Ospraie Ag Sciences
VC Fund
New York, United States
Ospraie Ag Sciences is a VC fund in New York focused on Agriculture and AgTech. Ospraie has developed internal expertise and an extensive network investing in agriculture, in public and private markets, including successfully building and profitably exiting multibillion-dollar ventures. By bringing to bear our commercial experience and extensive network across the agricultural value chain, OAS is uniquely positioned to sourcea differentiated pipeline and build ESG-compliant, upstream companies.
- Total investments:
- 35
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 69%
- Fund size:
- $239M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Ospraie Ag Sciences invests in
Stages Ospraie Ag Sciences invests in
Countries Ospraie Ag Sciences invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$5.3M
- Series A
- $4M–$10M
- Series B
- $3M–$57M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Agriculture 8 (23%)
- AgTech 7 (20%)
- Biotechnology 6 (17%)
- Farming 5 (14%)
- Organic Food 3 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 8 (23%)
- Series B 5 (14%)
- Seed 4 (11%)
- Post-IPO Equity 4 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 14 (40%)
- Canada 3 (9%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Carl Casale
Senior Agricultural Partner
|
Senior Agricultural Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
|
Dwight Anderson
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jason Mraz
Co-Founder & President
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Co-Founder & President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Thomas Wiltrout
Director
|
Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automated harvesting with plant analytics. We're creating next-generation farming technologies through robotics that will change the world. | $9M / Series A / Nov 21, 2024 | ||
| AgroSpheres develops novel technologies that aim to set a new standard for bio-based delivery of active ingredients. It uses a unique platform technology for crop protection solutions and other industrial applications. The company is an encapsulation and delivery technology that dramatically enhances the performance of a broad range of cropprotection products including fungicides, insecticides, and herbicides.AgroSpheres was founded in 2016 and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia. | $12M / Series B / Sep 30, 2024 | ||
| 5Metis is a new pure-play discovery company for crop health. The company is the result of a union of Boragen and AgriMetis platforms, to combine boron-based small molecule discovery and synthetic biology for discovering new modes of action. | $5.5M / Series A / Apr 30, 2024 | ||
| IGS makes platforms that deliver ideal climates for plants and people, based upon a culture of continuous innovation, brilliant, simple design and a refusal to accept conventional technical thinking. | $28.6M / Series C / Jan 18, 2024 | ||
| AgroSpheres develops novel technologies that aim to set a new standard for bio-based delivery of active ingredients. It uses a unique platform technology for crop protection solutions and other industrial applications. The company is an encapsulation and delivery technology that dramatically enhances the performance of a broad range of cropprotection products including fungicides, insecticides, and herbicides.AgroSpheres was founded in 2016 and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia. | $3M / Series B / Nov 27, 2023 | ||
| LandTrust is a marketplace where people can list, discover, and book private land for hunting, fishing, and outdoor experiences. LandTrust is the place for getting sportsmen out pursuing their passions on private land. LandTrust also partners with landowners like farmers & ranchers to create new revenue streams from their land's naturalresources, which enables them to be directly compensated for good land management practices & continue to invest in stewarding their land. | $6.8M / Series A / Dec 15, 2022 | ||
| Freight Farms create access to food in areas of the world where the climate does not support traditional farming methods. The Freight Farms' system brings a high volume of fresh, quality, and affordable food within reach of everyone along the food supply chain. By enabling high-yield crop production in any climate, Freight Farms offer animmediate foundation to grow a local food economy and sustainable food system.Freight Farms was founded in 2013 by Brad McNamara in Boston, Massachusetts. | $17.5M / Series B / Nov 15, 2022 | ||
| AgroSpheres develops novel technologies that aim to set a new standard for bio-based delivery of active ingredients. It uses a unique platform technology for crop protection solutions and other industrial applications. The company is an encapsulation and delivery technology that dramatically enhances the performance of a broad range of cropprotection products including fungicides, insecticides, and herbicides.AgroSpheres was founded in 2016 and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia. | $22M / Series B / Oct 20, 2022 | ||
| Pattern Ag provides soil microbiome analysis and recommendations for input optimization on farms. Focused on specific pest and disease pressures faced by corn and soybean farmers, the firm recommends what to purchase and application solutions for when and where they are needed. | $35M / Series B / Aug 25, 2022 | ||
| Phospholutions has developed a patented technology to alleviate the environmental impact of phosphorus fertilizer. Current commercial products aim to deliver phosphorus more efficiently to the plant within the soil and reduce unwanted losses to the environment, ultimately minimizing the effect on water quality.Phospholutions is a State College,PA-based sustainable fertilizer startup. | $5.3M / Convertible Note / Jul 07, 2022 | ||
| See all 35 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Ospraie Ag Sciences invest in?
Ospraie Ag Sciences invests primarily in Agriculture, AgTech and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ospraie Ag Sciences invest in?
Ospraie Ag Sciences typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$5.3M at Seed, $4M–$10M at Series A and $3M–$57M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ospraie Ag Sciences's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ospraie Ag Sciences took part in.
How do I contact Ospraie Ag Sciences?
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Who are the partners at Ospraie Ag Sciences?
The team at Ospraie Ag Sciences includes Carl Casale (Senior Agricultural Partner), Dwight Anderson (Founder) and Jason Mraz (Co-Founder & President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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