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Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV)

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Total investments 28
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 2.33
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.29
Exits 6
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Agriculture
  • Biotechnology
  • AgTech
  • Service Industry
  • Medical
Summary

Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV) appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The venture was found in North America in United States. Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV) seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The important activity for fund was in 2015. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV) performs on 5 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 32 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Atomwise, NewLeaf Symbiotics, Pivot Bio For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Service Industry, Food and Beverage.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), startups are often financed by True Ventures, SK Ventures, RRE Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Data Collective DCVC, Pontifax AgTech, Polaris Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Polaris Partners, Innotech Advisers, Fidelity Management and Research Company.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Layr

Artificial Intelligence
Commercial Insurance
Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Internet
$10M21 Mar 2022 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Mate Fertility

Fertility
Health Care
Medical
$2M14 Dec 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

AgBiome

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Service Industry
$65M12 Jul 2018 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Grão Direto

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
Software
Trading Platform
$437K23 May 2018 Brazil, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Resson

Aerospace
Agriculture
Analytics
Bioinformatics
Machine Learning
Robotics
$14M09 May 2018 Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Pairwise Plants LLC

Agriculture
Food and Beverage
$25M20 Mar 2018 Durham, North Carolina, United States

Atomwise

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Machine Learning
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$45M07 Mar 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

NewLeaf Symbiotics

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Sustainability
$30M10 Jul 2017 City of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

FarmLead

Agriculture
Farming
Marketplace
Mobile Apps
$6M20 Mar 2017 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Total investments 28
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 2.33
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.29
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Layr

Artificial Intelligence
Commercial Insurance
Financial Services
FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Internet
$10M21 Mar 2022 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Mate Fertility

Fertility
Health Care
Medical
$2M14 Dec 2020 Los Angeles, California, United States

AgBiome

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Service Industry
$65M12 Jul 2018 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Grão Direto

Agriculture
AgTech
Farming
Software
Trading Platform
$437K23 May 2018 Brazil, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Resson

Aerospace
Agriculture
Analytics
Bioinformatics
Machine Learning
Robotics
$14M09 May 2018 Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Pairwise Plants LLC

Agriculture
Food and Beverage
$25M20 Mar 2018 Durham, North Carolina, United States

Atomwise

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Machine Learning
Medical
Pharmaceutical
$45M07 Mar 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

NewLeaf Symbiotics

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Sustainability
$30M10 Jul 2017 City of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

FarmLead

Agriculture
Farming
Marketplace
Mobile Apps
$6M20 Mar 2017 (Old) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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