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The Yield Lab: what it is and what it signals

The Yield Lab is a federation of regional venture capital funds investing in agriculture and food technology, with separate funds for Latin America, Asia Pacific, North America and Europe. A company in a Yield Lab portfolio took venture money from one of those funds. That is a commercial investment decision, made on a return thesis, and not a certification of anything the company claims about its impact.

Type

Impact investor portfolios

Run by

The Yield Lab

Since

2017

Headquarters

United States

Official site

https://theyieldlablatam.com/

Public list

https://theyieldlablatam.com/portfolio/

What a Yield Lab listing is

Each regional fund publishes its own portfolio. The Latin America fund shows every company with its logo, name, home country and a line describing what it does. The Asia Pacific fund publishes a grid that can be filtered by sector, country and funding stage, and which labels companies as actively investing, fundraising or exited.

The subject matter is narrow. The funds invest across agrifood technology, covering areas such as crop science, animal health, aquaculture, precision agriculture, supply chain traceability and food ingredients. A listing therefore places a company in a sector, a country and a fund, which is more specific than most investor lists manage.

Who runs it and since when

The Yield Lab Latam says it "is part of The Yield Lab, a global network of Venture Capital funds, which initiated activities in 2014 in St. Louis, Missouri", and that the network "now has regional operations across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific". The Latin America fund itself was "Founded in 2017 and with offices in Argentina, Brazil and Chile", investing in companies based in Latin America.

The Asia Pacific fund describes itself as one numbered fund within the federation and points to "shared deal flow and co-investment opportunities" across the federation. These are venture capital funds deploying capital raised from outside investors, not a foundation giving away its own money, so the mandate behind a listing is financial return alongside the sector thesis.

How an organization gets it

A company enters a portfolio by raising a round that one of the funds invests in. There is no application process to a label, no audit and no renewal; the entry point is a funding round and the diligence the fund runs before it.

The stage is early to growth rather than concept. The Latin America fund says it is "focused on high-impact startups in the AgriFoodTech space, investing in opportunities from Seed to Series B rounds", and the Asia Pacific fund describes itself as an early-stage agtech and foodtech fund. After investing, the funds describe continuing support covering governance, talent, commercial strategy, scaling and further fundraising. Geography is the other filter: each fund invests in its own region, so a company is backed by the fund whose region it sits in.

What it signals, and what it does not

A listing says a specialist agrifood investor did commercial diligence and priced a round. For a technical business, that is a meaningful check on whether the product and the team stand up, because the fund is spending other people's money and expects it back.

It is not an impact certification or a social audit. The funds talk about resilient and sustainable food systems, but the test a company passes to get in is an investment test. A listing is also a snapshot: it records a position taken at one point in time, and portfolio pages are rarely pruned, so a listed company may have exited, been acquired, or stopped trading. The Asia Pacific grid is the exception, since it marks exited companies, and that is the standard to hold the other portfolios to.

How to verify a claim

Start with the fund that matches the company's region: the Latin America portfolio for a Latin American company, the Asia Pacific grid for one in that region. Match on name plus the country shown on the card, and read the description, because agrifood startups often share a brand word.

Ask the company which fund invested and in which round, then check that the fund names it. Being in the federation's wider count is not the same as being in a named fund's portfolio, and a company that appeared in an accelerator or support programme rather than a financing round is making a different claim. If the grid marks a company as exited, the investment is historical. If no fund lists it at all, ask for the round date and the co-investors, and treat the claim as unverified until one of the funds' own pages carries it.

Size and geography

The Yield Lab publishes a total of The Asia Pacific fund describes "the federation's global portfolio of 118+ companies" across the Yield Lab funds. Source.

Our copy of the public list holds 15 organizations across 6 countries, pulled 2026-09-14. Our data covers Latin America and Southeast Asia for this list, so these numbers describe that slice rather than the whole register.

• Mexico 6
• Chile 3
• Colombia 3
• Indonesia 1
• Malaysia 1
• Peru 1

Often held together

Organizations carrying The Yield Lab in our data most often also hold:

• Endeavor (2 organizations)
• Acumen (1 organizations)
• CO_Capital (1 organizations)
• MIT Solve (1 organizations)

In the Tokens for Good directory

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Frequently asked questions

Sources

1. The Yield Lab Latam, Portfolio checked 2026-09-17
2. The Yield Lab Latam, About us checked 2026-09-17
3. The Yield Lab Asia Pacific checked 2026-09-17