Spencer Maughan
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Finistere Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Spencer Maughan is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Finistere Ventures. Spencer heads the Silicon Valley office based in Palo Alto, California. Previously Spencer has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers working with the Green Growth Fund on AgTech opportunities. Spencer was also an investor at Venrock, aVenture Capital firm with >$2b under management. Spencer has been a company founder and entrepreneur. Spencer also sits on numerous boards including being a catalyst member of University of Wisconsin’s WARF accelerator program, an Advisory Board member of CSIRO, Australia’s pique science organization, as well as an advisor to the ARENA-sponsored Renewable Energy Venture Capital Fund managed by Southern Cross Venture Partners. Spencer has a BSc and PhD in Genetics from the University of Melbourne where he was a Melbourne Research Scholar with funding from Bayer CropScience. Upon finishing his PhD, Spencer was named a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK) within the Institute of Biotechnology. Spencer holds an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business where he was the American Australian Association’s Macquarie Bank Fellow.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 64%
Last updated:
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Industries Spencer Maughan invests in
Stages Spencer Maughan invests in
Countries Spencer Maughan invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- AgTech 3 (27%)
- Agriculture 3 (27%)
- Biotechnology 3 (27%)
- Machine Learning 2 (18%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (18%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (27%)
- Series B 2 (18%)
- Series C 2 (18%)
- Seed 1 (9%)
- Funding Round 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Immuto Scientific
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Immuto Scientific is a biotechnology services company that provides analytical insights to pharmaceutical companies for drug discovery. | $8M / Seed / Sep 18, 2025 | |
Bruviti
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Bruviti is an enterprise AI platform that uses AI & Ml to to connect with customers, deliver exceptional service and complete the most critical feedback loop to accelerate repeat buys, increase accessory sales and improved margins. Bruviti's proprietary decision fabric engine enables companies to make smarter, faster, data-driven decisionsby providing predictive, actionable service recommendations. Bruviti is addressing 500B+ equipment service market that is going to define next generation of Customer Service Experience. | $6M / Aug 07, 2025 | |
Enko Chem, Inc.
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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 | |
Apparo
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Apparo is a food processing technology intended to process crops in order to maximize the yield of available nutrients. The company provides exceptional protein and micronutrients to food and nutrition companies. Apparo was founded in 2020 and is based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States. | $3.5M / Series A / May 13, 2022 | |
MarketDial
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MarketDial is a technology company founded in 2016 by former management consultants from BCG & McKinsey. MarketDial’s partners use its platform to make critical decisions based on the results of its proprietary in-store experimentation process. They are able to design and analyze statistically rigorous in-store tests to validate businessoutcomes in a variety of business verticals including Retail, Restaurant, CPG, C-Store, Healthcare, and Financial Services. The MarketDial platform supports comprehensive testing of business initiatives related to pricing, promotions, operations, labor/staffing, new products, and more.In addition, MarketDial is engaged in strategic partnerships with top management consulting firms and retail industry analytics leaders in order to bring the most comprehensive solution to itsclients. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 03, 2021 | |
ClimateAI
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World's first Enterprise Climate Platform | $12M / Series A / Jul 21, 2021 | |
Telesense
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TeleSense is an Agtech company providing environmental monitoring and control solutions for the food and grain industry. Using an advanced suite of sensors, TeleSense provides grain managers with actionable insights about their stored grain, so that they can make storage decisions easily, quickly, and accurately. The easy-to-use sensorscontinuously monitor grain, and will automatically send alerts to the TeleSense app on their computer, smartphone, or tablet. They help manage risks in the world’s perishable commodities supply chain by using machine learning algorithms. TeleSense also retrofits traditional temperature cables to make them wireless. Imagine never having to manually check your cables again, and having that information available 24/7, right at their fingertips. The company is digitizing the post-harvest grain supply chain using advanced Internet of Things, real-time environmental monitoring, and cloud-based artificial intelligence. Whether assets are stationary or moving, TeleSense uses cloud-based technology to simplify monitoring. Their solutions help eliminate human error, improve operational efficiency, and increase profitability.It was founded in 2013 and is based in Sunnyvale, California, United State. | $10.2M / Series B / Oct 22, 2020 | |
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Enko Chem, Inc.
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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. | $45M / Series B / Jun 26, 2020 | |
ZeaKal
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At ZeaKal, we are building a value driven “NewType” of agriculture to harmonize the needs of farmers, consumers, and our planet. Our flagship plant trait technology, PhotoSeed™, helps crops capture more carbon and sunlight, leading to healthier, nutrient-rich food and feed grown on a smaller environmental footprint. We go beyond science to makeaffordable nutrition more sustainable, with marketable differentiation for growers. Discover how we are transforming carbon to nutrition: zeakal.com or @zeakal on Twitter. | $5M / Series C / Sep 10, 2019 | |
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Telesense
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TeleSense is an Agtech company providing environmental monitoring and control solutions for the food and grain industry. Using an advanced suite of sensors, TeleSense provides grain managers with actionable insights about their stored grain, so that they can make storage decisions easily, quickly, and accurately. The easy-to-use sensorscontinuously monitor grain, and will automatically send alerts to the TeleSense app on their computer, smartphone, or tablet. They help manage risks in the world’s perishable commodities supply chain by using machine learning algorithms. TeleSense also retrofits traditional temperature cables to make them wireless. Imagine never having to manually check your cables again, and having that information available 24/7, right at their fingertips. The company is digitizing the post-harvest grain supply chain using advanced Internet of Things, real-time environmental monitoring, and cloud-based artificial intelligence. Whether assets are stationary or moving, TeleSense uses cloud-based technology to simplify monitoring. Their solutions help eliminate human error, improve operational efficiency, and increase profitability.It was founded in 2013 and is based in Sunnyvale, California, United State. | Convertible Note / Jun 11, 2019 | |
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Co-Investors
About Finistere Ventures
Finistere Ventures is an agricultural technology and life sciences venture capital investor. Founded in 2005, the company partners with other entrepreneurs and creative thinkers to build innovative companies that have the potential to transform modern agriculture, increase food security, improve nutrition, and enhance sustainability. Their appliedexperience as operators, and pioneering role in Ag Tech, is actively utilized to benefit its portfolio companies and Partners. Finistere has global access to the best new technologies from centers of Ag Tech excellence in the U.S., Australia, Israel, New Zealand, and Canada through its venture partner networks. Finistere’s locations in San Diego and Palo Alto, California keeps them connected to the centers of mainstream venture investment and the world’s leading innovation ecosystem.
Finistere Ventures Contacts
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Spencer Maughan
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Adrian Percy
CTO
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Arama Kukutai
Partner & Co-Founder
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Dave Duncan
Venture Partner
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Dean Tilyard
Venture Partner
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What does Spencer Maughan invest in?
Spencer Maughan invests primarily in AgTech, Agriculture and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Spencer Maughan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Spencer Maughan closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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