| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.10.2024 | The Green Wave: How Earthodic is Redefining Sustainable Packaging | In a world drowning in plastic waste, Earthodic emerges as a beacon of hope. This Australian startup has recently secured $6 million in funding to expand its innovative water-resistant coating, Biobarc. The investment is a testament to the ... |
| 29.10.2024 | Green packaging startup Earthodic lands $6 million raise to expand water-resistant innovation | L-R: CEO Anthony Musumeci, strategy lead Melissa Mail, operations and sales lead Fiona Donaghey, CTO Albert Tietz. Source: Supplied article-article-body
Australian packaging startup Earthodic has raised US$4 million (AUD$6 million) in an ov... |
| 02.02.2024 | Five Australian startups that raised at least $38.2 million this week | Yume CEO and founder Katy Barfield. Image: Supplied article-article-body
January has shown a strong start to the investment year, and this week is no different. As we cross the threshold into February, we have five Aussie startups that have... |
| 11.09.2023 | Why AgFunder invested in Azaneo’s low-power electric weeding tech | Editor’s Note: Azaneo recently announced a AUD $1.4 million ($893,000) pre-seed round led by Tenacious Ventures with participation from AgFunder and IP Group. Here, we dive into why AgFunder chose to back the Australian startup’s rapid-puls... |
| 01.06.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Neat Burger raises $18m, Debut bags $34m to expand cell-free biomanufacturing platform | This week, Neat Burger raised $18m to take its plant-based restaurant chain into new markets, synthetic biology startup Debut raised $34 million to expand its cell-free biomanufacturing platform, and biofertilizer startup Anuvia Plant Nutri... |
| 16.02.2023 | Brief: SwarmFarm lands $8.3m to move autonomous farming beyond driverless tractors | Australia’s SwarmFarm has raised a A$12 million ($8.3 million) Series A round for its autonomous farming platform.
Conexus Venture Capital‘s Emmertech fund led the round with participation from Tribe Global Ventures and Access Capital.
Exis... |
| 14.11.2022 | Brief: Vow lands $49.2m ahead of its cultivated quail launch in Singapore restaurants | Australian cultivated meat company Vow has secured $49.2 million in Series A funding to bring cultivated quail to Singapore.
PeakBridge participated in the round alongside Blackbird, Prosperity7 Ventures, Toyota Ventures, Square Peg, Grok V... |
| 21.10.2022 | AgriFutures evokeAG 2023: a prime opportunity for agrifood tech startups – apply to join now! | For startups, the upcoming AgriFutures evokeAG. 2023 Down to Earth event is a major opportunity to showcase their vision to Australia’s agrifood tech community and connect with potential customers and investors. Companies have until the end... |
| 11.05.2022 | GRDC’s new Tekfarm program seeks global agtech solutions for Australia’s grains sector | Grain is a thriving industry in Australia. It’s the country’s second-largest agricultural subsector by value, accounting for 27% of total gross value of ag production. In 2020-2021, there were 22,500 Australian grains farmers, who propelled... |
| 31.03.2022 | Designing carbon markets for agriculture: World Agri-Tech 2022 takeaways | Sarah Nolet is managing partner at Tenacious Ventures, a VC firm investing at the intersection of digitally native agriculture and climate solutions. She is based in Sydney, Australia.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the au... |
| 13.01.2022 | National Australia Bank : NAB Ventures backs agtech-fintech start up Geora | Tenacious Ventures has backed agtech-fintech startup Geora in a $1.5 million seed round to transform supply chain economics for Aussie farmers.
Tenacious Ventures is the latest venture firm to back Australian agtech-fintech startup, Geora, ... |
| 06.12.2021 | Here’s why agrifoodtech VC Tenacious Ventures backed a green ammonia startup | With prices rising to all-time highs and growing awareness about its environmental footprint following COP26, fertilizer has been in the news lately like never before.
A variety of startups are working on next-generation technologies that e... |
| 19.11.2021 | We built Australia’s first agtech venture capital firm. Here’s what we learnt | Tenacious Ventures co-founders Matthew Pryor and Sarah Nolet. Source: supplied.
Three years ago, we launched Tenacious Ventures, Australia’s first specialist agrifood tech venture capital firm, with a blog post and newsletter titled, Austra... |
| 17.08.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Cargill, Microsoft join $17m round for carbon verification platform Regrow | Ag software startup Regrow has raised $17 million in Series A funding as it proceeds with the US rollout of its monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) tool for carbon sequestration and monetization.
New investors participating in the... |
| 17.08.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Cargill, Microsoft join $17m raise for carbon verification platform Regrow | Ag software startup Regrow has raised $17 million in Series A funding as it proceeds with the US rollout of its monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) tool for carbon sequestration and monetization.
New investors participating in the... |
| 04.06.2021 | After closing $27m maiden fund, Tenacious Ventures seeks to scale-up Australian agrifoodtech | Australia-based agrifoodtech investor Tenacious Ventures announced the final close of its first VC fund this week, raising A$35 million ($26.8 million) from a diverse group of limited partners to target Seed and Series A rounds.
The fund’s ... |
| 02.06.2021 | Australia’s Tenacious Ventures closes first agrifood tech fund at $27m | Australian agrifood tech investor Tenacious Ventures has closed its first venture capital fund at A$35 million ($27 million), according to an announcement.
Founded by agrifood tech experts Matthew Pryor and Sarah Nolet, Tenacious Ventures s... |
| 02.06.2021 | Australia’s Tenacious Ventures closes first agrifood tech fund at $27m | Premium
Australian agrifood tech investor Tenacious Ventures has closed its first venture capital fund at A$35 million ($27 million), according to an announcement.
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| 11.05.2021 | Is sustainability reporting ready for its Xero moment? | Editor’s note: This sponsored post has been published in partnership with AgriFutures Australia.
The author is Oli Madgett, co-founder and CEO of Adelaide-based precision ag app Platfarm and a member of AgriFutures’ Ignite Advisory Panel, w... |
| 11.03.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s RapidAIM gets funding to scale real-time pest management | RapidAIM, an Australian agtech startup that’s developing a cost-effective monitoring system for crop pests, has raised funding from Melbourne-based VC firm Tenacious Ventures. Further financial details of the funding were not disclosed, tho... |
| 09.03.2021 | The Nature Conservancy invests in 5 soil health startups | US-headquartered environmental nonprofit The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has invested in five agrifoodtech startups, it announced today.
“We’ve been working around initiatives to rebuild soil health in North America aggressively since 2016 and... |
| 12.01.2021 | Starting with cultured kangaroo dumplings, Vow is on a mission to diversify the world’s protein sources | Most of the meat consumed in modern society comes from a relatively narrow set of animal species: cattle, chickens, pigs, and sheep, for the most part. These four account for an estimated 97% of our protein intake, but represent just 0.02% ... |
| 08.10.2020 | SwarmFarm raises $3.2m to grow its open platform for ag robotics | Australia’s SwarmFarm Robotics has raised A$4.5 million ($3.22 million) in a funding round led by local VCs Tenacious Ventures and Artesian. The Queensland Business Development Fund also supported the round.
The startup was founded in 2012 ... |
| 02.07.2020 | Tenacious co-leads Goterra’s $6m Series A to launch Australia’s first agrifoodtech VC | Seeing as it’s one of the world’s foremost agricultural producers and a highly advanced tech-based economy, it may come as something of a surprise to learn that Australia didn’t have an organized, membership-based industry group for agritec... |
| 06.05.2020 | How should agtech startups approach exits? 5 tips from AgTech:Acquired webinar | Editor’s Note: Sarah Nolet is the CEO and founder of AgThentic, a global food and agriculture strategy firm, and co-founder of Tenacious Ventures, Australia’s first dedicated agrifood tech VC firm. Sarah is also the host of the AgTech…So Wh... |
| 21.11.2019 | Australia joins agrifoodtech VC party with Tenacious Ventures’ $16m raise | This week saw some hot VC news erupt in Australia: The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and Grok Ventures committed $8m each in cornerstone funding for Tenacious Ventures, Australia’s first dedicated agri-foodtech VC firm. Grok Ventu... |
| 01.01.2019 | Agtech is Useless if We Cannot Engage Farmers | Editor’s Note: Connie Bowen is co-founder and director of operations at the non-profit Yield Lab Institute, and a principal at the Yield Lab North America, an early stage VC fund/accelerator in St. Louis, MO. Sarah Nolet is a partner at agr... |
| - | “A thriving ecosystem”: Key takeaways from evokeAG 2023 | Matthew on a panel discussing global investing in agtech alongside Victor Friedberg (FoodShot Global, USA), Adam Anders (Anterra Capital, Netherlands), Anuj Maheshwari (Temasek, Singapore), and Ethy Levy (Kinneret Impact Ventures, Israel). ... |
| - | Tenacious Ventures’ Sarah Nolet on facing your fears in a tough fundraising climate | Tenacious Ventures co-founders Matthew Pryor and Sarah Nolet. Source: supplied.
Last week, I overheard a founder admit: “It’s just really hard to think straight, let alone fundraise, when the world is burning to pieces around us”.
They were... |