# Rethink Food

> Rethink Food is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage and Agriculture. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rethink-food-nyc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/rethinkfood?lang=en
- Website: https://www.rethinkfood.org/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RethinkFoodHQ

Rethink Food is a nonprofit committed to reducing food insecurity with practical solutions that will have a lasting impact. Its mission is to reduce food insecurity by developing practical models that distribute nutritionally dense, culturally sensitive meals to nourish healthy and thriving communities.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 43% |
| Agriculture | 2 | 29% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 29% |
| Industrial Automation | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 57% |
| Series B | 3 | 43% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rini Greenfield | Founding General Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agtonomy | Agtonomy is a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist platform for agriculture vehicles. | $18M | Series B | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Agtonomy | Agtonomy is a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist platform for agriculture vehicles. | $10M | Series A | Oct 16, 2024 |  |
| Kernel / Counter Service | Kernel Foods is a robot-powered fast food startup that aims to operate with as few as three employees. The company intends to revolutionize technology, labor, real estate, and menu, and implement automation with a human touch. | $36M | Series A | Aug 10, 2023 |  |
| Planet FWD | Planet FWD specializes in developing a regenerative food platform. Planet FWD's carbon-neutral food products intended to reverse climate change. The company uses regenerative ingredients and compostable packaging enabling consumers to reduce the carbon footprint from the atmosphere and consume climate-friendly products. | $10M | Series A | May 26, 2022 |  |
| Evergreen | Omeat is a game-changing solution to the environmental, health, and animal welfare challenges posed by animal agriculture. They offer real meat grown from cells outside the animal that's every bit as delicious and nourishing as business-as-usual meat, but no sacrifice is required. | $36.5M | Series A | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Motif | Motif makes ingredients for the next generation of plant-based and healthy foods. They use fermentation to brew vital proteins and nutrients that power the body and pleases the palate. They collaborate with chefs, health experts, and food visionaries to create new building blocks for tomorrow’s food revolution. Motif combines tradition, innovation,and biotechnology to help build a more sustainable future, for everyone. | $226M | Series B | Jun 16, 2021 |  |
| Gro Intelligence | Gro is a global team of technology, climate, and agriculture experts. We have built an AI-powered platform that helps our customers tackle their most pressing challenges - from forecasting and assuring supply chains to climate change and food security. The Gro Platform was founded on diversity and the knowledge that artificial intelligence is onlyas powerful as the human intelligence behind it. With offices in New York City and Nairobi, we are cross-functional, collaborative, and multicultural. We believe that agricultural and climate data is a form of infrastructure necessary for societies to thrive. But that data becomes knowledge when it pairs the insight of human intelligence with the scale of artificial intelligence. | $85M | Series B | Jan 08, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Allison Transmission Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allison-transmission-holdings) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Autotech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/autotech-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cavallo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cavallo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acre Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acre-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Africa Internet Holding — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BBG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bbg-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Rethink Food invest in?

Rethink Food invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Agriculture and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Rethink Food?

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### Who are the partners at Rethink Food?

The team at Rethink Food includes Rini Greenfield (Founding General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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