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Nick's is a health revolution disguised as irresistible temptations, bridging the gap between healthy and cravable.
Nick's is a health revolution disguised as irresistible temptations, bridging the gap between healthy and cravable.
Matsmart/Motatos is Europe's leading online discount food store, saving products from being wasted.
Planted is changing how we eat with its juicy, tender, plant-based, and clean-label alternatives to meat.
Agreena provides a global AgTech platform supporting the regenerative farming transition to scale carbon removals.
Mission Barns is the first and only company in the world with FDA clearance for cultivated pork fat.
Through superior products and clever marketing, Oatly is leading the plant-based revolution. It's like milk but made for humans.
Our generation's greatest business opportunity is to mend the food system for future ones
Our cheap calories come at a steep price. With the population growth there is an increasing number of mouths to feed. Still, food production is already the primary contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, loss of species, soil degradation, and lifestyle diseases. The equation doesn’t add up, but it’s solvable.
Bold companies with transformative innovations are redesigning of our food system into a biodiverse carbon sink feeding the billions with nutritious food. The outcome is resilience, regeneration, and abundance. We invest in category-defining companies driving the reformation of the global food system.
Our investment themes build upon the work of Stockholm Resilience Center and EAT-Lancet, and the required shifts they’ve identified to bring the global economy back to a safe operating space. Our portfolio companies are producing more with less, repurposing waste, replacing linearity with circularity, regenerating soil, and enabling access to nutritious food for everyone.
Read our report, Food is Investable, on why venture capital, private equity, and infrastructure funds should consider agrifood in their investment strategies. Despite the agrifood sector’s critical role in sustaining life and driving 12% of global GDP, it punches below its weight in capital allocation. In 2023, agrifood was only 2% of private equity’s total assets under management and received only 5.5% of global venture capital. From a climate perspective, it’s even more underinvested. Agrifood emits 26% of GHG emissions but attracts just 1.3% of climate-focused private capital. This is concerning, given the sector’s potential for massive impact and financial returns. Food Is Investable, developed with ADAM Partners, gives you a Treasure Map as an overview of relevant investment segments in agrifood across different asset classes.
Wait, hasn’t irrigation already been solved? After all, it was invented by Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, around 6000 BCE. They developed one of the earliest known irrigation systems using canals, dikes, and reservoirs to manage water from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, enabling large-scale agriculture in an otherwise arid region. This innovation played a crucial role in the growth of early civilizations. Still, there are massive investments in irrigation ahead of us, providing opportunities especially for private equity and infrastructure funds.
In January 2025, the AgreenaCarbon Project reached a significant milestone by becoming the first large-scale agricultural cropland project registered under Verra's Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) VM0042 methodology for Improved Agricultural Land Management. This achievement marks a pivotal moment for the regenerative agriculture movement and the soil carbon sector, steering much-needed carbon finance to European farmers.