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Monthly Schedule Coming Soon

The Food & AgTech fund will move back to a monthly cadence to evaluate companies to fully deploy the fund’s remaining capital. Stay tuned for the updated schedule and upcoming featured companies. We always welcome your business questions and consumer expertise, but if you can’t attend, you’ll always be able to listen to the recording on your dashboard when it’s more convenient.

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Food & AgTech Quarterly Call Dec 2023

The Fund

The Portfolia Food and AgTech Fund is backing innovation in every stage of the food cycle. This is a $1.1 trillion US market where women are the predominant buyers and influencers. The fund has 3 main focus areas:

  • Food Trends, products, and technology

  • Supply Chain and Logistics

  • Agricultural Technology

The dashboard is where our innovative model of collaborative, transparent investing comes to life. Your dashboard will provide detailed company information (i.e. company updates, companies in diligence, new investments), recordings of company pitches, and links for upcoming events.

Portfolio Companies

Company Logo Gallery
Full Harvest
Full Harvest

Full Harvest is empowering sustainability at the root level to help farms capture oddly-shaped & surplus produce that would otherwise go to waste to sell on their marketplace.

Tomtex
Tomtex

We are a plastic-free and 100% naturally biodegradable alternative to synthetic and animal leathers. TômTex is a revolutionary, bio-based, and high performance material created from seashell or mushrooms waste.

Oculogix
Oculogix

Ox is a fulfillment automation platform that uses leading-edge tech for supply chain optimization

Afresh
Afresh

Afresh has built the first-ever Fresh Operating System, a suite of interconnected products revolutionizing how grocery fresh departments work.

GrubMarket
GrubMarket

GrubMarket is a food technology company with a mission to digitally transform the American food supply chain industry.

Black Sheep Foods
Black Sheep Foods

Black Sheep Foods is bringing a new range of flavors to America’s pantry through their debut, plant-based lamb products.

Harmony
Harmony

Harmony has developed a baby formula that mimics breast milk compounds, providing the exact nutrients that infants were meant to consume.

Michroma
Michroma

Michroma is revolutionizing the food industry by using fungi to create natural based colors, flavors, and fragrances.

Omsom
Omsom

Omsom is bringing authentic Asian dish starter packs that incorporate flavors from East and Southeast Asia to your pantry, giving you a short-cut to making traditional Asian dishes at home.

Partake
Partake

Offering a selection of delicious, allergy-friendly foods that those with and without food restrictions can enjoy and share with confidence. All offerings are certified gluten-free, non-GMO, vegan and are free of the top 9 allergens (wheat, tree nuts, peanuts, milk, eggs, soy, fish, sesame and shellfish)

Tiamat
Tiamat

Tiamat is transforming biotechnology into a plant-based and animal-free industry. They use various techniques to develop plant proteins that can contribute to the development of cellular agriculture, regenerative medicine, and vaccine production.

Rebellyous Foods
Rebellyous Foods

Producer of plant-based meat intended to serve the food service market, retail, and QSRs to replace animal-based meat on a large scale. The company's meat is made using novel food manufacturing equipment and processes, enabling customers to have protein-packed chicken nuggets, patties, and chicken strips made with plant produce.

Datasembly
Datasembly

A developer of data analytics platform designed to offer real-time data to make real-life decisions. The company offers a data-as-a-service model by leveraging natural language processing and machine learning techniques to transform massive amounts of disparate data into organized information, providing clients with in-store and real-time, pricing, promotions, and availability data, without ever stepping foot in a store.

Compound Foods
Compound Foods

Compound Foods uses synthetic biology to create coffee without coffee beans by extracting molecules.

The Updates

Quarterly Updates

Stay updated with the fund’s progress by accessing past updates below.

The highlights of Q3 2023 updates as provided by the companies. Please note all updates provided are confidential and not for distribution.

Read the report here.

The Numbers

2023 Fund Performance Updates

2023 Food & AgTech Fund Performance Updates

By accessing this report, you agree to hold all non-public information in the strictest confidence and not for distribution. The 2023 financial statements are as of and for December 31, 2023.

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Companies In Diligence

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Beeflow is a provider of professional pollination services intended to develop smart and strong bees for crop pollination in order to maintain security in a plant's ecosystem. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5647b86ae4b021737439d35c/t/63ed

Beeflow is a provider of professional pollination services intended to develop smart and strong bees for crop pollination in order to maintain security in a plant's ecosystem.

Pitch Deck

Modern Meadow utilizes the power of proteins to engineer lightweight materials with superior color, performance, and durability while promoting lab-to-brand traceability and significantly reducing GHG emissions, enabling customers to maintain the sk

Modern Meadow utilizes the power of proteins to engineer lightweight materials with superior color, performance, and durability while promoting lab-to-brand traceability and significantly reducing GHG emissions, enabling customers to maintain the skin's biological function so that it retains its quality and appearance without the use of petrochemical inputs, animal-derived materials or chemical processes.

Refer A Company

The Food and AgTech fund will invest in 8-12 companies, from Seed to Series C. We consider companies with solutions in the market, and we invest in both female- and male-led teams with a preference for gender-balanced executive teams. We only invest in companies with a U.S.-based C-Corp. Please submit the company information below or email companies@portfolia.com with questions.

The Leadership Team

The Portfolia Food and AgTech Fund is led by a world-class team of highly sophisticated and experienced investors who are leaders in their respective fields, as venture capitalists, angel investors, and innovators. They bring an expert skill-set including sourcing, diligence, deal negotiation, executive recruitment, strategy and governance. Click on photos for full bios.

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Milena Bursztyn
Milena Bursztyn

Lead in Portfolia Fund: Food & AgTech

Investor and Startup Advisor Focusing on Frontier Technologies in Food and Agriculture

Former Investor Gemin8 Ventures

Food & AgTech Lead Global Women in VC

Investor Committee Chair, Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs

MBA from University of Chicago

ALM Masters, Harvard

Beatriz Franco
Beatriz Franco

Lead in Portfolia Fund: Food & AgTech

Director of Investments, Plum Alley Investments

Former CEO of Advanced Potash Tech

Former Corporate Lawyer for top NY Law Firms

Startup Consultant and Advisor

Board of Advisors Streamline Integrated Energy (SIE)

LLM NYU School of Law

MBA from IBMEC (Brazilian Capital Markets Institute)

Shayna Harris
Shayna Harris

Lead in Portfolia Fund: Food & AgTech

Co-founder and Managing Director

at Supply Change Capital

Board Seats on Sourcemap, Sitka Salmon Shares, and Doselva

Former Chief Growth Officer of Farmer’s Fridge

Recognized as a Trailblazer by Chicago Fair Trade

MBA from MIT

Fulbright Scholar

Brita Rosenheim
Brita Rosenheim

Lead in Portfolia Fund: Food & AgTech

Partner, Culterra Capital

Partner, Better Food Ventures

20 yrs. food & tech investment, M&A execution and strategy experience

10 yrs. advising food & tech start-ups, investors and institutions

Recognized as restaurant tech innovator in NRN’s annual “Power List”

MA from Università di Scienze Gastronomiche in Parma, Italy

Claire England
Claire England

FemTech, Food & AgTech

-Kauffman Fellow

-Veteran investor in technology, food & beverage, CPG, and healthcare; 20+ years leadership and operations experience

-Board of Advisors, Bill Munday School of Business

-Leadership Committee, Austin 50/50 Women on Boards

-Former Exceutive Director of Central Texas Angel Network

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