# Tyson Ventures

> Tyson Ventures is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage and Biotechnology. See 36 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Springdale, United States
- Total investments: 36
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Fund size: $150M
- Last fund: Dec 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/tysonventures
- Website: http://www.tysonfoods.com/ventures

Tyson Ventures is a VC fund in Springdale focused on Food and Beverage and Biotechnology. Tyson Ventures is the investment arm of Tyson Foods. We aim to be the strategic partner of choice for disruptive innovators transforming the food industry, and provide sustainable nutrition to a growing global population. Our current areas of interest focus on emerging proteins, technology enablers and sustainability. Let’s build the future offood... together.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Tyson Ventures. Shizune tracks 5 team members at Tyson Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/tyson-new-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $4M–$37M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 8 | 22% |
| Biotechnology | 5 | 14% |
| Software | 4 | 11% |
| Alternative Protein | 4 | 11% |
| Organic Food | 3 | 8% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 6 | 17% |
| Grant | 5 | 14% |
| Series A | 4 | 11% |
| Seed | 3 | 8% |
| Series B | 3 | 8% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 47% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adrienne Price | Corporate Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrienne-price |
| Amy Tu | President | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-tu |
| Gordon McGrath | Corporate Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gordon-mcgrath |
| Kate Powell | Associate Manager, Strategic Initiatives | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kate-powell |
| Rahul Ray | Senior Director | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rahul-ray-cf7e |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Athian | Athian enables animal agriculture producers to monetize their sustainability efforts — whether it's past work or progress towards a future sustainability goal. | $4M | Series A | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Paradigm Labs | Paradigm Labs provides water-based chemistry for applications including industrial, specialty manufacturing, and personal care. They are launching biodegradable detergents, water-based coatings, and flame retardants for the textile industry. They develop custom formulations complements and extend a wide selection of economical off-the-shelfproducts. |  | Grant | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| JLE Truckwash | JLE Truckwash specializes in on-site truck washing for truckload and grocery distribution centers. Their truck washing services include mobile washing, fixed-site truck washing, public truck washes, and FSMA standard washouts. They respond to customer inquiries by phone and email. |  | Grant | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| SnoFox Sciences | SnoFox Sciences provides analytics focused on increasing efficiency and decreasing energy usage for the cold industrial space. It has developed a thermodynamically-informed data analytics platform for cold chain monitoring and preventative maintenance. |  | Grant | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Orderful | Orderful is a complete cloud EDI platform for manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and technology companies. Forward-thinking companies are using Orderful to replace their existing EDI infrastructure. Our product is an API that enables companies to connect once and trade EDI data with their supply chain. Our customers get to consolidate theirEDI integration complexity, quickly enable trading partners as self-service and reduce costs. |  | Grant | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Pactum | Pactum is an AI platform that automates commercial negotiations for businesses, allowing sales teams to engage in personalized discussions with suppliers. The platform streamlines the negotiation process, enabling companies to optimize contract terms and improve procurement efficiency. By leveraging advanced algorithms, Pactum analyzes data tosupport informed decision-making during negotiations. This approach helps organizations manage multiple supplier relationships effectively while reducing the time and resources spent on negotiations. Pactum's technology empowers sales development representatives to focus on strategic initiatives rather than administrative tasks, enhancing overall productivity within sales teams. |  | Grant | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Athian | Athian enables animal agriculture producers to monetize their sustainability efforts — whether it's past work or progress towards a future sustainability goal. | $5M | Seed | May 01, 2023 |  |
| Athian | Athian enables animal agriculture producers to monetize their sustainability efforts — whether it's past work or progress towards a future sustainability goal. |  | Seed | Mar 13, 2023 |  |
| Oxipital AI | Soft Robotics opens new markets to automation through the application and commercialization of its proprietary soft robotics technology. The business end of a robotic arm is the gripper. The March 2105 edition of Modern Materials Handling best describes the challenge when they wrote: “Perhaps more than any other element of robotic development inwarehousing and distribution, the end-of-arm tooling, or gripper, is the place that can make or break a robot’s success.” Advancing gripper technology is the key to unlocking a new age of automation. An age where they can automate tote pick and pack for grocery distribution, bin picking of soft and delicate parts, e-commerce order fulfillment, fruit harvesting, luggage handling, and consumer goods packaging. The US fresh produce packing market alone represents a $27 billion retail market searching for automation solutions. Soft Robotics has demonstrated the ability to bring robotic product handling and packaging to this market. These are problems of adaptability, complexity, and cost. The search for a more adaptable gripper has driven up the complexity of design to devices like servo grippers and complicated tool changing requirements. This complexity comes at a high price in gripper cost, the need for larger arms, and complex software and hardware integration. Their revolutionary soft robotic technology, covered by more than 40 patents and applications, enables us to design and manufacture soft robotic hands that address the new unstructured world of automation and logistics. Through their propriety knowledge of actuator geometry, material selection, and operating envelope, they can tune actuators to be force limiting with NO CLOSED LOOP FEEDBACK system required. Soft Robotics brings the highest level of adaptability, while lowering system complexity and total system cost.The adaptive nature of their technology allows a single grasper to handle an unprecedented range of objects, regardless of shape, size, or weight, with no tool or software changes between cycles. We’ve demonstrated the ability to grasp bags of rice, raw food, bars of soap, boxes of toothpaste, and clothing all with a single device. But soft does not mean weak. Their technology has the ability to scale from the smallest to the largest task. The result is an automation solution that can pack a tote for retail distribution, pick fruit off the vine, or easily handle a ten pound kettle bell. They have demonstrated the speed and precision necessary to integrate into the factories and warehouses of today and the future, operating at speeds up to 130 picks per minute.Their system is plug and play with the most common industrial robots using industry standard protocols and vision systems.They have designed the system to be “robot and vision agnostic,” allowing the system to quickly and seamlessly integrate with the full range of robots, from small collaborative systems to high speed industrial packing cells. Soft Robotics launched their industrial product at Automate 2015 in March 2015, Their produce handling system in June 2015, and started shipping in June 2015. They are now selling systems to their pilot customers. Soft Robotics is foundational technology that solves the problems of today and unlocks the future of automation. | $26M | Series C | Nov 17, 2022 |  |
| MycoTechnology | MycoTechnology utilizes fungi-based food-processing platforms to transform the flavor and value of agricultural products. The platform can be used to solve a variety of challenges faced by the food, beverage, and flavor industries. MycoTechnology has released ClearTaste, an all-natural, GMO-free, organic bitter blocker that is Kosher and Halalcertified. ClearTaste improves the flavor of various agricultural products.MycoTechnology also engages in fermenting agricultural products with strains of gourmet fungi. The company offers myceliated chocolate as well as robusta and arabica coffee beans. It develops and licenses technology to the industry to naturally improve the flavor of robusta and arabica coffee. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Aurora, Colorado. | $85M | Series E | Mar 30, 2022 |  |

10 of 36 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [S2G Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s2g-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Bits x Bites](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bits-x-bites) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Cibus Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cibus-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Big Idea Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-idea-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Emerald Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emerald-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Evolution VC Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evolution-corporate-advisors-2) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## Similar investors

### Similar industry
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund
- [ARCH Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arch-venture-partners) — VC Fund
- [OrbiMed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/orbimed-advisors) — VC Fund

### Similar stage
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund
- [SFC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-funding-club) — VC Fund
- [HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-tech-gr%C3%BCnderfonds) — VC Fund

### Similar country
- [OurCrowd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ourcrowd) — VC Fund
- [Entrée Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entree-capital) — VC Fund
- [Pitango VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pitango-venture-capital) — VC Fund

## Featured in investor lists
- [Food and Beverage VC Funds in Middle East](https://shizune.co/investors/food-and-beverage-vc-funds-middle-east)
- [Food and Beverage Investors in Israel](https://shizune.co/investors/food-and-beverage-investors-israel)
- [Organic Food Investors in Middle East](https://shizune.co/investors/organic-food-investors-middle-east)
- [Organic Food VC Funds in Israel](https://shizune.co/investors/organic-food-vc-funds-israel)
- [Manufacturing Investors in Middle East](https://shizune.co/investors/manufacturing-investors-middle-east)
- [Manufacturing VC Funds in Israel](https://shizune.co/investors/manufacturing-vc-funds-israel)

## FAQ

### What does Tyson Ventures invest in?

Tyson Ventures invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Biotechnology and Software startups, most often at Funding Round and Grant stage. Most of the 36 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 Tyson Ventures's check size?

Tyson Ventures typically joins rounds of $4M–$37M 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 Tyson Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Tyson Ventures?

Public channels for Tyson Ventures include LinkedIn 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 Tyson Ventures?

The team at Tyson Ventures includes Adrienne Price (Corporate Counsel), Amy Tu (President) and Gordon McGrath (Corporate Counsel). 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.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co