# Radicle Growth

> Radicle Growth is a VC fund backing Agriculture and Biotechnology. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Diego, United States
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/10676519
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/radiclegrowth?lang=en
- Website: http://radicle.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/radicleaccelerator

Radicle Growth is a San Diego, California based venture capital firm focused sustainable, early-stage ag and food tech startups.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $250k–$3M |
| Grant | $250k–$1M |
| Series A | $5M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 10 | 33% |
| Biotechnology | 9 | 30% |
| AgTech | 8 | 27% |
| Farming | 6 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 17% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 33% |
| Series A | 7 | 23% |
| Grant | 6 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Series B | 2 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 47% |
| Canada | 3 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |
| Ireland | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kirk Haney | Founder & Managing Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kirk-haney |
| Micki Seibel | Operating Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/micki-seibel |
| Neal Gutterson | Chief Technology Officer and Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neal-gutterson |
| Paul Zorner | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-zorner |
| Rebecca Lincoln | Business Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rebecca-lincoln |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SWARM | 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 | 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 | 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 | Solasta Bio develops environment-friendly products that meet a global need for new and effective crop protection. | $1M | Grant | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| Impetus Agriculture | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Pluton Biosciences | 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 |  |
| Leaf Agriculture | Leaf Agriculture is the provider of a unified farm data API and it builds the future of food and agriculture. | $5M | Seed | Mar 29, 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. | $23M | Series B | Dec 17, 2021 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cultivian Sandbox Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cultivian-sandbox-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [S2G Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s2g-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Finistere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finistere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Portfolia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portfolia) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rabobank-s-food-agri-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Spark Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spark-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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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 30 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 Radicle Growth's check size?

Radicle Growth typically joins rounds of $250k–$3M at Seed, $250k–$1M at Grant and $5M–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Radicle Growth participates in.

### How do I contact Radicle Growth?

Public channels for Radicle Growth include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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