Middleland Capital
VC Fund
Washington, United States
Middleland Capital is a private investment firm focused on global early-stage technology opportunities. Leveraging a unique breadth of geographic and industry experience, the firm seeks partnerships with exceptional management teams to commercialize innovative technologies, accelerate growth, and build long-term value around the world.
- Total investments:
- 85
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries Middleland Capital invests in
Stages Middleland Capital invests in
Countries Middleland Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $900k–$4M
- Series A
- $4.3M–$13M
- Series B
- $5.3M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Agriculture 16 (19%)
- Software 13 (15%)
- Biotechnology 12 (14%)
- Farming 9 (11%)
- AgTech 8 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 24 (28%)
- Seed 18 (21%)
- Series B 16 (19%)
- Series C 6 (7%)
- Funding Round 6 (7%)
Country
- United States 44 (52%)
- Israel 2 (2%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alexander Pessala
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
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David P. Mixer
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Scott Horner
Managing Director & Co-Founder
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Managing Director & Co-Founder | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Severine Balick
Partner & Co-Founder
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Partner & Co-Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Brian Mixer
Managing Director, Co-Founder & Partner
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Managing Director, Co-Founder & Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
SWARM
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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 | |
Ordaos Bio
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Ordaōs is a human-enabled, machine-driven drug design company. We create customized mini-proteins that help pharma and biotechs around the world deliver safer and more effective life-saving treatments in a fraction of the time of traditional discovery methods. miniPRO proteins are created and evaluated in silico, and then rigorously tested invitro, which enables us to reliably and repeatedly deliver de novo solutions that meet our client’s stringent requirements at scale, including novelty and probability of clinical success. At Ordaōs, we help birth novel therapies that reduce patient suffering, improve health, and extend life. | $5M / Seed / Aug 25, 2022 | |
Groundwork BioAg
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Groundwork develops, manufactures and commercializes mycorrhizal inoculants for mainstream agriculture. Their customers achieve significantly higher crop yields, while reducing their environmental impact and saving money on agricultural inputs. | $18M / Series B / Aug 18, 2022 | |
Arable
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Arable is a developer of an integrated system for agriculture that helps digitize and optimize decisions from seed breeding to food production.The platform measures everything that matters to the crop, from the weather to the soil, to the plant itself by the use of a unique set of spectral and thermal sensors. This enables Arable to observe acrop’s development through the season and determine the onset of stress due to a lack of water or nutrients. Its integrated hardware, agronomic modeling, and software suite is enabling farmers, agronomists, researchers, processors, and food companies to understand the crop system at the plant, field, and region level, which helps to reduce risk, improve productivity, and optimize for sustainability.Arable received recognition, including the Irrigation Association’s Best New Product of 2018, Plug & Play’s Top 10 Ag Tech Companies to Watch in 2019, and THRIVE’s Top 50 Companies for 2020 awards. | $40M / Series C / Jul 25, 2022 | |
FarmWise
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FarmWise provides technology-based services that allow farmers to streamline farm operations and increase food production efficiency. | $45M / Series B / Jun 01, 2022 | |
Soli Organic
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Soli Organic is a grower, packer, and shipper of fresh organic culinary herbs. The company provides a 365-day supply of fresh, organic herbs to grocery stores, so millions of consumers can now eat locally all year. Their products are healthy, delicious, and aimed at making the world a lot more flavorful. | $120M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 27, 2021 | |
EarthOptics
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GroundTruth Ag is a soil cloud creator specializing in sustainable agricultural management. GroundTruth offers insights into soil management and health as well as near-real-time actionable data layers that cover the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the soil. This technology allows farmers to obtain accurate soil informationwhile also offering carbon creditors low-cost, hyper-accurate verification. | $10.3M / Series A / Sep 21, 2021 | |
Sentera
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Sentera is provides decision support and insights to growers, advisors, and enterprise customers. Our products use machine learning, modeling, and data sciences tools to gather data, organize it, and quickly turn it into insights that improve outcomes for growers, advisors, and retailers. We deliver the best insights from high-resolution droneimagery, satellites, field equipment, and other sensors, and combine it with advanced modeling and analytics tools at scale. | $25M / Series C / Jun 09, 2021 | |
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Groundwork BioAg
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Groundwork develops, manufactures and commercializes mycorrhizal inoculants for mainstream agriculture. Their customers achieve significantly higher crop yields, while reducing their environmental impact and saving money on agricultural inputs. | $11M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 12, 2021 | |
Territory Foods
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Territory Foods is a chef-prepared meal delivery service that creates nutritionist-approved menus tailored to support various dietary preferences and regional market tastes. Its fresh, healthy, ready-to-eat meals are designed by in-house culinary professionals and nutrition experts, prepared by a dedicated team of chefs, and powered by aproprietary algorithm that informs personalized menu variety at scale. Its boredom-proof rotating menus feature a wide variety of freshly-made artisan meals per week that are responsibly sourced, always free of refined sugars, and made without ingredients that contain gluten and dairy. Menus can be customized to meet dietary templates such as Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole30, and Keto, taking the guesswork out of navigating and committing to healthy eating.Territory Foods launched in 2011 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA. | $22M / Series B / Apr 13, 2021 | |
| See all 85 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Middleland Capital invest in?
Middleland Capital invests primarily in Agriculture, Software and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 85 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Middleland Capital's check size?
Middleland Capital typically joins rounds of $900k–$4M at Seed, $4.3M–$13M at Series A and $5.3M–$45M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Middleland Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Middleland Capital?
The team at Middleland Capital includes Alexander Pessala (Principal), David P. Mixer (Managing Partner) and Scott Horner (Managing Director & Co-Founder), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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