Acre Venture Partners

What Acre Venture Partners does

Acre Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, that invests in early-to-growth stage companies creating fundamental change in food and agriculture. The firm deploys capital across four thematic areas: population health, planetary well-being, responsible production and consumption, and climate solutions. Its portfolio of 26+ companies spans the United States, Latin America (Argentina, Brazil), and Australia, covering categories such as agricultural inputs, indoor farming, food safety, supply chain digitization, carbon sequestration, and consumer food brands.

The firm positions venture capital as a service business, differentiating itself through active collaboration with portfolio companies rather than passive capital provision. Its team of approximately nine members combines operators, entrepreneurs, policy leaders (notably former White House chef Sam Kass), and sustainability experts to provide strategic guidance, operational expertise, and network access alongside equity capital. Acre also pursues selective direct operating exposure, exemplified by the acquisition of Corvium, a food safety data intelligence company now operating as an owned portfolio asset.

Acre's revenue mechanics follow standard VC economics: management fees on committed capital plus carried interest from successful exits via M&A, IPOs, or secondary sales. The firm is structured as AVP Management Company, LLC, restricts offerings to financially sophisticated investors, and has not publicly disclosed fund size, AUM, or revenue figures. Strategic partnerships with agricultural input majors Corteva and Syngenta Group Ventures on recent deals indicate growing co-investment activity with corporate strategics.

Name

Acre Venture Partners

Legal name

AVP Management Company, LLC

Website

https://acre.vc

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Acre Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm founded in 2016 that invests in early-to-growth stage food and agriculture technology companies across population health, planetary well-being, responsible production, and climate solutions, with a 26+ company portfolio spanning the US, Latin America, and Australia.

Ownership category

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Product category

Venture Capital / Private Equity (Food and Agriculture Focus)

NAICS

All Other Financial Investment Activities (52399)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Sector-Focused Venture Capital (Vertical Specialists) (FSANAAAD)

Keywords

• Venture capital investing
• Food and agriculture
• Agtech investments
• Impact venture capital
• Early-stage equity funding

Headquarters

HQ city

Santa Monica

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Venture Capital Fund Management: Acre generates returns through equity investments in portfolio companies. They invest in companies creating fundamental change in food and agriculture, with returns realized through exits via M&A, IPOs, or secondary sales.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Acre Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that makes equity investments in early-to-growth-stage companies building breakthrough technologies and critical infrastructure across the food and agriculture value chain. The firm invests across four areas — population health, planetary well-being, responsible production and consumption, and climate solutions — and partners with founders as active collaborators, providing capital alongside operational expertise, strategic guidance, and network access. Returns are generated through equity realization events (M&A, IPOs, or secondary sales) in portfolio companies.

Product overview

Acre Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in food and agriculture technology companies. As an investment firm, it does not offer products or services in the traditional sense; rather, it provides capital and strategic partnership to early-stage companies building breakthrough technologies in food systems, agricultural innovation, and sustainability. The firm's activities center on identifying and supporting portfolio companies rather than developing proprietary products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Acre Venture Capital Fund (Food and Agriculture)

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• S2G Ventures: Sector-focused venture fund investing across food, agriculture, and ocean tech from seed to growth. Highly comparable to Acre in thesis (food system transformation), stage focus, and active-collaboration model.
• Bison Ventures: Venture capital firm focused on agricultural technology and rural innovation. Directly comparable to Acre's vertical focus on food and ag, and has co-invested alongside Acre (Bonsai Robotics).
• Cibus Capital: Venture and growth investor focused on sustainable food and agricultural innovation. Closely mirrors Acre's sector thesis and stage profile, and has co-invested in Bonsai Robotics.
• Anterra Capital: Venture and growth capital firm backing innovators in food, agriculture, and animal health. Directly comparable to Acre in sector focus, stage range, and operator support model.
• Cultivian Sandbox: Venture capital firm investing in early-to-growth-stage agriculture and food technology companies. Closely comparable to Acre's sector mandate and stage profile.
• Fall Line Capital: Venture firm focused on agricultural technology and rural economy investments. Comparable to Acre's vertical focus on transforming the food and ag system from the farm up.
• Obvious Ventures: Thematic venture firm investing in world-positive companies including food, health, and sustainability. Comparable in thematic depth and stage breadth though broader than Acre's pure food/ag mandate.
• Lowercarbon Capital: Venture fund backing companies that reduce atmospheric CO2, including several food/ag-adjacent decarbonization plays (e.g., enhanced rock weathering, microbial fertilizers). Overlaps Acre on climate-solution portfolio companies like Terradot and Switch Bioworks.
• Prelude Ventures: Early-stage venture firm investing in climate-tech solutions including sustainable agriculture and food systems. Overlaps Acre on ag-climate intersection (carbon removal, regenerative ag, novel inputs).

Broad incumbents

• Corteva Catalyst: Corporate venture and open-innovation platform of Corteva, a global agricultural inputs major. Co-leads rounds alongside Acre (e.g., Ascribe Bioscience), representing both a peer and a recurring co-investor/LP-like strategic partner.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/acre-venture-partners-lp

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Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments52 records

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