Investors who joined our mission.
At BinSentry, we believe nothing could be more important and rewarding than helping to feed the world – efficiently, safely, profitably, and sustainably.
Lead Edge Capital is a $5 billion growth equity firm investing in software, internet, and tech-enabled businesses globally. The firm has invested in a number of major software and internet companies around the world, including Alibaba Group, Arrive Logistics, Asana, Azul Systems, Bazaarvoice, Benchling, Clearscore, Duo Security, Grafana, GrowthZone, Holistiplan, LeanStaffing, LiveView Technologies, Pacemate, Safesend, Signal Sciences, Tempo, Toast, Wise, and YouSign.
One of the main drivers of Lead Edge’s success is its unique investor base, a network of 700+ executives, entrepreneurs, and dealmakers who have built and run some of the world’s most successful companies. In addition to providing flexible capital, Lead Edge leverages this global advisory group to connect portfolio companies with the customers, partners, talent, and advisors needed to accelerate growth. Lead Edge Capital was founded in 2011 and has offices in New York City, London and Santa Barbara.
BinSentry is exactly the kind of company we look for: a proven business with real customer traction using AI, real-time data, and automation to solve critical problems. As the agtech sector matures, companies like BinSentry with strong fundamentals and clear ROI are best positioned to lead the next wave of innovation.”
— Aaron Darr, Principal at Lead Edge Capital
Our holistic investment approach to AgriFood realizes value across the entire value chain from pre-production to distribution. Growth and late-stage investments are an underserved market need in Agriculture and Food, and we’re biased towards underinvested sub-sectors within these verticals.
Our exhaustive, metric-driven underwriting process ensures we invest in the best of the best. We lean towards tech-enabled, sustainable AgriFood companies in the late stage VC/growth stage with converging to positive operating cash flow. This limits risk and leads to outsized returns.
We lead deals and work with entrepreneurs through active board participation. We create distinctive, highly effective Value Enhancement Plans for each of our investments to ensure our entrepreneurs reach scale.
Our investment team has studied this sector in detail, and BinSentry’s technology was a clear market leader. We’re very pleased to invest in BinSentry to help expand their innovative technology within the animal production industry.”
— David Taiclet, General Partner and Managing Director at Lewis & Clark Agrifood.
The BDC Industrial Innovation Venture Fund invests in companies and entrepreneurs who are accelerating the transformation of core Canadian industries that form the backbone of the national economy, including agriculture and food technologies, resource extraction technologies, and advanced manufacturing.
Our experienced team manages $250 million in capital to ensure that Canada’s most competitive industries remain global leaders with access to the latest innovations in Ag-tech. Food-tech, Manufacturing 4.0, and Extractive tech (oil & gas, mining).
We invest in early- to late-stage firms with the genius and ambition to drive improvements in productivity and competitiveness through combinations of innovative and transformative technologies, processes, and business models across the value chains of key Canadian industrial sectors.
Thanks to its inventive solution, BinSentry is well positioned to disrupt feed inventory management.”
— Joseph Regan, Managing Partner for BDC’s Industrial Innovation Venture Fund.
Spring Mountain Capital is a private investment management firm, founded in 2001 by John L. (“Launny”) Steffens, that focuses on alternative asset investing and offers investors a wide range of strategies designed to produce attractive risk-adjusted returns.
SMC is organized into five investment groups: Growth Equity, Total Return, Private Capital, Social Impact and Municipal Bonds. This combination provides the firm with expansive knowledge in each investment vertical, which improves investment decisions. We seek to take advantage of investment opportunities “in the gaps” where larger investors do not focus. Our investment solutions are designed to best meet clients’ current needs and reflect the flexibility, adaptability and insight that are essential when investing in today’s complex markets.
Our senior professionals possess decades of investment experience and have complementary professional backgrounds in the areas of wealth management, investment banking, private equity, financial analysis, quantitative research, international tax and finance. Based on our extensive network of personal and professional relationships, we are constantly searching for insightful investments from a wide range of sources.
Our Chairman’s Note
It’s rare that you get the opportunity to be a part of an organization that is introducing proven automation and optimization capabilities to an industry that largely operates without the benefit of modern technology. With BinSentry’s leading-edge technology, software development capabilities, and passion for performance, we will help feed the world and reduce the impact on the climate as we do so.”
— Dennis Organ, BinSentry’s Chairman and former CEO of Smithfield Foods.