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The Yield Lab

Founders Thad Simons

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Total investments 67
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 51
Rounds per year 6.70
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.22
Exits 3
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Agriculture
  • Biotechnology
  • Farming
  • AgTech
  • Software
Summary

In 2014 was created The Yield Lab, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the St Louis. The company was established in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Thad Simons.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the The Yield Lab, startups are often financed by SOSV, NXTP Labs, BioGenerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are BioGenerator, St. Louis Arch Angels, SOSV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Missouri Technology Corporation, Cultivation Capital, St. Louis Arch Angels.

When the investment is from The Yield Lab the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ImpactVision, GroGuru, S4. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are AgTech, Food and Beverage.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sundew

Agriculture
Aquaculture
Biotechnology
30 Apr 2024 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Spotta

Hospitality
Housekeeping Service
$4M15 Dec 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

NanobOx

Machinery Manufacturing
$1M06 Oct 2023 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Seedz

Agriculture
Information Services
Information Technology
Marketing
$16M09 Dec 2022 Minas Gerais, Acre, Brazil

Pure Ocean Algae

Biotechnology
Life Science
Marine Technology
$1M23 Aug 2022 Cork, Cork, Ireland

Ascribe Bioscience

Agriculture
AgTech
Biotechnology
Farming
$3M03 Aug 2022 Ithaca, New York, United States

ucrop.it

Agriculture
AgTech
Blockchain
FinTech
$3M19 Jul 2022 Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina

Agroforte

$1M02 Feb 2022 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Plastomics

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Environmental Consulting
Farming
$7M16 Nov 2021 City of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
News
Notch Raises $10M in Funding

– Notch is a Toronto, Canada-based provider of online restaurant supply chain software solution.
– The company raised $10M in funding.
– The round was led by Accomplice and BDC with participation from MATH Venture Partners, Golden Ventures, The Yield Lab, Garage Capital, Plexo Capital, Agman, Mark MacLeod, Paul Genier, Shannon Lambert, and Jean Genier.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate growth and development of the company’s solution for restaurant chains and food brands.

Hydrosat raises $5M seed round to deliver ground temperature data to customers

– Hydrosat, a geospatial data analytics startup, raised $5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Cultivation Capital’s newly launched Geospatial Technologies Fund with participation by Freeflow Ventures, the Yield Lab, Expon Capital, Techstars, Industrious Ventures, Synovia Capital, and the University of Michigan.
– The company plans to launch its first satellite in 2022.

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Total investments 67
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 6.70
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.22
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.75

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sundew

Agriculture
Aquaculture
Biotechnology
30 Apr 2024 Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Spotta

Hospitality
Housekeeping Service
$4M15 Dec 2023 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

NanobOx

Machinery Manufacturing
$1M06 Oct 2023 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Seedz

Agriculture
Information Services
Information Technology
Marketing
$16M09 Dec 2022 Minas Gerais, Acre, Brazil

Pure Ocean Algae

Biotechnology
Life Science
Marine Technology
$1M23 Aug 2022 Cork, Cork, Ireland

Ascribe Bioscience

Agriculture
AgTech
Biotechnology
Farming
$3M03 Aug 2022 Ithaca, New York, United States

ucrop.it

Agriculture
AgTech
Blockchain
FinTech
$3M19 Jul 2022 Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina

Agroforte

$1M02 Feb 2022 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Plastomics

Agriculture
Biotechnology
Environmental Consulting
Farming
$7M16 Nov 2021 City of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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