional knowledge, and runs scenario simulations across thousands of variables in minutes. SWARM says customers compress planning cycles, simulate hundreds of logistics and supply scenarios quickly, and gain cross-functional visibility not provided by legacy planning tools. The company serves leading global brands across the U.S., Latin America, and Europe and has been recognized by AgTech Breakthrough in 2024 and 2025. Leadership includes veterans from Microsoft, Palantir, Google, and UiPath, and the company recently added Jason Trusley of Land O'Lakes to its advisory board. Post-financing plans include expanding use cases, scaling go-to-market efforts, and deepening ERP and supply-chain integrations.

  • In-Charge Energy

    Led · Equity · Jun 2026

    InCharge Energy operates one of North America’s largest multi-brand EV charger service networks and manages more than 30,000 charging assets for customers such as fleet operators, school districts, and municipalities. The company combines software, infrastructure deployment, maintenance, and field services under a single platform called InControl, which provides real-time charger visibility, remote diagnostics, network management, continuous monitoring, AI-driven issue resolution, fleet operations support, and energy monitoring. InControl also supports management of battery energy storage systems, solar installations, transformers, switchgear, electrical distribution equipment, and lighting systems, and consolidates asset monitoring, lifecycle management, warranty tracking, service contracts, and preventative maintenance. InCharge differentiates through a nationwide technician network and says roughly 80% of charger issues can be resolved remotely via its platform. The company plans to use new investment to grow its technician workforce and service coverage, accelerate InControl development, and expand into broader energy solutions. Leadership frames the strategy as an evolution from EV charging entry-point to a full energy solutions provider addressing more complex customer needs.

  • Miraterra

    Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

    Miraterra develops a soil intelligence platform that integrates geospatial tools, a proprietary soil DNA library, the Digitizer Raman‑spectroscopy device, and AI to translate biological and chemical soil data into actionable insights. The company acquired Trace Genomics’ assets in 2025, bringing additional IP, analytical tools and a laboratory in Ames, Iowa into its operations. Miraterra plans to expand measurement capabilities beyond soil to include plants and food and to scale global operations and partnerships across the agricultural value chain. The company says prior funding supported the launch of its Digitizer device and that its new C$16 million round will accelerate commercial rollout and deepen its AI and data science capabilities. Miraterra positions itself as a provider of high‑confidence, affordable measurement for farmers, food producers and policymakers to support productivity, nutrition and soil health.

  • Evergreen Connect

    Participated · Equity · Feb 2026

    Evergreen Select, formerly known as Omeat, develops a cultivated beef platform that aims to deliver fresh, 100% beef without antibiotics, GMOs, or artificial inputs. The company positions its technology as an infrastructure solution that stabilizes supply chains by ensuring consistent quality, taste, texture, and pricing. Rather than targeting the consumer directly, Evergreen pursues a partnership-driven, B2B go-to-market strategy, collaborating with meat distributors in the United States and Singapore to launch blended ground-beef products. Management states that the firm is well advanced in regulatory reviews in both regions and will use new funds to complete due diligence and secure approvals in the near term. Evergreen’s cultivated beef is intended to integrate seamlessly into existing meat-production workflows, helping partners mitigate price volatility and supply shocks. To date, the company has raised more than $55 million to validate and scale its cost-competitive platform, underscoring investor confidence despite a constrained fundraising climate.

  • Apeiron Labs

    Led · Series A · Feb 2026

    Founded in 2022 by former In-Q-Tel CTO Ravi Pappu, Apeiron Labs develops three-foot-long, 20-pound autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) capable of cycling 400 m up and down the water column once or twice per day to sample temperature, salinity and acoustics. Each AUV links to a cloud-based operating system that predicts resurfacing points, uploads sensor readings and refines ocean models on every dive. The cylinders can be launched from boats, airplanes and existing U.S. Navy launchers, allowing rapid, low-cost deployment in lines or arrays spaced 10–20 km apart for high-resolution coverage. Apeiron sells the data and hardware to both civilian markets such as fisheries, offshore wind developers and meteorologists, and to defense customers interested in persistent maritime monitoring. Pappu says the system already reduces the cost of ocean data collection by 100-fold and aims to achieve a 1,000-fold reduction next year. The company positions itself as a “CubeSat for the ocean,” envisioning fleets of dozens or hundreds of units providing continuous sensing. To date, Apeiron Labs has secured $29 million in venture financing, most recently closing a $9.5 million Series A round to scale manufacturing and sales of its AUVs.

Team

  • Chuck Templeton

    Co-Founder and Managing Director

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  • Sanjeev Krishnan

    Founder, Managing Director & CIO

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  • Hilary Vogelbaum

    Investment Analyst

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  • Marisa C. Sweeney

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