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The Nature Conservancy

Disclosed deals

Every published round The Nature Conservancy took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
SwarmFarm Robotics	Unnamed stage	9 Mar 2021	$4.5m	Participant	Tenacious Ventures Artesian VC Queensland Business Development Fund	Cut Through Venture, AgFunderNews, Tenacious Ventures

Portfolio

Companies The Nature Conservancy has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
SwarmFarm Robotics	Robotic solutions for efficient and sustainable agriculture	9 Mar 2021	1	0

Funds

Fund closes reported for The Nature Conservancy, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for The Nature Conservancy yet.

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies The Nature Conservancy has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal The Nature Conservancy did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of The Nature Conservancy is recorded as having been acquired.

People

Name	Role	Sources
Mark Tercek	CEO (former)	RenewEconomy, Startup Daily
Renée Vassilos	Director of Agriculture Innovation	AgFunderNews

Coverage

Stories naming The Nature Conservancy. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

12 deals

The Week in AgriFoodTech: URB-E pivots to last-mile delivery, GoodBytz bags $12m, a new fund for regen ag

Weekly agrifoodtech roundup: raises for Overstory, FarmInsect, GoodBytz and others; Ever.Ag buys Austin Data Labs; grants for Wadhwani AI and Notpla; SLM and Impact Ag roll out a carbon fund; URB-E rebrands.

Also AgFunderNews

Fund close $20m

Beyond net zero: Ex Patagonia boss leads push into “regenerative” technologies

New VC firm ReGen Ventures, with ex-Patagonia chief Rose Marcario and other cleantech figures, has committed $20 million toward a $50 million fund targeting regenerative technologies.

Fund close US$20m

Byron Bay VC ReGen Ventures raises $67 million to back tech startups that help heal the planet

Climate-focused VC ReGen Ventures, based in Byron Bay, has completed a US$20 million first close toward its US$50 million debut fund and added ex-Patagonia chief Rose Marcario as partner to back regenerative technology startups.

Startup Daily Tue 2 Nov 2021 Regen Canva Generation Investment Management Hide Biotech Meati Patagonia Rivian Seqana The Nature Conservancy Dan Fitzgerald Georgia Vidler Mark Tercek Renee Beaumont Rose Marcario Will Coleman

Also AgFunderNews

Series A $23.5m

Carbon software agtech Regrow raises $23.5 million series A

Regrow secured a US$17 million Series A led by Ajax Strategies, Tenacious Ventures and Cargill to scale its carbon measurement platform for agri-food supply chains, having earlier acquired soil analysis firm Dagan.

Startup Daily Wed 18 Aug 2021 Regrow Bayer Dagan General Mills Microsoft The Nature Conservancy AirTree Ventures Ajax Strategies Cargill M12 Main Sequence Ventures Neglected Climate Opportunities Tenacious Ventures Dr Anastasia Volkova Veery Maxwell

Also SmartCompany

Series A US$17m

Investment Notes: Regrow

Tenacious Ventures' investment note explains its backing of Regrow's US$17 million Series A alongside Cargill, covering Regrow's agricultural MRV technology, its FluroSense platform, and its formation from the FluroSat-Dagan merger.

Tenacious Ventures portfolio Tue 20 Jul 2021 Regrow Dagan FluroSat General Mills The Nature Conservancy Cargill Tenacious Ventures Dr Anastasia Volkova

Also AgFunderNews·Startup Daily·AgFunderNews·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·AgFunderNews·Forbes Australia

2 deals

Tenacious Ventures closes first agrifood tech fund, oversubscribed at $35m

Tenacious Ventures closed its debut agrifood tech fund oversubscribed at A$35 million, after a March 2020 first close of just over $20 million backed by the CEFC's Clean Energy Innovation Fund and Grok Ventures.

Also Startup Daily·AgFunderNews·SmartCompany·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·AgFunderNews·evokeag.com·farmingahead.com.au·Dynamic Business·agriinvestor.com·@AuManufacturing·AgFunderNews·globalaginvesting.com·@AuManufacturing·globalventuring.com

2 deals

The Nature Conservancy invests in 5 soil health startups

US nonprofit The Nature Conservancy has taken undisclosed stakes in five soil-health startups through iSelect's fund. The piece also recaps earlier raises by Growers Edge, PatternAg, Stony Creek Colors, SwarmFarm and Kula Bio.

AgFunderNews Tue 9 Mar 2021 SwarmFarm Robotics Artesian VC Tenacious Ventures The Nature Conservancy Renée Vassilos

Also AgFunderNews

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