Acre is a venture capital fund investing in agriculture and food technology.
Acre Venture Partners is a limited partnership with a Campbell subsidiary as the sole limited partner and Jeff Dunn, the head of the company's fresh food division as Campbell's representative. An outside partner manages the fund.
Acre Venture Partners, the $125 million fund, will investinvests in food startups in order to cash in on disruption in the sector. It bought dips and salsa maker Garden Fresh Gourmet for $231 million in June, and juice maker Bolthouse Farms for $1.55 billion in 2012.
Acre is a venture capital fund investing in the future of food.
Acre Venture Partners makes venture-stage investments in highly disruptive platform business across the food value chain, with a particular focus on the agriculture, food tech and consumer verticals.
Acre Venture Partners is a venture capital fund founded in February 2016 in the Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US and specializes in start-up investments in health-focused food tech companies.Acre Venture Partners manages an independent fund of Campbell Soup Company to invest in startup food companies. It operates in the sectors of Agriculture, Organic Food and Venture Capital.
Acre Venture Partners is a limited partnership with a Campbell subsidiary as the sole limited partner and Jeff Dunn, the head of the company's fresh food division as Campbell's representative. An outside partner manages the fund.
Acre invests in companies creating systemic change in the food system to address the problems of human and environmental health.
Acre Venture Partners, the $125 million fund, will invest in food startups in order to cash in on disruption in the sector. It bought dips and salsa maker Garden Fresh Gourmet for $231 million in June, and juice maker Bolthouse Farms for $1.55 billion in 2012.
Acre has made 15 investments. One of their most recent investment was on Dec 12, 2018, when they invested $1.3M in ImpactVision.
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Managing Partner
Jeffrey T. Dunn
Venture Partner
Lucas Mann
Managing Partner
Sam Kass
Partner
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Seed Round - ImpactVision
$1.3M
Corporate Round - Spoiler Alert
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Series B - Inari
$40M
Series C
$40M
Series A - Pilotworks
$13M
Series D - Farmers Business Network
$110M
Seed Round - ImpactVision
$1.4M
Series B - Evolve Biosystems
$20M
Series B
$4M
Series C - Farmers Business Network
$40M
Seed Round - Spoiler Alert
$2.5M
VENTURE CAPITAL (SERIES C)
$12,7M
VENTURE CAPITAL (SERIES B)
$20M
VENTURE CAPITAL (SERIES A)
$10M
VENTURE CAPITAL (SERIES B)
$70,000,000
$125M
Acre is a venture capital fund investing in agriculture and food technology.