# Grosvenor Food & AgTech

> Grosvenor Food & AgTech is a VC fund backing Agriculture. See 61 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chester, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 61
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 41%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wheatsheafgrouplimited/
- Website: http://www.wheatsheafgroup.com/

Grosvenor Food & AgTech is a VC fund in Chester focused on Agriculture and Food and Beverage. We are an active investor in companies that are reshaping food and agriculture around the world for the better.We identify entrepreneurs and businesses rethinking how food is produced, distributed, and consumed, supporting their growth as lead investors and highly engaged board members.We actively manage a portfolio of over 25 companies,helping them lead positive change in a way that enhances human health and the natural environment, enabling the economic sustainability of farming and food production.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $5M–$45M |
| Series C | $7.4M–$150M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 10 | 16% |
| Food and Beverage | 9 | 15% |
| Farming | 5 | 8% |
| Biotechnology | 5 | 8% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 7% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 9 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 15% |
| Series B | 8 | 13% |
| Series A | 5 | 8% |
| Series D | 5 | 8% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 13% |
| Canada | 3 | 5% |
| Ireland | 2 | 3% |
| Norway | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Scott | Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-scott |
| Anthony James | Executive Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-james |
| Katrin Burt | Executive Director | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katrin-burt |
| Stephan Dolezalek | Board Member & Member of Investment Committee | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephan-dolezalek |
| William Kendall | Non Executive Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-kendall-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The EVERY Company | Clara Foods™ is the market leader in engineering, manufacturing and formulating animal-free, animal proteins as ingredients for the global food and beverage industry. Leveraging advanced fermentation to produce functional and nutritional proteins from microorganisms, the Company is reimagining the factory farm model that underpins industrial animalagriculture with a more sustainable, kinder and healthier alternative. Clara Foods is on a mission to decouple the world's most powerful proteins from the animals that make them. | $55M | Series D | Nov 04, 2025 |  |
| AeroFarms | AeroFarms is an urban agricultural company with a mission to transform agriculture by building and operating environmentally responsible farms throughout the world. It provides an aeroponic growing system that grows and produces with neither soil or sun, in any location. This is all possible due to the nature of their modular stackable systemswhich are easy to store as well as enabling of local production of pesticide-free, greens. This allows the food production system to become more sustainable, efficient, and safe by creating commercial-scale farming in urban centers.AeroFarms was founded in 2004 and is based in Newark, New Jersey. It is a recipient of the Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies for 2018 and 2019. The company was also among the Inc Magazine's "25 Most Disruptive Companies" for the year 2017. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 05, 2025 |  |
| Nuritas | Nuritas is revolutionising the discovery of novel, natural and scientifically proven active ingredients that can manage and improve human health. The company’s disruptive computational approach to discovery uses artificial intelligence and genomics to, for the first time ever, rapidly and efficiently predict and then provide access to the mosthealth-benefiting components hidden within food, called bioactive peptides. | $42M | Series C | Dec 20, 2024 |  |
| Firethorn Trust | Firethorn Trust is a dedicated real estate investor and developer, delivering midbox logistics warehousing spaces across the UK. | $23.3M | Debt Financing | Nov 01, 2024 |  |
| The Jackfruit Company | The Jackfruit Company (TJC) is the producing convenient, whole food, plant-based products. | $5M | Series B | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| Meati | Meati Foods is a consumer goods company that offers carbon materials, bioengineering, and filtration. It focuses on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutrient-dense, plant-based meat alternatives that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day. | $100M | Series C | May 08, 2024 |  |
| AgriWebb | AgriWebb is a software company focused on the livestock production industry. Its products enable simplified on-farm data collection and analysis to improve management efficiency, decision-making, benchmarking, and transparency while integrating through horizontal and vertical supply chains. AgriWebb’s founders come from 5 generations of livestockproduction and aim to transform the livestock industry through data-driven decision-making built from intuitive on-farm data recording. | $7.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 06, 2024 |  |
| Oxbury Bank | Oxbury is the UK’s only specialist agricultural bank and the only bank that has a singular focus on the rural economy. We provide farmers with the specialised lending that they need to run their farms and provide savings accounts to any individual or business that wants to back British farmers and UK agriculture.We have a deep understanding ofthe agricultural sector and the challenges that farmers face because we talk to farmers about their business every day.We use our industry knowledge and purpose built technology platform, to make quick and appropriate decisions on credit facilities, so that our customers can spend less time dealing with administration. |  |  | Dec 04, 2023 |  |
| AeroFarms | AeroFarms is an urban agricultural company with a mission to transform agriculture by building and operating environmentally responsible farms throughout the world. It provides an aeroponic growing system that grows and produces with neither soil or sun, in any location. This is all possible due to the nature of their modular stackable systemswhich are easy to store as well as enabling of local production of pesticide-free, greens. This allows the food production system to become more sustainable, efficient, and safe by creating commercial-scale farming in urban centers.AeroFarms was founded in 2004 and is based in Newark, New Jersey. It is a recipient of the Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies for 2018 and 2019. The company was also among the Inc Magazine's "25 Most Disruptive Companies" for the year 2017. | $70.8M |  | Sep 28, 2023 |  |
| Vytelle | Vytelle is a company with a deeper purpose and revolutionary technology that helps to advance bovine, deer and buffalo genetics faster by redefining reproduction. | $20M | Series B | Apr 04, 2023 |  |

10 of 61 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Grosvenor Food & AgTech invest in?

Grosvenor Food & AgTech invests primarily in Agriculture, Food and Beverage and Farming startups, most often at Series C 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.

### What is Grosvenor Food & AgTech's check size?

Grosvenor Food & AgTech typically joins rounds of $5M–$45M at Series B and $7.4M–$150M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Grosvenor Food & AgTech participates in.

### How do I contact Grosvenor Food & AgTech?

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### Who are the partners at Grosvenor Food & AgTech?

The team at Grosvenor Food & AgTech includes Alex Scott (Chairman), Anthony James (Executive Director) and Katrin Burt (Executive Director), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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