Venture capital firm

Paine Schwartz Partners

Private equity firm investing in the global food and agribusiness sector with a sustainability focus

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TrustList summary

Paine Schwartz Partners is a private equity firm that concentrates on the food chain. It looks worldwide at food and agribusiness companies and says it takes an approach driven by a set investment thesis and by operating know-how.

What Paine Schwartz Partners offers

Private equity investment: buying into food and agribusiness companies.
Operational input: the team works with portfolio companies to raise their value.
Sustainability focus: the firm believes value and sustainability often go together, and applies environmental, social and governance thinking across itself and its holdings.
Reporting: an annual sustainability report for 2022 is published on its site.

Clients

It works with companies across the global food and agribusiness sector. Its site shows current and past portfolio companies and a case study on FoodChain ID, a company it has exited.

Key facts

Sector: food and agribusiness
Reach: global
Type: private equity

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Sep 2026.

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Rankings

Paine Schwartz Partners is ranked on 1 TrustList ranking at #45.

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Venture capital firm · 1 ranking

#45of 59
Private equity firms
It is one of 6 here listing growth stage.
Of the top 57 here, 20 also cover partners and 12 also cover healthtech; 15 also work in New York City and 8 also work in London.
Behind Novacap, ahead of Palisades Growth Capital.

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