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Grit Road Partners
Venture capital · Omaha, NE, United States · North America
Grit Road Partners is a Midwest-based investment team that invests in early stage AgTech start-ups solving problems for Midwest producers. It also manages a community of AgTech investors for deal flow sharing and co-investment, and works with producers, agribusinesses, ag-families and land grant universities.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsagtechagricultureearly stagemidwestproducers
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Or find every investor that fitsGrit Road Partners lists 18 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (84%), Enterprise Software (3%) and Consumer (3%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Invest Nebraska, Ag Startup Engine and Homegrown Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Grit Road Partners, 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 Grit Road Partners' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 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 | 33% |
| Series A | 67% |
| 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 | 46th | 18 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 80th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 94th | 84% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Invest Nebraska | 7 |
| Ag Startup Engine | 5 |
| Homegrown Capital | 3 |
| ISA Ventures | 3 |
| Innova | 3 |
| Alloy Partners | 2 |
| SDH Capital | 2 |
| AgLaunch | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1794%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company16%
- 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 | 84% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 3% | 8% |
| Consumer | 3% | 3% |
| Legal & Compliance | 3% | 2% |
| Food & Agriculture | 3% | 3% |
| Human Resources | 3% | 1% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Grit Road Partners 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 Grit Road Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 4 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 1 May 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Grit Road Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Grit Road Partners' 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birds Eye Robotics makes autonomous robotics and intelligent barn insights for commercial poultry producers to improve performance and reduce manual work | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Cattler provides cattle management software that centralizes feedlot operations in one platform | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Continuum Ag helps farmers improve their profitability via improved soil health | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Corral develops a system of cattle wearables for virtual fencing in cow-calf operations | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| EmGenisys analyzes embryos to improve pregnancy outcomes in animals using data-driven and machine learning technologies. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Distynct is a smart and reliable barn alarm company offering peace of mind, context and urgency, and proactive management right at your fingertips. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Grain Weevil provides robots for bulk storage management, replacing a dangerous task with a safer and more efficient way to control and manage materials. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| HerdDogg provides smart livestock monitoring technology and cloud analytics to help feedlots, ranches, and dairies improve animal health, welfare, and productivity. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| LandTrust is a marketplace that connects people with landowners to book access to private land for outdoor activities such as hunting and fishing. | ConsumerLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Oaken provides farmland lease management software and farm CRM | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| RhizeBio provides DNA testing solutions for soil, seeds, and other agricultural inputs to help optimize agricultural practices and build healthier ecosystems. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Marble builds AI and food-grade hardware to reduce labor, improve product quality, and reduce waste in meat processing | Food & Agriculture | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| The company provides AI-powered decision intelligence and optimization solutions for logistics, supply chain, and workforce management. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jun 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Vane Ag provides specialty agricultural insurance solutions to protect against lost revenue when weather impacts crops | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Croft connects employers, agents, recruiters, and workers around the same job orders and automates tasks such as filing preparation and payroll preparation | AI & Machine LearningHuman Resources | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- gritrd.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 May 2026
- 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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