# Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund

> Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund is a VC fund backing Agriculture. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/18069171
- Website: https://raboinvestments.com

Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund is a VC fund in Utrecht focused on Agriculture and AgTech. Rabobank emerged from several small agricultural cooperative banks, founded by Dutch farmers in the late nineteenth century. Food & Agriculture (F&A) is in our DNA, from which we built a unique position in the F&A sector as a key financier and international player, attributes which we leverage for the benefit of our stakeholders andportfolio companies. We recognise and understand the food security challenges lying ahead of us and how Innovation in F&A supply chains is key to the solution, which is why we are dedicated to committing capital to the space.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.8M–$15M |
| Series B | $5M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 12 | 48% |
| AgTech | 10 | 40% |
| Farming | 5 | 20% |
| Biotechnology | 5 | 20% |
| Sustainability | 3 | 12% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 11 | 44% |
| Series B | 5 | 20% |
| Seed | 2 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 32% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 8% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Israel | 1 | 4% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rens Mathot | Investment Associate Rabo Investments | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rens-mathot |
| Kieran Furlong | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kieran-furlong-3dbb |
| Pieter Van der Meche | Managing Director | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pieter-van-der-meche |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MiAlgae | MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company that aims to revolutionize the £340 billion global livestock feed industry by producing microalgal products – through the remediation of wastewater – as nutrient supplements for fishmeal in livestock feeds. Their microalgal products are high in omegas and proteins, both of which are required forthe production of many livestock feeds, especially in the aquaculture sector.Their production methodology uses circular economy to reduce the operating costs involved in the production of microalgae and as such allows them to compete with other supplements currently on the market. | $18.5M | Series A | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| Saga Robotics | Saga Robotics revolutionizes the agricultural sector by developing autonomous robots capable of performing a wide variety of agricultural operations at a lower price and with higher quality than conventional systems.Saga Robotics aims to be the main provider of agricultural robots. Saga Robotics' short-term goal is to be the first providerof agricultural robots that represent a true added value to the farmer, meaning that they solve a specific task either cheaper or better than conventional systems. Saga Robotics' long-term goal is to be a provider of complete autonomous robotic systems capable of performing all agricultural operations at a lower price and higher quality.Saga Robotics' business philosophy is to develop technological advances for sustainable and profitable food production. | $11.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 29, 2024 |  |
| EarthOptics | 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. | $27.6M | Series B | Jan 18, 2023 |  |
| Enko Chem, Inc. | Enko Chem discovers and develops novel products for farmers to protect their crops from pests and diseases. Their proprietary technology platform represents a revolutionary approach to rapidly discover safe and economical solutions that are needed to ensure sustainable food production.It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Woburn,Massachusetts. | $70M | Series C | Jul 27, 2022 |  |
| Full Harvest | Full Harvest helps growers get the most out of a harvest and food companies save money by bringing farm excess to market.We are a B2B platform connecting large farms to food businesses to sell significantly discounted, yet perfectly good surplus and imperfectly shaped produce that would have otherwise gone to waste.Approx. 20 billion pounds ofproduce go to waste in the U.S. annually simply because they are not perfectly shaped for strict retailer standards. We aim to solve this problem by creating a marketplace for this unutilized edible and delicious produce.Our vision is three-fold: bring an additional revenue stream to farmers, lower the cost of healthy food production, while significantly reducing wasted food and resources. A win-win for everyone. | $5M | Series B | May 11, 2022 |  |
| 30MHz | We developed ZENSIE. A sensory system that enables you to get a better insight into your surroundings. Use this to unlock hidden potentials in any physical environment and realize higher profit margins or lower asset costs. Increase your productivity and learn how you can reduce overhead. To sum things up: sense more and be better. | $7.4M | Series B | Nov 11, 2021 |  |
| BeeHero | BeeHero is a developer of a beehive technology platform intended to maximize crop yields through pollination. The company's technology uses artificial intelligence with low-cost sensors to collect in-hive data and to stimulate full output potential during peak pollination cycles, enabling farmers to protect beehives from colony collapse andmaximize pollination efficiency for growers around the world.The company was founded in 2017 by Itai Kanot, Omer Davidi, and Yuval Regev, and operates out of Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley, employing 50 people, 30 of which in its Israeli R&D center. | $15M | Series A | Oct 06, 2021 |  |
| Ecto | Ecto develops technology at the intersection of data and biology to enable a more efficient and sustainable aquaculture industry. They collaborate with farmers to streamline production and health management by leveraging advanced molecular tools and digital technologies. To date, Ecto's solutions have enabled farmers to create 51,510,714additional healthy servings of protein.Ecto has offices in Boston, Atlanta, and Stavanger Norway, and serves customers all over the world. The company was founded at Harvard Innovation Labs in 2013 by Dmitry Kozachenok and James Webb. The company has received competitive research grants from the US National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, and Innovation Norway. | $7M | Series A | Oct 01, 2021 |  |
| Aromyx | Aromyx has built a platform for the digital capture of scent and taste – including the EssenceChip™ taste and scent sensor – that puts the human olfactory and taste receptors onto a disposable biochip, with a digital readout.The Aromyx platform includes the Allegory software suite, AromaGraph family of visual analytics, recommendedtaste/scent recording standards, access to the growing Aromyx online database of taste and scent data and related machine-learning algorithms.Unlike chemical sensors or mass spectrometry, the Aromyx EssenceChip system shows the biochemical signals that a cup of coffee, a sniff of perfume or a glass of wine send to the brain, as mediated by the human nose and tongue. | $10M | Series A | Jul 20, 2021 |  |
| Ecto | Ecto develops technology at the intersection of data and biology to enable a more efficient and sustainable aquaculture industry. They collaborate with farmers to streamline production and health management by leveraging advanced molecular tools and digital technologies. To date, Ecto's solutions have enabled farmers to create 51,510,714additional healthy servings of protein.Ecto has offices in Boston, Atlanta, and Stavanger Norway, and serves customers all over the world. The company was founded at Harvard Innovation Labs in 2013 by Dmitry Kozachenok and James Webb. The company has received competitive research grants from the US National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, and Innovation Norway. | $7.2M | Series A | Jul 19, 2021 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund invest in?

Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund invests primarily in Agriculture, AgTech and Farming startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 25 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 Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund's check size?

Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund typically joins rounds of $3.8M–$15M at Series A and $5M–$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 Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund?

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### Who are the partners at Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund?

The team at Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund includes Rens Mathot (Investment Associate Rabo Investments), Kieran Furlong (Venture Partner) and Pieter Van der Meche (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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