AgriSync
Software platform allowing companies of any size to offer remote product support using mobile devices and video. Acquired by Deere & Co. in 2021.
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Innovations farmers actually want.
Innova is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the founders building AgTech and FarmTech that makes farming more profitable. We write the first institutional check, then work alongside you.
Been there, done that
39
AgTech companies backed
$40M
Invested in AgTech
$250K–$2M
Initial check range
2007
Investing since
What we back
Four problems worth solving on every acre and in every barn.
Our thesis is narrow on purpose. These are the places where technology changes a farmer's economics, and where an early check has the most leverage.
01
Inputs
Seed, feed, nutrition, crop protection and biologicals, vaccines and antibiotics that improve outcomes without raising unit cost.
02
Labor
Robotics and autonomy for work that is dangerous, repetitive, or simply cannot be staffed any more.
03
On-farm data
Sensors, cameras and instruments that capture what is actually happening in the field, the bin and the barn.
04
Actionable reports
Intelligent software that turns that siloed data into a decision a farmer can make before the window closes.
Portfolio
Companies we've backed early.
A sample of the AgTech and FarmTech portfolio. The full list, including the legacy portfolio, is on the portfolio page.
SwineTech
SwineTech is connecting producers and pigs to efficiently improve productivity, sustainability, and welfare.
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Tractor Zoom
Tractor Zoom is a platform that provides comprehensive listings and data for farm equipment auctions, helping buyers and sellers connect more efficiently.
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Growers Holdings
Growers is a farm data analytics firm that turns data into prescriptions that deliver better results to farmers. Acquired in 2020.
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Visit siteTrack record · since inception
Two decades of backing the earliest round.
Innova has invested across healthcare, technology and agriculture since 2007. That full early-stage record is what our AgTech funds are built on.
134
Startups backed
$73M
Capital deployed
$200M+
Follow-on capital
>500
Jobs created
Our investors
Backed by many of agriculture's power players.
Our investors represent thousands of American farmers of all sizes and provide the equipment they use — which is also how our companies reach farmers.
- AGCO Ventures
- CoBank
- AgriBank
- Compeer Financial
- Farm Credit Mid-America
- FCS America
- FCS Financial
- Farm Credit Bank of Texas
- AgSouth Farm Credit
- American AgCredit
- Farm Credit Illinois
- Horizon Farm Credit
News
Latest from the portfolio.
SwineTech
SwineTech doubles its team as producer demand rises
SwineTech has grown to 35 employees on the back of new PigFlow adoption, expansion into gilt development management, and AI agents for pork producers. Hiring is focused on customer success roles with hands-on swine production experience.
AgTech/FarmTech
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AGRITX Announces Growth Strategy Following a Seed Funding Round to Scale Avian Nutritional Solutions
AGRITX, a pioneer in livestock wellness and sustainability, today announced plans to accelerate the production, distribution, and marketing of its flagship product, AGRITX F-65, throughout 2026.
AgTech/FarmTech
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Innova leads $2.4M seed round for Insignum AgTech
Insignum engineers crops to signal stress visually — its first trait turns corn purple at infection sites a week or more before symptoms appear. The round funds the first trait through its commercial pipeline and work on a disease-signaling trait for canola. Elevate Ventures, Purdue Strategic Ventures and FFA Ventures joined.
AgTech/FarmTech
Read at AgriNovus Indiana (opens in a new tab)Building something farmers will actually use?
We review every submission. Tell us what you're building and who it's for, and frankly, why they'd care.