# The Nest Family Office

> The Nest Family Office is a VC fund in Berchem backing Analytics and Biotechnology. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berchem, Belgium
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thenest-drivingimpact/
- Website: https://www.thenestfo.com/

The Nest Family Office is a VC fund in Berchem focused on Analytics and Biotechnology. The Nest has the purpose of reducing the most pressing threat to life on Earth: GLOBAL WARMING. It wants to give its succeeding generations the luxury of an abundance of clean air, water, food and housing.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 2 | 29% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 29% |
| Solar | 1 | 14% |
| AgTech | 1 | 14% |
| Farming | 1 | 14% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Series A | 3 | 43% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Canada | 1 | 14% |
| Belgium | 1 | 14% |
| Ireland | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Edacious | Edacious is a Public Benefit Corporation that develops a radical transparency-based food verification system. | $8.1M | Seed | Feb 06, 2025 |  |
| Zymofix | Zymofix facilitates sustainable and circular agriculture by developing creative, effective, and commercially feasible microbial products that reduce farmers' reliance on agrochemicals while maintaining high productivity. | $2.1M | Seed | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Agricarbon | Validation of soil carbon capture and storage for farms & carbon markets | $11.3M | Series A | Dec 05, 2023 |  |
| Antler Bio | Antler Bio uses gene expression data for herd management and offers genomic data analysis services. |  | Seed | Jul 18, 2023 |  |
| ReelData AI | ReelData AI provides artificially intelligent monitoring for finned fish aquaculture. It delivers weight distributions, feeding analysis, health analysis, and growth analysis | $8M | Series A | Jan 11, 2023 |  |
| Propagate | Propagate is a regenerative agriculture company that makes it easy for farmland owners to plant, operate, and monitor agroforestry systems so that they can generate stable sources of income for future generations. By helping farms incorporate permanent crops, known as agroforestry, farms can increase profitability while stewarding water quality,biodiversity, soil health and carbon outcomes. Propagate’s farm planning software, technical assistance and project development services are paired with financing programs to offer a simplified end-to-end solution so that farms can reduce risk while integrating fruit, nut and timber trees with animal or crop farming systems.Founded in 2017, Propagate is a venture-backed company with investors such as The Nest, Agfunder, TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good, The Grantham Foundation, Techstars and Elemental Impact as well as a partner of USDA's Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities and RCPP programs.Propagate’s software product, Overyield currently supports 55,000+ acres of agroforestry, with over 3,000,000 trees & shrubs planned. Propagate also actively manages over 2,400 commercial acres, and growing, through its regional agroforestry hubs in NY and KY and has planted over 200,000 trees in the last 5 years. | $10M | Series A | Oct 07, 2022 |  |
| NextPower (formerly Nextracker) | NextPower is a global energy-technology company that delivers integrated solutions for utility-scale and distributed solar power plants. The company’s product suite includes single-axis trackers, structural foundations, electrical balance-of-system (eBOS) components, and advanced power-conversion systems. NextPower also provides digital tools,AI-driven control systems, and robotics to optimize plant performance across operations and maintenance. | $500M | Convertible Note | Feb 02, 2022 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Grantham Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grantham-foundation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Neglected Climate Opportunities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neglected-climate-opportunities) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [The First Thirty](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-first-thirty) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TPG Rise Climate Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tpg-rise) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AgFunder](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agfunder) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Buoyant Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/buoyant-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does The Nest Family Office invest in?

The Nest Family Office invests primarily in Analytics, Biotechnology and Solar startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

### When did The Nest Family Office last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for The Nest Family Office closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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