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Barnraiser

Barnraiser is a community for the millions of us who align with health and sustainability They can exert trheir influence as passionate consumers and grow good food by connecting with modern-day heroes, sharing their inspirational stories, and collectively funding their success.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Boulder Food Group

BOULDER – Local venture capitalist and natural foods executive Tom Spier has formed Boulder Food Group LP, an entity that has so far raised $32.8 million for a new pooled investment fund. The capital raise showed up in a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing as part of a $55 million offering by Boulder Food Group. Four investors have participated in the round according to the filing.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Chobani Food Incubator

Chobani Food Incubator helps nurture, support, and celebrate today’s entrepreneurs who have founded young and growing companies inspired by their same beliefs, so that together they can positively shape the food industry of tomorrow.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Circles

United States of America

CircleUp helps consumer entrepreneurs and investors do what they do better.

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Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Crowdfooding

Crowdfooding is the world's first collaborative platform for the food and beverage industry. Founded in 2014 in San Francisco at Crowdfooding we re passionate about bringing together food entrepreneurs passionate foodies and established food organizations to foster food innovation through meaningful collaborations. We help food and drink startups build strategic commercial partnerships with other organisations and leverage our platform to market their business while empowering established food organisations and corporations to enable meaningful collaboration with qualified startups.

Type: Other Capital Providers

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Dig Eat All

Spain

DIG EAT ALL brings together the approaching worlds of gastronomy and digital technology. This fusion drives innovation in the way they engage with food and with each other, inspiring a revolution with a truly global impact.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Spain

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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EquityEats

EquityEats solely focused on the food and beverage service industry because it is perfectly positioned to benefit from equity crowdfunding. Traditionally restaurant investing has been a closed door activity for both individuals and for restauranteurs. They democratizes capital accessibility by enabling the masses to participate.

Type: Investor Network

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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FamilyFarmed

United States of America

FamilyFarmed.org is a non-profit organization committed to expanding the production, marketing and distribution of locally grown and responsibly produced food, in order to enhance the social, economic, and environmental health of our communities.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Farm2050

Farm2050 is a collective of diverse partners - a complete ecosystem - that is committed to advancing the future of food through supporting AgTech entrepreneurs and startups.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Farmers Funding

Netherlands

Farmers Funding is a website aimed to broaden funding for the food and agri sector. Besides banks, there are numerous other funding. These include crowd funding, leasing, investment, subsidies, pension funds, etc. This platform is the platform where all funding for now and substitution future are combined.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Netherlands

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Food Angels

Food Angels is a group of accredited angel investors who invest in early-stage food, beverage or food-tech companies in the US.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Food-X

Founded in 2014, FOOD-X is the first international business accelerator program focused on launching food-related ventures with a multi-stage evergreen fund SOSventures. FOOD-X partners with early-stage food entrepreneurs to bring out their best potential and take them and their products and services successfully to market in areas of food & beverage, health, and environment that are ripe for disruption.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

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Fund The Food

The Kirchner Food Fellowship is an opportunity for an elite group of student leaders to be engaged in investment decisions on agriculture oriented businesses with ground breaking technologies which can provide long term sustainable solutions both environmentally and economically to global food security. Kirchner Food Fellows will also receive high level mentoring from networks of investors from across North America. Working directly with our leadership team and our network of thought leaders The Kirchner Food Fellows will engage in a series of face to face and on line educational experiences using learning paradigms that expose them to practical real world issues of seed stage and early stage investment. As the 16 week program advances the Fellows will be given full discretion to make real investments in real companies based on a predetermined investment mandate.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Fundafeast

United States of America

PieShell emboldens and empowers food and beverage entrepreneurs and enthusiasts to bring new ideas to life. But PieShell is more than just a crowdfunding platform. We re a community of people who are passionate about food innovation and giving.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Financial Services

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Good Food Business Accelerator

he Good Food Business Accelerator gets farm and food businesses ready for prime time, giving them the skills to launch or scale up. This fellowship program for food and farm entrepreneurs is based at 1871, Chicago’s center of innovation. Fellows are paired with industry-leading mentors and are connected to potential customers and investors. This is the nation’s first business accelerator focused on building supply chains for sustainable local food.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

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New Orleans Food & Farm Network (NOFFN)

An economy that expands residents’ self-reliance through food production, uses land responsibly and sustainably, helps farmers make a living, and makes the needed connections among people, farms, and food. NOFFN is developing tools and coordinated action to support farming in greater New Orleans.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Rabo Farm

Netherlands

Rabo Farm plays an active role in responding to the challenges facing global food security. With less access to scarce land, water and mineral resources, the agricultural sector will need to double agricultural production in the next 40 years.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Netherlands

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Reimagine Food Prometheus

Spain

Prometheus, the Reimagine Food accelerator will give 20 start-ups each year a three-and-a-half month period of training and networking with leading global entrepreneurs, food companies and funding sources in order to boost their development, as well as a common work area in the Reimagine Food centre at EsadeCreapolis. This area, called Reimagine X, will be a place where food producers, entrepreneurs, investors and chefs can experiment with the restaurant, kitchen and supermarket of the future

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Global

Impact: Access to Information

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RoyseLaw AgTech Incubator

The RoyseLaw AgTech Incubator is Silicon Valley’s first startup incubator for companies focused on creating new technologies for the agriculture and food industries.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Rural Infrastructure Opportunity Fund

The U.S. Rural Infrastructure Opportunity Fund is a public-private partnership between CoBank, Capitol Peak Asset Management (CPAM) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The purpose of the fund is to serve as a new source of capital for rural infrastructure projects, promoting financing for infrastructure projects in rural America and the resulting creation of jobs in rural communities. The fund is designed to complement existing government loan and grant programs by making debt investments in a wide range of projects in America’s rural communities.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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Slow Money NYC

United States of America

Slow Money NYC (SMNYC) is a start-up non-profit membership organization. It is a fiscally-sponsored chapter of a national not-for-profit organization, Slow Money, Inc. The group started in January 2011 and expanded its leadership and activities in 2012. They are run by a group of self-nominated volunteers, most of whom have a passion for and deep experience with the good food movement, food businesses, socially responsible investing, food investing and non-profit management.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Agricultural Productivity

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The Yield Lab

United States of America

The Yield Lab provides new AgTech companies with $100,000 in funding, mentors, and connections supported by an agriculturally solid framework in St. Louis.

Type: Accelerator/Incubator

Geography: Malaysia

Impact: Agricultural Productivity