Edacious, a multi-disciplinary company transforming the relationship between agriculture and human health, announced the closing of its $8.1 million series seed funding round. This funding round was led by Patagonia’s Tin Shed Ventures, with participation from the Nest Family Office, Trailhead Capital, Grantham Environmental Trust’s Neglected Climate Opportunities, iSelect Capital, First Thirty, Pelican Ag, and other private investors.
With this seed funding round, Edacious will scale operations, enhance its proprietary tools, and deepen collaborations across the food system to create a more transparent food system and a healthier planet.
This modern food system prioritizes yield above all else, but the disconnect between food production and human health continues to grow. Focusing on quantity has led to declining food quality, environmental degradation, and poor nutrition.
Edacious unlocks comparative benchmarks for whole foods and ingredients to dispel the idea that nutrition is a single data point. And most retailers and consumers, for example, treat apples as nutritionally identical. However, Edacious’ data reveals that in groups of similar foods, like apples, key nutrient levels may vary up to 10 times. By measuring over 200 compounds essential to human health, Edacious offers unprecedented insight into what drives nutritional differences and their implications for producers, brands, markets, and policymakers.
To pursue a food system that prioritizes human and planetary health, Edacious offers two core solutions:
1.) A next-generation food lab that replaces incomplete and costly testing services with a streamlined, affordable analysis of nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, fats, proteins, and carbohydrates
2.) A science-based software platform that allows users to understand, compare, benchmark, and share nutrition data and insights within and outside their organizations
These tools offer actionable insights for producers, consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, genetics companies, ingredient manufacturers, and retailers—enabling them to measure and communicate the nutritional quality of whole foods, connecting the dots to their impacts on human health. And by making this data accessible and actionable, Edacious is setting a new standard for nutritional measurement and transparency, driving demand for foods that are better for people and the planet.
KEY QUOTES:
“At Edacious, we have the data and technology to reveal how genetics, soil health, and management practices impact nutrition in our food. This funding allows us to build the platform necessary to break the cycle of commoditization by empowering producers and consumers with verified, actionable data for food quality differentiation.”
- Eric Smith, Edacious founder and CEO
“Nutritional transparency has the potential to reshape our food system. Edacious’ approach not only advances soil health but also empowers producers and consumers with critical data to make informed choices. We’re proud to support a company making such a profound impact on both human and environmental health.”
- Paul Lightfoot, General Manager of Patagonia Provisions
“Nutrient density should be the catalyst for full food and agriculture value chain transformation. Edacious is making that possible by measuring and mapping nutrient density 10 times faster and cheaper, with an intuitive interface that incentivizes and enables the best regenerative practices from producer to consumer.”
- Pete Oberle of Trailhead Capital
