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Our Funds
COPIA is an impact venture capital fund that stands at the forefront of innovation in the Agrifood industry. Our vision since our establishment in 2014 is to revolutionize the global food supply chain, by transforming groundbreaking Agrifood technologies into robust and practical solutions.
Our unique approach is to invest in technological projects within world-renowned research institutions and universities and collaborate closely with industry leaders to transform these technologies into tangible products and processes that improve sustainability and add value to all stakeholders across the food chain, from the genetics to the plate.
We incorporate those projects either into Special Purpose Companies (SPCs) or into independent start-up companies with dedicated teams (Venture Creation). In the case of SPCs, we assign project and business managers from our team to each SPC and together with the technology developers and industrial partners lead the project all the way to commercial readiness. Practically, we are the Agrifood VenturePreneurs!
In addition, we selectively invest in high-potential start-ups through the traditional venture capital model and actively support the entrepreneurs on their path to success.
This diversified approach allows us to harness the full potential of emerging technologies in academia, and promising start-ups, while staying true to our core mission of transforming the Agrifood landscape.
Building on our success in our first fund, which invested only in Israel, we are in course of establishing COPIA-2, which will invest globally.
Our Focus
We look for academic technological projects that passed the proof of concept stage, and start-ups with excellent teams at Pre-Seed, Seed, and Round A stages.
Agriculture
Biotechnology
Biotechnology
On-farm inputs for crop improvement, including genetics, soil microbiome and animal health
Innovative Breeding
Advanced breeding technologies for more efficient and sustainable crop production
Farm Management
Software, Sensing & IoT
Software, Sensing & IoT
Ag-data capturing devices, decision support software, robotics, big data analytics and other precision agriculture technologies
Innovative
Food Technologies
Food Technologies
Technologies to improve efficacy and cost of crop production, such as cultured meat and dairy, food packaging and food wastage
Climate Resilience
Technologies
Technologies
Decrease GHG emissions, improve water management and soil health
These academic projects and start-ups should meet the following criteria:
1
Experienced
R&D team
R&D team
2
Have passed the
proof-of-concept phase
proof-of-concept phase
3
Paradigm shift / significant improvement / solution to a real need or pain
4
Address a well-defined
un-met market need
un-met market need
5
Address a sufficiently large
and growing markets
and growing markets
6
Reasonable time
to market
to market
7
Can be commercialized based
on a solid business model
on a solid business model
8
Strong IP
protection
protection
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