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Clay Capital
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
Clay Capital is a venture capital firm that has been investing in agrifood tech since 2014, formerly known as VisVires New Protein. It backs companies working on food and agriculture technology, from microbes and alternative proteins to farming and packaging.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningFood & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsagrifood techalternative proteinbiotechnologysustainable agriculturecircular economyfood systems
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Or find every investor that fitsClay Capital lists 17 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (41%), Food & Agriculture (21%) and Healthcare & Biotech (17%). 36% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Rabo Investments, AgFunder and Frontline.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Clay Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Clay Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 17. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundThe rounds that name Clay Capital do not give a stage.
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 44th | 17 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 66th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 75th | 41% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 41% | 18% |
| Food & Agriculture | 21% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 17% | 15% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 3% | 1% |
| Enterprise Software | 3% | 8% |
| Media & Entertainment | 3% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 3% | 3% |
| Climate & Energy | 3% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Rabo Investments | 3 |
| AgFunder | 2 |
| Frontline | 2 |
| High Flyers Capital | 2 |
| Advisors.Fund | 1 |
| Agri Investment Fund | 1 |
| Alumni Ventures | 1 |
| Ascension | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers17100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Rabo Investments
Compare Clay Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Clay Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Sept 2025 | Round |
Round details for Clay Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Clay Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
17 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abolis Biotechnologies offers end-to-end solutions for bio-based product innovation using microbial biotechnology solutions | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aleph Farms is a cellular agriculture company that enhances sustainability, food security and animal welfare by diversifying the supply and decentralizing the production of quality animal proteins and fats as a complement to sustainable methods of conventional animal agriculture. | AI & Machine LearningFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Collectiv Food is a food distributor that provides various food products and services to restaurant groups | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides automated food preparation and vending services | Food & AgricultureRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Eratani provides integrated and comprehensive solutions for the entire agricultural chain, from upstream to downstream, through Agri-Management, Agri-Input, and Agri-Output approaches. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Infinite Roots produces food ingredients using mycelium technology | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| MiAlgae produces fish-free, contaminant-free, DHA at scale using whisky by-products. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Nuritas discovers and decodes nature's hidden peptides to power the next generation of health solutions | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides streaming and download services for anime with Indonesian subtitles. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| RootWave uses electricity to kill weeds and their roots | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Scindo designs enzymes for biocatalysis using AI-powered discovery and design | Healthcare & BiotechSpace & Defense | Sept 2025Round | Page + round | |
| SwissDeCode offers on-site testing, inspection, and certification services based on DNA data for agriculture and food industries | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company operates reusable systems and provides software to scale them. | Climate & EnergyE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company makes food from fermented vegetables, turning them into products like burgers and sausages. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Toopi Organics develops organic solutions to support agriculture and agronomy. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| ViAqua develops an orally administered particle-based platform for the delivery of RNA to improve resistance against diseases in aquaculture species | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| WeedOut develops a novel biological herbicide to fight off resistant weeds. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- claycapital.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 23 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 17
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