Tenacious Ventures
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Tenacious Ventures is an Australian venture capital firm investing in early-stage agrifood tech startups. It focuses on companies that can deliver climate impact and scale globally, with a strategic focus on Australia and New Zealand.
Tenacious Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Australia. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in agrifood tech, climate impact, waste & resource recovery and embedded finance & risk. Its stated cheque size is between a couple hundred thousand and a million dollars. 13 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in early stage companies that are helping transform food and agriculture toward a carbon neutral and climate change resilient future.”
— Tenacious Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Australia
- Invests in
- Australia, New Zealand
- Sectors
- agrifood tech, climate impact, waste & resource recovery, embedded finance & risk, sustainable protein, lower intensity production, democratized infrastructure, enhanced natural capital
- Cheque size
- between a couple hundred thousand and a million dollars
- Portfolio
- 13 companies
Team, as Tenacious Ventures publishes it
- Sarah Nolet Managing Partner
- J Matthew Pryor Founding Partner
- Vela Georgiev COO
- Maddie Mitchell Investment Principal
- Simon Uzcilas Independent IC Member
- Adam Taylor Insights Lead
Names and roles exactly as listed on tenacious.ventures. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 10 co-investors found.
- Main Sequence Ventures 1 shared company: regrow.ag
- SE Ventures 1 shared company: regrow.ag
- Prosperity7 Ventures 1 shared company: vowfood.com
- Square Peg Capital 1 shared company: vowfood.com
- Toyota Ventures 1 shared company: vowfood.com
- Giant Leap Fund 1 shared company: goterra.com.au
- Circulate Capital 1 shared company: earthodic.com
- Significant Capital Ventures 1 shared company: earthodic.com
- AgFunder 1 shared company: azaneo.au
- Superorganism 1 shared company: cecil.earth
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Tenacious Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://tenacious.ventures/name, is_investor, layer, type, description, status, confidence
- https://tenacious.ventures/investmentshq_country, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, portfolio_count
- https://tenacious.ventures/aboutpeople
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Record 1773 · added 2026-08-29 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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