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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 10 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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