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Continental Grain Company

Founders Simon Fribourg

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Total investments 51
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$36M
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 0.24
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.39
Exits 4
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Agriculture
  • AgTech
  • Biotechnology
  • Farming
  • Food and Beverage
Summary

Continental Grain Company appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1813. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the New York. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Opposing the other organizations, this Continental Grain Company works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 6 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The high activity for fund was in 2018.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Continental Grain Company, startups are often financed by S2G Ventures, SOSV, Middleland Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are S2G Ventures, Middleland Capital, Temasek Holdings. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Temasek Holdings, S2G Ventures, Tyson Ventures.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Organic Food, Biotechnology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Perfect Day, MycoTechnology, Greenlight Biosciences. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 3 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sentera

Agriculture
AgTech
Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Farming
Machine Learning
Robotics
Software
02 May 2023 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Agrolend

AgTech
Financial Services
FinTech
$28M08 Nov 2022 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Pattern Ag

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
$35M25 Aug 2022 California, United States

Stable

FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Risk Management
$60M26 May 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Brightseed

Agriculture
AgTech
Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Machine Learning
$68M09 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

DMC Biotechnologies

Biotechnology
Chemical
Commercial
Life Science
Manufacturing
Sustainability
$39M02 Dec 2021 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Plasma Nutrition

Biotechnology
Fitness
Food and Beverage
Health Care
Nutrition
03 Nov 2021 New York, United States

Prenexus Health

Fitness
Manufacturing
Wellness
$15M21 Jul 2021 Gilbert, Arizona, United States

Sentera

Agriculture
AgTech
Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Farming
Machine Learning
Robotics
Software
$25M09 Jun 2021 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
News
Pivot Bio Raises $430M in Series D Funding

– Pivot Bio, a Berkeley, CA-based nitrogen innovator in agriculture, closed a $430m Series D funding.
– The round was led by DCVC and Temasek with participation from Generation Investment Management, G2 Venture Partners, Rockefeller Capital Management, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Continental Grain Company, Prelude Ventures; Pavilion Capital, Bunge Ventures, Tekfen Ventures, and Roger Underwood.
– The company intends to use the funds to focus on scaling its U.S. business and expanding into key international markets.

Sentera Raises $25M in Series C Funding

– Sentera from Minneapolis MN provides an AI-powered platform that fives time sensitive insights to optimize decisions and improve outcomes for stakeholders throughout the agricultural supply chain.
– The company raised $25m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and S2G Ventures with participation from Akroyd LLC, KuE Capital, Continental Grain Company, iSelect Fund and Middleland Capital.
– The new investment will be used to expand operations and business reach.

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Total investments 51
Average round size 36M
Rounds per year 0.24
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.39
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sentera

Agriculture
AgTech
Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Farming
Machine Learning
Robotics
Software
02 May 2023 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Agrolend

AgTech
Financial Services
FinTech
$28M08 Nov 2022 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Pattern Ag

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
$35M25 Aug 2022 California, United States

Stable

FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Risk Management
$60M26 May 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Brightseed

Agriculture
AgTech
Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Machine Learning
$68M09 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

DMC Biotechnologies

Biotechnology
Chemical
Commercial
Life Science
Manufacturing
Sustainability
$39M02 Dec 2021 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Plasma Nutrition

Biotechnology
Fitness
Food and Beverage
Health Care
Nutrition
03 Nov 2021 New York, United States

Prenexus Health

Fitness
Manufacturing
Wellness
$15M21 Jul 2021 Gilbert, Arizona, United States

Sentera

Agriculture
AgTech
Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Farming
Machine Learning
Robotics
Software
$25M09 Jun 2021 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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