When was Acre Venture Partners founded?

Acre Venture Partners was founded in 2016.

Where is Acre Venture Partners' headquarters located?

Acre Venture Partners' headquarters is located in Santa Monica ( United States ).

How big is Acre Venture Partners' investment team?

Acre Venture Partners has a team of 7, including 6 partners.

How many companies has Acre Venture Partners invested in?

Acre Venture Partners has invested in 25 companies, including FBN & Meati.

Which companies has Acre Venture Partners invested in lately?

Bonsai Robotics & Terradot are the latest investments by Acre Venture Partners.

What sectors does Acre Venture Partners focus on for investments?

Top sectors in Acre Venture Partners' portfolio are Food and Agriculture Tech (18 investments) and Retail (7 investments).

What stages of companies does Acre Venture Partners typically invest in?

Acre Venture Partners primarily invests in Series A and Seed stages.

How many exits has Acre Venture Partners been involved in?

Acre Venture Partners' portfolio has seen 2 acquisitions.

How many unicorns are there in Acre Venture Partners' portfolio?

There are 2 unicorns in Acre Venture Partners' portfolio.

Acre Venture Partners - 2025 Investor Profile, Portfolio, Team & Investment Trends - Tracxn

Acre Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2016. It is primarily based out of Santa Monica, United States. As of Jan 2025, Acre Venture Partners is an active investor, having invested in 25 companies, with 1 new investment in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Series A round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Food and Agriculture Tech to Retail and Consumer. Most recently it led the $10M Series A round of Farm-ng along with Xplorer Capital. This round also saw participation from Santa Cruz Ventures.

Overall, Acre Venture Partners portfolio has seen 2 unicorns and 2 acquisitions including key companies like FBN, Inari and Sample6. A lot of funds co-invest with Acre Venture Partners, with names like Valley Oak Investments sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.

Acre Venture Partners has team of 7 people including 6 partners.

Key Metrics

Team Members

Gareth Asten, Sam Kass & 5 more

Portfolio Count

FBN, Meati & 23 more

Portfolio Sectors

Food and Agriculture Tech, Retail & 15 more

Portfolio Locations

United States, Brazil & 3 more

Rounds of Entry

Series A, Seed & 2 more

Portfolio Acquisitions

ImpactVision & Sample6

Portfolio Unicorns

FBN & Inari

Portfolio Soonicorns

Meati, Mori & 1 more

Deals in last 12 months

Bonsai Robotics, Terradot & 1 more

Acre Venture Partners has a portfolio of 25 companies, including 2 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Highlight and Bonsai Robotics.Their portfolio spans across United States, Brazil, Argentina and 2 more locations. They have invested in Food and Agriculture Tech, Retail, Consumer and 14 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Seed and 2 more. Here is the list of top investments by Acre Venture Partners:

1. FBN

Provider of farmers networking platform. The platform offers data science-driven agronomic insights about their fields, providing farm inputs and helping farmers sell their crops.

Key facts about FBN

Founded Year: 2014
Location: San Carlos (United States)
Valuation: $4B as on Nov 18, 2021
Stage: Series G
Total Funding till date: $928M
Employee Count: 62 as on Dec 31, 2015
Investors: T. Rowe Price, Kleiner Perkins and 26 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series G, May 06, 2025, $29M
Highlight: Editors' Pick

2. Meati

Developer of fungi-based protein meats foods. It uses mycelium as food ingredient that grown indoor using only water, sugar, and nutrients.

Key facts about Meati

Founded Year: 2005
Location: Boulder (United States)
Valuation: $650M as on Jul 21, 2022
Stage: Series C
Total Funding till date: $483M
Employee Count: 83 as on Dec 31, 2021
Investors: CPP Investments, Wellington and 33 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series C, Apr 19, 2024, $222M
Highlight: Editors' Pick

3. Inari

Provider of breeding technology to design seeds. It focuses on transforming agriculture. It uses genomics, artificial intelligence and multiplex gene editing.

Key facts about Inari

Founded Year: 2016
Location: Cambridge (United States)
Valuation: $1.5B as on Oct 04, 2022
Stage: Series G
Total Funding till date: $708M
Employee Count: 143 as on Dec 31, 2020
Investors: CPP Investments, Flagship Pioneering and 18 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series G, Jan 07, 2025, $144M
Highlight: Editors' Pick

4. Spoiler Alert

B2B marketplace for food businesses to sell surplus food. The food businesses and farms manage unsold food inventory. It offers an online marketplace that connects food businesses with organizations that are in a need of food. It notifies the organizations of new surplus food offers via text messages in real-time. Offers an online platform for businesses to manage their inventory along with accounting solutions and KPI report generations.

Key facts about Spoiler Alert

Founded Year: 2015
Location: Boston (United States)
Stage: Series A
Total Funding till date: $13.6M
Employee Count: 32 as on Dec 31, 2022
Investors: Collab Fund, LaunchCapital and 16 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series A, Dec 01, 2021, $11M
Highlight: Editors' Pick

5. Supergut

Internet-first brand offering multi-category nutritious products. The product catalog includes chocolate brownies, peanut butter bars, strawberry almond bars, vanilla shakes, chocolate shakes, fiber mixes, and more. The company claims that the products helps to improve weight loss, glycemic control, sleep, and more.

Key facts about Supergut

Founded Year: 2019
Location: Los Angeles (United States)
Stage: Series B
Total Funding till date: $36.2M
Investors: Strand Equity Partners, Cultivian Sandbox and 8 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series B, Mar 04, 2025
Highlight: Editors' Pick

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Acre Venture Partners has invested in 25 companies over the last 9 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 5 years. In 2024, it made 3 investments, while as of Jan 2025, it has made 1 investment in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Terradot and most recent follow-on round was in Bonsai Robotics.

Here are Acre Venture Partners' Year-on-Year Investment Trends:

Year	No. of Investments
Year	1^st Round	Follow-on	Total
2025 (YTD)	0	1	1
2024	2	1	3
2023	4	2	6
2022	4	1	5
2021	4	3	7
2020	2	1	3
2019	0	1	1
2018	1	1	2
2017	3	2	5
2016	5	0	5

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Acre Venture Partners has made 12 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $18.7M, 7 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $5.63M, 3 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $43.3M and 3 investments in Series C stage with an average round size of $17.6M.

Here are Acre Venture Partners' investments by stage:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Stage of entry	No. of Investments
Series A	12
Seed	7
Series B	3
Series C	3

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Acre Venture Partners has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Food and Agriculture Tech, Sustainability Tech, High Tech, Retail and Consumer. Notably, it has invested in 23 Tech companies, 16 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 9 Consumer (B2C) companies and at least 5 companies focusing on Software.

Here are Acre Venture Partners' investments by sector:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Sector	No. of Investments
Food and Agriculture Tech	18
Sustainability Tech	10
High Tech	7
Retail	7
Consumer	6
Others	30

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Acre Venture Partners has made most investments in United States (20), followed by Brazil where it has made 2 investments.

Here are Acre Venture Partners' investments by geography:

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

Country	No. of Investments
United States	20
Brazil	2
Argentina	1
Australia	1
Netherlands	1

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Acre Venture Partners has made 1 investments in 2025 so far - Bonsai Robotics.

Here are the most recent investments by Acre Venture Partners:

Date	Company	Location	Round Details	Round Amount	Co-Investors
Jan 28, 2025	Bonsai Robotics	United States	Series A	$15M	Bison Ventures [+6]
Dec 12, 2024	Terradot	United States	Series A	$58M	John Doerr [+11]
Aug 21, 2024	Switch Bioworks	United States	Seed	$22.6M	Grantham Foundation [+6]
Jan 18, 2024	Farm-ng	United States	Series A	$10M	Xplorer Capital [+1]
Oct 02, 2023	Bonsai Robotics	United States	Seed	$13.5M	E14 Fund [+8]

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Acre Venture Partners has 2 unicorns in its portfolio - FBN and Inari. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is FBN. It became a unicorn in 2021, 5 years after Acre Venture Partners first invested in it.

Here is a list of unicorns in Acre Venture Partners' portfolio:

Tracxn Score	Company	Short Description	Founded year	Sector	Location	Company Stage	First Investment/ Acquisition Details
72	FBN	Provider of farmers networking platform	2014	Food and Agriculture Tech [+2]	San Carlos	Series G	ircir{k
62	Inari	Provider of breeding technology to design seeds	2016	Life Sciences [+2]	Cambridge	Series G	neuhqyq

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2 companies from Acre Venture Partners' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were ImpactVision in May 2021 by Apeel.

Here are Acre Venture Partners' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:

Company	Acquisition Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
ImpactVision	May 11, 2021	Nov 14, 2017	Seed	$1.31M
Sample6	Nov 28, 2017	Aug 22, 2016	Series C	$12.7M

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Acre Venture Partners has a team of 7 members including 6 Partners located in United States. Acre Venture Partners' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.

Here is a list of all team members in Acre Venture Partners:

Name	Designation	Location	Board Memberships	Contact details
Gareth Asten	Partner	Santa Monica	-	1 Email
Sam Kass	Partner	Brooklyn	-	1 Email
Lucas Mann	Partner	Santa Monica	-	1 Email
Jeffrey Dunn	Partner	Los Angeles	-	-
Alex Bondar	Partner	Los Angeles	-	1 Email
Lynda Deakin	Partner	San Francisco	-	1 Email
Maisie Kirn	Associate	Los Angeles	-	1 Email

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Over the past 9 years, 259 investors have co-invested in Acre Venture Partners's portfolio companies.

Invested before Acre Venture Partners: Bluestein & Associates, Right Side Capital Management and 72 others have invested in rounds before Acre Venture Partners. There are 2 companies where Bluestein & Associates has invested before Acre Venture Partners and 2 companies where Right Side Capital Management has invested before Acre Venture Partners.
Top Co-investors of Acre Venture Partners: 96 investors entered a company along with Acre Venture Partners. These include investors like Valley Oak Investments (2 companies).
Invested after Acre Venture Partners: A total of 89 investors have invested in Acre Venture Partners's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include CPP Investments (2 companies), John Foraker (2 companies) and Collab Fund (2 companies).