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Innova
Venture capital · Memphis, TN, United States · North America
Innova is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2007 that writes first institutional checks, now exclusively in AgTech and FarmTech. It takes board seats and helps portfolio companies with team building, pricing and go-to-market strategy.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsagtechfarmtechagricultural biologicalsroboticsfarm datarural
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Or find every investor that fitsInnova lists 21 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (90%), Healthcare & Biotech (5%) and Education (3%). 91% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside AgLaunch, Ag Startup Engine and Grit Road Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Innova, 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 Innova's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 21. 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 1 |
| '26 | 1 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 53th | 21 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 85th | 14% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 95th | 90% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| AgLaunch | 5 |
| Ag Startup Engine | 3 |
| Grit Road Partners | 3 |
| Invest Nebraska | 3 |
| Bread and Butter Ventures | 2 |
| Elevate Ventures | 2 |
| ISA Ventures | 2 |
| The Yield Lab Asia Pacific | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers21100%
- 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 | 90% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 5% | 15% |
| Education | 3% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 3% | 3% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Innova head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Innova| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 19 Sept 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 12 Sept 2018 | Series A |
Round details for Innova
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Innova's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
21 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agritx develops a proprietary blend of pre/probiotics, vitamins, amino acids, and minerals to enhance the eggshell microbiome for fertilized avian eggs. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| 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 | ||
| Clean Crop Technologies removes pathogens and improves seed vigor using its proprietary DriPRIME seed treatment technology | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| EarthSense develops and provides precision robots and AI for oil palm plantations, orchards, and vineyards. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Global Neighbor creates environmentally sensitive solutions for gardeners, growers, and farmers, including a chemical-free alternative to weed control using directed energy technology. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Glanris is a bioenergy company that processes agricultural and forestry waste materials into low-cost electricity and biochar for various applications | EducationAI & 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 | ||
| The company helps ag retailers stop customer churn and increase farmer spend with loyalty programs | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2018Series A | Page + round | |
| 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 | ||
| Insignum AgTech develops a system that allows plants to send visible stress signals before actual symptoms appear, notifying growers to act early and protect yield. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Isomark Health uses breath technology and AI to detect bacterial and viral infections in cattle | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| iYOTAH Solutions provides a platform to connect and analyze data for dairy and livestock producers to make informed decisions | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Leaftech Ag helps farmers read signals from their fields to apply nutrients based on what their crops are asking for through instant, crop-level data. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Lilac Agriculture develops and sells next-generation inoculants for pulse growers to improve nitrogen fixation efficiency and competitiveness in soil | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| MicroBiometer produces soil testing kits and equipment for measuring microbial biomass | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| ReEnvision Ag develops and sells a planter system for farmers to reduce tillage and improve soil health | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Secure Food Solutions is developing solutions to detect and remove dangerous pathogens that threaten global food supply chains. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Soilytics provides soil analysis and web-based soil prescription platforms to enable sustainable global analysis of carbon and soil nutrients. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| SwineTech develops and provides swine management software powered by AI. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- innovamemphis.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 12 Sept 2018
- Companies checked
- 21
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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