How many investments has Tall Grass Ventures made?

Tall Grass Ventures has 23 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.

What stage does Tall Grass Ventures invest at?

Tall Grass Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.

What sectors does Tall Grass Ventures focus on?

Tall Grass Ventures focuses on AgTech, Energy, FoodTech.

Where is Tall Grass Ventures located?

Tall Grass Ventures is headquartered in Calgary, CA.

Who does Tall Grass Ventures co-invest with?

Tall Grass Ventures most often shares deals with Rockstart, Emmertech, Startup TNT, among 18 tracked co-investors.

Tall Grass Ventures

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Calgary · Pre-Seed–Series A · 11 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Tall Grass Ventures aims to redefine what value-add investing means by prioritizing collaboration within a community that shares its values and goals, believing such alignment drives growth more than capital alone. The firm leverages deep industry knowledge, connectivity and operating experience to partner with visionary entrepreneurs and accelerate the development of agrifood technology solutions intended to reshape global agriculture.

Invests inAgTech Energy FoodTech Calgary Canada Denmark Europe Global

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage

Pre-Seed–Series A

Calgary, AB, CA

Instruments

Equity

Founded

2022

Last 12 months

1 investment

AUM

$23M

Tracked investments

Team · 11 people

from the firm's website & public directories

Chris Edwards· Pathfinder· Calgary, Alberta, Canadain

Chris Edwards works in fund operations and portfolio management at Tall Grass Ventures, working with prospective founders and evaluating investment risk and upside. He has 20 years of professional experience, earlier focused on deploying capital into oil and gas projects in Canada and abroad, M&A evaluations, and managing multinational teams, and has more recently worked as an independent investor doing deal sourcing and investment analysis within angel syndicates and other venture funds. His international work led him to transition into agriculture and agri-food innovation.

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Wilson Acton· Co-founder· Calgary, Alberta, Canadain

Wilson Acton co-founded Tall Grass Ventures with Chris Edwards and helps guide the firm's strategic direction while working with founders and management teams. He previously practiced as a partner at a Canadian national law firm with a focus on mergers & acquisitions and capital markets, and earlier co-founded, built, and exited several businesses in agtech and fintech. A fifth-generation member of a Saskatchewan grain and livestock family, he focuses on pre-Series A technology investment in Canada.

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Marlise Hunter· Director of Platform

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Chris Paterson· Venture Partner· Rocky View County, Alberta, Canadain

Chris Paterson works at the intersection of strategy and technology, helping early-stage and high-growth ventures clarify their strategy and messaging. He has spent 25 years in the North American agribusiness sector, holding roles as a farmer, independent ag retailer, entrepreneur, technical agronomist, executive, journalist, and investor. Over the past decade he has focused on the digitization of farming, agribusiness, and agrifood.

David Sullivan· Collaborator· Canadain

David Sullivan serves as Executive Vice President of Global Ag Risk Solutions, where he has contributed to sales growth and the modernization of business processes, HR practices, and IT systems. He co-founded Parametrics.Ag, a parametric weather insurance offering that is now a subsidiary of Global Ag Risk Solutions. He holds a degree in Agronomy and an MBA from the University of Saskatchewan and has over 20 years of experience in agriculture spanning finance consulting, retail, manufacturing and distribution, insurance, and lending.

Brett McMickell· Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer of Kubota North America· Grapevine, Texas, United Statesin

Brett McMickell is Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer of Kubota North America, with leadership experience across Fortune 500 companies, small-cap public companies, and startups. He previously served as President and CEO of AgJunction from 2019 until its 2021 acquisition by Kubota, joining the company in 2017 as SVP of Global Product Development, and earlier spent over a decade at Honeywell Aerospace in roles including Senior Director of Engineering for Actuation Systems. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Utah.

Connie Wiltshire· Organizer· Calgary, Alberta, Canadain

Connie Wiltshire coordinates operations at Tall Grass Ventures, focusing on organization, communication, and partner engagement. She has worked as an administrative professional for over 25 years across the government, oil and gas, and technology sectors, moving from support roles into positions overseeing systems, platforms, and initiatives. She has spent the last three years in technology and has an interest in AgTech, informed by family roots in agriculture.

David Zoric· Explorer, TGV Investment Team· Vancouverin

David Zoric is a member of Tall Grass Ventures' investment team, where he helps identify and evaluate potential investment opportunities and conducts market research on the agrifood tech sector. He joined the firm during his final year at the University of British Columbia, where he earned a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and Marketing and captained the tennis team. He previously interned at Amazon and Westbank, and focuses on cellular agriculture and food technology.

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Jon Ladd· Partner· Bristol, New Hampshire, United Statesin

Jon Ladd has over 40 years of experience in development and senior management, with expertise in precision GPS, GNSS, sensor fusion, and wireless technology. He began his career in 1982 working on an early commercial geodetic GPS surveying system with Chuck Counselman's MIT team, and later contributed precision guidance and auto-steering technology to agricultural companies including AGCO, CLAAS, and CNH. He has served as president and CEO of private and public companies in the US and Canada, including NovAtel Inc., and graduated in Surveying Engineering from the University of Maine in 1980.

Lori Ell· Strategist / Advisor· Calgary, Alberta, Canadain

Lori Ell is an advisor at Tall Grass Ventures who works with growth-oriented organizations as a business strategist and coach. She has over 25 years of executive experience across multi-billion dollar, startup, and mid-market companies in a range of industries, with expertise in turnarounds, financial strategy, and organizational transformation. She has served as a board member and mentor for agriculture organizations and startups spanning agri-food processing, manufacturing, retail, and technology, and supports Indigenous economic self-sufficiency as an Alberta Metis.

Trish Henderson· Independent Advisor· Stettler County 6, Alberta, Canadain

Trish Henderson grew up on a family farm in central Alberta and studied Agriculture Business Management at the University of Alberta, followed by a ten-year career at Farm Credit Canada. She runs a cow-calf farming operation with her husband and has consulted for primary producers, crown corporations, producer groups, and livestock software companies. She serves as an independent advisor focused on bringing new technologies to agriculture that support sustainable food production.

What they invest in

from 18 of 23 portfolio companies

AgTech ×14AI & Machine Learning ×8Biotech ×6Hardware ×5IoT ×5Cleantech ×3SaaS ×3Circular Economy ×2

HQs:Canada×4United Kingdom×1Norway×1United States×1

Investments · 23 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2025 · 1 2023 · 23 dated

Aggeneaggene.ca

AgGene develops crop traits to improve resilience, harvest stability, and seed value, with a primary focus on canola addressing challenges like environmental stress and pod shatter, plus pulse programs for improved protein and ingredient quality.

AgTechBiotech

Co-investorsStartup TNT UCeed Funds BoxOne Ventures

AgriRobotagrirobot.ai in

AgriRobot develops certifiable safety software for autonomous agricultural machines, providing obstacle detection, GNSS-based geofencing, sensor fusion, and remote live-video monitoring.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningRobotics

Co-investorsPeblinge Ventures Rockstart

Cecinnovationscecinnovations.com in

C.E.C.

CleantechHardwareHealthtech

Cellar Insightscellarinsights.com inSep 2025

Cellar Insights offers a smart remote monitoring system that detects rot gas and adverse storage conditions to help potato growers, processors, and storage operators reduce spoilage, shrink, and quality loss.

AgTechFoodTechIoT

Co-investorsAccelerate Fund UCeed Funds Verdex Capital Carrot Ventures SVG Ventures | THRIVE UCeed

Certifiable software for obstacle detection

Emgenisysemgenisys.co in

EmGenisys provides a machine-learning platform that analyzes embryo health and viability from a 30-second video of embryos in culture media, generating reports to help select the healthiest embryos for transfer.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningBiotech

Co-investorsAg Ventures Alliance

Equipment management software

Farmbloxfarmblox.com in

Farmblox connects farm equipment and in-field sensors (measuring soil moisture, power outages, weather, and more) to a mobile and web app, letting growers monitor operations remotely and automate tasks.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningIoTNewton Highlands, US

John Dyer(Executive Officer, Director)inMarc Printz(Executive Officer, Director)inNathan Rosenberg(Executive Officer, Director)inJonathan Mitchell Gaines(Executive Officer, Director)Mark Printz(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsHyperplane Venture Capital MHS Capital Service Provider Capital Slow Ventures

Gene editing trait regulation platform

Geneneergeneneer.com in

GeneNeer develops next-generation gene-editing platforms that use RNA switches, molecular biology and AI to selectively silence genes and control their expression in crops, improving yield, resilience, shelf life and nutritional value.

AgTechBiotechDeep Tech

Ground Truth Aggroundtruth.ag in 𝕏

GroundTruth builds an AI-based grain grading system that combines machine vision and near-infrared spectroscopy to deliver automated, real-time grading and quality insights (such as damaged kernels, foreign material, protein, moisture, and oil content) for grain.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningHardware

Co-investorsEmmertech Golden Opportunities Fund Conexus Venture Capital

Intellicultureintelliculture.com in 𝕏

IntelliCulture offers a GPS and equipment-management platform for specialty crop farms, tracking tractor and fleet activity to reduce idle time, verify spray coverage, prevent theft, and support inspections and GHG reporting.

AgTechIoTSaaS

Co-investorsEmmertech Serra Ventures

Lite 1lite-1.bio in

Lite-1 develops a biologically produced colorant grown by microorganisms in a circular system, offering an alternative to conventional colourants that rely on mining non-renewable resources or toxic chemicals.

BiotechCircular EconomyNew Materials

Co-investorsSoGal Ventures

Nectarnectar.buzz in 𝕏

Nectar builds software and data tools for migratory and commercial beekeepers, including a traceability system that generates operation-specific best management practices from hive data.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningIoTSaaSMontreal, CA

Marc-André Roberge(Co-Founder & CEO)

Co-investorsFounderFuel GV (Google Ventures)Menlo Menlo Ventures True Ventures

Onekindonekind.ai

OneKind's ORIGIN platform uses AI to convert continuous behavioral video data into validated, audit-ready clinical endpoints for animal health studies, starting with the detection and quantification of pruritic behaviors in dogs and cats.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtech

Pheromone biotech platform

Pherosynpherosyn.com in 𝕏

PheroSyn develops and supplies pheromone-based insect monitoring and control products for farmers, using synthetic insect pheromones to target specific pests such as pea midge, pea leaf weevil, saddle gall midge, pear gall midge and wheat midge while reducing pesticide use.

AgTechBiotechCleantech

Co-investorsAngel Academe Rockstart Sustainable Ventures

Picketa Systemspicketa.com inMay 2023

Picketa develops LENS, a system that analyzes fresh leaf tissue to give farmers and agronomists instant on-site nutrient results across 13 macro and micronutrients, replacing lab delays.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningHardwareFredericton

XAVIER HEBERT-COUTURIER(Executive Officer, Director)PETER GOGGIN(Director)DOMINIC LEVESQUE(Executive Officer)MAXIME DUMONT(Executive Officer, Director)ZACHARY ANDERSEN(Executive Officer)

BoardCHRIS EDWARDS(Director)

Co-investorsEast Valley Ventures Startup TNT

Real-time grain quality analysis platform

Sensorglobesensorglobe.no in

Sensor Globe makes sensors that travel with fish through crowding, transfers, treatments and harvest operations to capture the conditions the fish experience, giving salmon farmers real-time welfare monitoring.

AgTechHardwareIoT

Co-investorsRockstart

SimpleHedgesimplehedge.app

SimpleHedge is a platform for farmers to manage crop and cattle risk by tracking production, sales, inventory, and financial hedges in one place.

AgTechFintechSaaS

Co-investorsBarrel Ventures Startup TNT Trillick Ventures

Vivid Machinesvivid-machines.com in 𝕏Feb 2023 · $5.8M

Vivid Machines provides real-time crop intelligence and vision-based technology for fruit producers, offering insights on crop load management, yield forecasting, plant health, and disease detection.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningHardwareToronto, CA

Jennifer Lemieux(Executive Officer, Director)Jonathan Binas(Co-founder)inJenny Lemieux(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsEntrepreneur First MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF)Spatial Capital Stand Up Ventures BDC Capital Corporation BoxOne Ventures +2 more

Zilabioworkszilabioworks.com

ZILA BioWorks develops high bio-content epoxy resin systems (bio-epoxy) that serve as drop-in replacements for traditional epoxies in composites, coatings, and adhesives, cutting carbon emissions while enabling recyclability.

Circular EconomyCleantechNew Materials

Jason Puracal(CEO & Co-founder)Evan Bouchier(CPO & Co-founder)Bradley Clark(CFO)Andy Merriman(Director of Sales)Keithanne Mockaitis(Chief Scientific Officer)

Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies

The Boring Billions: Why Santa Cruz Ventures Just Backed Farmblox — Santa Cruz Works

Farmblox · santacruzworks.org · Aug 20, 2026

Nectar Social Raises $30M, Rebrands Itself as Nectar Agent - Demand Gen Report

Nectar · demandgenreport.com · Jun 2, 2026

Agtech start-up tackles potato storage losses with sensors

Cellar Insights · manitobacooperator.ca · Apr 12, 2026

Agtech Brand Identity & Go-to-Market Strategy | Ground Truth Ag | Ascent Strategy

Ground Truth Ag · ascentstrategy.com · Apr 2, 2026

SimpleHedge Brings Fintech Tools to Farm-Level Commodity Hedging | Fintech.ca

SimpleHedge · fintech.ca · Dec 16, 2025

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Tall Grass Ventures made?: Tall Grass Ventures has 23 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does Tall Grass Ventures invest at?: Tall Grass Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
What sectors does Tall Grass Ventures focus on?: Tall Grass Ventures focuses on AgTech, Energy, FoodTech.
Where is Tall Grass Ventures located?: Tall Grass Ventures is headquartered in Calgary, CA.
Who does Tall Grass Ventures co-invest with?: Tall Grass Ventures most often shares deals with Rockstart, Emmertech, Startup TNT, among 18 tracked co-investors.

Media · Podcasts & interviews

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Chris Edwards, Managing Partner at Tall Grass Ventures. The Ag Investor

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