{"id":247228,"date":"2026-05-17T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/investing-in-ag-technology-startups-requires-patience\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:35:35","slug":"investing-in-ag-technology-startups-requires-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/investing-in-ag-technology-startups-requires-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing in ag technology startups requires patience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investing in ag technology startups requires patience<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/farmtario.com\/news\/ag-tech-exits-investment-money\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-17 02:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: farmtario.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Investors in Canada\u2019s agricultural technology companies would love to expand their portfolios, but existing investments limit their ability to support new companies.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Ag Capital Canada created an investment fund for agriculture and food technology companies, aiming to raise $25 million. They ended up with $26.2 million, says Jay Bradshaw, one of the fund\u2019s principals.<\/p>\n

All the money is invested in companies such as Ukko and Vodkow, which are growing, but not yet enough to leave their early investors behind.<\/p>\n

\nWhy It Matters:<\/strong> The inability to achieve what the tech startup world calls an \u2018exit\u2019 is one of the reasons agtech investment is stagnating.\n<\/p>\n

Challenges in finding investors for startup companies and the ability to cycle money for investors were recurring themes at the first Canadian AgRobotics and AI Summit held at The Grove, Western Fair\u2019s agriculture and food incubator in London.<\/p>\n

Appetronix is a London, Ont., company developing automated kitchens. Imagine your late-night flight arrives after other airport kitchens have closed. Appetronix\u2019s automated system provides on-demand pizza options, with its first commercial kitchen, Donato\u2019s Pizza, currently operating out of the Columbus, Ohio, airport.<\/p>\n

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Canadian investment lacking<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Nipun Sharma, a co-founder of Appetronix, says almost none of the $15 million they raised recently came from Canada.<\/p>\n

Jana Tian co-founded Upside Robotics in Ontario due to the Waterloo area\u2019s engineering and mechatronics manufacturing capacity.<\/p>\n

After successfully completing a $10.2 million funding round, with almost all of it raised internationally, Tian said it\u2019s clear that raising money for ambitious ideas within Canada is challenging.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I did speak to some venture capitalists in Canada, it\u2019s like when you go on dates, and the first question that they would ask me is,…<\/p>\n

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