About Homegrown Capital
Homegrown Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2021. It is primarily based out of Brookings, United States. As of Oct 2024, Homegrown Capital has invested in 6 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Food and Agriculture Tech and Energy Tech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Hummingbirds A lot of funds co-invest with Homegrown Capital, with names like ISA Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Homegrown Capital has team of 6 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
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Seed & Series A
Homegrown Capital's List of Top Investments
Homegrown Capital has a portfolio of 6 companies. Their most notable investments are in Sentinel Fertigation and Pitchly.Their portfolio spans across and United States. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Food and Agriculture Tech, Energy Tech and 4 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Homegrown Capital:
1. Prismatic
Platform offering cloud based ipaas solution. It offers an integration platform as a service that enables members to deploy and manage integrations and detect and monitor issues. It provides alerting tools and troubleshoots them. It offers a nonprescriptive SDK that allows developers to write reusable custom components that handle product specific logic or connect to niche third party systems.
Key facts about Prismatic
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Sioux Falls (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $44.3M
- Employee Count: 50 as on Dec 31, 2024
- Investors: Five Elms Capital, Homegrown Capital and 1 Other
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Dec 29, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Hummingbirds
Online influencer marketing platform. The platform connects businesses with local influencers to build the business. It allows influencers to create content, and access campaigns to promote the business. It caters to industries such as retail, grocery, tourism, and more.
Key facts about Hummingbirds
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: Des Moines (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $10M
- Employee Count: 96 as on Jan 31, 2026
- Investors: Next Level Ventures, Allos Ventures and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Oct 30, 2024, $*****
3. Pitchly
Cloud-based platform for enterprise information management and workflow automation. It offers a database application that enables employees to find and manage information and integrate it into enterprise products and applications using Zapier or enterprise SQL database. It provides a documents application that allows users to create documents in multiple formats and create presentations. It also offers tools for enterprise content and data pipeline management. The offering sectors include banking, legal, finance, consultancy, etc.
Key facts about Pitchly
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Des Moines (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $8.67M
- Employee Count: 21 as on Dec 31, 2022
- Investors: The Syndicate, Twelve19 Ventures and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Apr 25, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Thread
Provider of website accessibility remediation services ensuring online content is accessible. The organization focuses on modifying websites to meet accessibility standards. It addresses issues that prevent individuals with disabilities from accessing digital information. The goal is to create inclusive online experiences for all users, regardless of ability.
Key facts about Thread
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Grand Forks (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $36.4M
- Employee Count: 11 - 50 as on Jul 17, 2025
- Investors: Rosecliff Ventures, Genius NY and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Dec 04, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. Soiltech
Developer of soil moisture monitoring and measuring solutions. It has developed wireless devices for moisture monitoring and delivers real-time insights for farmers to make informed decisions. It helps in regulating the irrigation cycle and increases yields. It also helps in optimizing equipment with data and alert notifications. The mobile application is available on iOS and android platform.
Key facts about Soiltech
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Meridian (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $4.64M
- Employee Count: 2 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Great North Ventures, Capital Eleven and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Aug 19, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Homegrown Capital's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Homegrown Capital has invested in 6 companies over the last 4 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 3 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Hummingbirds.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2023 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Homegrown Capital's Investments by Stage
Homegrown Capital has made 3 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $4.18M and 3 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $10.3M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 3 |
Series A | 3 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Homegrown Capital's Investments by Sector
Homegrown Capital has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Environment Tech, Sustainability Tech, Food and Agriculture Tech and Vertical SaaS. Notably, it has invested in 6 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 6 Tech companies, 5 Software companies and at least 4 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 6 |
Environment Tech | 3 |
Sustainability Tech | 3 |
Food and Agriculture Tech | 2 |
Vertical SaaS | 2 |
Others | 4 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Homegrown Capital's Investments by Geography
Homegrown Capital has made most investments in United States (6).Homegrown Capital's recent investments
Homegrown Capital has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Homegrown Capital:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Oct 30, 2024 | United States | Seed | 9095 | [+6] | |
Oct 10, 2023 | United States | Series A | 6547 | [+5] | |
Sep 26, 2023 | United States | Seed | 1983 | [+1] | |
Mar 14, 2023 | United States | Series A | 8097 | [+6] | |
Feb 21, 2023 | United States | Series A | 1908 | [+1] |
Team profile of Homegrown Capital
Homegrown Capital has a team of 6 members located in United States. Homegrown Capital's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Homegrown Capital
Over the past 4 years, 35 investors have co-invested in Homegrown Capital's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Homegrown Capital: Falls Angel Fund, Next Level Ventures and 11 others have invested in rounds before Homegrown Capital. There is 1 company where Falls Angel Fund has invested before Homegrown Capital and 1 company where Next Level Ventures has invested before Homegrown Capital.
- Top Co-investors of Homegrown Capital: 22 investors entered a company along with Homegrown Capital. These include investors like ISA Ventures (2 companies).
Recent News related to Homegrown Capital
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VC Firm IvyCap Ventures Closes Third Fund at INR 2,100 CrViestories•Apr 30, 2024•IvyCap Ventures Advisors, Homegrown Capital
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Thread Raises $15M in Series A FundingFinSMEs•Oct 10, 2023•Thread, Badlands Capital, Minnkota, Generational Partners and 4 others
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Sentinel Fertigation Secures $2.5M in Seed Fundingigrownews.com•Sep 26, 2023•Sentinel Fertigation, Homegrown Capital, Grit Road Partners, Invest Nebraska
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Upduo Raises $4M in Seed FundingFinSMEs•Mar 14, 2023•Upduo, Impact Venture Capital, Sky9 Capital, ISA Ventures and 7 others
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Pitchly Closes $7 Million Series A Funding for Proven Easy-to-Use, SaaS-Based Data Enablement SolutionBusiness Wire•Mar 14, 2023•Pitchly, Homegrown Capital, LAUNCH, The Syndicate and 7 others
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HR platform WorkTorch raises $2.2M seed roundTechCrunch+•Nov 07, 2022•Tenzing Capital, Bloomberg, MATH Venture Partners, Ruthless For Good and 16 others
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Soiltech Wireless completes $2.5M funding roundFruit Growers News•Jul 20, 2022•Soiltech, Homegrown Capital, Great North Ventures, Vynyl and 3 others
