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SDH Capital
Venture capital · Rochester, NY, United States · North America
SDH Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 in Rochester, NY that invests in early-stage AgriTech and Food Tech companies. It provides capital and support to founders from pre-seed through Series A, with flexibility for follow-on and co-investments.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsagritechfoodtechdeeptechearly-stageagriculturefood
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Or find every investor that fitsSDH Capital lists 47 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (68%), Food & Agriculture (11%) and Healthcare & Biotech (5%). 83% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside IndieBio, Luminate and SOSV.
Counts come from funding rounds that name SDH Capital, 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 SDH Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 47. 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 | 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 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 82th | 47 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 55th | 2% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 91th | 68% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 68% | 18% |
| Food & Agriculture | 11% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 5% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 5% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
| Education | 2% | 7% |
| Climate & Energy | 1% | 1% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 1% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| IndieBio | 4 |
| Luminate | 4 |
| SOSV | 4 |
| The Yield Lab Asia Pacific | 4 |
| AgLaunch | 3 |
| BioGenerator | 2 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| Cultivation Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers47100%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare SDH Capital 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 SDH Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 May 2026 | Seed |
Round details for SDH Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in SDH Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
47 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aelo Neurotech Inc. measures brain data in real time. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Agragene is building tools to protect crops from invasive pests. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces photonic integrated circuits for various applications. | Industrial & ManufacturingCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Brekland Inc. produces a frost protecting foam for crops. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Capro-X upcycles waste into chemical building blocks for the bioeconomy | 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 | |
| Celleste Bio creates a proprietary 'cocoa technology' that produces 100% real cocoa ingredients at scale, anywhere in the world, using biotech, agtech, and AI | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Circle Optics engineers panoramic imaging solutions for advanced applications | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| DriftSense is a technology platform for optimizing spraying execution. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Earnest Agriculture develops and sells biological products to help crops grow stronger and healthier | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops high-performance instrumentation and assay content for bioanalysis. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Fable produces food products made from shiitake mushrooms for chefs and consumers. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company creates AI-driven ingredient transparency and tagging solutions for food tech and hospitality | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| FoodMaven provides procurement AI for food service operators to make informed purchasing decisions. | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Ichorag develops next-generation fungicides for crop protection | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Impetus Agriculture develops a platform to enhance the performance of Bt pesticides for insect control in agriculture. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company manufactures and sells LED grow lighting for indoor and greenhouse growing. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Landoption helps landowners and dealers find and enroll in farm programs to earn income from their land. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- sdhcap.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 May 2026
- Companies checked
- 47
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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