# Chris Edwards

> Chris Edwards is a seed investor at Tall Grass Ventures (Calgary) backing Agriculture and AgTech. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Tall Grass Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tall-grass-ventures)
- Location: Calgary, Canada
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-edwards-calgary/
- Website: https://www.tallgrass.vc/

Chris Edwards is a Managing Partner at Tall Grass Ventures

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 3 | 60% |
| AgTech | 1 | 20% |
| Chemical | 1 | 20% |
| Robotics | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 80% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 2 | 40% |
| Denmark | 1 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cellar Insights | Cellar Insights provides potato growers with a simple way to remotely monitor and act on storage conditions. |  | Seed | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| AgriRobot | AgriRobot helps make food production more sustainable and secure by enabling farmers around the world to make better use of agricultural field robots. And it helps manufacturers of field robots create fully autonomous machines. |  | Seed | Dec 11, 2024 |  |
| PheroSyn | PheroSyn develops and produces novel pest pheromones. PheroSyn is a spin-out from Rothamsted Research, the world-leading, non-profit research centre that focuses on strategic agricultural science to the benefit of farmers and society worldwide. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 22, 2024 |  |
| IntelliCulture | IntelliCulture provides a farm management solution that helps to prevent pest outbreaks, improve labor efficiency, and automate machine management. The mission of IntelliCulture is to provide clients with technology that keeps their businesses competitive. IntelliCulture collects data from agricultural equipment and analyzes it to provide insights. | $2.6M | Seed | Jun 03, 2024 |  |
| GeneNeer | With our KI™ technology, and our partners, we will enable growers to respond to weather changes and avoid yield loss by timely activation of the relevant traits, such as drought tolerance trait, or cold tolerance trait, in the crops they are growing, when and where they need it. Our current focus is to tackle one of the biggest challenges thatthe world faces today - reduce yield loss caused by drought | $1M | Seed | Jan 09, 2024 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [2b AHEAD Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2b-ahead-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accelerate Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelerate-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Carrot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carrot-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Emmertech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emmertech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [JANSZKY GmbH](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/janszky-gmbh) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Norminal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norminal-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Tall Grass Ventures

VC Fund · Calgary, Canada

Tall Grass Ventures is a seed stage venture capital firm that focuses on supporting the next generation of early stage agrifood tech solutions. The agrifood tech investment firm is investing in Canada's continued role as a powerhouse in an evolving food economy. Tall Grass Ventures is based in Calgary, Alberta.

4 contacts available at Tall Grass Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wilson Acton | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wilson-acton |
| Chris Edwards | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-edwards-7c38 |
| Marlise Hunter | Director of Platform | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marlise-hunter-5b3b |
| Wilson Acton | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wilson-acton-4655 |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Edwards invest in?

Chris Edwards invests primarily in Agriculture, AgTech and Chemical startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Chris Edwards last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Edwards closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 5 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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