Meet Our Investors
Our investors make progress possible by sharing our passion and boldly supporting our work.
Fall Line Capital is funding the future of farming by refining investment in farmland and technology. With a vision for realizing untapped productivity, the organization purchases and actively manages farmland throughout the United States, and invests in technology companies strategic to their land holdings. Their team’s combination of experience in both venture capital and agriculture makes Fall Line a unique capital partner for early stage technology companies focused on the agriculture market.
Illumina Ventures is the leader in genomics and precision health investing, building the ecosystem and shaping innovation to accelerate the impact on human health. Independently managed, Illumina Ventures is an early-stage, value-add investor with a strategic partnership with Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN). Illumina Ventures helps entrepreneurs develop breakthrough science and technologies into market-leading companies to transform healthcare. The firm focuses on investments in life science tools, therapeutics, diagnostics, digital health, and environmental sciences.
RA Capital Management is a multi-stage investment manager dedicated to company formation and evidence-based investing in healthcare and life science companies developing drugs, medical devices, diagnostics, services, and research tools. The firm’s portfolio of private and public companies spans the globe and most therapeutic areas across all stages from discovery through commercialization. We are committed to fostering diversity at RA, in our portfolio companies, and in the broader biotech community.
Wollemi is a global climate specialist investment firm. Wollemi is focused on investing in and supporting climate solutions businesses in the food and agriculture, energy transition, natural capital, and climate services sectors, with an aim of reducing or abating global greenhouse gas emissions. Their team has been at the forefront of climate investing for over 10 years, bringing together an unparalleled combination of industry experts with deep investor knowledge and operational expertise.
Through the Grantham Environmental Trust, the Grantham Foundation takes early stage positions in important, yet underfunded climate opportunities. The organization looks at sectors that are overlooked and underestimated by other investors, and often invests at very early stages. The Grantham Environmental Trust supports the ideas that the world needs, but that others can’t help move forward. In the belief that innovation and technology are the best hope for an enduring future, the organization invests to redesign our energy systems; to improve soil health; to spare the ocean from acidification; to directly recapture carbon from the atmosphere—and more.
Better Ventures backs mission-driven founders, leveraging breakthrough innovations in science and technology to build a more sustainable and equitable economy in which both people and planet thrive. The organization invests in software, data science, and life sciences startups that are innovating across industries in ways that will deliver big profits and measurable progress towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The core investment thesis of Better Ventures is that mission-driven companies outperform the market thanks to the magnetic force of purpose, which fuels intrinsic founder motivation and drives key competitive advantages in hiring, attracting resources, and building an enduring brand.
Radicle Growth is a venture capital firm and a company-building platform focused on investing in early-stage startups in the agriculture and food technology industries. The firm provides funding to innovative companies developing solutions to address the global food system's challenges, including sustainable agriculture, food security, and nutrition. Radicle Growth supports entrepreneurs driving positive change in these sectors by providing capital, mentorship, expertise, and connections to industry leaders. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California, and invests globally.
iSelect is a venture capital firm investing in companies addressing critical global issues in agriculture, food tech and healthcare with large markets and financially attractive business models. The firm supports the disruptive potential of emerging technologies that may substantially change markets, offering unique access to pre-IPO and pre-exit companies alongside name brand, global venture funds. iSelect evaluates thousands of start-ups every year, carefully crafting a portfolio it believes has the greatest chance to make a significant impact on food and health and create the potential for significant growth.
First In Ventures is an early-stage biotech investment firm that has partnered with one of the leading life sciences accelerators in the world. They provide seed capital, follow-on capital, and valuable industry experience to selected accelerator companies and other startups operating at the intersection of genomics and data science. They are passionate about life sciences and are willing to take risk when risk is at its highest and work hard in whatever role necessary to help brave founders achieve far reaching goals.
The mission of The Yield Lab is to enable entrepreneurs to sustainably revolutionize agrifood systems globally, by investing in and accelerating high-impact early-stage companies all around the world. Launched in 2014, the Yield Lab North America, based in St. Louis, Missouri, is the original Yield Lab branded accelerator. This accelerator invests in early-stage technology companies that revolutionize agricultural and food systems to sustainably provide for the world. The Yield Lab North America has a global affinity network to help each portfolio company in its pursuit of growth.
Angel Investors
Since our start in 2017, various individual investors have helped “seed” Pluton’s success, including several Founders.
Accelerators &
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