Edacious, a Marlborough, MA-based multi-disciplinary technology company which specializes in the relationship between agriculture and human health, raised $8.1M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Patagonia’s Tin Shed Ventures, with participation from the Nest Family Office, Trailhead Capital, Grantham Environmental Trust’s Neglected Climate Opportunities, iSelect Capital, First Thirty, Pelican Ag, and other private investors.
The company intends to use the funds to scale operations, enhance its proprietary tools, and deepen collaborations across the food system to create a more transparent food system and healthier planet.
Led by CEO and Founder Eric Smith, Edacious is a multi-disciplinary technology company dedicated to transforming the global food system through nutritional transparency. By measuring more than 200 compounds essential to human health, Edacious provides insight into what drives nutritional differences and their implications for producers, brands, markets, and policymakers to prioritize nutrition, flavor, and sustainability.
The company delivers two core solutions:
- A new food lab that replaces incomplete and costly testing services with a streamlined, affordable analysis of nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, fats, proteins, and carbohydrates
- A science-based software platform that allows users to understand, compare, benchmark, and share nutrition data and insights within and outside their organizations
FinSMEs
10/02/2025