Enabling innovative agriculture for global impact

We are Australia's first and only dedicated agrifood tech VC firm.

We lead early-stage investments with high-conviction and hands-on support to help agrifood tech startups grow.
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We believe in a future where the global food and agriculture system is sustainable, profitable for farmers, and able to adapt to the changing needs of consumers.

Tenacious Ventures was created to find, support, and invest in remarkable entrepreneurs who are transforming the agrifood supply chain.

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A founding team who are fully committed and deeply connected.

A globally recognized food systems innovation expert, Sarah Nolet has developed, implemented and executed strategies and programs for some of Australia's leading organizations and agtech startups.
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Serial entrepreneur and agtech pioneer, Matthew Pryor has extensive experience in technology & agriculture in Australia and the USA. His experience spans creation, scaling, and exit on both sides of the table

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Sarah Nolet

Matthew Pryor

Komal Patel

Vela Georgiev

Kirsten Diprose

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Meet the team that supports Tenacious Ventures, our investments and our investors.

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Investor Notes
Investment Notes: Cecil
Cecil, is digitizing the scale up of NBS projects. You can think of them as the Aconex (acquired by Oracle) for NBS projects: they streamline project management and empower investment decision making.
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Investment Notes: Geora
Geora has a vision of a rewired agri supply chain that is digitally native, highly adaptive, and focused on maximizing farmer value. As the importance of fine-grained provenance in meeting the needs of climate-focused consumers and investors grows, things need to be done differently.
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Investment Notes: Regrow
Regrow is ideally placed to become a leading provider of independent MRV services given their ability to combine approaches that come from both agronomic and environmental disciplines that are designed to work from field through to landscape scale.
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Tenacious Ventures in the News

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Federal 'green bank' and Mike Cannon-Brookes back new 'agrifood' fund

Federal 'green bank' and Mike Cannon-Brookes back new 'agrifood' fund

Matthew Pryor

Square Peg, Blackbird, Tenacious Ventures and Grok pile into cell-based meat start-up Vow

Square Peg, Blackbird, Tenacious Ventures and Grok pile into cell-based meat start-up Vow

Kirsten Diprose

Tenacious Ventures closes first fund, oversubscribed at $35M

Tenacious Ventures has reached the significant milestone of closing its first venture capital fund, oversubscribed, at AUD $35M.

Matthew Pryor

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