What do LPs Look for In AgTech Funds?
2023 has been a year of both investing and fundraising for us here at Tenacious Ventures. And sitting on both sides of the table has highlighted to us just how much of the investing world is stuck in ...
25 Okt 202340min
How Outside Forces are Shaping the Food System with Ian Proudfoot, KPMG
We've spent a lot of time this year talking about the future of specific sub-spaces of the food system– fertilizer, vertical farming, alternative protein, and ag retail, just to name a few. We’ve focu...
11 Okt 202335min
Methane and the Climate Commitments that Matter Most Today
As 2030 looms and the climate commitments made in the last decade come into clear (and often disappointing) focus, one important lesson we’ve learned is that not all greenhouse gasses are created equa...
27 Sep 202335min
Bringing Systems Thinking to the Global Fertilizer Industry with Alzbeta Klein
Without a doubt, the global fertilizer sector sits at the center of a complex web of international industries. From energy to mining and food to agriculture, turning deep earth minerals from the far r...
13 Sep 202333min
Marc Arnusch on how farmers are using ChatGPT
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT have been making waves across the global economy, but it’s not always clear how these language creating tools can make a difference in industries like agriculture. Whi...
6 Sep 202341min
Cultivating Agility at a Multi-Generational Food Company with Standard Meat
Innovation in the protein space has most recently seen a lot of hype around “alternative” proteins, from high tech microbe engineering to proprietary science that makes plants into something magically...
16 Aug 202337min
“Who’s investing in agribusiness?” from EvokeAg 2023
A few months ago, Matthew got the chance to represent Tenacious on a panel at the Evoke Ag Conference in Adelaide, Australia. The conversation was called “Going Global, Who's investing in Agribusiness...
2 Aug 202337min
Is Vertical Farming Dead? With Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin from Phyllome
In recent years, the vertical farming startup space has been characterized by ecstatic highs and disappointing lows. More than a billion dollars worth of funding has flowed into a relatively small num...
19 Jul 202336min
