# Bidra Innovation Ventures

> Bidra Innovation Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Chemical and Agriculture. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last fund: Mar 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bidra-innovation-ventures
- Website: https://www.bidra.vc

Bidra Innovation Ventures is a venture fund.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chemical | 3 | 27% |
| Agriculture | 3 | 27% |
| Water | 2 | 18% |
| Energy | 2 | 18% |
| Farming | 2 | 18% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 27% |
| Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Series D | 1 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 55% |
| India | 2 | 18% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BigHaat | BigHaat is an online seeds company that works with several seed suppliers across India in bringing their products into BigHaat platform to provide transparent, competitive, and quality services to the seed buyers.BigHaat platform ensures online listing of products and connects buyers with suppliers for any post-sale support providing seamless endto end user experience. This platform also reduces the widening gap between sellers and buyers in agriculture domain and benefits suppliers and sellers to improve their operational efficiency and productivity.It was launched on 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India. | $10M | Series D | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| AgroSpheres | AgroSpheres develops novel technologies that aim to set a new standard for bio-based delivery of active ingredients. It uses a unique platform technology for crop protection solutions and other industrial applications. The company is an encapsulation and delivery technology that dramatically enhances the performance of a broad range of cropprotection products including fungicides, insecticides, and herbicides.AgroSpheres was founded in 2016 and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia. | $12M | Series B | Sep 30, 2024 |  |
| Tidal Metals | Tidal Metals developed a breakthrough suite of innovations for producing critical minerals and metals from seawater and brines – with no waste, no carbon emissions, and no harm to the environment. | $8.5M | Seed | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Travertine | Travertine process accelerates the Earth’s natural carbon cycle to precipitate carbonate minerals from carbon dioxide in the air, permanently storing carbon in the solid phase. | $8.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Niqo Robotics | TartanSense unlocks value for the farming community by working at the intersection of robotics and AI assisted computer vision. Their solutions provides a compelling solution to reduce input costs by up to 90%. | $13M | Series B | May 01, 2024 |  |
| Niqo Robotics | TartanSense unlocks value for the farming community by working at the intersection of robotics and AI assisted computer vision. Their solutions provides a compelling solution to reduce input costs by up to 90%. | $8.9M | Series B | May 01, 2024 |  |
| AgroSpheres | AgroSpheres develops novel technologies that aim to set a new standard for bio-based delivery of active ingredients. It uses a unique platform technology for crop protection solutions and other industrial applications. The company is an encapsulation and delivery technology that dramatically enhances the performance of a broad range of cropprotection products including fungicides, insecticides, and herbicides.AgroSpheres was founded in 2016 and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia. | $3M | Series B | Nov 27, 2023 |  |
| Aclarity | Aclarity is a VC-backed cleantech startup developing and selling water treatment systems to clean the world's water and wastewater. | $15.9M | Series A | Nov 02, 2023 |  |
| Peregrine Hydrogen | Peregrine Hydrogen operates as a climate technology company pioneering a dual production method for green hydrogen and valuable chemicals. | $7.8M | Seed | Sep 22, 2023 |  |
| Verdagy | Verdagy is revolutionizing water electrolysis technology to facilitate large-scale green hydrogen production. Their solution achieves the lowest upfront capital costs and offers a competitive unit economics for production. Located in Moss Landing, California, Verdagy operates laboratory and pilot plant facilities to advance and rapidly scale itstechnology platform. | $73M | Series B | Aug 08, 2023 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cavallo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cavallo-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lewis & Clark AgriFood](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lewis-clark-agrifood) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ospraie Ag Sciences](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ospraie-ag-sciences) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FMC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fmc-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Omnivore](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omnivore-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Zebra Impact Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zebra-impact-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Bidra Innovation Ventures invest in?

Bidra Innovation Ventures invests primarily in Chemical, Agriculture and Water startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 Bidra Innovation Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bidra Innovation Ventures closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 11 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?

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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