# Better Food Ventures

> Better Food Ventures is a VC fund backing Agriculture and Software. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Feb 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/better-food-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/betterfoodvc
- Website: http://betterfoodventures.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BetterFoodVC

Better Food Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Agriculture and Software. Better Food Ventures is exclusively focused on investing in scalable technologies to transform and improve the food and agriculture sectors. With a team of international investors, the company looks to identify and develop companies that can improve the performance of the food and agriculture industries through the application of information andcommunications technology.To meet the changing market demands of today and the future, the Better Food Ventures team believes the food and agriculture industries need to more fully embrace technologies such as mobile and cloud-based computing, sensor technologies, IoT, robotics, data analytics, and artificial intelligence, collaborative production and consumption platforms.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 7 | 35% |
| Software | 5 | 25% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 20% |
| Food and Beverage | 4 | 20% |
| AgTech | 3 | 15% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 70% |
| Series A | 3 | 15% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 85% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brita Rosenheim | Venture Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brita-rosenheim |
| Michael Rose | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-rose-3 |
| Seana Day | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seana-day |
| Rob Trice | Founding Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-trice |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Breedr | Breedr is a productivity and marketing platform that’s transforming the livestock supply-chain.Breedr Tools is a comprehensive set of digital tools designed for livestock management, tailored to meet the unique needs of farmers. The Livestock App serves as the central platform for monitoring and tracking essential livestock data, simplifying themanagement process. The Livestock Market facilitates efficient buying and selling of livestock, connecting farmers to a broader network of potential buyers and sellers.Moreover, Breedr Tools includes specialized features for managing finances effectively, with the Cashflow tool providing insights into income and expenses related to livestock. The Farm System offers a holistic view of the farming operation, integrating data from various aspects such as livestock, crops, and resources to aid in decision-making and optimization.The software also provides separate modules for Suckler, Finisher, and Rearer management, each tailored to address the unique requirements of different animal growth stages. Additionally, Breedr Tools offers dedicated features and modules for Sheep farming, catering to the specific needs of sheep farmers.In conclusion, Breedr Tools empowers livestock farmers with data-driven insights and efficient tools, fostering productivity and streamlining operations to achieve success in their farming endeavors. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| 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. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Four Growers | Automated harvesting with plant analytics. We're creating next-generation farming technologies through robotics that will change the world. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Milk Moovement | Milk Moovement is a computer software company that creates innovative dairy software in the raw milk supply chain. The company provides actionable intelligence across the dairy supply chain through its cloud-based software. Its milk management system is an Enterprise Resource Platform (ERP) for tracking milk pick-ups and monitoring milk productionthat can be used to identify process improvements, monitor performance, and maximize overall profitability.Milk Moovement was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. | $3.2M | Seed | Apr 15, 2021 |  |
| Afresh | Afresh is an AI-powered company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores. The company is an operator of a fresh-first supply chain platform intended to handle the complexity of perishable categories for brick and mortar retailers and wholesalers. Its platform brings artificial intelligence and machinelearning to forecast and ingest millions of data points to provide accurate item-level predictions of future demand to replenish recommendations that account for supply chain constraints and optimize for margin that enable clients to minimize waste, maximize freshness, and multiply business profitability.Afresh was established in 2017 in San Francisco, California by Matt Schwartz. | $12M | Series A | Jul 20, 2020 |  |
| DecisionNext | DecisionNext offers a prescriptive analytics platform that helps customers across industries make high-value decisions and improve end-to-end performance. DecisionNext solutions include commodity price forecasting, purchasing optimization, product mix optimization, capacity optimization, and pricing and promotion optimization. Importantly, it isconnecting these optimizations into a single system that delivers the most value to our customers. | $7M | Series A | May 23, 2019 |  |
| Edifice Health | Edifice Health is a spin-out company from a 10-year research study on immune profiling from Stanford University, the Stanford 1,000 Immunomes Project. The technology is the first biomarker composite scoring system to measure immune health and the Inflammatory Age® of an individual which predicts the onset of multiple chronic diseases and providescomprehensive health insights designed to help people change the course of their aging process. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 01, 2019 |  |
| Gastrograph | Analytical Flavor Systems’ AI-driven Gastrograph platform helps packaged food companies achieve greater success in a saturated food industry that has an over 80% failure rate. Gastograph moves CPG brands’ development process beyond traditional tasting panels; it surveys each product with a flavor profile engine that is predictive, anticipating hownew foods will perform in different markets, over a long time horizon, and against various demographic archetypes. Food companies are struggling to launch new products in an era of rapidly shifting consumer tastes, and an AI-driven platform like Gastrograph gives big food a more accurate map with which to navigate into the future. | $4M | Series A | Nov 08, 2018 |  |
| FarmOp Capital | FarmOp Capital leverages technology to provide working capital to farm operators. |  | Seed | Sep 01, 2018 |  |
| Gastrograph | Analytical Flavor Systems’ AI-driven Gastrograph platform helps packaged food companies achieve greater success in a saturated food industry that has an over 80% failure rate. Gastograph moves CPG brands’ development process beyond traditional tasting panels; it surveys each product with a flavor profile engine that is predictive, anticipating hownew foods will perform in different markets, over a long time horizon, and against various demographic archetypes. Food companies are struggling to launch new products in an era of rapidly shifting consumer tastes, and an AI-driven platform like Gastrograph gives big food a more accurate map with which to navigate into the future. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Baseline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baseline-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Basis Set Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basis-set-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bits x Bites](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bits-x-bites) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Better Food Ventures invest in?

Better Food Ventures invests primarily in Agriculture, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Better Food Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Better Food Ventures?

The team at Better Food Ventures includes Brita Rosenheim (Venture Partner), Michael Rose (Partner) and Seana Day (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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