Food & agriculture
Food & agriculture
With a growing world population, global demand for food will increase >50% by 2050, increasing pressure on land use and freshwater. Yet, one-third of all food produced is wasted. We invest to fuel the transition to a regenerative, protective and waste-free food system.
A regenerative, resource-efficient, and waste-free food and agricultural system.
Food and agriculture sit at the centre of the climate, biodiversity, and resource challenge. Without systemic change, rising demand and inefficient practices will continue to strain land, water, ecosystems, and food security.
Our investment thesis
We invest in technologies that enable a regenerative, resource-efficient, and resilient food system. Our focus spans from primary production to processing and waste, backing solutions that reduce emissions, protect land and water, and increase system efficiency at scale.
What we are looking for
- Technologies that reduce food loss and waste across the value chain
- Ag-tech solutions that lower inputs, emissions, and environmental impact
- Scalable models supporting regenerative and resilient food production
- Solutions that decouple food growth from land, water, and resource intensity
Our investments within food & agriculture
We have backed founders building solutions within precision technologies, novel proteins and circular value chains.
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Rock Flour Company
Nature’s solution to net-negative agriculture
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- Agrain about ?overlay=agrain
Agrain
Providing ingredients for the future of food
- Food & agricultureabout /verticals/food-and-agricultureFood & agriculture
- PerPlantabout ?overlay=perplant
PerPlant
Democratising AI in agriculture by supporting sustainable farming
- Food & agricultureabout /verticals/food-and-agricultureFood & agriculture
- FoodOpabout ?overlay=foodop
FoodOp
Digital platform helping kitchens reduce food waste
- Food & agricultureabout /verticals/food-and-agricultureFood & agriculture
"The next food and agriculture system will be regenerative, resource-efficient, and designed to scale - feeding a growing world while restoring nature."
Explore all our investment verticals
- Circular economy
- Built environment
- Biosolutions
- Climate tech
- Energy
- Food & agriculture
Explore all our investment verticals
Our current linear ‘take-make-waste’ system use 60% more resources than the earth can generate every year. We invest in solutions that enable reuse, upcycling and recycling of waste streams to enable a circular economy.
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Come venture with us
Pitch us
Have a venture where impact and growth scale together? We invest early and work side-by-side powered by the whole Footprint Firm team.
PerPlant
Democratising AI in agriculture by supporting sustainable farming
Investment vertical
- Food & agricultureabout /verticals/food-and-agricultureFood & agriculture
Stage
- First ticket
Website
perplant.ai about https://perplant.ai/The challenge
Agriculture is responsible for heavy pesticide and fertilizer overuse, driving soil degradation, water pollution, climate emissions, and biodiversity loss. Yet farmers still lack affordable, accurate tools to understand plant health in real time, making sustainable practices costly and difficult to adopt. Precision farming technology exists, but it is either too expensive, too complex, or inaccessible to the majority of farms, leaving most growers to rely on broad, inefficient chemical application rather than targeted treatment.
The solution
PerPlant delivers a plug and play AI camera sensor that brings precision farming to every field and every farmer. Developed from cutting edge research at KTH, the device uses on edge processing and advanced plant sensing to diagnose crop health, optimize fertilizer and pesticide use, and increase harvest yield while reducing environmental harm. By giving farmers plant level insights at low cost and without technical barriers, PerPlant empowers a new generation of data driven sustainable growers who feed the world while caring for soil, climate, and biodiversity.
