# Andy Wheeler

> Andy Wheeler is a Series B investor at Google Ventures backing Robotics and AgTech. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-wheeler-9734a35/

Andy Wheeler is a Series B investor at Google Ventures in San Francisco focused on Robotics and AgTech. Andy Wheeler is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Partner of Google Ventures. Andy previously worked at Adura Technologies as a CTO. Andy Wheeler attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Robotics | 4 | 12% |
| AgTech | 3 | 9% |
| Agriculture | 3 | 9% |
| Food Processing | 3 | 9% |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 9% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 6 | 18% |
| Series C | 6 | 18% |
| Series A | 4 | 12% |
| Series D | 3 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 9% |

10 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Farmers Business Network | Farmers Business Network is an independent and unbiased, farmer-to-farmer agronomic information network. The Network's mission is to improve the livelihood of farmers by making data useful and accessible. Farmers Business Network (FBN) utilizes data science and machine learning to provide members with unbiased and unprecedented insightsabout each of their fields, powered by billions of data points from our network. IT provides farmers with product performance, benchmarking and predictive analytics based on real-world performance data | $50M |  | Jul 28, 2025 |  |
| Verse | Verse helps large energy buyers Connect, Contain, and Control their global power portfolios: connect to the grid faster leveraging flexibility; contain energy cost and risk with real-time analytics and strategic procurement; and control assets to maximize portfolio value through real-time optimization. Verse team blends deep energy-market expertisewith modern software engineering and product design to deliver usable, scalable tools to manage power costs and risks. | $20.5M | Series A | May 22, 2024 |  |
| Air Protein | Air Protein is a startup that aims to develop sustainable protein made from thin air. Using a proprietary probiotic process, Air Protein develops protein-enriched food made from CO2. This revolutionary new protein source can be used to make meat-free burgers, protein-enriched pasta, cereals, beverages, and more.Air Protein has been developed byKiverdi, a California-based biotechnology company. | $75M |  | May 18, 2023 |  |
| AMP | AMP’s AI-driven waste sorting solutions help optimize material recovery and recycling processes. Our waste sorting machines use real-time material characterization and high-speed sortation to increase resource recovery. As a waste sorting manufacturer, we deliver automated sortation services to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. Our technologysupports plastic waste management services, fiber waste management services, metal waste management services, film waste management services, and single-stream waste management services. From MSW management services to e-waste management services, we help facilities maximize recovery rates and minimize contamination. Machining manufacturer expertise with AI-driven automation makes us a leader in waste recycling manufacturing. Get in touch to explore how we can optimize your facility. | $91M | Series C | Nov 02, 2022 |  |
| Merlin Labs | Merlin Labs is building an autonomous infrastructure for the sky above us, enabling goods and eventually people, to fly without pilots. It specializes in the fields of software, transportation, and information technology. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $105M | Series B | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| FYTO | FYTO provides personalized solutions that improve the economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture for farmers around the world. FYTO specializes in developing crops that have ultra-high yields and ultra-low resource requirements, cultivation and harvesting systems for quality and consistency, climate-friendly methodologies forresiliency and long-term sustainability, and a range of groundbreaking agricultural products such as animal feed and biofertilizers. | $15M | Series A | Jul 07, 2022 |  |
| RightHand Robotics | RightHand Robotics provides end-to-end solutions that reduce the cost of e-commerce order-fulfillment of electronics, apparel, grocery. Their robots grasp a wide variety of items from bins and cases. Their core technology enables them to do this automatically — without laborious data entry or parameter-tuning — so they are inexpensive to set up andflexible to the changing needs of businesses. | $66M | Series C | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| Helium | Helium is an Internet-of-Things developer platform for building the network and transferring IoT device data. The platform building the peer-to-peer wireless network to simplify connecting anything to the internet by rewarding anyone to become a network operator. It provides wireless coverage for low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices and earnsa new cryptocurrency, Helium, from your living room.Helium tokens by verifying network transactions, adding new blocks to the blockchain, and performing other tasks. The Proof-of-Coverage is a unique work algorithm that uses radio waves to validate Hotspots are providing legitimate wireless coverage. | $200M | Series D | Feb 18, 2022 |  |
| Agtonomy | Agtonomy is a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist platform for agriculture vehicles. | $5M | Seed | Jan 18, 2022 |  |
| RightHand Robotics | RightHand Robotics provides end-to-end solutions that reduce the cost of e-commerce order-fulfillment of electronics, apparel, grocery. Their robots grasp a wide variety of items from bins and cases. Their core technology enables them to do this automatically — without laborious data entry or parameter-tuning — so they are inexpensive to set up andflexible to the changing needs of businesses. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 15, 2021 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Prelude Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prelude-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [S2G Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s2g-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Tao Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tao-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Fall Line Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fall-line-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Google Ventures

VC Fund · Mountain View, United States

Google Ventures invests in sectors including life sciences, consumer, enterprise, crypto, climate, and frontier technology. With Alphabet as its sole limited partner, Google Ventures focuses on long-term investments. Its operating partners assist startups in design, equity, diversity & inclusion, talent, and engineering and help them connectwith Google for technology and expertise. Founded in 2009 as Google Ventures, Google Ventures manages over $8 billion in assets with 400 active portfolio companies in North America and Europe. Some notable investments include Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, and One Medical. Google Ventures is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Cambridge, New York, and London.

5 contacts available at Google Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andy Wheeler | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-wheeler |
| Anika Gupta | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anika-gupta-b105 |
| Anthony Philippakis | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-philippakis |
| Ben Robbins | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-robbins |
| Bethany Tsui | Principal and Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bethany-tsui |

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## FAQ

### What does Andy Wheeler invest in?

Andy Wheeler invests primarily in Robotics, AgTech and Agriculture startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 34 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 Andy Wheeler last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andy Wheeler closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 34 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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