Posted on 6/22/2018
Emertec Gestion is an 18-year-old cleantech venture capital firm that has turned its attention to agrifood technology in the last decade. The firm’s portfolio contains startups across the sectors of agrifood tech from Farm Robotics, Mechanization and Equipment in Naio Technologies, Bioenergy and Biomaterials in Olygose and Fermentalg, Novel Farming Systems in Ynsect, and Farm Management, Software, Sensing and IoT in SenCrop.
In 2016 Emertec Gestion merged with Demeter Partners, an independent private equity firm dedicated to the environmental and energy transition sectors. According to the firm, by the end of this year, it will have more than €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in assets under management.
We caught up with Eric Marty, investment manager at Emertec Gestion since 2004, to find out wh...