Investment Type: Venture Capital
Portfolio 3
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 20.05.2016 | CheeCha Pu... | cheecha.ca | $11.44M | - |
| 27.03.2014 | Enterra Fe... | enterrafeed.com | $10M | Canada, Br... |
| 09.01.2013 | Hortau | hortau.com | $41.5M | United Sta... |
Mentions in press and media 22
| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.04.2019 | EXCLUSIVE: Rio Holds $77.5m First Close on Growth Stage AgriFood Fund, Rebrands From Avrio | Avrio Capital, one of the first investment firms to focus specifically on food and agriculture, has re-branded into a new investment firm called Rio Investment Partners, raising $77.5 million in the first close of a $150 million fund. Rio w... |
| 02.04.2019 | Rio Investment Partners secures $77.5 million CAD for new agri-food tech fund | Rio Investment Partners, the new successor to Calgary-based Avrio Capital, has announced the launch of a new VC fund focused on agrifood, ag-tech, and food-tech investing across North American. Rio is aiming to commit $150 million CAD in to... |
| 28.08.2018 | Enterra Feed Eyes World’s Largest Insect Farm in Wake of Series B Raise | Last week, Enterra Feed Corporation, an insect farming business from Canada, announced its latest round of funding and plans to construct three new insect factories in Canada and the US. The Cibus Fund, the food-focused fund managed by Asia... |
| 15.08.2017 | What is Agri-FoodTech? | Agri-foodtech is the small but growing segment of the startup and venture capital universe that’s aiming to improve or disrupt the global food and agriculture industry. AgFunder coined the term in 2017 to define the innovation taking place ... |
| 20.03.2017 | FarmLead’s Online Grain Marketplace Raises $6.5m Series A Led by Monsanto | FarmLead, an online grain marketplace, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding in a round led by Monsanto Growth Ventures. FarmLead helps growers, who typically sell to a handful of local buyers, to negotiate better prices for their gra... |
| 20.05.2016 | Avrio Capital Invests C$15M in Intelia, Alakso Foods & CheeCha Puffs | Calgary, Alberta, Canada-based venture capital firm Avrio Capital said it deployed C$15M of capital from its third institutional late stage venture fund in three companies. Agriculture and food technology focused Avrio Ventures Limited Part... |
| 19.05.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Precision Ag Startups from Outside the US Raise Seed Funding, more | Avrio Capital Completes Three Investments Avrio Capital has now deployed C$15 million of capital from its $110 million Fund III. The investments include poultry and swine health data analytics startup Intelia Technologies Inc. frozen fruit ... |
| 19.05.2016 | Avrio Capital Invests in an Environment Control Technology Company for Livestock Production | Avrio Capital has invested in Intelia, an environment controller manufacturer and data collection company for the indoor animal agriculture industry. Serving poultry, dairy, and hog farms, Intelia manufactures electronic controller devices ... |
| 12.02.2016 | Avrio Capital closes its largest late stage venture fund with $110 million in commitments | Calgary-based Avrio Capital, which invests in innovative food and agriculture companies, announced that it has closed its largest late-stage venture fund to date. Avrio’s Fund III has total commitments approaching $110 million. “The adoptio... |
| 09.02.2016 | Avrio Capital Closes Third Largest Agtech Fund on $110m | Avrio Capital, the Canadian agtech venture capital firm, has closed its third food and agriculture technology fund on $110 million. This makes it the third largest agtech fund on record after Seed to Growth Ventures’ $125 million Fund I and... |
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