# Acre Venture Partners

> Acre Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage. See 51 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, United States
- Total investments: 51
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last fund: Jun 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acre-venture-partners-lp/
- Website: http://acre.vc/

Acre Venture Partners is a VC fund in Santa Monica focused on Food and Beverage and Biotechnology. Driven by a mission to redefine food, Acre invests in companies creating systemic change in the food system to address the growing problems of human and environmental health. Acre makes venture-stage investments in highly disruptive platform businesses across the food value chain, with a particular focus on the agriculture, food tech, and consumerverticals. Taken together, these investments have the ability to form the foundation of an integrated new approach to food system evolution.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$11M |
| Series A | $8.2M–$30M |
| Series B | $15M–$70M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 9 | 18% |
| Biotechnology | 8 | 16% |
| AgTech | 7 | 14% |
| Agriculture | 6 | 12% |
| Health Care | 5 | 10% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 17 | 33% |
| Seed | 8 | 16% |
| Series B | 8 | 16% |
| Series C | 6 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 23 | 45% |
| Brazil | 2 | 4% |
| Argentina | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Bondar | Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-bondar-26af |
| Gareth Asten | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gareth-asten |
| Samuel Kass | Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-kass |
| Jeffrey Dunn | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-dunn-80bb |
| Lucas Mann | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucas-mann |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ascribe Bioscience | Ascribe Bioscience develops products that enable farmers to combat crop pathogens without negative impacts on the environment. The company is currently developing a seed treatment product that acts by boosting crops’ natural defenses. Ascribe Bioscience was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Ithaca, New York. | $12M | Series A | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Zucca | Zucca provides the quickest and smartest method for bringing new food and drink products to market. | $5M | Seed | Jul 16, 2025 |  |
| Bonsai Robotics | Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines. The company also offers analytics and telematics to help growers improve their performance, efficiency, and safety. The company is based in San Jose, California. | $15M | Series A | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Terradot | Terradot is a developer of a carbon removal platform intended to reduce carbon footprints and revolutionize soil carbon management. | $54M | Series A | Dec 12, 2024 |  |
| one.bio | BCD Bioscience is an emerging biotechnology spinout from UC Davis that creates ingredients for food and biopharmaceutical applications. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Davis, California, United States. | $27M | Series A | Dec 12, 2024 |  |
| Switch Bioworks | Switch Bioworks produces sustainable nitrogen fertilizer by reprogramming naturally occurring symbiotic microbes to produce fertilizers. | $17M | Seed | Sep 05, 2024 |  |
| Farm-ng | Farm-ng is a robotics company that develops general purpose farm robots that can be used to implement sustainable farming practices.Farm-ng offers robotics platform that is fully configurable and can be extended with Amiga Development Kit (ADK) that enables developers and ag tech companies to build innovative products and services on top of thefarm-ng robotic platform.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Watsonville, CA. | $10M | Series A | Jan 18, 2024 |  |
| Bonsai Robotics | Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines. The company also offers analytics and telematics to help growers improve their performance, efficiency, and safety. The company is based in San Jose, California. | $10.5M | Seed | Oct 02, 2023 |  |
| Highlight | Highlight is the definitive product intelligence platform delivering fast, meaningful insights throughout the innovation lifecycle to enable brands to create products people love. The company was founded in 2020, and is based in New York, New York. | $18M | Series A | Aug 15, 2023 |  |
| Arado | Clicampo is a platform for SMB farmers, providing supply chain and business solutions. | $11.9M | Series A | Apr 25, 2023 |  |

10 of 51 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Acre Venture Partners invest in?

Acre Venture Partners invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Biotechnology and AgTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 51 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Acre Venture Partners's check size?

Acre Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$11M at Seed, $8.2M–$30M at Series A and $15M–$70M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Acre Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Acre Venture Partners?

Public channels for Acre Venture Partners include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Acre Venture Partners?

The team at Acre Venture Partners includes Alex Bondar (Partner), Gareth Asten (Co-Founder and Managing Partner) and Samuel Kass (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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