Omnivore

Omnivore is India's pioneering agrifood and climate-focused impact venture firm, founded in 2010 in Mumbai by Mark Kahn and Jinesh Shah as the country's first dedicated agritech VC — Kahn having previously been EVP of Strategy and Business Development at Godrej Agrovet. Alongside partners Reihem Roy and Subhadeep Sanyal and an 18-person team, Omnivore backs early-stage founders building breakthrough technologies across farmer platforms, agri-fintech, precision agriculture, farm-to-consumer brands, post-harvest and supply-chain tech, and agrifood life sciences, investing across seed to Series A (occasionally Series B) in India and Southeast Asia. The firm has built roughly $700 million in cumulative AUM across three funds plus its Agritech & Climate Sustainability Fund. Its third fund reached a first close of $150 million in 2023 (launched April 2022), backed by a deep development-finance LP base including IFC, KfW, FMO, Proparco, SIFEM, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Louis Dreyfus Company Ventures and Yara Growth Ventures, and plans 25–30 new investments at initial cheques of roughly $1–5 million, with a sharper focus on life sciences and climate resilience. Across 57-plus investments and five exits, its portfolio includes DeHaat, climate-smart deeptech firm Ecozen, space-tech company Pixxel, dairy-tech firm Stellapps, carbon-removal startup Varaha and Tractor Junction — collectively touching over 12 million smallholder farmers.