David Russell
Operating Partner @ Lewis & Clark AgriFood
St Louis, United States
David Russell is a seed investor at Lewis & Clark AgriFood in St Louis focused on AgTech and Agriculture. David Russell
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 60%
Last updated:
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Industries David Russell invests in
Stages David Russell invests in
Countries David Russell invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- AgTech 3 (60%)
- Agriculture 3 (60%)
- Biotechnology 3 (60%)
- Machine Learning 2 (40%)
- Life Science 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (20%)
- Series B 1 (20%)
- Series C 1 (20%)
- Series D 1 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (20%)
Investments
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Brightseed
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Brightseed is a biotechnology company that features artificial intelligence that reveals powerful compounds hidden in nature. The company enables a healthier future by illuminating and activating the connections between people and plants. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $68M / Series B / May 09, 2022 | |
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Brightseed
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Brightseed is a biotechnology company that features artificial intelligence that reveals powerful compounds hidden in nature. The company enables a healthier future by illuminating and activating the connections between people and plants. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $27M / Seed / Sep 15, 2020 | |
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Brightseed
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Brightseed is a biotechnology company that features artificial intelligence that reveals powerful compounds hidden in nature. The company enables a healthier future by illuminating and activating the connections between people and plants. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $27M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 15, 2020 | |
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. | $102M / Series D / Jun 16, 2020 | |
Benson Hill
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Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients.Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversityof plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process. | $32.6M / Series C / Aug 02, 2019 |
Co-Investors
About Lewis & Clark AgriFood
Lewis & Clark AgriFood is an investment firm that focuses on the fields of agrifood, agricultural innovation, sustainability, ag-tech, and growth equity. The firm lean towards tech-enabled, sustainable AgriFood companies in the late-stage VC/growth stage with converging to positive operating cash flow. This limits risk and leads tooutsized returns.
Lewis & Clark AgriFood Contacts
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David Taiclet
General Partner and Managing Director
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David Russell
Operating Partner
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Lawrence Page
Managing Director
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Thomas Hillman
Founding Partner
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Thomas Hillman
Founding Partner
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What does David Russell invest in?
David Russell invests primarily in AgTech, Agriculture and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for David Russell closed in May 2022. 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.
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