HG Ventures is the corporate venture arm of The Heritage Group. HG Ventures supports innovation and growth across The Heritage Group by investing and partnering with early stage and growth stage companies developing advanced materials and systems for transportation infrastructure, environmental services and specialty chemicals.  We leverage the world-class expertise of The Heritage Group operating companies and research center to offer a unique value proposition to our portfolio company partners.

Founded in 2012, gener8tor fosters innovation ecosystems through its accelerator programs, venture funds, and skills-based workforce initiatives. They support the growth of these startups through their network of mentors, technologists, corporate partners, angel investors and venture capitalists. The firm prefers to invest in the software, information technology, web, SaaS, e-commerce, and hardware.

Founded in 2011, Fall Line Capital is a private equity firm seeking to invest in farmland and the agricultural technology sector.

Founded in 2011, Elevate Ventures invests in high-potential cross-sector innovative companies with a minimum $500M TAM at the pre-seed, seed, and early stages.  We partner with innovative entrepreneurs to provide strategic capital, support, mentorship and other resources to transform promising ideas into transformative businesses.

Founded in 2015, Cleveland Avenue Cleveland Avenue is a global venture capital firm that invests in lifestyle consumer brands and technology companies that positively disrupt large and growing markets.  We provide financial resources, expertise, and holistic business support to help unlock the value of our investments.

Founded in 2010, Allos Ventures is a venture capital firm seeking to invest in early-stage companies operating in the business-to-business software and technology-enabled service sectors.

Founded in 2013, AgFunder is a venture capital firm that prefers to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies. The firm seeks to invest in the agri-tech, food tech, robotics, big data, and life sciences sectors.

Founded in 2016, Acre Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in companies creating fundamental change in climate, environmental, and human health to address large-scale problems in our food and agricultural systems.

Established in 2014, 50 South Capital is an alternatives asset management firm designed to meet the core strategic needs of investors seeking access to hedge funds, private equity and real assets solutions. 50 South Capital acts as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northern Trust Corporation. The firm focuses on three broad sub-sectors of the private equity market which includes leveraged buyout, venture capital and secondaries.

Xylogenics is a design-oriented synthetic biology company empowering baker’s yeast to efficiently produce high-value products through environmentally sustainable fermentation processes. They are the inventors of the MX-1 and GX-1 yeast platforms, unique yeast technologies with enhanced fermentation efficiency for fuel ethanol producers today and essential characteristics for high-value specialty chemical production in the future.