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Tall Grass Ventures
Venture capital · Calgary, Canada · North America
Tall Grass Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in the future of agriculture and food. It supports entrepreneurs developing agrifood technology solutions, drawing on its industry knowledge, connectivity and experience.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsagrifood techagriculturefoodclimate changesupply chain
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Or find every investor that fitsTall Grass Ventures lists 17 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, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (94%), Healthcare & Biotech (3%) and Space & Defense (3%). 44% of its companies are based in Canada. It invests most often alongside Creative Destruction Lab, Koan Capital and Verdex Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Tall Grass 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 Tall Grass Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 17. 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 roundTall Grass 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 | 1 | 1 |
| '26 | 2 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 42th | 16 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 68th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 96th | 94% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Creative Destruction Lab | 3 |
| Koan Capital | 2 |
| Verdex Capital | 2 |
| 2b AHEAD Ventures | 1 |
| 519 Growth Fund | 1 |
| Accelerate Fund | 1 |
| AgFunder | 1 |
| Barrel Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers17100%
- 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 | 94% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 3% | 15% |
| Space & Defense | 3% | 3% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Creative Destruction Lab
Compare Tall Grass 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 Tall Grass Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 15 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 8 Sept 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Tall Grass Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Tall Grass Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
17 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AgGene develops crop traits to improve resilience and seed value in agriculture | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| AgriRobot helps agricultural vehicles become autonomous without needing an operator to continuously monitor them in the field. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Sept 2025Seed | Funding round | |||
| EmGenisys analyzes embryos to improve pregnancy outcomes in animals using data-driven and machine learning technologies. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Farmblox connects equipment and in-field sensors to an app so growers and producers can fix problems fast and automate tasks to improve productivity. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| GeneNeer develops and applies gene-editing technologies to enhance crop resilience and create innovative traits. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides automated grain grading and quality insights using artificial intelligence and machine vision. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company allows consumers to invest in farm production and provides farmers with access to capital, creating a partnership between them. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| IntelliCulture provides a GPS platform for specialty crop farms to track and manage farm equipment and operations. | 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 | Funding round | |
| The company creates sustainable dyes and pigments using microorganisms. | Space & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Nectar Technologies provides digital tools for beekeeping operations to collect and manage data | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| OneKind develops and provides AI-originated clinical endpoints for animal health studies | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| PheroSyn is a supplier of pheromone-based insect monitoring and control solutions for sustainable crop management. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Picketa Systems provides real-time crop tissue testing and nutrient analysis for farmers and agronomists | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| SensorGlobe provides real-time welfare data for salmon handling operations | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| SimpleHedge provides a platform for farmers to manage risk and hedge their crops and cattle using futures and options | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- tallgrass.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 8 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 17
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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