AgLaunch Accelerator
VC Fund
Memphis, United States
AgLaunch Accelerator is a VC fund in Memphis focused on Agriculture and Farming. AgLaunch envisions a transformed regional agriculture and food economy centered around farmers, innovation, and equity. AgLaunch attracts, creates, and grows agtech startups, facilitates the development of new agriculture and food value-chains, and builds collaborative farmer networks, with a commitment to intentional inclusion. We focus onattracting, starting, growing, and supporting new agriculture companies and initiatives to revitalize our rural and urban communities and create new pathways for diversity. Now is the time to support business development, mentor diverse young talent, and find new approaches to farming.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries AgLaunch Accelerator invests in
Stages AgLaunch Accelerator invests in
Countries AgLaunch Accelerator invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Agriculture 6 (67%)
- Farming 4 (44%)
- Biotechnology 3 (33%)
- AgTech 2 (22%)
- Software 2 (22%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (56%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (33%)
- Grant 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 6 (67%)
- Argentina 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Barnwell Bio
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Barnwell Bio analyzes waste streams for insights into animal health and farm management. | $6M / Seed / Jan 26, 2026 | |
Earnest Agriculture
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Earnest Agriculture is a developer of probiotics that increase crop yields for farmers. The company's probiotics protect against disease, insects, and weeds and promote nutrients, soil health, and drought tolerance. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2024 | |
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Earnest Agriculture
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Earnest Agriculture is a developer of probiotics that increase crop yields for farmers. The company's probiotics protect against disease, insects, and weeds and promote nutrients, soil health, and drought tolerance. | $1.2M / Seed / Jan 01, 2022 | |
Lepidext
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Lepidext is engaged in managing the populations of the Lepidoptera pests by introducing bio-pesticides that are species-specific.The company is committed to improving crop security and ensuring agricultural prosperity by combining a deep understanding of insect biology with the skills and experience of farmers.In 2015, Angelika Fath-Goodin andBruce Webb established the company in Lexington, Kentucky. | Pre-Seed / Dec 27, 2019 | |
Continuum Ag
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Continuum Ag uses soil testing technologies to tailor recommendations for building soil health and regenerative agricultural practices. The company will use the money to continue software development to enhance usability and usefulness, and will expand its soil database through farm consultants in Continuum’s Top Soil network, a nationwideassociation of soil health focused agronomists. | $25K / Grant / Sep 20, 2019 | |
AgriSync
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AgriSync is a customer service platform for ticketing and remote support for businesses and equipment dealers. AgriSync was founded in 2014 and was headquartered in West Des Moines, USA. | Seed / Apr 09, 2018 | |
Skycision
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Skycision redefines traditional crop management with a SaaS solution poised to disrupt a massive global market.State of the art Computer Vision and Machine Learning techniques allow them to derive actionable insights from drone-collected imagery that change the way their farmers grow. By leveraging the economy of scale of drone industry-leaderDJI, Skycision prepares to rapidly scale to penetrate an international market that has been too long forgotten.The ability to pinpoint crop stress, identify field threats, and recommend prescription solutions has the potential to save growers thousands of dollars in yield potential on an annual basis. Skycision enables their growers to save time and money in scouting while unlocking the hidden potential of their fields. | $1.1M / Seed / Mar 19, 2018 | |
EarthSense
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The lack of skilled labor in agriculture has led to an over-reliance on capital intensive machinery, synthetic chemicals, and simplified agricultural practices. This has led to the variety of bad effects from current agriculture including on the environment, food quality, and farmer profitability. In addition, the increasing unpredictability ofweather and frequent extreme weather events are damaging our ability to provide the growing global population with food security.To address these problems, EarthSense has developed an agricultural robotics and AI platform with three key applications: (1) developing the next generation of more productive and sustainable crops, (2) helping growers obtain actionable intelligence from their fields, and (3) managing problems like herbicide resistant weeds.The EarthSense platform is built to be modular and easily extensible - so that other people can easily participate in innovating in the next generation of robotics and AI technology. As a result, our agricultural AI platform will enable a climate-smart agricultural system, improve plant and soil health, drive a reduction in use of chemicals and other expensive inputs. | $50K / Pre-Seed / Nov 30, 2017 | |
Kilimo
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Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina. | $165K / Seed / Jul 02, 2017 |
Co-Investors
Innova Memphis
5 deals together
Ag Ventures Alliance
4 deals together
gener8tor
2 deals together
iVenture Accelerator
2 deals together
SOSV
2 deals together
SOSV SF & NY (Fka IndieBio)
2 deals together
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FAQ
What does AgLaunch Accelerator invest in?
AgLaunch Accelerator invests primarily in Agriculture, Farming and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did AgLaunch Accelerator last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for AgLaunch Accelerator closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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