AgFunder
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
AgFunder is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Agriculture and AgTech. AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.
- Total investments:
- 159
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
- Fund size:
- $362k
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries AgFunder invests in
Stages AgFunder invests in
Countries AgFunder invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $700k–$9M
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$1.1M
- Series A
- $4.5M–$28M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Agriculture 32 (20%)
- AgTech 31 (19%)
- Biotechnology 27 (17%)
- Food and Beverage 27 (17%)
- Farming 18 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 65 (41%)
- Series A 37 (23%)
- Pre-Seed 17 (11%)
- Series B 9 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (2%)
Country
- United States 39 (25%)
- United Kingdom 10 (6%)
- India 8 (5%)
- Australia 5 (3%)
- Singapore 5 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jack Ellis
Media & Research Lead, Asia Pacific
|
Media & Research Lead, Asia Pacific | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Manuel Gonzalez
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Michael Dean
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
Rob Leclerc
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Angela Tay
Senior Investment Associate
|
Senior Investment Associate | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| A farm in your pocket. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 20, 2026 | ||
| Resurrect Bio is a plant biotechnology company that will improve the immune systems of crop species to revolutionize the agricultural industry. | $10.3M / Series A / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| Scindo is a cleantech start-up harnessing the power of enzymes to recycle the unrecyclables. We are targeting plastics that cannot be efficiently recycled with current methodologies, to turn them into high-value molecules that can be used in a plethora of industries. We are creating a more circular economy for plastics by developing an alternativeto landfills and incineration. | $5.4M / Seed / Sep 23, 2025 | ||
| Singrow is a precision agriculture company. Using plant science in CRISPR-Cas9 technology, holistic farming system, smart sensors, data science to build the future farms. 1. Faster harvest 2. Higher yield rate 3. Increase value | $4.5M / Series A / Aug 18, 2025 | ||
| Eclipse Ingredients transform the future of health and wellbeing by making beneficial ingredients accessible through sustainable production. Eclipse emerged from a unique collaboration between dietitian-turned-entrepreneur Siobhan Coster and CSIRO, Australia's national science agency. | $4.6M / Seed / Jul 14, 2025 | ||
| Uviquity is a firm that wants to encourage safety for their clients. The company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States. | $6.6M / Seed / May 07, 2025 | ||
| Eratani is an Agri-tech company is to focus on building a agricultural ecosystem and seeks to provide farmers with easy access to technology to increase the productivity and welfare of the agricultural ecosystem. | $6.2M / Series A / Apr 17, 2025 | ||
| Lumi AI develops software that leverages leading large language models and a proprietary context model to instantly answer operational questions written in plain language, eliminating the need for technical data resources to manually gather, analyze, and manipulate data using coding languages like SQL or Python. | $3.7M / Seed / Mar 25, 2025 | ||
| Stealth AI Solution Startup | Pre-Seed / Mar 14, 2025 | ||
| Seadling is a seaweed biotech company that accelerates seaweed farming. Seadling was founded in 2018 and was headquartered in Malaysia. | $1M / Seed / Mar 03, 2025 | ||
| See all 159 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does AgFunder invest in?
AgFunder invests primarily in Agriculture, AgTech and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 159 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 AgFunder's check size?
AgFunder typically joins rounds of $700k–$9M at Seed, $100k–$1.1M at Pre-Seed and $4.5M–$28M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds AgFunder participates in.
How do I contact AgFunder?
Public channels for AgFunder include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 AgFunder?
The team at AgFunder includes Jack Ellis (Media & Research Lead, Asia Pacific), Manuel Gonzalez (General Partner) and Michael Dean (Founding Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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