Edacious, a technology firm focused on transforming the relationship between agriculture and human health, has secured $8.1m in Series Seed funding to advance nutrient density in whole foods and ingredients.
The round was led by Patagonia’s Tin Shed Ventures. It also had participation from Trailhead Capital, Grantham Environmental Trust, the Nest Family Office, First Thirty, iSelect Capital, Pelican, and other private investors.
Edacious plans to use the funding to scale operations, improve proprietary tools, and strengthen collaborations across the food system. The goal is to create a more transparent food system and promote a healthier planet.
According to the US-based firm, the modern food system focuses on yield over anything else, causing a growing disconnection between food production and human health. This has led to lower food quality, environmental harm, and poor nutrition.
Edacious is advancing the narrative by providing comparative benchmarks for whole foods and ingredients. It challenges the idea that nutrition can be simplified to a single data point.
By measuring over 200 essential compounds, Edacious offers insight into the factors driving nutritional differences. This data is vital for producers, brands, markets, and policymakers to improve food systems and human health.
Edacious founder and CEO Eric Smith said: “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 commoditisation by empowering producers and consumers with verified, actionable data for food quality differentiation.”
Edacious is building a food system that prioritises human and planetary health by offering two core solutions.
The first is a next-generation food lab that replaces costly and incomplete testing services with a streamlined analysis of essential nutrients such as vitamins, fats, minerals, proteins, and carbohydrates.
The second is a science-based software platform that enables users to understand, compare, benchmark, and share nutrition data and insights both within and outside their organisations.
These tools offer actionable insights for producers, consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, genetics companies, ingredient manufacturers, and retailers.
They enable these stakeholders to measure and communicate the nutritional quality of whole foods, bridging the gap between food production and its impact on human health.
By making this data accessible and actionable, Edacious expects to support nutritional measurement and transparency.
