About Tall Grass Ventures
Tall Grass Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2022. It is primarily based out of Calgary, Canada. As of Sep 2025, Tall Grass Ventures is an active investor, having invested in 11 companies, with 1 new investment in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in Canada based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Food and Agriculture Tech to Enterprise Applications and Environment Tech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Sensor Globe A lot of funds co-invest with Tall Grass Ventures, with names like Conexus Venture Capital sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Tall Grass Ventures has team of 10 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
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Seed & Series A
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Tall Grass Ventures' List of Top Investments
Tall Grass Ventures has a portfolio of 11 companies. Their most notable investments are in PheroSyn and Sensor Globe.Their portfolio spans across Canada, United States, Denmark and 3 more locations. They have invested in Food and Agriculture Tech, Enterprise Applications, Environment Tech and 5 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Tall Grass Ventures:
Provider of farm equipment management solutions. It has developed hardware equipment loggers to capture data from farm equipment to identify inefficiencies and offer insight-based suggestions. Users get live GPS location, maintenance schedule, and assistance in automated task planning. It offers equipment mistreatment warnings and related information via the web portal or mobile app.
Key facts about IntelliCulture
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Salinas (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $5.33M
- Employee Count: 11 as on Dec 31, 2024
- Investors: Serra Ventures, Velocity and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jun 04, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. GeneNeer
Offering technology to test plant traits to address climate change. It leverages its gene editing tool to regulate plant traits using its trait regulation platform. Its gene-editing technology facilitates crop trait expression on demand and provides crops as per the climate.
Key facts about GeneNeer
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Yehud (Israel)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $1M
- Employee Count: 4 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Tall Grass Ventures and 2b AHEAD Ventures
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Jan 10, 2024, $*****
Platform offering smart technology to help fruit and vegetable farmers optimize quality and yield. The platform leverages vision sensors and machine learning to provide fruit and vegetable farmers with plant-specific insights, capturing previously unobserved and invisible features to improve yield and product quality.
Key facts about Vivid Machines
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Toronto (Canada)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $4.3M
- Employee Count: 11 as on Dec 31, 2024
- Investors: Entrepreneur First, Sustainable Development Technology Canada and 12 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Mar 13, 2023, $*****
Provider of grain quality analysis software. It provides real-time information on crops through location-based grade and quality data. It analyzes grain during harvest to provide optimal marketing decisions and also provides a sampling facility. It also provides the facility to optimize the grain inventory.
Key facts about Ground Truth Ag
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: Regina (Canada)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $7.45M
- Investors: Golden Opportunities, Plug and Play Tech Center and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Nov 29, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. PheroSyn
Provider of pheromone-based insect monitoring and control solutions for agriculture. The company offers products designed to reduce reliance on chemical pesticides. These solutions target specific insect behaviours to minimise harm to beneficial organisms. The company utilises green chemistry techniques to reduce environmental impact.
Key facts about PheroSyn
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Harpenden (United Kingdom)
- Stage: Seed
- Employee Count: 2 as on Mar 31, 2022
- Investors: Gov, Rockstart and 1 Other
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Apr 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Tall Grass Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Tall Grass Ventures has invested in 11 companies over the last 4 years, with an average of 2 new investments annually in the last 3 years. In 2025, it made 1 investment. Its most recent first time investment was in Sensor Globe.Year | No. of Investments | ||
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1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2024 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Tall Grass Ventures' Investments by Stage
Tall Grass Ventures has made 7 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.59M and 1 investment in Series A stage with an average round size of $3.5M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 7 |
Series A | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Tall Grass Ventures' Investments by Sector
Tall Grass Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Food and Agriculture Tech, Sustainability Tech, Environment Tech, Enterprise Applications and High Tech. Notably, it has invested in 10 Tech companies, 9 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 6 Software companies and at least 3 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Food and Agriculture Tech | 8 |
Sustainability Tech | 6 |
Environment Tech | 5 |
Enterprise Applications | 4 |
High Tech | 3 |
Others | 4 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Tall Grass Ventures' Investments by Geography
Tall Grass Ventures has made most investments in Canada (3), followed by Denmark where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Canada | 3 |
Denmark | 1 |
Israel | 1 |
Norway | 1 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Others | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Tall Grass Ventures' recent investments
Tall Grass Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Tall Grass Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Sep 24, 2025 | Norway | Seed | 5154 | [+1] | |
Dec 11, 2024 | Denmark | Seed | 6102 | ||
Jun 04, 2024 | United States | Series A | 9121 | ||
Apr 2024 | United Kingdom | Seed | 1069 | ||
Jan 10, 2024 | Israel | Seed | 8210 |
Team profile of Tall Grass Ventures
Tall Grass Ventures has a team of 10 members located in Canada. Tall Grass Ventures' team sits on the board of 1 company.Co-investors of Tall Grass Ventures
Over the past 4 years, 33 investors have co-invested in Tall Grass Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Tall Grass Ventures: Accelerator Centre, Emmertech and 5 others have invested in rounds before Tall Grass Ventures. There is 1 company where Accelerator Centre has invested before Tall Grass Ventures and 1 company where Emmertech has invested before Tall Grass Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Tall Grass Ventures: 26 investors entered a company along with Tall Grass Ventures. These include investors like Conexus Venture Capital (2 companies).
Recent News related to Tall Grass Ventures
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Danish AgriRobot secures investment for robot safety softwareTech.eu•Dec 11, 2024•Agri Robot, Tall Grass Ventures, Nominal
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UK Agtech PheroSyn Receives VC Backing From Tall Grass VenturesGlobal AgInvesting•Aug 11, 2024•PheroSyn, Tall Grass Ventures
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PheroSyn Secures Investment from Tall Grass Venturesigrownews.com•Jul 23, 2024•PheroSyn, Tall Grass Ventures
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Tall Grass Ventures Closes Inaugural Fund at $32M to Advance Agriculture and Food Sectorsigrownews.com•Jul 05, 2024•Tall Grass Ventures
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Tall grass adds farm credit canada as a key investor in tall grass fund IGlobal AgInvesting•Jan 31, 2024•Tall Grass Ventures
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GeneNeer Nets a $1M Seed Funding To Further Its Crop Seed Techigrownews.com•Jan 22, 2024•GeneNeer, Tall Grass Ventures, 2b AHEAD Ventures
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Vivid Machines Closes $4.3M USD Seed Round Funding to Expand End-to-End Computer Vision Services for Fruit Supply ChainBusiness Wire•Apr 20, 2023•Vivid Machines, BDC, StandUp Ventures, Algoma Orchards and 10 others
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