Reflecting on Nowadays, a Tenacious Portfolio Company Wind Down
Hearing the stats about startup failure rates (70 - 90%), and how one - only one- investment drives returns for most VC funds, is one thing. Actually experiencing it, is another. In line with our lear...
22 Nov 202334min
How Can Agtech Startups and Corporates Do More Together?
There's a persistent myth in the startup space, and in agtech especially, that the most important way that corporates can support startups is through direct investments. In our experience, this is an ...
8 Nov 202332min
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
