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NYA Ventures
Venture capital · Vancouver, Canada · North America
NYA Ventures is a Canadian agtech venture fund that backs founders addressing planetary challenges through innovation. It manages the The51 Food and AgTech Fund.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningFood & Agriculture
In its own wordsagtechfoodtechsustainabilityimpactcanada
Your fit with NYA Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsNYA Ventures lists 15 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (61%), Food & Agriculture (17%) and Climate & Energy (9%). 64% of its companies are based in Canada. It invests most often alongside Creative Destruction Lab, Verdex Capital and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name NYA 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 NYA Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 15. 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 roundNYA Ventures does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| 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 | 5 | 1 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 39th | 15 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 98th | 33% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 89th | 61% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Creative Destruction Lab | 3 |
| Verdex Capital | 3 |
| Breakthrough Energy Ventures | 2 |
| Congruent Ventures | 2 |
| Nadarra Ventures | 2 |
| Active Impact Investments | 1 |
| AgriZeroNZ | 1 |
| Alpaca VC | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers15100%
- 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
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 61% | 18% |
| Food & Agriculture | 17% | 3% |
| Climate & Energy | 9% | 1% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 9% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 4% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Creative Destruction Lab
Compare NYA 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 NYA Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 17 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 5 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 19 Jan 2026 | Seed |
Round details for NYA Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in NYA Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
15 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio page | ||||
| ArkeaBio is a global agricultural bioscience company developing a safe, cost-effective methane reducing vaccine to lower emissions from cattle worldwide. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| AuX Labs produces milk proteins using fermentation for use in dairy functional foods. | Food & Agriculture | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Brilliant Harvest is an AI-powered Helpdesk made to empower equipment dealer teams across the entire customer experience | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Dispersa transforms discarded food into affordable and high-performance biosurfactants. | Food & AgricultureClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Ichorag develops next-generation fungicides for crop protection | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Kodama.ai builds remote control systems for logging equipment, such as skidders. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Maia Farms produces nutrient-rich mushroom ingredients for food manufacturers | Food & Agriculture | Jan 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Paradigm Inputs sells crop input products to Canadian farmers | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Erthos leverages the power of its proprietary ML-AI platform to rapidly design industry scalable biomaterials for leading brands globally. | Climate & EnergyIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops technology, including UAV design and AI to detect herbicide-resistant weeds, to solve agriculture challenges | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Sami Robotics automates demanding field tasks by combining robotics, AI, and data analysis. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Spectacular Labs provides on-site pathogen testing equipment for the food industry | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Synergia Biotech produces a natural blue pigment from cyanobacteria for use in various industries. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- nyaplanet.com
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 19 Jan 2026
- Companies checked
- 15
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