Radicle Growth
VC Fund
San Diego, United States
Radicle Growth is a VC fund in San Diego focused on Agriculture and Biotechnology. Radicle Growth runs an Ag & Food Innovation platform where it finds, funds, builds and provides market access for start-ups. The Ag Innovation Platform has enabled transformative partnerships with the top corporations and start-ups from around the world. Radicle Growth pioneered a concept called The Radicle Challenge to proactively seek out the best and brightest entrepreneurs solving a problem or looking to disrupt an existing business model in the ag and food industries.
- Total investments:
- 33
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Fund size:
- $85M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Radicle Growth invests in
Stages Radicle Growth invests in
Countries Radicle Growth invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $250k–$3M
- Grant
- $250k–$1M
- Series A
- $5M–$17M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Agriculture 11 (33%)
- Biotechnology 10 (30%)
- AgTech 9 (27%)
- Farming 6 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (36%)
- Series A 7 (21%)
- Grant 6 (18%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (6%)
- Series B 2 (6%)
Country
- United States 17 (52%)
- Canada 3 (9%)
- United Kingdom 2 (6%)
- Israel 1 (3%)
- Ireland 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kirk Haney
Founder & Managing Partner
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Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Micki Seibel
Operating Partner
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Operating Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Neal Gutterson
Chief Technology Officer and Partner
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Chief Technology Officer and Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Paul Zorner
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Rebecca Lincoln
Business Analyst
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Business Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citroniq is at the forefront of the energy transition, producing carbon-negative materials on a large scale. Their platform for the chemical and plastics industries leverages US-produced ethanol and advanced technology to achieve some of the industry’s most cost-effective carbon capture and avoidance values. Citroniq’s E2O process notably reducesgreenhouse gas emissions, permanently sequesters carbon into practical plastic pellets, and helps companies meet their greenhouse gas reduction goals. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Future Origins produces sustainable, biomanufactured alternatives to palm-derived fatty alcohols and acids, including NALO™. | Seed / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| 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 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 | ||
| 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. | $750K / Grant / Jun 06, 2025 | ||
| Solasta Bio develops environment-friendly products that meet a global need for new and effective crop protection. | $1M / Grant / Mar 19, 2024 | ||
| Impetus Agriculture focuses on developing multiple topical or transgenic insect control products. Products that are safe, effective, and sustainable. Products that are not subject to the same insect resistance that has developed in current commercial products. | $750K / Grant / Mar 18, 2024 | ||
| FarmSense is an agricultural smart trap that monitors insects in the field using optical sensor technology. Its patented algorithm captures flying insect signals in the field and transmits this categorized data, along with environmental information, allowing for early detection and reduction of pesticide use while increasing crop yields. | $750K / Grant / Oct 02, 2023 | ||
| PheroSyn develops and produces novel pest pheromones. PheroSyn is a spin-out from Rothamsted Research, the world-leading, non-profit research centre that focuses on strategic agricultural science to the benefit of farmers and society worldwide. | $750K / Seed / Oct 02, 2023 | ||
| The miniscule organisms Pluton Biosciences discover possess the power to create global change. Pluton quickly and inexpensively taps into the diverse world of bacteria, fungi and viruses to discover next-generation products for carbon sequestration, agriculture, pharmaceutical, biomaterials and bioremediation.Pluton Bioscience's discoveryprocess generates diverse commercialization options, including: Organisms (biological products), Small Molecule Chemistries (fermentable and non-fermentable) and New Traits (scale dependent). | $16.5M / Series A / May 24, 2023 | ||
| See all 33 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Radicle Growth invest in?
Radicle Growth invests primarily in Agriculture, Biotechnology and AgTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 33 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 Radicle Growth invest in?
Radicle Growth typically joins rounds of $250k–$3M at Seed, $250k–$1M at Grant and $5M–$17M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Radicle Growth's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Radicle Growth took part in.
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Who are the partners at Radicle Growth?
The team at Radicle Growth includes Kirk Haney (Founder & Managing Partner), Micki Seibel (Operating Partner) and Neal Gutterson (Chief Technology Officer and Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
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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