# Evi Steyer

> Evi Steyer is a seed investor at Ponderosa Ventures (London) backing Agriculture and AgTech. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ponderosa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ponderosa-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evi-steyer-5bb193103/

Evi Steyer is a Co-Founder at Ponderosa Ventures.She attended Yale University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 3 | 60% |
| AgTech | 2 | 40% |
| Farming | 2 | 40% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 40% |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 40% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CroBio | CroBio is a start-up founded by individuals specialising in microbiology and engineering. The company has a vision to create an environmentally sustainable solution to managing global agricultural drought.The companies current technology is based on a genetically engineered root-associated bacteria that has self-sustaining biologically activewater retention. The bacteria naturally occur around the roots of many crops such as corn, wheat and soybean. By exploiting these symbiotic relationships, we are able to engineer beneficial traits. | $1.6M | Seed | Apr 23, 2024 |  |
| Natrx | Natrx uses advanced technology to deliver high-performance, nature-based solutions to coastal resilience and protection challenges at industrial scale. Traditional methods for climate resilience and infrastructure protection are expensive, ecologically damaging, and unreliable. Natrx takes a technology-first approach in addressing thesechallenges­—creating practical, sustainable, and large-scale solutions that deliver high-performance and natural beauty. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 11, 2023 |  |
| Muddy Machines | Muddy Machines is working on field robots to help farms manage labor-intensive crops by completing the fieldwork. | $1.8M | Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Chi Botanic | Chi Botanic creates plant stem cells that we can grow into plant products and ingredients at industrial scale. We generate plant cell cultures representing just the parts or components that we want. Plant cell cultures grow much faster than whole plants. Also, while a fraction of a normal plant makes what we want, our entire cultures can synthesizethe desired product. We can grow without the limitations of climate, weather, geography, or season and without fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides with far less water, energy, or shipping requirements to provide safer, and often enhanced natural productsWe make plant stem cells that we can grow into plant products and ingredients at industrial scale. We generate plant cell cultures representing just the parts or components that we want. Plant cell cultures grow much faster than whole plants. Also, while a fraction of a normal plant makes what we want, our entire cultures can synthesize the desired product. We can grow without the limitations of climate, weather, geography, or season and without fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides with far less water, energy, or shipping requirements to provide safer, and often enhanced natural products | $850K | Convertible Note | Nov 27, 2021 |  |
| Steward | Steward provides access to flexible financing and expert support services for agricultural businesses looking to scale their operations, improve the health of their lands, and bolster local food systems. But we don’t do it alone—our lending platform brings together a community of values-driven individuals who join in our mission by participating inloans that help fuel this growth. Steward is proud to be a Certified B Corp. Learn more, seek capital, or lend support at gosteward.com | $8.8M | Series A | Sep 22, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Grantham Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grantham-foundation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Grantham Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grantham-environmental-trust) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Catapult Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catapult-venture-managers) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cobrey Farms](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cobrey-farms) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Empirical Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/empirical-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fulcrum Financial Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fulcrum-financial-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Ponderosa Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

We believe that a radical change to our food, agriculture, and ocean sectors is necessary to meet our climate, biodiversity, water, and human health goals. We invest $100-750k in pre-seed and seed-stage companies working to transform these sectors. Our average time to reach a yes / no decision is 15 days (but check back because we update thisnumber live). We keep our investment process targeted so you can go back to building your company.

1 contacts available at Ponderosa Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Evi Steyer | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evi-steyer |

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## FAQ

### What does Evi Steyer invest in?

Evi Steyer invests primarily in Agriculture, AgTech and Farming startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

### When did Evi Steyer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Evi Steyer closed in Apr 2024. 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?

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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