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GrainCorp Ventures
Corporate VC · Australia · Asia Pacific
GrainCorp Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of GrainCorp, a diversified Australian agribusiness. It invests in early-stage start-ups across agtech, animal nutrition and food innovation, and is supported by Artesian Venture Partners.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsagtechanimal nutritionfood innovationsupply chainbiotechnologysustainability
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Or find every investor that fitsGrainCorp Ventures lists 13 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (58%), Healthcare & Biotech (17%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (17%). 63% of its companies are based in Australia. It invests most often alongside Astanor, Cultiv8 Funds Management and Innventure Food & Agtech.
Counts come from funding rounds that name GrainCorp Ventures, 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 GrainCorp Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 13. 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 | 67% |
| Series A | 33% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 33th | 13 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 94th | 23% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 88th | 58% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Astanor | 2 |
| Cultiv8 Funds Management | 2 |
| Innventure Food & Agtech | 2 |
| Main Sequence | 2 |
| Uniseed | 2 |
| AIR Capital | 1 |
| Acre Venture Partners | 1 |
| Asterion Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers13100%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 58% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 17% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 17% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 4% | 3% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare GrainCorp Ventures 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 GrainCorp Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 2 Mar 2026 | Series A |
Round details for GrainCorp Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in GrainCorp Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
13 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BioScout provides airborne crop disease surveillance using AI-powered devices that sample and analyze airborne particulate matter | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Calice develops an Environmental Engine that runs Virtual Field Trials to simulate how agricultural products perform across thousands of environments | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| FutureFeed develops and commercializes Asparagopsis seaweed as a livestock feed ingredient to reduce methane emissions in beef and dairy farming. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Hone designs, builds and ships measurement instruments and also helps clients develop and manufacture their own products. | Industrial & ManufacturingIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Levur creates high-performance oils and ingredients using precision fermentation | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Living Models builds foundation models for biology, starting with the plant kingdom, to understand living systems | AI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Loam Bio develops and applies biological products to help plants store carbon in soil. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Pasture Biosciences develops veterinary vaccines, including one that improves cattle productivity and reduces emissions. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Peptobiotics makes agriculture more productive, humane and sustainable by promoting growth and protecting against pathogens using a new type of antibiotic alternative that does not cause resistance. | AI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Plasmaleap builds and designs plants for the local production of fertilisers, fuels and chemicals. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Zetifi turns vehicle risk into alerts, action and evidence, inside the tools their clients' teams already use. | Industrial & ManufacturingCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company digitalizes testing, inspection, and certification of agricultural commodities and food through image processing and artificial intelligence. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- graincorp.com.au
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 2 Mar 2026
- Companies checked
- 13
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