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Cultivate Next
Corporate VC · Los Angeles, CA, United States · North America
Cultivate Next invests in companies that advance Chipotle's purpose to Cultivate a Better World and its long-term vision. It focuses on innovations across the food system, from how ingredients are grown to how they are prepared and served.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningFood & Agriculture
In its own wordsfood systemagriculturesupply chainingredient innovationautomationemerging brands
Your fit with Cultivate Next
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Or find every investor that fitsCultivate Next lists 18 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (56%), Food & Agriculture (25%) and Robotics & Hardware (6%). 85% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Nextwave, Elemental Impact and AgFunder.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Cultivate Next, 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 Cultivate Next's whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 18. 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 46th | 18 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 65th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 87th | 56% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 56% | 18% |
| Food & Agriculture | 25% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 6% | 1% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 3% | 15% |
| Fintech | 3% | 12% |
| Cybersecurity | 3% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 3% | 6% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers18100%
- 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.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Nextwave | 11 |
| Elemental Impact | 3 |
| AgFunder | 2 |
| Ajinomoto Group Ventures | 2 |
| Fifty Years | 2 |
| Lowercarbon Capital | 2 |
| Active Impact Investments | 1 |
| Ag Startup Engine | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Cultivate Next 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 Cultivate Next| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 19 Nov 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Cultivate Next
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Cultivate Next's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
18 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athian builds software to aggregate, certify, and fund greenhouse gas reductions throughout the entire livestock value-chain to further enable environmental sustainability for animal agriculture | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Athian builds software to aggregate, certify, and fund greenhouse gas reductions throughout the entire livestock value-chain to further enable environmental sustainability for animal agriculture | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides AI-based weather forecasts, recommendations, and alerts to help high-value land managers globally | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Brassica prepares and serves sandwiches, salads, and other food items | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| CH4 Global reduces methane emissions from ruminant animals using a feed supplement with whole Aspragopsis seaweed | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Clean Crop Technologies removes pathogens and improves seed vigor using its proprietary DriPRIME seed treatment technology | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Simpli is an e-commerce company that sells products online. | E-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Greenfield Robotics is a company that aims to eliminate herbicides and restore profit to farmers through scalable, intelligent technology. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| IMIO develops and manufactures biological products to improve soil performance and nutrient efficiency for commercial agriculture | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Local Line provides a platform for buyers to source and receive products from local suppliers and for suppliers to manage their sales and operations | AI & Machine LearningFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Lumachain uses computer vision AI to monitor active production plants in real time at line speed | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Meati produces and sells mycelium-based vegan meat products. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Nitricity makes plant-based, organic fertilizer using air, water, clean energy, and almond shells. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Plantible Foods is a biology company that unlocks the power of plants to produce ingredients for food. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| PopID verifies an individual's identity based on face or palm for applications such as loyalty and payment | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Hyphen Technologies automates meal production for the foodservice industry with its Makeline and CulinaryOS systems. | Food & AgricultureRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Vebu builds custom automation solutions for food production | Food & AgricultureRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Zero Acre Farms produces and sells cooking oils for restaurants and homes. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- cultivatenext.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 19 Nov 2025
- Companies checked
- 18
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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