Continental Grain Company
VC Fund
New York, United States
Continental Grain Company is a VC fund in New York focused on Agriculture and Biotechnology. Continental Grain Company is dedicated to working with its existing agricultural businesses pursuing strategic opportunities in protein-based businesses while taking advantage of new investment opportunities.Established in 1813 as a grain trading firm based in what is now known as Arlon, Belgium, Continental Grain Company grew to become one ofthe largest privately held companies in the world. Through its diversified operations and investment activities, Continental Grain Company builds long-term value in partnership with exceptional management teams. The Company's goal is to attain financial success in ways that reflect favorably upon its employees and business partners. With a rich entrepreneurial legacy and significant permanent capital, Continental Grain Company continues to seek new global growth opportunities across the food and agriculture landscape through its various investment groups, including CGC Ventures, Corporate Investments, and its middle market investment group, Arlon.
- Total investments:
- 59
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
- Fund size:
- $209M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Continental Grain Company invests in
Stages Continental Grain Company invests in
Countries Continental Grain Company invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $2.9M–$47M
- Series B
- $18M–$68M
- Series C
- $10M–$100M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Agriculture 12 (20%)
- Biotechnology 12 (20%)
- Food and Beverage 9 (15%)
- AgTech 7 (12%)
- Farming 6 (10%)
Stage
- Series B 12 (20%)
- Series A 11 (19%)
- Series C 6 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (8%)
- Private Equity 4 (7%)
Country
- United States 20 (34%)
- China 3 (5%)
- France 2 (3%)
- Peru 1 (2%)
- Chile 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Frank Baier
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ari Gendason
Chief Investment Officer
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Chief Investment Officer | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Ben Fishman
Managing Director, Continental Grain Ventures
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Managing Director, Continental Grain Ventures | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Ceva Santé Animale
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Ceva Sante Animale S.A. engages in the research, development, production, and marketing of pharmaceutical products and vaccines for companion and farm animals. They work with welfare and social programmes around the world to bring this vision to life – anywhere their products and know-how can make a difference and with all kinds of partners. FromUganda, working with small-scale livestock owners and vets to stop sleeping sickness in its tracks, to the UK and USA, where they supply the biggest animal welfare charities with Adaptil® collars to help re-home shelter dogs. | Private Equity / Mar 31, 2025 | |
Baja Aqua Farms
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Baja Aqua Farm uses sustainable and environmentally friendly ranching practices to produce and distribute the highest quality bluefin tuna. | Nov 29, 2023 | |
Bushel
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Bushel is an independently owned software company and leading provider of software technology solutions for growers, grain buyers, ag retailers, protein producers and food companies, headquartered in Fargo, N.D. Since launching in 2017, Bushel’s platform has grown rapidly, now powering nearly 2,000 grain facilities across the U.S. and Canada withreal-time business information for their producers. Bushel’s platform now reaches 40% of grain origination in the United States, resulting in inarguably the largest technology network effect among growers and grain buyers in the U.S. today. $22 billion of grain is contracted annually within Bushel’s ecosystem. Bushel’s product suite includes its flagship mobile app, websites, trading tools, market feeds, API services and a custom software division focused on agriculture. Bushel has been focused on building software since the company was founded in 2011. Data privacy is a cornerstone of Bushel’s philosophy. | $26M / Jul 13, 2023 | |
Sentera
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Sentera is provides decision support and insights to growers, advisors, and enterprise customers. Our products use machine learning, modeling, and data sciences tools to gather data, organize it, and quickly turn it into insights that improve outcomes for growers, advisors, and retailers. We deliver the best insights from high-resolution droneimagery, satellites, field equipment, and other sensors, and combine it with advanced modeling and analytics tools at scale. | Series C / May 02, 2023 | |
Agrolend
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Agrolend was born to revolutionize the agribusiness sector for small and medium size farmers in Brazil, giving them access to sustainable credit that is needed to finance the development of their production and incentivize investment in equipment/technology. We help farmers to increase their productivity and profitability. Using cutting edgetechnology and an innovative credit analysis, Agrolend provides loans without any physical guarantees such as farms or grains. Our target is to avoid the slowness of the traditional banking system as this is a major problem for farmers looking for additional credit. | $28M / Series B / Nov 08, 2022 | |
Vestaron
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Vestaron produces insecticides for agriculture, animal health, non-crop, and commercial pest control applications. Vestaron Corporation develops and produces insecticides by employing peptides sourced from spiders in the United States. Its products are used in agriculture, animal health, and specialty non-crop applications, as well as in-householdinsects and commercial pest control applications. Vestaron Corporation was formerly known as Venomix, Inc. and changed its name to Vestaron Corporation in August 2009. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan. | $10M / Series C / Aug 25, 2022 | |
Pattern Ag
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Pattern Ag provides soil microbiome analysis and recommendations for input optimization on farms. Focused on specific pest and disease pressures faced by corn and soybean farmers, the firm recommends what to purchase and application solutions for when and where they are needed. | $35M / Series B / Aug 25, 2022 | |
Greenlight Biosciences
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GreenLight Biosciences is an integrated life sciences company with a cutting-edge platform to deliver higher-quality RNA at a lower cost and more quickly than was ever before possible. GreenLight develops RNA products and collaborates with industry leaders to advance vaccine development, pandemic preparation, crop management, plant protection andsupport the health of bees and other pollinators. | $109M / Post-IPO Equity / Aug 12, 2022 | |
Stable
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Stable is a risk management platform that helps businesses around the world protect themselves from the untraded commodity price volatility derivatives market. It focuses on the 90% of commodities around the world that can’t be hedged currently on future market. | $60M / Series B / May 26, 2022 | |
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Vestaron
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Vestaron produces insecticides for agriculture, animal health, non-crop, and commercial pest control applications. Vestaron Corporation develops and produces insecticides by employing peptides sourced from spiders in the United States. Its products are used in agriculture, animal health, and specialty non-crop applications, as well as in-householdinsects and commercial pest control applications. Vestaron Corporation was formerly known as Venomix, Inc. and changed its name to Vestaron Corporation in August 2009. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan. | $82M / Series C / May 16, 2022 | |
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FAQ
What does Continental Grain Company invest in?
Continental Grain Company invests primarily in Agriculture, Biotechnology and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 59 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Continental Grain Company's check size?
Continental Grain Company typically joins rounds of $2.9M–$47M at Series A, $18M–$68M at Series B and $10M–$100M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Continental Grain Company participates in.
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Who are the partners at Continental Grain Company?
The team at Continental Grain Company includes Frank Baier (Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer), Ari Gendason (Chief Investment Officer) and Ben Fishman (Managing Director, Continental Grain Ventures). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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