# Heifer International

> Heifer International is a VC fund in Little Rock backing AgTech and Farming. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Little Rock, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/heifer-international
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/heifer
- Website: http://www.heifer.org
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/heiferinternational

Heifer International is a non-profit organization that works with communities to end world hunger and poverty.The organization envisions a world with communities living together in peace and equitably sharing the resources of a healthy planet. It does so much more than put food in the mouths of hungry people. It helps people feed themselves.Heifer International was founded by Dan West in 1944 in Little Rock, Arkansas.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Grant | $4k–$800k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AgTech | 3 | 43% |
| Farming | 2 | 29% |
| Internet of Things | 2 | 29% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |
| Web3 | 1 | 14% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 4 | 57% |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 3 | 43% |
| India | 1 | 14% |
| Kenya | 1 | 14% |
| Spain | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Amy Dieringer | Vice President of Operations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-dieringer-3621 |
| Harper Grubbs | Senior Director of Digital Marketing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harper-grubbs |
| Marcia Rasmussen | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcia-rasmussen |
| Michelle Lynn Cangelosi | Vice President of Transformational Philanthropy | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michelle-lynn-cangelosi |
| Randi Hedin | Chair, Board of Directors, Heifer International | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/randi-hedin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VunaPay | VunaPay is an agritech payment company that uses collects, manages and payouts of farmers with the help of IoT technology. |  | Grant | Dec 30, 2024 |  |
| ZappFresh | ZappFresh is an online platform that delivers a variety of meat and seafood direct from farms and fisheries. The online brand mainly focuses on fresh meat and ready-to-cook or eat meat products. Its basic aim is to ensure that all the produce reaching the end consumer is fresh. Zappfresh is driven by mission is to keep raising the bar of thefresh meat experience for consumers in India. | $3.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 23, 2023 |  |
| EthicHub | EthicHub connect groups of smallholder coffee producers, with investors from all over the world and with direct buyers (rosters), creating value to all parties. By combining lending and product sale services we use the coffee as collateral for the loan and improve unit economics. Now it is possible to serve smallholder farmers in a very profitableway. EthicHub creates value from mutual benefit: Lenders provide affordable loans to the smallholder farmers (only coffee producers in early stage) and direct buyers (coffee roasters in early stage) offer faire prices for the crops, enabling farmers to have the resources to payback the loans and to get free from the poverty and low productivity cycle. | $420K | Debt Financing | Jun 13, 2023 |  |
| Evet | Livestock animal healthcare in Africa is fundamentally broken. In a place like Nigeria, for every 100,000 livestock farmers there is less than 5 veterinary doctors to serve them and even very limited veterinary diagnostic laboratories to assist animal healthcare experts to better diagnose and treat effectively. This further affects our food systemas about 40% livestock animals are lost to diseases annually. At Evet we are committed to solving this problem by building an end to end tech enabled solution that conveniently delivers quality animal healthcare to farmer's door step. Our solution is making it ten times faster and cheaper for farmers and veterinarians to detect diseases early enough and prevent diseases outbreak | $4K | Grant | Dec 04, 2022 |  |
| Hello Tractor | Hello Tractor is an award winning agtech social enterprise that focuses on connecting tractor owners and smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa through a farm equipment sharing application. We have over the years emerged as the leading provider of technology solutions designed for the tractor services market, capturing 75% of private commercialtractor inflows to Nigeria, expanding to a total of 16 markets across the continent as well as reaching well over 500,000 smallholder farmers. | $1M | Seed | Apr 28, 2022 |  |
| Hello Tractor | Hello Tractor is an award winning agtech social enterprise that focuses on connecting tractor owners and smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa through a farm equipment sharing application. We have over the years emerged as the leading provider of technology solutions designed for the tractor services market, capturing 75% of private commercialtractor inflows to Nigeria, expanding to a total of 16 markets across the continent as well as reaching well over 500,000 smallholder farmers. | $800K | Grant | Sep 08, 2021 |  |
| Cold Hubs | Cold Hubs is a Solar Powered Cold Storage . | $800K | Grant | Sep 08, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ah! Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ahventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Double Feather Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/double-feather-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HT Media](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ht-media) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Unity Small Finance Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unity-small-finance-bank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Heifer International invest in?

Heifer International invests primarily in AgTech, Farming and Internet of Things startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Heifer International's check size?

Heifer International typically joins rounds of $4k–$800k at Grant. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Heifer International participates in.

### How do I contact Heifer International?

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### Who are the partners at Heifer International?

The team at Heifer International includes Amy Dieringer (Vice President of Operations), Harper Grubbs (Senior Director of Digital Marketing) and Marcia Rasmussen (CFO), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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