Our FoodTech & AgTech Investments

Rounds of funding by Germin8

Series B

ranch management software for efficient, profitable and sustainable livestock production

AgriWebb, through its ranch management software and data, empowers farmers, ranchers and others in the beef supply chain (animal feed, health, financing and meat processing) to visualize, connect, and leverage actionable business insights to inform a more profitable, efficient, traceable and sustainable future for meat production.

AgriWebb is the first to put the cow in the cloud and optimize the interoperable productivity and health of the herd, pasture and rancher. Today, over 19 million head are being managed by more than 16,000 farmers across more than 136 million acres on AgriWebb’s global SaaS platform and its users have users have seen livestock production performance increases of +20% through the use of the software. Industry-leading packers, processors, financiers and other stakeholders are also subscribing to AgriWebb’s data ecosystem. Meanwhile, as a result of its data collection for maximizing productive grassland grazing, AgriWebb has also generated the world’s largest ground truth database for carbon credits and regenerative grazing sequestration. 

AgriWebb is proving that livestock production and sustainable stewardship do not have to be at odds.

Rounds of funding by Germin8

Series A

Empowering Microbes With Breakthrough Seed Integration

Andes uses synthetic biology tools and nature’s finest to enable the broad use of microbial technology for positive action against climate change. Its integrated platform uses a breakthrough delivery method, Microprime™, which is based on the use of seeds as safe vessels for microbes and a unique set of microbial strains, each working as a chassis for enhanced features. This seamless and stable integration allows any grower around the globe to harness the power of microbial technology as never experienced before.

Andes has developed the world’s first true integration between seeds and microbes and its first products reliably drive biological nitrogen fixation, enabling crops to draw down nitrogen from the air instead of relying on synthetic nitrogen fertilizers. Additionally, Andes is  developing microbial strains for nature-based permanent carbon capture solutions, among others.

Rounds of funding by Germin8

Seed
Series A
Series B

Harvesting Nature’s Intelligence

Brightseed™ applies advanced computational intelligence to map nature’s wealth of bioactive phytonutrients that promote health and wellness. Brightseed’s discovery engine—named Forager™—indexes the vast molecular information of plants so that we can search and incorporate targeted health-beneficial compounds into our diets to solve unmet human needs.

By harvesting nature’s intelligence Brightseed transforms the modern diet from a cause of chronic illness to a source of health.

Rounds of funding by Germin8

Series B
Series C

Powering the digital infrastructure for the grain industry

Bushel™ establishes a digital infrastructure, connecting and automating disjointed systems throughout the grain industry, in order to enhance the interactions between growers and grain receiving locations that optimizes efficiency and cash flow. Bushel digitizes manual, error-prone activities related to cash bidding, scale tickets, prepaids, contracts and deliveries, with real-time information and notifications through grain receiver-branded mobile apps.

Infrastructure could be considered the greatest advancement in the grain industry in the last century. Today, Bushel is the revolutionary digital thread driving the grain industry forward in unprecedented and unlimited ways.

Rounds of funding by Germin8

Series A
Series B

The Internet of Soil for Data-Driven Farming

CropX Technologies© is the world’s most advanced and scalable platform for data-driven farming with integrated agronomic data from both above and below ground. With CropX, farmers optimize input application, leading to significant water, fertilizer, energy and labor savings. CropX’s models constantly adapt to the crop’s growth stage and to the changing conditions of the soil and weather, to provide crop-specific recommendations that help farmers get the most out of their fields. Moreover, optimizing inputs and monitoring the movement of water and agrichemicals in the soil leads to minimizing environmental pollution and preventing leaching, runoff and unnecessary resource expenditures–making farming sustainable.

Rounds of funding by Germin8

Series B
Series C

Revolutionizing Crop Protection Discovery

Enko Chem combines DNA-encoded libraries, sophisticated AI and agrochemical expertise to revolutionize the discovery and development of small molecule crop protection products. Whereas the majority of crop protection products are outdated, off-patent and ineffective, Enko Chem is reinventing the pipeline for novel chemistry that is vitally important to crop performance, reliable, safe and environmentally-minded. 

Enko Chem’s discovery platform gives agrochemistry the next-gen re-boot that it needs, with a cutting-edge arsenal of tools to develop better protection for our crops, maintain the earth they’re planted in, and safely nourish the world. Enko is an ambitious game-changer tackling mission-critical needs for farmers globally, including the emerging markets.

Rounds of funding by Germin8

Seed
Series A

Providing Remote Visibility into Field Activities

As agriculture’s leading AI-enabled smart farming platform, Fieldin™ transforms farms into data-driven assembly lines, optimizing production, improving yields and providing full visibility for the world’s production of fruits, nuts, vegetables and beyond. 

Fieldin’s smart farming platform helps specialty crop growers manage and optimize pesticide applications, harvest activities and other critical field operations and cultural practices. The visibility, control and actionable data offered through Fieldin is unparalleled, unlocking game-changing efficiencies and transparency on-farm and throughout the agribusiness supply chain.

Rounds of funding by Germin8

Seed

Biochemistry’s First Large Spectral Model – An LLM-Like Semantic Foundation

Biotechnology is increasingly the engine that drives therapies for our deadliest diseases, nutrition to feed a growing global population, and energy & materials for a sustainable future. Yet biological data is almost entirely unstructured, especially challenging to analyze, and most of its riches are discarded.

Matterworks has built the first Large Spectral Model – an LLM-like semantic foundation for directly interpreting raw instrument data that offers an AI breakthrough for biochemistry and the omics. It exploits this breakthrough by first introducing an AI-enabled software for whole metabolome reading, solving the mass spec holy-grail of absolute quantitative metabolomics. Additionally, Matterworks partners with leading lifesciences companies to build fine-tuned AI models which leverage the LSM for specific applications.

Rounds of funding by Germin8

Series A
Series B

Cultivating Plants to Challenge Status Quo Definitions of “Plant-Based”

Founded and led by Magi Richani, Nobell Foods creates key dairy proteins, including casein, from high-quality soybeans, enabling the brand to make cheeses that taste, smell, melt, stretch, and even age like those made from animals, and challenging the way we talk about, think about, and eat cheese.

Caseins – essential dairy proteins – play a crucial role in giving cheese the qualities we love. Like all proteins, caseins have a unique genetic code. Nobell discovered how to recreate this genetic code in soybean seeds and grow soybean plants that have the same dairy caseins found in animal milks. Today, Nobell can produce more caseins per acre more efficiently, sustainably, and cost effectively than cows, while enabling a prosperous opportunity for its farmer partners.

Nobell is transforming the food system, challenging people’s perceptions of what plant-based cheese can be, and pioneering a new class of satisfying animal-free cheese for the 99% unwilling to compromise on taste, cost, melting and stretching.