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Astanor Ventures

Founders Eric Archambeau

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Total investments 62
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$27M
Portfolio companies 42
Rounds per year 8.86
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

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

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Astanor Ventures, startups are often financed by VisVires New Protein, Quadia, LocalGlobe. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Talis Capital, Future Positive Capital, iSELECT FUND. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Future Positive Capital, European Commission.

We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The important activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 30 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Farmers Market, Nutrition. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Ynsect, Infarm, Cervest.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Holobiome

Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
09 Oct 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Calyxia

Agriculture
Chemical
$37M05 Sep 2024 France, Ile-de-France, France

Monarch Tractor

Agriculture
AgTech
Analytics
Electric Vehicle
Farming
$133M22 Jul 2024 Fremont, California, United States

Digestiva

Biotechnology
$18M15 Jul 2024 Sacramento, California, United States

Reshape Biotech

Biotechnology
Industrial Automation
Robotics
$20M09 Apr 2024 Kongens Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Owl Data Solutions

$42M29 Mar 2024 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Robovision

AgTech
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Enterprise Software
Intelligent Systems
Machine Learning
PaaS
Robotics
SaaS
Software
$42M28 Mar 2024 Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Heali AI

Apps
Health Care
Machine Learning
Medical
Mobile Apps
Nutrition
Software
Therapeutics
$3M09 Nov 2023 Santa Monica, California, United States

BioFluff Inc.

Fashion
Manufacturing
Textiles
$2M23 Oct 2023 Oakland, California, United States
News
Calyxia bags $17.6M to tackle the global microplastics problem

– Calyxia, a greentech startup, has developed biodegradable microcapsule technology to reduce the amount of harmful microplastics that human activity is putting into the environment.
– The 2015-founded startup is now announcing a €15 million Series A (~$17.6 million) funding round, led by the impact investor Astanor Ventures, as it gears up to get its first products to market this year.
– The company says its technology can reduce the amount of microplastics in the environment by up to 90%.
– It has developed what it bills as “environmentally friendly” and “advanced performance” biodegradable microcapsule technology.

Plantible Raises $21.5M in Series A Funding

– Plantible is a San Diego CA-based food-tech/biotech company.
– Series A funding round raised $21.5m.
– The round was led by Astanor Ventures with participation from Piva Capital, CJ CheilJedang, Good Friends, Bradley Horowitz (SVP of Product at Google), Trevor Martin (Founder of Mammoth Biosciences) and Chris Bryson (Founder of Unata), Vectr Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, eighteen94 capital (Kellogg Company’s venture capital fund), FTW Ventures and Unshackled Ventures.
– The company intends to use the funds to build its first commercial facility to launch and commercialize its product in 2022.

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Total investments 62
Average round size 27M
Rounds per year 8.86
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.32
Group Appearance index 0.79

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Holobiome

Health Care
Medical
Pharmaceutical
Therapeutics
09 Oct 2024 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Calyxia

Agriculture
Chemical
$37M05 Sep 2024 France, Ile-de-France, France

Monarch Tractor

Agriculture
AgTech
Analytics
Electric Vehicle
Farming
$133M22 Jul 2024 Fremont, California, United States

Digestiva

Biotechnology
$18M15 Jul 2024 Sacramento, California, United States

Reshape Biotech

Biotechnology
Industrial Automation
Robotics
$20M09 Apr 2024 Kongens Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Owl Data Solutions

$42M29 Mar 2024 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Robovision

AgTech
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Enterprise Software
Intelligent Systems
Machine Learning
PaaS
Robotics
SaaS
Software
$42M28 Mar 2024 Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Heali AI

Apps
Health Care
Machine Learning
Medical
Mobile Apps
Nutrition
Software
Therapeutics
$3M09 Nov 2023 Santa Monica, California, United States

BioFluff Inc.

Fashion
Manufacturing
Textiles
$2M23 Oct 2023 Oakland, California, United States
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