Lewis & Clark Partners

A later-stage venture capital and growth equity firm that invests in founders reshaping the future of food and agriculture, positioning itself as a source of growth capital for what it calls the next agrifood system. The firm backs market leaders working to improve how the world eats, lives, and sustains itself, and describes itself as a group of business builders who apply domain expertise and a network of industry partners to help portfolio companies reach advantaged outcomes. Its team is composed of industry leaders, scientists, and founders who have previously built companies in the sector. Investing activity is organized around four verticals. Upstream agriculture covers entrepreneurs improving the productivity of plants, animals, and American farms, with investments spanning laboratory to field innovations such as novel feed ingredients, genetics-based solutions, and crop technologies. Supply chain covers companies working at the intersection of logistics, advanced materials, distribution, digital traceability, and supply chain efficiency, with a stated aim of improving transparency, resilience, and profitability across global food and agriculture supply chains. Food technologies spans novel and functional ingredients through to processing and packaging solutions, partnering with companies whose products and technologies address consumer health, taste, and product innovation. Applied AI covers innovators using artificial intelligence and discovery science to accelerate work across the agri-food value chain, including data-driven decision-making, biological and chemical design, and genomics. Together the four verticals describe a mandate that runs from farm inputs through processing, packaging, and distribution to the technology layer that connects them, making the firm a capital and expertise partner to CPG, ingredient, and agricultural technology companies at the growth stage rather than a manufacturer or supplier itself.