# Lucas Mann

> Lucas Mann is a Series A investor at Acre Venture Partners backing Food Processing. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Acre Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acre-venture-partners)
- Location: Santa Monica, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 69%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-mann-4370221b5/

Lucas Mann is a Series A investor at Acre Venture Partners in Santa Monica focused on Food Processing and Food and Beverage. Lucas Mann is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Acre Venture Partners.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food Processing | 3 | 23% |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 23% |
| AgTech | 2 | 15% |
| Robotics | 2 | 15% |
| Agriculture | 2 | 15% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 46% |
| Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 54% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zucca | Zucca provides the quickest and smartest method for bringing new food and drink products to market. | $5M | Seed | Jul 16, 2025 |  |
| Bonsai Robotics | Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines. The company also offers analytics and telematics to help growers improve their performance, efficiency, and safety. The company is based in San Jose, California. | $15M | Series A | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Farm-ng | Farm-ng is a robotics company that develops general purpose farm robots that can be used to implement sustainable farming practices.Farm-ng offers robotics platform that is fully configurable and can be extended with Amiga Development Kit (ADK) that enables developers and ag tech companies to build innovative products and services on top of thefarm-ng robotic platform.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Watsonville, CA. | $10M | Series A | Jan 18, 2024 |  |
| Bonsai Robotics | Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines. The company also offers analytics and telematics to help growers improve their performance, efficiency, and safety. The company is based in San Jose, California. | $10.5M | Seed | Oct 02, 2023 |  |
| Source.ag | Source.ag develops AI-powered software solutions to support commercial greenhouse cultivation. Their product suite includes Source Workspace, a centralized dashboard for greenhouse operational data; Harvest Forecast, AI-driven yield predictions; Cultivation Management, virtual simulation of crop strategies; and Irrigation Control, automated waterand nutrient delivery to help growers increase efficiency and reduce risk. Its proprietary algorithms simulate plant behavior to define and execute optimal cultivation strategies, taking into account millions of data points on climate, biology, and resources. By enabling more growers to operate more facilities more efficiently through pioneering technology, Source is making glasshouse agriculture accessible, profitable, and globally scalable. | $23M | Series A | Feb 22, 2023 |  |
| People Science | People Science is a tech-led R&D platform for alternative medicine. | $5.3M | Seed | Jan 26, 2023 |  |
| Mori | Mori is a developer of an edible and natural biomaterial coating that extends the shelf life of perishable foods.It uses salt and water to extract the protein from natural silk and creates a protective layer that keeps food fresher for longer enabling it to economically and sustainably transform the food supply by developing and commercializingtechnologies for the food, agriculture, and packaging industries.It was founded in 2016 by Adam Behrens and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $50M | Series B | Mar 11, 2022 |  |
| Source.ag | Source.ag develops AI-powered software solutions to support commercial greenhouse cultivation. Their product suite includes Source Workspace, a centralized dashboard for greenhouse operational data; Harvest Forecast, AI-driven yield predictions; Cultivation Management, virtual simulation of crop strategies; and Irrigation Control, automated waterand nutrient delivery to help growers increase efficiency and reduce risk. Its proprietary algorithms simulate plant behavior to define and execute optimal cultivation strategies, taking into account millions of data points on climate, biology, and resources. By enabling more growers to operate more facilities more efficiently through pioneering technology, Source is making glasshouse agriculture accessible, profitable, and globally scalable. | $10M | Seed | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| Mori | Mori is a developer of an edible and natural biomaterial coating that extends the shelf life of perishable foods.It uses salt and water to extract the protein from natural silk and creates a protective layer that keeps food fresher for longer enabling it to economically and sustainably transform the food supply by developing and commercializingtechnologies for the food, agriculture, and packaging industries.It was founded in 2016 by Adam Behrens and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $16M | Series B | Apr 15, 2021 |  |
| Back to the Roots | Back to the Roots offers gardening kits to grow organic and gourmet mushrooms at homes. Founded in 2009 by Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora as a 100% sustainable urban mushroom farm, BTTR has transformed into a company focused on bringing sustainable grow-at-home products into households. Their Grow-at-Home Mushroom Garden is completely indoors andcan grow up to 1lb of oyster mushrooms in as little as 10 days. They provide a simple, eco-friendly, and quick way to have fresh oyster mushrooms right in the kitchen. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 22, 2020 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Prelude Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prelude-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Closed Loop Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/closed-loop-partners-38d7) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Congruent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/congruent-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Refactor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/refactor-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [E14 Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-e14-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Engine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-engine) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Acre Venture Partners

VC Fund · Santa Monica, United States

Driven by a mission to redefine food, Acre invests in companies creating systemic change in the food system to address the growing problems of human and environmental health. Acre makes venture-stage investments in highly disruptive platform businesses across the food value chain, with a particular focus on the agriculture, food tech, and consumerverticals. Taken together, these investments have the ability to form the foundation of an integrated new approach to food system evolution.

5 contacts available at Acre Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Bondar | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-bondar-26af |
| Gareth Asten | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gareth-asten |
| Samuel Kass | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-kass |
| Jeffrey Dunn | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-dunn-80bb |
| Lucas Mann | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucas-mann |

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## FAQ

### What does Lucas Mann invest in?

Lucas Mann invests primarily in Food Processing, Food and Beverage and AgTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Lucas Mann last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lucas Mann closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 13 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?

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