Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator
VC Fund
Saint Paul, United States
Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator is a VC fund in Saint Paul focused on Food and Beverage and Software. Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator is our first program focused on the tech/digital side of food and agriculture. Partnered with Cargill and Ecolab, the program is looking for the best entrepreneurs across the entire food value chain, from AgTech, manufacturing and supply chains, to food safety, waste reduction and traceability. The program isbased in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.
- Total investments:
- 61
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 72%
Last updated:
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Industries Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator invests in
Stages Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator invests in
Countries Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 17 (28%)
- Software 12 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (18%)
- AgTech 8 (13%)
- Information Technology 8 (13%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 33 (54%)
- Funding Round 11 (18%)
- Non-equity Assistance 8 (13%)
- Seed 7 (11%)
- Convertible Note 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 40 (66%)
- Canada 6 (10%)
- India 1 (2%)
- Israel 1 (2%)
- Uganda 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jessica Stalbaum
Program manager for Farm to Fork
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Program manager for Farm to Fork | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Brett Brohl
Managing director
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Managing director | Total investments: 107 | Find email | |
Stephanie Rich
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
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Entrepreneur-in-Residence | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| India's leading B2B eCommerce Marketplace for Machinery, Tools & Supplies that solve operational inefficiencies in Indian SMBs specially in the Agri-Food Category. | $120K / Pre-Seed / Sep 08, 2022 | ||
| Transship is a digital freight forwarding and SaaS platform that is disrupting the international shipping of perishable goods industry. Every day thousands of containers are shipped all across the globe. The time required is disproportionate to the actual work that is required to process these shipments. Numerous phone calls, emails and even faxesare required in order to process one shipment. This requires a lot of time and labor and costs a lot of money. Trying to track shipments is nearly impossible. The frustration level for both the shipper and the vendors is always at an all time high.Transship's platform is B2B and IoT. The User (shipper) simply has to upload required information such as what they are shipping, when, where, consignee as well as required documentation. On the back end, Transship will communicate with all the vendors via API and blockchain technology. This will not only speed up the processing of every shipment, but will also make it more efficient and require less labor. End result is a cost savings for the vendors and the shippers. Each shipment processed through Transship will have a tracking device. This will allow every User to know exactly where their shipment is, real time updates and real time temperature readings. Transship also has an agreement with TradeLens to use their API and blockchain technology on our site. Transship will replace all outdated freight forwarders with modern day technology that is so sorely lacking in the logistics industry. Transship will serve the global marketplace with the ability to process shipments from anywhere around the world.Transship will do to international shipments of perishable goods what Fed Ex and UPS did to parcel shipments; more efficient, more accessible and more cost effective.Transship is currently seeking $3M - $5M in seed funding. | $120K / Non-equity Assistance / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| Availyst is a food discovery platform that helps consumers find and compare their local options for groceries, restaurants, and alcohol and provides results based on preference and AI. Availyst helps you find your food. | $120K / Non-equity Assistance / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| Clockout is an embedded Earned Wage Access (EWA) platform tailored to financial institutions. Designed to be seamlessly integrated, Clockout enables banks and credit unions to give account holders real-time access to earned wages within their existing mobile and online banking applications. | Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| CropConex is a marketplace and supply chain management platform streamlining the sales and exports of specialty crops worldwide. | $20K / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| Borde is the Rapid AI system with a no-code ML Operation for the next AI frontier - supporting industrial plants increasing quality while reducing labor and waste. | $120K / Non-equity Assistance / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| Organicin Scientific provides biopesticide solutions designed to improve crop yield, profitability, and environmental stewardship through ‘rational discovery’ and microbiology. | $120K / Non-equity Assistance / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| AgroCenta was founded by two ex-esoko employees, Francis Obirikorang and Michael K. Ocansey in 2015 to improve the agricultural value chain in Ghana. Two critical problems within the value chain, which are the lack of an access to market for smallholder farmers in the rural areas, which subjected them to activities of exploitative, buying frommiddlemen and the lack of a coordinated truck delivery system to cart their commodities from farms to markets to sell.AgroCenta’s idea is to solve these age-old problems by introducing an online sales platform that connected smallholder farmers directly to an online market, which has wider geographic size, to sell their commodities. The end result? Exploitative buying was reduced to the barest minimum since farmers were in control of selling their commodities at prices that were favorable to them.Once a farmer gets offers from interested buyers, the problem of logistics and transportation were sorted using AgroCenta’s patent TrucKR solution that allowed the smallholder farmer in any remote village in Ghana access trucks at the click of a button. You can call it the uber for trucks. AgroCenta is changing the very lives of smallholder farmers by using technology to solve problems they encounter in agriculture. | $120K / Non-equity Assistance / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| CarbonBridge builds direct-gas bioreactors that improve microbe productivity by over 400%. The company is supported by ARPA-E (https://arpa-e.energy.gov/programs-and-initiatives/search-all-projects/microbial-production-methanol-methane-and-intermittent-power-sources) to use this bioreactor to produce ultra low carbonmethanol with intermittent power. HQ is in San Jose, and R&D is in Harlem, NY. (https://www.santacruzworks.org/news/carbon-bridge-seed-round ) | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| Kadeya is a closed-loop water vending business that utilizes digitally connected reusable water bottles and tiny bottling equipment. Kadeya was founded by Manuela Zoninsein. | Non-equity Assistance / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| See all 61 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator invest in?
Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 61 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator?
The team at Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator includes Jessica Stalbaum (Program manager for Farm to Fork), Brett Brohl (Managing director) and Stephanie Rich (Entrepreneur-in-Residence). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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