# John Keells Group

> John Keells Group is a VC fund in Colombo backing AgTech and Internet of Things. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/john-keells-holdings
- Website: https://x.com/JohnKeellsGroup
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnkeells

John Keells Group is a VC fund in Colombo focused on AgTech and Internet of Things. John Keells Holdings PLC is Sri Lanka’s premier diversified company.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AgTech | 1 | 100% |
| Internet of Things | 1 | 100% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SenzAgro (Pvt) Ltd | SenzAgro is a climate-smart, crop-specific, data-driven precision agriculture solution that recommends real-time agronomic solutions to growers using on-farm and micro-climatic data collected via agnostic sensors. Predictive analytics is then applied to the data to provide crop-specific, stage-specific, actionable decision making so farmers canoptimize farm growth conditions. Remote crop-specific irrigation automation removes the guesswork, resulting in poor resource utilisation like over-irrigation and untimely actions when dealing with diseases and pests. | $15K | Pre-Seed | Jan 15, 2018 | https://x.com/@senzagro |

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## FAQ

### What does John Keells Group invest in?

John Keells Group invests primarily in AgTech, Internet of Things and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sri Lanka. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did John Keells Group last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Keells Group closed in Jan 2018. Shizune tracks 1 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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