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Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Angel Investors in Europe

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Agriculture (agtech) startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Agriculture (agtech) companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Angel Investors in Europe

Investor	Agriculture (agtech) Europe investments
Clemens Kaiser	4
Peter Carlsson	4
Ingo Baumann	3
Daniel Skavén Ruben	3
David Rowan	3
Thierry Petit	3
Romain Sautrau	3
Henri Seydoux	2
Vera Baker	2
Michael Pennington	2
Claes Dinkelspiel	2
Nick Boyle	2
Vivianne Holm	2
Xavier Buck	2
Renaud Visage	2
Hampus Jakobsson	2
Ian Hogarth	2
Thomas Peruzzi	2
Marco Houwen	2
Will Brooks	2
Stefan Hedelius	2
Michael Gutsmann	2
Philippe Cantet	1
Cory Levy	1
Josh Browder	1
Anders Frankel	1
Paul Arsac	1
Michaël Diguet	1
Adrien de Schompre	1
Stefan Scherer	1
Attila Balogh	1
Others Others	1
Thierry Fahmy	1
Jude Gomila	1
Olivier Duha	1
Borja Moreno de Los Rios	1
Dan Magnuszewski	1
Noel Fenton	1
Marc Simoncini	1
Nicolaj Reffstrup	1
Bas Godska	1
Valentine Baudouin Barbelivien	1
Taz Patel	1
Karl Wills	1
Dylan Taylor	1
Bryan Meehan	1
Romain Liot	1
Christian de Labriffe	1
Clément Buyse	1
Birger Steen	1

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Clemens Kaiser

Investment focus

Forestry, Software, Image Recognition
Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

OroraTech — OroraTech provides global real-time information services. The first target market is early detection and monitoring of wildfires, extended by a proprietary constellation of thermal imaging nanosatellites equipped with in-space AI image processing. At the beginning of 2020, OroraTech launched an MVP called Wildfire Service (WFS) that enables quickdetection and monitoring of wildfires on a global scale. The combination of existing thermal-infrared satellite data with external data layers, such as fuel, wind, and risk maps results in an automatic generation of fire alerts and the display of current fire perimeters for users. The MVP was launched in early 2020 and has gained increasing traction with governmental and large corporate customers all over the world.

Peter joined Tesla from NXP Semiconductors where he was responsible for purchasing and outsourcing. As CPO, he took the purchase organization from a tactical decentralized structure to a strategic global commodity organization. Before starting at NXP, Peter was CPO at Sony Ericsson. Peter had a total of 13 years experience from different roles withEricsson and Sony Ericsson in Sweden and the US. He led the team that built and implemented Ericsson's framework for Supplier Quality Assurance. Peter has a Master's degree with specialization in Production and Quality Control from Luleå Technical University in Sweden. In his spare time he enjoys running, mountain biking, golf, cooking and travel.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Food and Beverage, AgTech
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden, Finland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

X Shore — In the evolution of an industry that has remained steadfast in its traditions, for better or for worse. With new technology and innovative research, smart design and sustainable materials, X Shore embraces the long tradition of maritime craftsmanship while discarding the dirty institution of fossil fuels. They don’t see theirselves as disrupters.They’re not here to reinvent the wheel, but rather to right the ship. To set a course for long-term sustainability that they can all be proud of.
Turnpike — Turnpike provides a complete platform for wearable communication and workflow management. It empowers front-of-house employees in retail stores and hotels by delivering prioritized communication directly to their wrists via smartwatches. Its manager's portal is accessible from any browser-capable device, employee smartwatches, and optionalinput devices that enable employees and customers to request immediate assistance.
Orbital Systems — Save up to 90% water and up to 80% energy with our smart recirculating shower - a much better shower experience for both you and our planet

Dr. Ingo Baumann is a founding partner of BHO Legal. He specializes in national and European high technology and research projects. His clients are mainly leading institutions and companies in the space industry. Dr. Baumann studied law in Münster and Cologne. He received his doctorate from the Cologne Institute for Aerospace Law under Prof. Dr.Hobe on the international law of satellite communications.

Investment focus

Forestry, Software, Image Recognition
Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

OroraTech — OroraTech provides global real-time information services. The first target market is early detection and monitoring of wildfires, extended by a proprietary constellation of thermal imaging nanosatellites equipped with in-space AI image processing. At the beginning of 2020, OroraTech launched an MVP called Wildfire Service (WFS) that enables quickdetection and monitoring of wildfires on a global scale. The combination of existing thermal-infrared satellite data with external data layers, such as fuel, wind, and risk maps results in an automatic generation of fire alerts and the display of current fire perimeters for users. The MVP was launched in early 2020 and has gained increasing traction with governmental and large corporate customers all over the world.

Daniel Skavén Ruben

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Pet, AgTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

VEAT — VEAT is on a mission to make healthy, plant-based foods more accessible. We cook and prepare our fresh meals locally at Stora Essingen and deliver them daily to our vending machines throughout the city.
Petgood — Insect-based pet food and functional pet supplies
Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the David Rowan is Editor of the WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them. David has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the newiPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He's also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited the Guardian's on-line content. David has curated an exhibition of British creative talent at the Government's Cabinet Forum conference. He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and the Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ. David is in touch with many of the world's leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why 'social commerce' is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, Croatia

Portfolio highlights

EWOR — Build a successful company with EWOR
Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
Rhizocore Technologies — We develop high-performance strains of locally-sourced mycorrhizal fungi to improve tree growth, tree health and tree resiliency. We offer a sustainable solution to increase forest yields whilst improving the ability of trees to sequester carbon.

Thierry Petit is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Showroomprive.com. Thierry is an Internet entrepreneur, he has nearly 20 years experience in creating start-ups. Thierry has created the first price comparison site in France (toobo.com) sold to Liberty Surf in July 2000. Thierry then created Showroomprive.com in 2006 in partnershipwith David Dayan, a recognized French specialist in stock clearance. Thierry managed to quickly establish the site as a major player in French e-commerce, generating 1bn€ revenue in 2021. Showroomprive.com organizes for its members exclusive sales events on designer brands (ready-to-wear, cosmetics, decoration, travel, ...), with significant reductions (70% on average). In August 2010, Thierry raised a capital of 50 million dollars through US investment funds from Accel Partners (historical investor in Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, ...). This capitalraising gives him the means to: • Expand internationally and launch the site in Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, and Belgium. • Develop its mobile strategy on all devices (today the mobile represents 50% of sales and 60% of traffic). Today Showroomprive.com is: • A team of 500 employees • A community of 20 million members in Europe • A turnover of 480 million euros in 2014 (38% growth vs. 2013)Thierry is the Vice-President of Digital France. Thierry is an Investor in several Internet companies and participates as a Business Angel in their development: Eco-transition : Accenta Energie, BlaBla Car, Everdye, Impak Finance, Syroco, Unbottled, Vendredi Health : Feeli, Lifen, May, Education, Tourism, Leisure : CantooScribe, EachOne, Mobee Travel, SnapEvent Sustainable production and consumption : Anka, Ankorstore, Alittlemarket, L'Armoire à Beauté, Back Market, Bonne Gueule, Selency, Vinted Agriculture & Food : Les Alchimistes, Confiture Parisienne, FAIR? HighFlyers Capital, Inpulse, Javelot, Lifestyle : Dancefloor, Masions d'Epinal, Redvisitor, FinTech : Angelsquare, Lyanne, Memobank, October RetailTech & AdTech : Ab Tasty, Agilitest, Commanders Act, Cubyn, Jolimoi, Hivency, Storetail, TwicPics, Weglot Incubators and startups studios : 50 Partners, Sparkling Partners Impact Funds : 2050, Asterion Impact, Daphni, The Galion.exe, Ring Capital VC Funds : Accel Partners, FirstMinute, ISAI, QUMRA, SIDE. More info : http://www.made-for-all.com

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, Côte d'Ivoire

Portfolio highlights

Feve — Feve seeks to accelerate the agroecological and food transition while also protecting lives and the environment. Feve objective is to assist project leaders in establishing diverse and collaborative groups on medium-sized farms and to enable people to live better by generating synergies between production workshops, on-farm processing, and directsales.
La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
mobee travel — Mobee travel is the first holiday booking plate form dedicated to reduced mobility people. We sell more than 30'000 accessibles accomodations all around the world and each of them are checked to ensure to our traveler's that everything's will be good for their needeed. If our traveler's need to have medical equipment duringtheir trip, we provide them on the spot before their arrival.

Romain Sautrau is a Investment Director at Supernova Invest. Romain attended INSEAD.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Agriculture, AgTech
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Novolyze — Novolyze is a Food Safety company. They offer solutions to help the food industry manufacture safer food, while ensuring strong compliance with international Food Safety & Quality standards. Their research work mainly focuses on evaluating the inactivation of foodborne pathogens under different kinds of stress (heat, etc.). Based on thisexpertise, they have developed the first range of dried, ready-to-use surrogate bacteria, an innovation that allows the food industry to test the efficacy of microbial kill steps / intervention steps in real-life conditions. At Novolyze, they are at the forefront of Food Safety. Their cross-functional team of experts, mainly composed of food microbiologists and process engineers, is able to assist at multiple stages of a project. Novolyze relies on state-of-the-art infrastructures, installed in a pharmaceutical-grade environment at their R&D Center in Dijon, France.
Antofenol — Antofénol is a post-harvest biocontrol company that directs and develops its work on the valorization of viticultural waste. Antofénol is an innovative biotechnology start-up providing ecological eco-extraction of plant matter.
nextProtein — nextProtein is developing a large scale and sustainable insect based source of protein. The bioconversion of fly larvae fed with organic waste generates valuable feed components for fish, livestock and pets.

Henri Seydoux founded Parrot in 1994 and has been its CEO ever since its inception. Parrot is today one of the major players in the civil drone market. Self-taught, Henri started his career in 1978 as a trainee and then as a journalist for the magazine Actuel. In 1982, he joined the company SSCI as a developer and then, the company Micro Archi. In1986, he created BSCA, a company that specialized in rendering 3D computer images and served as CEO until 1990. In 1991, along with three other partners, he founded Christian Louboutin, a luxury shoes company.

Investment focus

Wireless, Fruit, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
France

Portfolio highlights

Parrot — Parrot, a global leader in wireless devices for mobile phones, stands on the cutting edge of innovation. The company was founded in 1994 by Henri Seydoux as part of his determination to drive the inevitable breakthrough of mobile phones into everyday life by creating high-quality, user-friendly wireless devices for easy living. Parrot hasdeveloped the most extensive range of hands-free systems on the market for cars. Its globally recognised expertise in the fields of mobile connectivity and multimedia around Smartphones has positioned Parrot as a key player of in-car infotainment.Additionally, Parrot designs and markets a prestigious line of high-end wireless multimedia products in collaboration with some of the world’s most well-renowned designers. Finally, Parrot is expanding on the UAV market with the Parrot AR.Drone, the first quadricopter piloted via Wi-Fi and using augmented reality and so with new solutions to address the UAV market for professional use.Parrot, headquartered in Paris, currently employs more than 750 people worldwide and generates the majority of its sales overseas. Parrot is listed on NYSE Euronext Paris since 2006.
SIGFOX — The Sigfox 0G Technology is a LPWAN dedicated to Massive IoT. Connect your devices securely at low cost in the most energy-efficient way!
Agricool — Agricool has been created in 2015 by Guillaume Fourdinier and Gonzague Gru with the purpose of making local, tasty and pesticide-free fruits and vegetables available to all. To do so, Agricool is recycling shipping containers into urban farms, transforming into a small paradise for fruits and vegetables (lighting, air quality, irrigation, etc.).The technology developed enables the farms to be 120 times more productive than in conventional farming, to save more than 90% of water and to be run entirely on renewable energies. Today, the company grows strawberries in Paris and Dubai, but tomorrow, the ambition is to help feed the world with all types of fruits and vegetables and be part of the urban farming movement.

Vera Baker is an Angel Investor for Atomico, and an Investment Advisor to The Jua Fund, an early-stage, Pan-African, Venture Capital Fund that invests the first check into exceptional founders at the pre-seed and seed stage. Additionally, she works directly with budding startups as a Director at the Founders Institute Paris Chapter and a mentor tounderrepresented founders at the Colors Accelerator in Paris and the Unconventional Accelerator in the Nordics.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, B2B, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
Omni — Omni provides Healthy Vegan Dog Food in the UK, made by vets to be a nutritionally complete meal for your dog. Feed your dog all the goodness of plants backed by science.
Juniper — Juniper is the radically accessible new way to offer your whole team reproductive health cover. Simple, affordable and built for every body.

One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B. Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
FUEL — Where everlasting fanbases are built
Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor

Mr. Claes Dinkespiel serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer at E. Öhman J:or AB. Mr. Dinkespiel serves as the Chairman of Nordnet AB. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Svenskt Rekonstruktionskapital AB, Gummesson Gruppen AB, Premiefinans AB, Stockholms Köpmansklubb, MPS Holding AB, and Fastighets AB Trianon. Mr. Dinkespielserves as a Director of Aldano AB. He is Member of the Board in different companies like the foundation City University, Siliviahemmet, Arvid Lindman AB, E. FBN Sweden Service AB, Malon Fastighets AB, MPS Holding AB, Telereit Holding AB, Stiftelsen Silviahemmet, and others. Mr. Dinkespiel has been a Director of Nordnet AB since 2001. He served as a Director of Prevas AB since 2000. Mr. Dinkespiel served as the Chairman of the Board of Emric AB, SalusAnsvar AB and E. Öhman J:or Fondkommission AB. He served as a Director of Salusansvar AB since 1999. Mr. Dinkespiel served as a Director of Intellecta AB (publ). He served as a Director of Småföretagsinvest AB. Mr. Dinkespiel served as a Director at Öhman J:or Fondkommission AB, and Fylkinvest. He holds an M.B.A. from Insead, France, and a B.Sc. in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, AgTech
Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Påmind — Påmind is a Swedish company founded to give customers control over their existing everyday contracts, ranging from mortgages to insurances. The customer is reminded each time a contract expires, Påmind AB then help the customer to renegotiate the agreement and ensure that the customer is offered the best terms. All this is done without the customerhaving to do anything.
Geras Solutions — Geras Solution’s mission is to be a leading provider of digital healthcare solutions.
Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

In 2010, Nick founded Lightsource Renewable Energy, then just a six-person start-up, which quickly grew over 5 years to become Europe’s largest solar developer and operator and a recognised global leader. In his role as Group CEO, Nick’s dynamic leadership and vision has driven the company to tremendous success and in December 2017, Lightsourceannounced a strategic partnership with BP which has committed aggressively to accelerate the low carbon transition. The company has rebranded to Lightsource BP in affirmation of this powerhouse commitment which is set to shape the future of global energy delivery. Nick previously sat at Board and Senior Director level in a number of leading retail financial service companies. Throughout his career, Nick has always been recognised for his entrepreneurial skill and success in pairing retail financial products with low-risk, predictable investments.

Investment focus

Biofuel, Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Better Origin — At Better Origin, our mission is to fix the broken food chain by converting waste into high-value insect products.
Better Origin — At Better Origin, our mission is to fix the broken food chain by converting waste into high-value insect products.

Vivianne Holm

Investment focus

AgTech
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

Xavier has been an Internet entrepreneur since 1996. After co-founding several ventures like Datecenter Luxembourg, EuroDNS, eBrandServices and DomainInvest, Xavier's current role consists in deploying the group's international activities with a special focus on the domain name industry, internet traffic and traffic monetization. Xavierholds chairman positions in his formerly founded ventures and is director of a series of companies including DomainTools.com, eBrandServices, OpenRegistry and LeftoftheDot.

Investment focus

SaaS, Farming, Software
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
Bulgaria, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Farmia — Farmia is online livestock marketplace that helps farmers to offer their animals to a wider circle of potential buyers and to do that in best moment to achieve maximum profit and provide buyers faster cheaper and easier way to find appropriate animals for their needs.Farmia is the fastest growing livestock marketplace in the world. We are No.1online livestock marketplace in the world with operations in US, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Our user base count more than 80.000 farmers who actively trade through our platform. Up to now we sold more than 200.000 animals through 15000+ transactions which value is more than 25M+ Euro.
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Building the world's largest event technnology company with Eventbrite (NYSE: EB).Helping start-ups scale with seed fund Point Nine Capital.Angel investing in bold and ambitious European and U.S. start-ups. Sample from 40+ portfolio companies: - Sqreen (exited to Datadog) - Meero ($290M in funding) - Algolia ($184M) - Alkemics ($54M) -Builder ($29M) - Verve ($28M) - Fox Intelligence (€18M)

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
finres — finres is a science-based firm that uses artificial intelligence, big data, and research to increase food system resilience in the face of climate change by making investment decision-making robust and quick, as well as providing a comprehensive algorithmic solution for recognizing and assessing climate risks in order to prioritize adaptationefforts.
Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.

Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Sweden, Denmark, United States

Portfolio highlights

ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
Mojo — Laboratory-grade AI-powered semen test at home. Test your sperm count, motility, volume and concentration with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost.
Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
Fabric — A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. Your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links and files automatically gathered into one intelligent home. The world's first AI-native universal storage.

Thomas Peruzzi - CTO @ Virtual Minds

Investment focus

Farming, Livestock, Agriculture
Seed, Convertible Note
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Farmia — Farmia is online livestock marketplace that helps farmers to offer their animals to a wider circle of potential buyers and to do that in best moment to achieve maximum profit and provide buyers faster cheaper and easier way to find appropriate animals for their needs.Farmia is the fastest growing livestock marketplace in the world. We are No.1online livestock marketplace in the world with operations in US, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Our user base count more than 80.000 farmers who actively trade through our platform. Up to now we sold more than 200.000 animals through 15000+ transactions which value is more than 25M+ Euro.

Marco Houwen, together with his partners LuxConnect and Datacenter Luxembourg, founded LuxCloud S.A. in April 2010.This partnership sets out to attract international SME and SMI, out of the field of Software development, to the Grand Duchy. LuxCloud will put Luxembourg firmly on the International Internet map and deliver services to SMB’s allover Europe.In 2000, Marco, in association with Xavier Buck, founded DCL Group, a leading Internet and e-commerce company, now recognized as one of the biggest Internet success stories in Luxembourg. Companies in the Group include Datacenter Luxembourg, LuxCloud, EuroDNS, e-Brand Services and voipGATE, to name but a few.Passionate about the promotion of Luxembourg, Marco is co-founder and President of LU-CIX A.s.b.l. and as such, contributes actively on the promotion of the Luxembourgish e-commerce hub.In addition to his role as LuxCloud CEO, Marco is CEO of Datacenter Luxembourg and a board member of the DCL Group.

Investment focus

Farming, Livestock, Agriculture
Seed, Convertible Note
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Farmia — Farmia is online livestock marketplace that helps farmers to offer their animals to a wider circle of potential buyers and to do that in best moment to achieve maximum profit and provide buyers faster cheaper and easier way to find appropriate animals for their needs.Farmia is the fastest growing livestock marketplace in the world. We are No.1online livestock marketplace in the world with operations in US, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Our user base count more than 80.000 farmers who actively trade through our platform. Up to now we sold more than 200.000 animals through 15000+ transactions which value is more than 25M+ Euro.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Stefan Hedelius

Investment focus

AgTech
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

Michael Gutsmann is a CFO at Bigpoint.

Investment focus

Farming, Livestock, Agriculture
Seed, Convertible Note
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Farmia — Farmia is online livestock marketplace that helps farmers to offer their animals to a wider circle of potential buyers and to do that in best moment to achieve maximum profit and provide buyers faster cheaper and easier way to find appropriate animals for their needs.Farmia is the fastest growing livestock marketplace in the world. We are No.1online livestock marketplace in the world with operations in US, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Our user base count more than 80.000 farmers who actively trade through our platform. Up to now we sold more than 200.000 animals through 15000+ transactions which value is more than 25M+ Euro.

Philippe Cantet is the Co-Founder and CEO at SPRiNG Collective. He attended ESSEC Business School in 1992.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Nutrition
Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

HappyVore — Les Nouveaux Fermiers cultivates a passion for taste, the real, the healthy, and the impact on the planet. It reinvents meat from natural and local plant ingredients to better feed the planet. Its products today represent 11 times less CO2 and 10 times less water than meat production. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Cory Levy is the Founder Advisor of Humaning.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Swsh — Swsh is a social app that aims to strengthen true friendships rather than superficial relationships with followers.
Fun — Fun offers to build a product ecosystem that leverages cross-chain decentralized wallets on the Odsy blockchain.
Tab — Wearable AI companion.

Josh Browder

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Internet
Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Whop — One-stop-shop for all the latest and greatest digital products to help you earn online. From trading software to reselling communities, we've got you.
CropSafe — Simplified insights & financing using satellite data to help you make more profitable decisions on the farm
TreeCard — Treecard - the wooden debit card that plants trees. Sign up now to reforest the planet every day.

As founder and CEO Anders has been a part of APSIS from the very first day - literally! He is a passionate marketer and works to simplifying the life of digital marketers with powerful and user-friendly technologies.

Investment focus

Internet, FinTech, Consumer
Seed, Angel
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Greta — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Mylla — Mylla is a digital marketplace for buying and selling food from farm to table.
Castle — Instantly stop automated and human-originated account takeovers, fake accounts, and any behavior that violates your platform policies.

Paul Arsac

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Agriculture
Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Rize ag — Rize accelerates the transition of agriculture from a net carbon emitter to a carbon sink by leveraging tech and carbon credit mechanisms. By generating carbon credits on behalf of farmers who adopt sustainable practices, the company supports the transition toward greener agriculture and provides an additional revenue stream for regenerative farms.

Michael Diguet is the Co-founder & CEO at Co-founder & CEO. Attended National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Aria — Aria is a fintech startup that allows companies to pay their freelancers. The company provides a response that is both innovative and concrete to a strong economic challenge that weakens talent and affects the competitiveness of companies. Aria was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.
Silvr — Silvr reinvents the way entrepreneurs get funded.Financing businesses has not evolved over the last decades: banks prefer to fund assets, equity is not the best fit for all. At Silvr, we empower entrepreneurs by building a world where funding is easy to access, scalable, and equity-free. We leverage digital businesses data to predict futurerevenues and offer funding in 24 hours.We are headquartered in Paris, are backed by ISAI and Eurazeo and we deploy millions of euros of funding for European entrepreneurs every month.
finres — Understand, Evaluate and Invest to Become Resilient to a Changing Climate. With finres, access the latest science, state-of-the-art decision-making methods and big data to transform your vulnerabilities into opportunities.

Adrien de Schompre

Investment focus

AgTech, Banking, Farming
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Yeeld — Discover Yeeld, your intelligent financial companion designed to give you tools required to Save, Earn and Grow your wealth. Explore a range of features such as banking, Visa cards, investments, savings challenges, and more.
iVESTA Family Office — iVESTA Family Office is designed for entrepreneurs that offer a resolutely entrepreneurial approach so that its clients can manage their assets as they manage their company with the same requirement of strategic planning, discernment, and anticipation. They build a global wealth strategy implemented with the greatest discipline.
HappyVore — Les Nouveaux Fermiers cultivates a passion for taste, the real, the healthy, and the impact on the planet. It reinvents meat from natural and local plant ingredients to better feed the planet. Its products today represent 11 times less CO2 and 10 times less water than meat production. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Stefan Scherer is the CEO and Shareholder of smaXtec. He previously worked at Alicona Imaging as a Founder and CEO. Stefan Scherer attended Graz University of Technology.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Sustainability
Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

smaXtec — We offer professional dairy farmers the most technologically advanced health system, based on measuring inner body temperature, rumination and activity inside the cow's rumen. Farmers achieve stable high milk yields, reduce the use of antibiotics and significantly increase animal welfare. The 24/7 health monitoring system increases theeffectiveness of all work processes on professional dairy farms. smaXtec makes a decisive contribution to the stability and profitability of industrial dairy farming worldwide - while at the same time increasing sustainability.

Attila Balogh is the Chairman and CEO at Partner in Pet Food. He attended Rider University and Gannon University.

Investment focus

Pet, Animal Feed
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Mammaly — Mammaly, a pet health startup that develops a range of snacks specifically targeting and helping reduce the severity of common aging dog issues.

Others Others

Investment focus

B2B, Agriculture, Renewable Energy
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bioo — Electricity from nature. Generating energy through a symbiosis between technology and our ecosystems to develop a system able to power sensors in agriculture and light points in cities. Our technologies include the use of plants as biological switches and their aplication in domotics and smart ci...
Conektto — Design, Build & Test API in minutes. Conektto is the industry's first API SDLC platform that intelligently generates artifacts.
Amelia Virtual Care — Amelia, formerly Psious VR, is a Virtual Reality software for use by mental health professionals in their therapy sessions with over 100 available virtual environments.

Managing Data intensive projects since 1998

Investment focus

AgTech, Energy, Agriculture
Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Feve — Feve seeks to accelerate the agroecological and food transition while also protecting lives and the environment. Feve objective is to assist project leaders in establishing diverse and collaborative groups on medium-sized farms and to enable people to live better by generating synergies between production workshops, on-farm processing, and directsales.
Mob-Energy — Mob-Energy is a privately held company specializing in the development of mobile and innovative charging solutions. It designs autonomous charging robots capable of moving energy where it is needed, optimizing the site's existing infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Villeurbanne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Metaspectral — Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.
Gather Labs — Gather Labs is a High Complexity CLIA laboratory and clinic in Beverly Hills. We provide concierge quality testing of patients for COVID-19, influenza and other tests with provide same day results. Purchase and schedule your COVID-19 test, PCT Test or other molecular test of your choice.
Muddy Machines — Muddy Machines is working on field robots to help farms manage labor-intensive crops by completing the fieldwork.

Olivier Duha created Webhelp with Frederic Jousset in 2000. The company began as a “webwizard” service, where specially trained advisors provided online support to novice internet users. Just 16 years later, Webhelp is one of the leading global BPOs.Olivier is a graduate of ESCEM (Ecole Superieure de Commerce et Management) and AUDENCIA BusinessSchool, where he gained a Masters in Management Consultancy. In 1998 Olivier was awarded an MBA from INSEAD.Starting his career in 1992 with LEK Consultancy, a strategy, mergers and acquisitions firm, Olivier was based in London, Paris and Sydney and advised business leaders in a range of industries.In 1998, he joined American strategic consulting firm Bain & Company, where he worked on various projects in the retail and energy sectors. Olivier also worked on a major internet development strategies for large industrial groups.Olivier served four years as vice president and two years as president of Croissance Plus, a non-profit association of start-ups and fast growing companies. During this time he actively campaigned for a more entrepreneurial framework in France, writing a number of reports and white papers and participating in a number of debates with successive governments.Olivier is also a member of the Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF), France’s largest employer’s federation.In 2012, Olivier co-founded AlterEquity 3P and raised 50 million euros of investment to finance social and environmental projects. AlterEquity is France’s largest investment fund, fully dedicated to socially responsible businesses. Olivier also serves on the boards of a number of start-ups in a large variety of industries.Olivier has five children, is a Knight of the Order of Merit and a graduate of the Wine and Spirit Education Trust.

Investment focus

FinTech, Insurance, Consulting
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

+Simple — +Simple.fr is an insurance Robo-Broker for freelancers, small and medium businesses. +Simple.fr unique technology platform optimizes your insurance for the duration of your contracts; The algorithm personalizes the offers according to your activity and its evolution. Your online subscription is perfectly secure and you get an electronic safecontaining your dematerialized contracts.
InnovaFeed — InnovaFeed is a biotech company that produces a new source of protein from insect rearing (Hermetia illucens) for animal feed and aquaculture in particular.Their model is based on a unique technological expertise that allows us to place the insect at the heart of their agri-food system and restore it to its natural place in their ecosystem: thatof recycling nutrients to then feed fish, birds or small mammals.In the context of a fast-growing world population, InnovaFeed’s activity responds concretely and competitively to an increase in protein demand while contributing to the development of a more sustainable food system, in particular through the development of quality aquaculture.
iVESTA Family Office — iVESTA Family Office is designed for entrepreneurs that offer a resolutely entrepreneurial approach so that its clients can manage their assets as they manage their company with the same requirement of strategic planning, discernment, and anticipation. They build a global wealth strategy implemented with the greatest discipline.

Borja is Co-CEO of Merlin, the fastest growing hourly talent marketplace in the US. Before becoming an internet entrepreneur, he worked in early stage VC focused on consumer technology and marketplaces. Prior to that, Borja built a social enterprise in Uganda providing bicycle microleasing services in rural areas. Borja is a financier by trainingand started his work career as an interest rates trader at Goldman Sachs. He holds an MBA from MIT Sloan.

Investment focus

B2B, Recycling, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Circulate — Find the best packaging for you and the planet in our marketplace
Ixoriguè Technologies — Ixoriguè Technologies are into livestock business.

Dan Magnuszewski - Cofounder & CTO @ ACV

Investment focus

FinTech, B2B, Retail
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Flox — FLOX technology transforms the way poultry farmers manage their sheds and flocks. Learn more.
Oko — Oko is an email-based, end-to-end solution that automates the flow of documentation between supply chain parties. Our platform tracks intermodal shipping and documents, without the need for Excel or manual updates. We add visibility to your business processes and ensure compliance right from your inbox.
Fret Zealot — Fret Zealot is a LED accessory for a guitar that shows where to put the fingers to play anything.Fret Zealot allows anyone to learn quickly and intuitively without the constant distraction of looking at books, videos, or sheet music to find out where to put their fingers. Anyone can concentrate on technique and findingtheir style right from thestart.

Noel Fenton is a co-founder and general partner of Trinity VenturesNoel has been part of the Silicon Valley venture capital community for more than 40 years. Prior to co-founding Trinity Ventures in 1986, he was co-founder of three successful technology startups, and CEO of two of them, Covalent Systems and Acurex. From 1983 to 1986, he ledCovalent Systems from start up to a profitable $12 million sales level in three years. He led Acurex from 1972 to 1982 during a period when sales increased nearly tenfold to $65 million with continuous profitability. Noel’s active investments are BlueStripe Software, Blue Tarp Financial, ID Analytics, LoopNet, MyNewPlace, SciQuest, ServiceMax, and Taulia. Noel is actively involved in the World Presidents' Organization and the Stanford Athletic Board, and is a past chairman of the Northern California Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization and a past chairman of the American Electronics Association.He received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his B.S. in Chemistry from Cornell University.

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, SaaS
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient. Learn how here.
Petgood — Insect-based pet food and functional pet supplies
Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient. Learn how here.

Marc Simoncini is the Owner of Jaina Capital and was a Co-founder and CEO at Meetic.

Investment focus

Software, Finance, Audio
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.
Shadow — Shadow is a high-performance cloud-based computer that has an automated hardware evolution. Extreme power, non-existent latency, exceptional display quality, Shadow offers a perfect and ultimate experience. With its automated hardware evolution, the user will never again need to buy a computer. Its first product, Shadow, is a high-performance PCbased entirely in the cloud. The company hires a team of passionate, highly skilled developers, as well as experts in business, law, marketing and distribution, and gaming.Shadow was founded on 2015 and is based in Paris, France.
URBAN CUISINE — URBAN CUISINE develops connected indoor vegetable gardens.

Nicolaj Reffstrup is the Founder of Ganni. She attended Copenhagen Business School and IT-Universitetet i København.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Open Source, E-Commerce Platforms
Seed, Pre-Seed
Denmark, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Seasony — With robotics, we provide vertical farming producers with innovative and effective automation solutions for a more efficient harvest and production. Find out how.
Pufin ID — Our unique PUF technology empowers companies to keep their brand promise to ALL customers and the environment.
Rubi Laboratories — Rubi Laboratories turns carbon emissions into carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry, with a proprietary synthetic biology technology.

General Partner & Founder Acrobator Ventures, Tech Investment Fund. Founder Acrobator.com, growth hack and marketing advisory firm. Digital Dutchman, entrepreneur-turned-investor. eCommerce expert, growth hacker and marketeer since 2000. Assisted 100+ companies worldwide as CMO, MD, board advisor, consultant. Personal angel investmentportfolio, overall company value nearing $3BN, follow-ons raised (>$150 MN) from Accel, Iconiq, Insight Ventures, EBRD, Techstars, Acrobator Ventures. Ranked #1 Foreign Angel Investor in Russia (EWDN); Top 10 Angel Investor (Firrma.ru/SLON), Crunchbase: #1 Dutch (2019) & Top 50 EU angel investor. Techcrunch / Crunchbase: "Bas Godska is one of the most prolific Western investors in Eastern Europe."Roles Europe/Russia/CIS (2003-2019): CMO lastminute.com ; Country Manager Sportingbet ; CMO Europe Ebookers.com / Orbitz.com ; MD Gogol Media. CMO / dep. CEO Ozon.ru ; VP Marketing Gloria Jeans ; CMO Lamoda.ru (Rocket Internet) ; CMO Digital KupiVIP.ru ; eCommerce Director a.i. Enter | Svyaznoi ; MD myThings.com ; Guest Lecturer Digital Marketing at Moscow School of Management MBA (3 years).Portfolio: miro.com; harver.com; travelata.ru (co-founder); Chocofamily Holding: chocotravel.kz, chocolife.me, aviata.kz, chocomart.kz (exit), lensmark.kz, rahmet.kz, chocofood.kz, iDoctor.kz, HRbot; Newzmate.com (partial exit to Piano.io); storyterrace.com, getobjectiv.com; Crossss (sold to Leadhit); clockster.com; linkpizza.com; zakaz.ua; urbandine.nl; 6nomads.com, instreamatic.ai., omdena.com, aura-aware.com, awesomic.com, memoryOS.com, VC investments: leapfunder.com; respeecher.com; letsenhance.io; studyfree.org.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, The Netherlands, Kazakhstan

Portfolio highlights

Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
SuperWorld — The Virtual World mapped on top of the real world to create, discover and monetize content.
knopka — knopka - is an advanced automated nurse calling system that ensures help is provided on time. One-hour installation. Completely wireless. Compatible with cardiac monitors, fitness trackers, and smartwatches.

Valentine Baudouin Barbelivien

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round
France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Nilos — Pay, track and reconcile your crypto wallets and fiat accounts in one platform.
finres — Understand, Evaluate and Invest to Become Resilient to a Changing Climate. With finres, access the latest science, state-of-the-art decision-making methods and big data to transform your vulnerabilities into opportunities.
Jungle France — Jungle France is a France company engages in vertical farming and hydroponics.

Taz Patel is a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits over the past decade who continues to support the startup ecosystem via mentorship, advisory and investing. Most recently, Taz co-founded Captiv8, an Influencer marketplace and SaaS platform funded by Social Capital, Liquid 2, Visionnaire, Jason Calacanis, Cyan Banister and strategic Angels.Before this, Taz was the Chief Revenue Officer of Republic Project, a startup funded by Google Ventures and later acquired by DG Sizmek in 2013. Before that, Taz led monetization efforts at Showyou App funded by True Ventures that was acquired by Vevo in 2015. His knowledge in social marketing, mobile/video advertising, and SaaS/Marketplace businesses is a personal passion that stems from early sales leadership roles at Interclick and BlueLithium, both of which were acquired by Yahoo! for $270 Million in 2011 and $300 Million in 2007. A Chicago native, Taz studied at the University of California, Berkeley and currently lives with his wife, son and dog in San Francisco.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CloudAdmin.io — CloudAdmin is a cost-optimization platform that helps executives save money in hidden cloud instance buying options.
Ampleforth — Ampleforth is the name of a character in George Orwell's 1984 who is responsible for translating poetry into Newspeak, a language designed to limit freedom of thought. When tasked to replace the word “God” in a Kipling poem, Ampleforth refuses, not out of righteousness, or subversiveness, but rather, a simple love for language and respect forthe truth. To Ampleforth, no other word makes sense in context and therefore no other word should replace it.
Marigold Health — Marigold Health is an anonymous social network where people with mental health and substance use conditions support each other.

Originally at MetaPack in 2000, Karl returned in November 2009 to take on the role as COO and CIO responsible for MetaPack’s Product Development, Support, Infrastructure and Carrier Integration. Karl is now responsible for handling MetaPack's legal activity and ensuring best practice is brought into all parts of the MetaPack operation toensure exceptional performance for our customers. In between the MetaPack roles, he worked for Abacus Billing as CEO before its sale to Mind CTI, successfully managing the company turnaround at Solution 1 as COO and interim CEO where he focused on improving their delivery function as well as their IT infrastructure.Prior to joining MetaPack that he has held roles such as Senior Supply Chain Director for EMI Records (based in The Netherlands), IT Director for EMI Operations and IT Director EMI France as well as a number of other UK and European IT and Logistics roles. This provides Karl with over 30 years experience in general management and the IT, logistics and warehouse industry.

Investment focus

CRM, Farming, Agriculture
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bionema — Leading UK biopesticides technology developer, specialising in organic chemical-free, biological crop protection for safe and sustainable agriculture.

Dylan Taylor is a global business leader, commercial astronaut, thought leader and philanthropist. Currently, Dylan serves as Chairman & CEO of Voyager Space, a multi-national space exploration firm focused on building the next generation of space infrastructure for NASA and other global space agencies.Dylan has been recognized by HarvardUniversity, SpaceNews, the BBC, the Financial Times, Pitchbook, CNBC, CNN and others as having played a seminal role in the growth of the private space industry. As an early-stage investor in more than 50 emerging space ventures, including Axiom, Kepler, York, Astrobotic, LeoLabs, Relativity, and Planet, Dylan is widely considered the most active private space investor in the world.Dylan’s technical background, global business experience and unbridled passion for space make him a unique figure within his industry. As a thought leader and futurist, he has written many popular pieces on the future of the space industry for Forbes, FastCompany, Newsweek, SpaceNews, The Space Review, and Space.com. As a speaker, Dylan has keynoted many of the major space conferences around the world and has appeared regularly on Bloomberg, Fox Business, and CNBC.Dylan has extensive global business experience as both a board director and CEO in several industries, including advanced electronics, finance and real estate. He previously served as a Director for UMB Bank, a Fortune 500 company based in Kansas City and as a mutual fund director for the Jackson Funds where he oversaw assets of $8B across 130 distinct funds. He has also served in the roles of CEO, President and Board Director for multinational companies like Prudential PLC, Honeywell, Colliers and Jones Lang LaSalle. Dylan was recognized as a Fortune 1000 CEO with P&L responsibility in excess of $3B and operations encompassing 15,000 employees in over 60 countries. In addition, Dylan has participated in 4 IPOs over the course of his career. Dylan is a leading advocate of space manufacturing and the utilization of in-space resources to further space exploration and settlement. In 2017, he became the first private citizen to manufacture an item in space when the gravity meter he co-designed and commissioned was 3D printed on the International Space Station. The historic item is now housed in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.Dylan is an explorer of note. On December 11th, 2021 Dylan became just the 606th human to go to space as part of the crew of Blue Origin’s NewShepard Mission 19. Accordingly, Dylan earned his commercial astronaut wings with the FAA and his universal astronaut wings from the Association of Space Explorers.He is also one of only a handful of humans to have descended to the deepest part of the world’s oceans, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench as part of the Limiting Factor Expedition in July of 2022. In that mission, Dylan descended with pilot Victor Vescovo to a depth in excess of 10,800 meters (35,500 feet) into an area of the Mariana Trench that had never been visited by humans. Dylan is the youngest human to have been to the deepest part of the world’s oceans and crossed the Karman line into Space. Dylan has been a member of the Explorers Club since 2014.Dylan maintains an extensive philanthropic impact on the space industry. In 2017, Dylan founded the nonprofit and social movement, Space for Humanity, which seeks to democratize space exploration and develop solutions to global issues through the scope of human awareness to help solve the world’s most intractable problems. Space for Humanity has successfully sent two citizen astronauts to space via Blue Origin including both the first Mexican-born woman (Katya Echazareta), and first African-born woman (Sara Sabry). Building upon his passion and support for the space industry, Dylan serves as a strategic advisor for both the Archmission and the Human Spaceflight Program and is a co-founding patron of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, which promotes the growth of commercial space activity. Additionally, he is also a leading benefactor to the Brooke Owens Fellowship, Patti Grace Smith Fellowship and Mission: Astro Access.Dylan is the founder and Chairman of Multiverse Media, an integrated global media company focused on science and technology, with an emphasis on space. Multiverse is the parent company of the popular space philosophy website 2211.world as well as the Ad Astra Dinners, a Jeffersonian-style dinner series featuring some of the world’s leading influencers discussing the future of humanity in space. Another subsidiary of Multiverse Media, Multiverse Publishing, publishes books by leading authors including Frank White, Isaac Asimov and Gerard K. O’Neill. Multiverse is also the executive producer of the documentary film, The High Frontier and the forthcoming film, Fortitude. For his influence as a global leader and his commitment to creating a positive impact on the world, Dylan has been honored with numerous personal and professional accolades in recent years. The World Economic Forum recognized Dylan as a Young Global Leader in 2011 and a full member of the World Economic Forum in 2014. That same year he was named a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. In 2020, Dylan was recognized by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation with their top honor for business and finance, following in the footsteps of 2019’s inaugural winner, the late Paul Allen and subsequent winners Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.Dylan Taylor earned an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Booth School of Business at University of Chicago and holds a BS in Engineering from the honors college at the University of Arizona, where he graduated Tau Beta Pi and in 2018 was named Alumnus of the year. He is also a graduate of the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century program at Harvard University.Dylan and his family reside in Denver, Colorado where he is active locally with Colorado Concern and the Colorado Spaceport. In his spare time, Dylan enjoys hiking, competing in triathlons and spending time outdoors. As a weekend warrior athlete, Dylan has more than 25 top ten finishes and 25 age group wins to his credit, and he regularly interviews world class athletes whom have shown extraordinary resilience as the host of the Legendary Podcast. He is married to legal expert, consultant and author Gabrielle V. Taylor with whom he has two teenage daughters.

Investment focus

Aerospace, Space Travel, Satellite Communication
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Xplore — Xplore is flying commercial missions in Earth orbits with their XCRAFT™, and they invite you to join us. They take civilian, commercial and national security payloads to their desired orbit around Earth for their science or reconnaissance missions.
LeoLabs — LeoLabs' network of ground-based, phased array radars produces high-resolution data on objects in LEO, supporting satellite service industries.
Space Forge — Space Forge make super materials in space that cannot be made on earth.

Bryan Meehan CEO at Blue Bottle Coffee. Previously, I co-founded Nude Skincare (acquired by LVMH) and Fresh & Wild in London (acquired by Whole Foods).I'm an advocate of socially responsible investing and co-founded Greenmont Capital, a venture firm focused on investing in people who are primarily interested in creating environmentallyfriendly products. Investments include IZZE soda line and Mary's Gone Crackers. I get very excited about great founders and have recently invested in Slack, Hampton Creek, and of course, Blue Bottle Coffee where I spend most of my time working with James Freeman and the Blue Bottle team. I'm also a very active real estate investor.I grew up in Dublin. Since, I've lived in London, Boston and San Francisco. I love music, hiking, travel, art, organic food and coffee. I'm on the Board of Trustees at De Young and Legion of Honor museums in San Francisco. I hate GMOs and campaigning hard to have food properly labelled.

Investment focus

Packaging Services, Farming, Waste Management
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
Woola — A sustainable alternative to bubble wrap: protective e-commerce packaging made of leftover wool. Lightweight. Compostable. Customisable.
8B Education Investments — 8B African Education Investments helps African students succeed at global universities with tools, resources, and world-class support to master every step of their educational journey.

Romain Liot is the COO and Co-founder of Adore Me. He previously worked at McKinsey & Company as Business Analyst. Romain attended INSEAD and EDHEC Business School.

Investment focus

Agriculture
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

URBAN CUISINE — URBAN CUISINE develops connected indoor vegetable gardens.

Christian de Labriffe

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Hydroponics
Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Jungle France — Jungle France is a France company engages in vertical farming and hydroponics.

Clément Buyse

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Sales
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pelico — Pelico is a data management platform that assists operational teams in achieving predictable results. It empowers factory teams to build resilient operations to manage daily volatility and deliver products on time, at cost. Its factory operations management system enables teams to continuously anticipate parts shortages, act fast with AI-assistedrecommendations, and collaborate across teams on the implementation of corrective actions.
Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
Humanlinker — Humanlinker is a cutting-edge AI guided technology for revenue generation teams

Birger Steen is the Thematic Partner, Tech-enabled Transformation at Summa Equity . He attended INSEAD.

Investment focus

mHealth, Health Care
Debt Financing
United States

Portfolio highlights

Anicare Oy — Modern farm industry key sustainability and profitability challenge: Individual animal welfare tracking in vast units is impossible with traditional methods and causes significant losses in time, production and moneyAnicare Vision: Millions of different animals are under of real time welfare monitoring and in their farms productivity optimizationincreases hundreds of millions profits and hundreds of work years enabling sustainable meat productionAnicare Missio: Scaling up unique welfare monitoring solution for the global beef and dairy industry as everyday tool for animals welfare monitoring to increasing production efficiency, reducing risk of disease outbursts & reduced labor costsAnicare is a Northern European technology company delivering AI-based services, disrupting animal welfare markets.
Wellpepper — Joining an ACO with us will help your organization implement a proven model of care to achieve quality improvement goals, reduce costs, and mitigate risk.

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