Lucas Mann is a co-founder of Acre Venture Partners who has contributed over 15 years of investing and operating experience in food and agriculture, helping shape Acre as a specialist platform at the intersection of ag, food, and climate rather than a generalist VC fund. He serves as a board-level partner to advanced ag-tech companies like Inari, Bonsai Robotics, and Carbon Robotics, consistently backing picks-and-shovels technologies that sit deep in the agricultural value chain and framing these investments as infrastructure for building more resilient, labor-efficient, and sustainable food systems.
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Food & Ag, Climate, Biotech, Robotics, CPG / D2C
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Seed - Series B+
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Acre Venture Partners originated as a $125M fund created exclusively by Campbell Soup Company but later transitioned to institutional ownership when Campbell sold its stake to StepStone—an unusual evolution from corporate-backed to traditional VC structure. The fund positions itself as "a climate fund using food and agriculture as our mode of action" and features partner Sam Kass, former White House Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition to President Obama, bringing rare policy expertise at the intersection of food, health, and regulation.
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