Portfolio company Four Growers, Inc. was named by Fast Company as the 8th most innovative company in agriculture for 2025 for their greenhouse tomato harvesting robot! Rob Trice Michael Rose Brandon Contino https://lnkd.in/eXzkC-Cp
Better Food Ventures
风险投资与私募股权管理人
Menlo Park ，CA 3,118 位关注者
Funding Technology Innovators for Positive Impact in Food & Agriculture
关于我们
Harnessing the power of IT to have a positive impact on our food system. Better Food Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that is exclusively focused on investing in scalable technologies to transform and improve the food and agriculture sectors. We seek technologies that enable the food and agriculture industries to fully embrace changing market demands including: + Mobile and cloud-based computing + Sensor technologies and “the internet of things” + Robotics, artificial intelligence + Location-identification and image recognition + Massive and real-time data analytics + Collaborative production and consumption and social marketing Visit our portfolio at https://betterfoodventures.com/portfolio/ and follow us at @betterfoodvc. pre-Seed stage investor, Venture Capital, Seed-stage investor, Customer Development, Angel Investor, Product Development, Marketing Strategy, Financing Strategy, Forecasting, Early Enterprise Sales, Contract Negotiations, Networking, and Fundraising
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https://betterfoodventures.com/
Better Food Ventures的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 风险投资与私募股权管理人
- 规模
- 2-10 人
- 总部
- Menlo Park ，CA
- 类型
- 私人持股
- 创立
- 2013
- 领域
- AgTech 、FoodTech、Seed Stage Investor 、Venture Capital 、Customer Development 、Product Development 、Financial Strategy、Networking 、Agriculture 、Food 、Positive Impact、Investing和Restaurant Tech
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355 Barton Way
US，CA，Menlo Park ，94025
Better Food Ventures员工
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Nathan Dorn of portfolio company Farm-ng speaking on the "open source" component of the robotics platform with International Fresh Produce Association's Vonnie Estes
Building the Future: Open-Source Robotics for Smarter Farming What if the future of farming was built by students, startups, and innovators? Nathan Dorn, VP of Business Development at Farm-ng, shares how their open-source robotics platform is revolutionizing agriculture—one prototype at a time. From strawberry-picking robots to laser weeding solutions, Farm-ng is empowering the next wave of automation, making advanced technology more accessible to farmers. Watch the clip to see how open-source robotics is shaping the future of farming! And listen to the entire episode of Fresh Takes on Tech. #AgTech #Robotics #OpenSource #Innovation International Fresh Produce Association
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Bob Pierce, Co-founder & CSO of portfolio company DecisionNext, was recently interviewed by Unite.AI: "Behavioral economics has transformed our understanding of how cognition affects business decisions. AI is transforming how we can use software tools to support human cognition and make better decisions...I believe there is a hidden inefficiency in the way that most?business decisions are made by intuition and rules of thumb. Decisions are often based on limited and opaque information and simple spreadsheet tools. To me, the most exciting outcome is for platforms like DecisionNext to help transform the business process using AI and simulation to normalize context and risk aware decisions based on transparent data and open reasoning. cc: Mike Neal Rob Trice Michael Rose https://lnkd.in/eji5brDW
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Thank you Davis Wright Tremaine LLP for featuring Better Food Ventures in this week's Food Venture Financing News and listing some of our portfolio companies like Milk Moovement Breedr Edifice Health, Inc. Afresh Four Growers, Inc. and Byte Technology! cc: Michael Rose Rob Trice https://lnkd.in/gyDUkmmY
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So great to see Breedr’s Ian Wheal co-launch The Future of Beef Show with American Cattlemen! Cc: Rob Trice Michael Rose
Founder & CEO at Breedr: Improving sustainability of global beef supply chains across USA, UK and Australia
I'm excited and proud to launch The Future of Beef Show (www.futureofbeef.com) with American Cattlemen hosted by Jim Johnson from Brands and Barbed Wire, along with myself and Jessica Sperber, Ph.D. from UNL Along with our inspiring line-up of guests - such as Lamar Steiger, John Schroeder, Troy Marshall and Nick Jorgensen - we'll be sharing what the top of the industry is doing right now, as well as guiding producers in how to practically adopt the technologies and ideas that are rapidly changing the beef industry. I founded Breedr to empower the ranching and cattle community with data, joining the dots between cattlemen and consumers and providing the real-time insights they need to drive radical improvements - and margins - across the entire supply chain. Find out more at www.thefutureofbeef.com Subscribe below, or wherever you get your podcasts: *Youtube: https://lnkd.in/g7RvfZtP *Spotify: https://lnkd.in/ggV-vC5i *Apple Podcast: https://lnkd.in/gHQCZUtA #NCBA #Cattlecon #Cattlecon2025 #beef #cattle #ranching #agtech #ag #future #cowboy #feedyard #education
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Congratulations to Brandon Contino and the Four Growers, Inc. team on closing a $9m Series A round of financing to fuel the growth of their greenhouse harvesting robot business. Rob Trice Michael Rose https://lnkd.in/eYdWmP8S
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Congratulations to FarmOp Capital for the partnership with Compeer Financial to have Compeer make available FarmOps' farmer lending products to their customers in the 144 counties Compeer serves. Keir Renick Darwin Melnyk ???? Rob Trice Michael Rose
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Afresh continues to expand its AI-based food waste reduction across customers and across departments!
We're excited to share the launch of Afresh's #AI-powered Food Service solution with Fresh Thyme Market ! Food Service and Deli departments are extremely popular with shoppers, but contain some of the most complex categories of fresh food. This complexity makes them hard to operate and has historically meant that they have the highest percentage of food waste in the grocery store. We're thrilled to tackle that waste and create even fresher food with Fresh Thyme! https://lnkd.in/gJKgCnM8
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??Join Us at the THRIVE Global Impact Summit! ?? Amidst the urgency of the climate crisis, disruptive innovation is key to creating a sustainable, prosperous, inclusive, healthy, and equitable future. Mark your calendars for November 6-7 and join us in Silicon Valley for the 2024 THRIVE Global Impact Summit! This ground-breaking event will unite visionary entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders from agriculture and food technology to explore cutting-edge solutions and ignite transformative change. Be part of this exciting journey to shape a sustainable future. Don't miss out—join us and embrace consequential innovation! ?? Register now: https://lnkd.in/dgQiEyV9 ICL Group ICL PLANET Startup Hub Microsoft FCC / FAC UFA Driscoll's BASF Bayer Alberta Innovates KRONE GROUP Intel Corporation NEC X Inc. Big Dutchman AG Lely #THRIVEGIS #Innovation #Sustainability
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Better Food Ventures is excited to see Michael Rose participating at FIRA USA ?????? He is joining a great group of judges for the Start-Up Pitch Session and moderating a tremendous panel discussing Robotics for Farm and Food Production. Meet Ag Robots and Autonomous Solutions in Action. Join us for the premier event that gathers the global leaders in Ag Robotics! ?? Date: October 22-24, 2024 ?? Location: Yolo County Fairgrounds, Woodland, CA #innovation Rob Trice #agriculture Michael Rose #robotics Chris Taylor #farming #agtech
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