VC · WATER INVESTOR

The Yield Lab

The Yield Lab is a water-focused venture capital that has backed 5 water companies since 2014. (don't) Waste Water rates its water commitment Committed.

Committed
Water Commitment
Type
Venture Capital
AUM
$163M
Founded
2014
HQ
St. Louis, United States
Stage
Seed - Series A
Median round
$1.9M
Portfolio
5 cos

Water Commitment Score

Tier
Committed
5 water companies · last deal 2025 · leads ~50% of rounds · High confidence
How this is scored ↗
as of Jun 2026 · no pay-to-rank

Compiled from official filings, third-party records, and direct intelligence from investors and founders, in Leviathan · recomputed monthly · as of Jun 2026.

How they invest

Seed4
Series A2
Median round$1.9Mrange $955K - $7.5M · 6 disclosed

Portfolio · 5 water companies

BiOceanOr
BiOceanOr’s AquaREAL platform combines in-situ optical, electrochemical and meteorological sens
$2.1MSeries A · 2025
Kilimo
Kilimo offers a SaaS irrigation-management platform that merges satellite imagery, field data a
$7.5MSeries A · 2024
NanobOx
NanobOx sells compact, low-energy electrochemical generators that inject uniform nanobubbles of
$1MLED Seed · 2023
GroGuru
GroGuru sells a soil monitoring and irrigation management platform combining permanently instal
$955KLED Seed · 2021
Hydrosat
Hydrosat provides thermal infrared satellite imagery and analytics-generating surface temperatu
$5MSeed · 2021

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Invests alongside

Techstars Sustainability Accelerator1x The University of Michigan1xCultivation Capital1x Synovia Capital1x Freeflow1x Industrious Ventures1xExpon Capital1x DeepIE Ventures1xGrowing Capital1x

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