Driven by a mission to redefine food, Acre invests in companies creating systemic change in the food system to address the growing problems of human and environmental health. Acre makes venture-stage investments in highly disruptive platform businesses across the food value chain, with a particular focus on the agriculture, food tech, and consumer verticals. Taken together, these investments have the ability to form the foundation of an integrated new approach to food system evolution.

Acre Venture Partners

Alexandria Venture Investments is a venture capital firm that develops work in real estate technology, and healthcare sectors. The company's strategic venture capital platform is Alexandria Venture Investments. Since its inception in 1996, the company has invested in disruptive life science, agrifood tech, and technology companies that are developing transformative new modalities and platforms to meaningfully improve human health.

Alexandria Venture Investments

Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and grows first-in-category ventures to transform human health and sustainability. The company accelerates Flagship Pioneering’s advances in biology, engineering, medicine, energy, and beyond. The firm harnesses science and entrepreneurialism to envision alternative futures, beginning with seemingly unreasonable propositions and navigating to transformational outcomes through an evolutionary methodology. Flagship Pioneering combines innovative capacity, entrepreneurial leadership, and professional capital management in a single enterprise that systematically produces first-in-category companies.

Flagship Pioneering

50 South Capital is an alternatives asset management firm designed to meet the core strategic needs of investors seeking access to hedge funds, private equity, and real assets solutions.  50 South Capital is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northern Trust Corporation.

50 South Capital

Investing since 1991, EDBI is a Singapore-based global investor in select high-growth technology sectors ranging from Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Emerging Technology (ET), Healthcare (HC), and other strategic industries. As a value-creating investor, EDBI assists companies to achieve their ambitious goals by leveraging their broad network, resources, and expertise. With their patient capital, EDBI supports companies seeking to grow in Asia and globally through Singapore.

EDBI

Founded in Geneva in 1805, Pictet is today one of Switzerland's largest private banks, with assets under management and custody totalling USD 321 billion (CHF 349 / EUR 229) at the end of June 2009.

Pictet Private Equity Investors S.A.

Rivas Capital is a private investment firm focused on long-term principal investments in breakthrough technology businesses.

Rivas Capital

Pavilion Capital Partners is a growth-oriented private equity investor. It provides capital and strategic support to companies in the United States and Asia. In particular, the focus is on industries experiencing high growth due to globalization, technology, or demographic trends.  It actively works with company founders/management to assist in strategic initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, and eventual liquidity. The pavilion is partnered with family offices and private equity funds and is based in New York City.

Pavilion Capital

Principal Investment Arm of the government of Dubai

Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD)

Founded in 2011, G Squared is aligned with a fundamental shift: venture-backed companies stay private longer. As a result, private companies need both primary capital to continue their growth trajectory and transitional capital to provide liquidity to early investors, current and former employees, and other sellers. Positioned at the crux of this liquidity access challenge, G Squared partners with portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle using a fundamentally different approach than traditional VCs. The company invests in companies that challenge the status quo and demonstrate a clear path to superior returns, partnering with world-class entrepreneurs tackling big problems. G Squared funds have invested in household names such as 23andMe, Coursera, Instacart, Lyft, Pinterest, and Spotify, as well as in the next generation of disruptors, including Asana, Blend, Bolt, Brex, Capsule, Flexport, Impossible Foods, Toast, and Turo.

G Squared

CPP Investments's mandate is to invest in the best interests of Canada Pension Plan contributors and beneficiaries and to maximize investment returns without undue risk of loss. CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that invests the assets of the Canada Pension Plan, not currently needed to pay pension, disability, and survivor benefits.

CPP Investments

NGS Super provides SuperFund for those in non-government education and community organizations.

NGS Super

Hanwha Impact Partners is an investment firm that invest in ecofriendly energy and businesses that leverage the convergence of technologies.

Hanwha Impact Partners

Sage Hill Capital is an SEC-registered investment advisor. Sage Hill Capital provide comprehensive investment advice, and portfolio management services.

Sage Hill Capital

Rokos Capital Management is an alternative investment fund manager that provides effective risk management solutions.

Rokos Capital Management

State of Michigan Retirement System is a retirement program for employees, public school employees, judges, state police, and National Guard members.

State of Michigan Retirement System

Inari

Inari is a biotechnology company that aims to transform agriculture and its impact on society and the environment. It embraces diversity in every aspect of its business to drive innovation and help build a new food system. The company's technology matches the complexity of nature using predictive design and multiplex gene editing to unlock the full potential of the seed.  Inari's SEEDesign platform is their point of distinction, using unsurpassed technology to enhance any crop for any geography to develop step-change products with a clear go-to-market approach.

<div><p>Inari embraces diversity and helps develop new food systems in a bid to build a more sustainable global food system. The company’s SEEDesign platform is capable of transforming any crop in any geographic region. Described as an unsurpassed technology and IP platform, it drives step change improvements to create revolutionary seeds, enables Inari’s well-defined commercial strategy, and is supported by a diverse and experienced team. Inari cultivates crops with large footprints, including corn, soybeans, and wheat, which cover more than 500 million acres across North and South America. The privately held company has offices operating in the US and Belgium.</p></div>

Enhancing seed and crop traits via biotechnology

Crop Biotech

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    Inari embraces diversity and helps develop new food systems in a bid to build a more sustainable global food system. The company’s SEEDesign platform is capable of transforming any crop in any geographic region. Described as an unsurpassed technology and IP platform, it drives step change improvements to create revolutionary seeds, enables Inari’s well-defined commercial strategy, and is supported by a diverse and experienced team. Inari cultivates crops with large footprints, including corn, soybeans, and wheat, which cover more than 500 million acres across North and South America. The privately held company has offices operating in the US and Belgium.
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<p><span>Lone Star Industrial Materials is a cultivation company that manufactures raw hemp materials. Its product portfolio consists of bast fiber, refined cellulose, and hemp hurd, seeds, hearts, fines and oil. Additionally, it offers retail products such as HempSorb, animal bedding, and hemp control socks. Hemp requires less land, improves nutritional health, is environmentally friendly, helps soil regeneration, grows in various climates, absorbs a great deal of CO2, is a rotational crop and reduces waste. Hemp is used in construction, insulation, bioplastics, and as hemp wood. The privately held company has developed an end-to-end supply chain from seed genetics to delivery.</span></p>

Lone Star Industrial Materials

<p><span>PLANTeDIT operates in the plant genome editing field to produce improved crop species through transformation technology and a CRISPR/Cas9 delivery system. It produces regulatory-free, consumer-oriented, DNA-free and sustainable genome edited crops and biopharmaceuticals. The company’s offering includes non-transgenic high oleic soya, which is produced by mutating the FAD2 gene, which eventually increases the oleic oil content in the soya bean. This product was developed through a collaboration between PLANTeDIT and ToolGen. The organization has also collaborated with RebelBio, University College Cork and IAPB. Headquartered in Cork, Ireland, PLANTeDIT is privately held.</span></p>

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    Amforo is a biotech company that focuses on developing foods that are high in protein by enhancing the nutritional density of food and feed crops through the platform of technologies it has built. The company offers a family of feed and food crops, including primary ingredients for suppliers of plant-based meat and dairy alternatives. In addition, it is focused on developing a low-cost, plant-based source of protein for farmed seafood. Moreover, Amforo is pursuing approaches to enhance the nutritional profile of crops as well as their protein content, which entails optimizing amino acid profiles, modifying carbohydrates, and enhancing micronutrients.
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<p><span>BioHeuris provides weed management solutions by combining synthetic biology and gene editing to develop herbicide resistant crops. Its offering includes Heurik, a technology platform that integrates rational design and directed evolution to identify mutations that confer herbicide tolerance, while Swap is the platform that introduces these mutations in crops using gene editing. The company cultivates soybeans, sorghum, rice, cotton, and alfalfa. It has partnered with Santa Rosa Semillas, Adecoagro, Gensus, GDM, Aceleradora Litoral, Tobin, Rotam, Asociación de Cooperativas Argentinas, Benson Hill, and Plant Science Center. Headquartered in Rosario, Argentina, BioHeuris is privately held with an office in the US.</span></p>

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    Tropic Biosciences is a privately held developer of high-performing commercial varieties of tropical crops that promote cultivation efficiencies, improve sustainable environmental practices and enhance consumer health through its use of cutting-edge genetic editing technologies. Its GEiGS Technology combines gene editing and RNAi in a single platform that enables critical disease resistance and quality improvement traits. The technology caters to the banana production, row crops, livestock, and poultry industries. The company’s partners include Temasek, Agronomics, Polaris Founders Capital, and Excellence Through Stewardship. Headquartered in the UK, Tropical Biosciences has been featured in The Telegraph, Nature, Fast Company, and the Financial Times. 
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Companies that develop or use biological, physical and chemical agents and techniques to provide protection and improve the quality of a seed. This includes the sale of seed coating, or seed enhancement products as methods to treat seeds.

Companies that redesign large clusters of genes and gene parts rather than modifying or engineering a single gene for improving the traits of a plant.

Companies that utilize genetic engineering tools and technologies to use existing and naturally present gene variants in a plant and the natural process of breeding such as inbreeding, and linebreeding to develop better traits for plants.

Companies that use transgenesis processes like tissue culturing to develop transgenic plants or seeds by inserting new genes into them from other plants or in certain instances other organisms like bacteria or even animals.

Companies that offer techniques such as epigenetics, RNA interference (RNAi) to temporarily block a specific gene that would trigger unwanted effect such as a disease on a plant.

Companies that develop a platform to insert, edit, or delete the DNA of a plant itself using approaches such as CRISPR-Cas 9, TALENs, and Zinc Fingers. These approaches help develop plant genes or seeds with traits such as disease-resistant, enhanced-performance, or improve yield.

Biotech solutions to produce crops that are sustainable and offer better traits

Offers customization of genes and traits as required by farmers

Uses AI/machine learning to facilitate their platform/biotech processes like gene editing

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 <p>Inari, a seed gene-editing startup, has raised USD 103 million in the latest funding round, increasing the company's valuation to USD 1.65 billion. The equity fundraising was led by Hanwha Impact and included investments from CPP Investments, Rivas Capital, NGS Super, State of Michigan Retirement System and Flagship Pioneering. New investors, including RCM Private Markets fund, also participated.</p>
 <p>The company will use the funding for the commercialization of its technology. Markets that Inari plans to target first are the US, Canada, and Australia, mainly focusing on row crops including soybeans, corn, and wheat.</p>
 <p>Inari uses "multiplex gene editing," a process incorporating tools like CRISPR and AI-aided predictive design, to bring about natural modifications in the DNA of crops. This method aims to augment crop yields while reducing farming resources.</p>
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