Fall Line Capital
Venture capitalSan Francisco · Series A–Series C · 3 people tracked
Investment thesis
Fall Line invests in the global food system with a focus on three interconnected themes: resilience (reinforcing the planet's core systems), intelligence (integrating the physical and digital world), and endurance (improving human health and wellbeing). The firm leverages over 200 years of combined investment and operational experience to identify and cultivate alpha-generating opportunities across the food ecosystem.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 18, 2026.
Team · 3 people
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What they invest in
from 28 of 32 portfolio companiesAgTech ×13Biotech ×11Deep Tech ×9AI & Machine Learning ×8FoodTech ×7Circular Economy ×5Climate Tech ×5New Materials ×5
HQs:United States×19France×1
Investments · 32 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2024 · 12021 · 12017 · 12015 · 12013 · 15 dated
Steel Dynamics is an industrial metals company that uses a circular manufacturing model, producing lower-carbon steel products from recycled scrap through its EAF steel mills, steel fabrication, metals recycling, and aluminum operations.
Advanced ManufacturingCircular EconomyNew Materials
Pluton Biosciences develops novel microbes and scales them to industrial volumes at commodity pricing for agriculture and climate applications.
AgTechBiotechClimate TechDeep TechSt. Louis, US
Barry Goldman(Co-founder)Elizabeth Gallegos(Chief Executive Officer)Jerry Steiner(Executive Chair)Charlie Walch(Executive Officer, Director)Glendon Schuster(Director)
Co-investorsFirst In VenturesIllumina VenturesRadicle GrowthBetter VenturesGrantham FoundationRA Capital+4 more
Co-investorsCapria VenturesGLOCAL LatamSP VenturesYara Growth VenturesAcre Venture Partners
Rantizo provides drone-based technology adapted from military applications for use in agriculture, aimed at improving efficiency and reliability for farming operations.
AgTechHardwareRoboticsHouston, US
Co-investorsInnova Memphis, Inc.ISA Ventures
Ansa provides an enzymatic DNA synthesis platform that directly synthesizes complex sequences up to 900 bp and delivers constructs up to 50 kb without assembly-based methods.
BiotechDeep TechHealthtechEmeryville, US
Dan Lin-Arlow(Founder)inSebastian Palluk(Founder)inDaniel Lin-Arlow(Executive Officer, Director)Daniel Hillel Lin-Arlow(Executive Officer, Director)Jason T. Gammack(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardYanniv Dorone(Director)
Co-investorsCarbon SiliconDauntless VenturesFifty YearsMetaplanetY CombinatorHorizons Ventures+2 more
Arzeda designs proteins and metabolic pathways using computational tools, including its Archytas protein design software and Scylax metabolic pathway design software.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechFoodTechNew MaterialsSeattle, US
Alexandre Zanghellini(Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer)Eric Althoff(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Bill Baum(Director)Andrew Ban(Executive Officer)Daniela Grabs(Executive Officer)David Baker
Co-investorsCirculate CapitalSofinnova PartnersSustainable Conversion VenturesOS FundUniversal Materials Incubator
Benson Hill is a seed innovation company developing soybean varieties using plant genetics and AI-driven plant science to produce more nutritious, sustainable, and energy-dense soy solutions.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningFoodTechNew Materials
Co-investorsActivant CapitalBioGenerator VenturesiSelect FundLewis & Clark VenturesManta Ray VenturesMercury Fund+1 more
Bonsai Robotics develops autonomy technology and equipment, including its Amiga lineup powered by Bonsai Intelligence, to automate off-road jobs for operations ranging from small businesses to large companies.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningRobotics
Co-investorsAcre Venture PartnersBetter Food VenturesBison VenturesCongruent VenturesSerra VenturesSoundproof Ventures+1 more
Chunk Foods makes a plant-based whole-cut meat alternative designed to replace beef in recipes, with a short list of natural ingredients and added protein, iron, and B12.
ConsumerFoodTech
Co-investorsCheyenne VenturesFLORA VenturesKey1 CapitalStray Dog CapitalGood Seed VenturesThe E14 Fund
Ethernovia builds deterministic Ethernet networking infrastructure for real-time perception, decision, and action in physical AI systems at scale.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareMobility & TransportationSemiconductors
Co-investorsQualcomm VenturesRaptor GroupSocratic PartnersTaiwania Capital
Santa Clara, US
Sebastien Boyer(Director)Thomas Palomares(Executive Officer, Director)Tjarko Leifer(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardJason Schoettler(Director)inBruce Leak(Director)inClay Mitchell(Director)
Co-investorsCastor Ventures (an Alumni Ventures Fund)GV (Google Ventures)Xplorer CapitalCalibrate VenturesLemnos VCPlayground Global
San Francisco, US
Sid Gorham(Executive Officer, Director)Michael O'Connor(Director)Dean Fairchild(Director)Mike Preiner(Director)
BoardJohn O'Farrell(Director)David Kellog(Director)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzNorrsken VCRevent
GreenLight Biosciences develops RNA-based solutions for agriculture and pest control, including a Colorado potato beetle bio-insecticide and a Varroa destructor mite-control product for sustainable food production.
AgTechBiotechImpact & Social GoodMedford, US
Andrey Zarur(Executive Officer, Director)Marta Ortega-Valle(Executive Officer)William Blake(Executive Officer)
BoardDavid Furneaux(Director)Jonathan Fleming(Director)James Swartz(Director)
Co-investorsFuture VenturesLewis & Clark VenturesPrelude VenturesS2G InvestmentsSpruce Capital Partners
Co-investorsThe E14 Fund
Impossible Foods produces plant-based meat alternatives, including beef, pork, chicken, and sausage products designed to replicate the taste, nutrition, and cooking properties of conventional animal meat.
ConsumerFoodTechHealthtechRedwood City, US
Pat Brown(Founder & CEO)David Lee(Executive Officer)
BoardBart Swanson(Director)inSamir Kaul(Director)inTai Ronnen(Director)Fedele Bauccio(Director)
Co-investorsAllied Venture PartnersBlue Horizon CorporationCollaborative FundCPT CapitalDesigner FundFourward Ventures+15 more
Lithos Carbon uses enhanced weathering of basalt spread on croplands to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide and store it in ocean carbonates.
AgTechCircular EconomyCleantechClimate TechSeattle, US
Mary Yap(Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer)Noah Planavsky(Co-Founder & Co-Chief Technology Officer)Chris Reinhard(Co-founder)Christopher (Chris) Reinhard(Co-Founder & Co-Chief Technology Officer)Rob Hranac(Chief Operating Officer)Jake Schneider(Head of Research Commercialization)
Co-investorsCarbon Removal PartnersCavallo VenturesGreylock PartnersKyber Knight CapitalUnion Square Ventures (USV)Bain Capital Ventures
Mermade is a biotech company offering a patented microalgae-based process to recycle spent cell-culture media for biomanufacturing, recovering nutrients and removing waste metabolites.
BiotechCircular EconomyFoodTech
Tomer Halevy(Co-founder & COO)Daniel Einhorn(Co-founder & CEO)Rotem Kadir(Co-founder & CTO)
Micropep develops micropeptide-based crop protection and crop stimulation products for farmers, using a discovery platform that combines artificial intelligence, bioproduction, and delivery technologies.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningBiotechToulouse, FR
Co-investorsSofinnova PartnersSupernova InvestZebra Impact Ventures
Nulixir develops NuSomes, a patent-protected, food-grade delivery technology that increases the bioavailability of functional ingredients, masks their flavor, and controls their release timing and targeting in the digestive tract.
BiotechDeep TechFoodTech
Co-investorsFine Structures Ventures
Planet operates a web-geo platform that provides daily satellite imagery and foundational analytics of Earth's landmass for businesses, governments, and research institutions.
AgTechData & InfrastructureDeep TechSpace TechSan Francisco, US
Will Marshall(Co-founder and CEO)Robbie Schingler(Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer)Christopher R. Boshuizen(Executive Officer, Director)inMark Jacobson(Director)Robert H. Schlingler Jr.(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardZachary Bogue(Director)in
Co-investors137 VenturesDBL PartnersDCVC (Data Collective)Felicis VenturesFuture VenturesHemisphere Ventures LLC+16 more
Ripple Foods makes plant-based milk, shakes, and half & half products from yellow peas, marketed as sustainable alternatives to dairy and other plant-based milks.
Climate TechConsumerDirect to ConsumerFoodTechImpact & Social GoodBerkeley, US
Adam Lowry(Co-founder)Dr. Neil Renninger(Co-founder)
Co-investorsBloom8Evolution VC PartnersGroundForce CapitalMaterial ImpactPrelude VenturesS2G Investments+2 more
Smartwyre provides software, data, and services that connect commercial programs across essential industries, helping organizations manage incentives, pricing, and costs.
Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSDenver, US
John Brubaker(Chief Executive Officer)inRich Fleck(SVP, Professional Services & CS)Dan Covill(SVP, Engineering)Elias Tavarez(Chief Revenue Officer)Bilyana Petrova(VP, Finance)
BoardDudley Hawes(Director)in
Co-investorsCavallo VenturesHigh AlphaAnterra CapitalRevolution
Sound Agriculture develops bio-inspired soil and crop solutions that reduce synthetic fertilizer use and improve nutrient efficiency for growers.
AgTechCleantechClimate TechImpact & Social Good
Eric Davidson, PhD(Founder)Travis Bayer, PhD(Founder)
Co-investorsMission Biocapital
AgTechEmeryville, US
Eric Davidson(Director)Travis Bayer(Director)Paul Beck(Executive Officer)Dave Vosburg(Executive Officer)Adam Litle(Executive Officer, Director)Derek Norman(Director)
Co-investorsCavallo VenturesCultivian Sandbox VenturesS2G InvestmentsFootPrint CoalitionLeaps by BayerNorthpond Ventures+2 more
Swift Navigation provides low-cost, high-accuracy GPS and GNSS positioning solutions for autonomous vehicles, mobility applications, and mass-market uses.
Deep TechHardwareMobility & TransportationCalifornia, US
Timothy Harris(CEO and Co-Founder)
Co-investorsClear VenturesEnerTech CapitalEvolution VenturesFraser McCombs CapitalGen CapitalGlobal Brain+11 more
Trace Genomics, now part of Miraterra, provides soil analysis and genomic sequencing to give growers and agronomists insights on nutrients and pathogens across more than 70 crops and 225+ pathogens.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningBiotechBurlingame, US
Poornima Parameswaran(Executive Officer, Director)Diane Wu(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Toelle(Director)Joe Pianelli(Director)William Buckner(Director)
Co-investorsBeast VenturesOspraie Ag ScienceS2G InvestmentsWP Global Partners
Ukko develops immuno-therapeutics for life-threatening food allergies using a computational protein design platform.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthMountain View, US
Anat Binur(Executive Officer, Director)Yanay Ofran(Director)Judith Weiss Paltiel(PhD, VP Development)
BoardScott Brady(Director)Samir Kaul(Director)in
Co-investorsIsrael Biotech FundKhosla VenturesSanara CapitalWestern Technology InvestmentPeakBridge VC
Uncaged Innovations is a biomaterials company that makes grain- and plant-based leather alternatives using its proprietary BioFuze platform, which replicates the collagen structure of animal leather.
Advanced ManufacturingBiotechCircular EconomyNew MaterialsWhite Plains, US
Stephanie Downs(Chief Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAlwyn CapitalGreen Circle Foodtech VenturesStray Dog CapitalGolden Seeds
Vaulted Deep repurposes oil and gas infrastructure and expertise to enable carbon removal and waste management at scale.
Circular EconomyClimate TechDeep TechHouston, US
Julia Reichelstein(Co-Founder & CEO)Omar Abou-Sayed(Co-Founder)
Co-investorsLowercarbon CapitalLOWERCARBONPrelude VenturesRethink ImpactEarthshot Ventures
Verge builds Path Planner, a software intelligence layer that generates optimized field routes capturing grower decisions to enable supervised autonomy on existing GPS and autosteer equipment.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningRobotics
Co-investorsCapria VenturesYamaha Motor Ventures
Wild Microbes uses synthetic biology to engineer microbes sourced from diverse wild biomes into production hosts for biomanufacturing high-performance ingredients.
BiotechDeep TechNew Materials
Co-investorsAgronomicsCoalitionFREEFLOWJuniperSiddhi Capital
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioSteeldynamicsNASDAQ: STLD
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Sound · techcrunch.com · Aug 17, 2026
Planet Labs · finance.yahoo.com · Jul 18, 2026
Chunk Foods · greenqueen.com.hk · Jul 14, 2026
Impossible Foods · forgeglobal.com · Jun 25, 2026
Smartwyre · foodnavigator-usa.com · Jun 16, 2026
Trace Genomics · igrownews.com · Mar 26, 2026
Lithos Carbon · Carbon Herald · Mar 25, 2026
Bonsai Robotics · trysignalbase.com · Nov 20, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Fall Line Capital invest at?
- Fall Line Capital invests at the Series A, Series C stages.
- What sectors does Fall Line Capital focus on?
- Fall Line Capital focuses on AgTech, Biotech, Cleantech, Climate Tech, FoodTech, Robotics, SaaS.
- Where is Fall Line Capital located?
- Fall Line Capital is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does Fall Line Capital lead rounds?
- Fall Line Capital typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
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