# Kirk Haney

> Kirk Haney is a seed investor at Radicle Growth (San Diego) backing AgTech and Farming. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Radicle Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/radicle)
- Location: San Diego, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kirklhaney
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/kirkhaney

Kirk Haney is a seed investor at Radicle Growth in San Diego focused on AgTech and Farming. Kirk Haney is President and Chief Executive Officer of SGB, Inc. Mr. Haney has a successful track record developing sustainable, for-profit projects, and extensive experience in both established and start-up companies.As President of Green Millennium, he raised over $100M in private equity and successfully built and scaled a sustainable forestrycompany from start-up to over 100 employees. His role consisted of managing all aspects of the business including strategy, operations, and finance. Green Millennium's mission is to initiate and manage precious wood reforestation programs in Central America. Thousands of hectares of land that were devastated by years of deforestation have been reclaimed by Green Millennium and returned to their original forested state.Mr. Haney has held senior and executive management positions for 3Com Corporation, ArrowPoint Communications (acquired by Cisco Systems), Cisco Systems and Green Millennium, Ltd. At ArrowPoint, he held general management responsibility for the Western area. In this role, he built and led an organization that grew revenue from $0 to an $80 million run-rate. This was critical for ArrowPoint's ability to go public in March of 2000 and Cisco's $5.9 billion acquisition. In addition to leading several of Cisco's enterprise and advanced technology organizations, he was instrumental in creating Cisco's global security sales strategy, which resulted in Cisco surpassing $1 billion in security sales. He was also an advisor to Cisco's Corporate Business Development team on various investment and acquisition candidates.Mr. Haney serves on the board of SGB, is Chairman of the Board of Cloud Break Advisors, Inc., a Latin American investment firm and he is Chairman of the Board of Green Millennium, Ltd., a sustainable forestry company. He is a member of the board of advisors for the Inter-American Dialogue and serves on the Dean's Leadership Council for the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. He was named one of the Top 50 People in Bioenergy by Biofuels Digest and is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AgTech | 2 | 33% |
| Farming | 2 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 17% |
| Robotics | 1 | 17% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SWARM | SWARM is an AI-powered operational optimization company that builds decision intelligence software for agrifood and manufacturing. The company focuses on helping organizations improve efficiency and reduce costs by using AI systems that model operational challenges and generate optimized decisions across areas such as supply chain planning,logistics, workforce allocation, pricing, and production management. Its platform is designed around an agent-based architecture that uses intelligent systems to interpret business data, identify inefficiencies, and recommend or execute improved operational plans. Rather than requiring users to build models or write code, SWARM allows organizations to define operational problems in a structured way and then uses AI-driven engines to compute optimal solutions. | $10M | Series A | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| New Iridium | New Iridium helps to decarbonize the chemical industry by utilizing CO2 to create value-added products and reducing carbon emissions through highly efficient chemical manufacturing. They efficiently upcycles CO2 to produce green and lower-cost products. By consuming more CO2 than emitted by the process and combining CO2 with lower-cost alternativefeedstocks, our technology creates carbon-negative and lower-cost versions of existing commodity chemicals. | $2.7M | Seed | Jun 11, 2025 |  |
| Leaf Agriculture | Leaf Agriculture is the provider of a unified farm data API and it builds the future of food and agriculture. | $5M | Seed | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Burro | Burro is a developer of an autonomous farming platform for use on farms and in other tough outdoor environments. It follows people and can autonomously run cargo around, relieving people of strenuous tasks which add little value, so that they can focus on more valuable work. | $10.9M | Series A | Sep 28, 2021 |  |
| Burro | Burro is a developer of an autonomous farming platform for use on farms and in other tough outdoor environments. It follows people and can autonomously run cargo around, relieving people of strenuous tasks which add little value, so that they can focus on more valuable work. | $1.5M | Seed | Apr 02, 2019 |  |
| Leaf Agriculture | Leaf Agriculture is the provider of a unified farm data API and it builds the future of food and agriculture. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 29, 2019 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [S2G Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s2g-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Cibus Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cibus-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ff Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ff-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ACE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aceleratech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ADM Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adm-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AgRogue Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agrogue-growth) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Radicle Growth

VC Fund · San Diego, United States

Radicle Growth is a San Diego, California based venture capital firm focused sustainable, early-stage ag and food tech startups.

5 contacts available at Radicle Growth.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kirk Haney | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kirk-haney |
| Micki Seibel | Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/micki-seibel |
| Neal Gutterson | Chief Technology Officer and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neal-gutterson |
| Paul Zorner | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-zorner |
| Rebecca Lincoln | Business Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rebecca-lincoln |

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## FAQ

### What does Kirk Haney invest in?

Kirk Haney invests primarily in AgTech, Farming and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 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 Kirk Haney last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kirk Haney closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 6 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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