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Tenacious Ventures
Venture capital · Australia · Asia Pacific
Tenacious Ventures is an Australian venture firm that invests in early-stage startups building the agri-food system of tomorrow. It also provides research and advisory services informed by its sector-specific knowledge, and publishes insights and a podcast on agri-food innovation.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsagtechagri-foodfood systemsagricultureimpactearly-stage
Your fit with Tenacious Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsTenacious Ventures lists 10 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 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 (60%), Healthcare & Biotech (15%) and Space & Defense (10%). 83% of its companies are based in Australia. It invests most often alongside AgFunder, AgriZeroNZ and Airtree.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Tenacious 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 Tenacious Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 10. 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 | 1 | 1 |
| '26 | 1 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 23th | 10 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 92th | 20% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 89th | 60% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| AgFunder | 1 |
| AgriZeroNZ | 1 |
| Airtree | 1 |
| Better Bite Ventures | 1 |
| Blackbird | 1 |
| Breakthrough Victoria | 1 |
| British International Investment | 1 |
| Cavallo Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers10100%
- 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 | 60% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 15% | 15% |
| Space & Defense | 10% | 3% |
| Food & Agriculture | 10% | 3% |
| Education | 5% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Tenacious Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Tenacious Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Feb 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 31 Oct 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Tenacious Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Tenacious Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
10 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agovor designs and manufactures electric tractors and autonomous towing machines for agricultural use | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Azaneo develops technology for pulsed electric field weed control | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Cecil provides a spatial datasets API for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) analytics and nature risk assessments | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Earthodic develops and produces bio-based coatings for paper packaging to make it recyclable and water-resistant. | Space & DefenseSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Jupiter Ionics commercialises electrochemical technology for producing green ammonia for various industries | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Nbryo develops and commercialises a platform of technologies for genetic improvement in cattle breeding through in vitro production of embryos | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Phyllome grows and manufactures plant-based functional foods enriched with therapeutic peptides grown directly inside the plant | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Regrow provides a platform for agriculture resilience and sustainability, offering tools for tracking progress and analyzing environmental outcomes. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company creates robotic solutions for agriculture | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Vow creates food products made from cultured meat. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- tenacious.ventures
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 31 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 10
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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