Linn Grove Growth Funds

Linn Grove Ventures (LGV) believes that there is an excellent opportunity for great investment returns at the exciting collision of health, agriculture, food, and nutrition markets. The team will manage one of the largest funds in this space, bringing a truly unique approach, which will create new and innovative companies that provide healthy products focused on health and wellness. The manager believes that the projected increase in global demand for food (especially animal protein),constraints on productive land availability, increasing costs of health care, negative health trends of both developed and emerging markets, and increased regulatory scrutiny of agriculture are all significant factors creating unmet market need which the Mid-Continent region (US and Canada) is best prepared to meet through innovation.

Ultimately, market forces and new regulations will force food and nutrition companies to innovate around healthier inputs to help prevent disease. This creates a great opportunity for superior returns.

Linn Grove Growth Funds will implement an investment strategy of financing primarily life science opportunities where the manager believes it has significant advantages and add extensive value (likely operating or board expertise). Opportunities include product, service and technology companies in important health and wellness market sectors such as agriculture, nutrition, and food safety.

Financial description

We are raising a $125 million fund, to invest in 12-18 companies. We seek to provide 22% IRR, or 2.7X on capital, by pursuing early inflection points for M & A exits. We will found companies from a research bench to meet unmet market needs, in keeping with our history of company founding.