Karen Say-Valdez

Cargill, Inc. engages in the provision of food, agricultural, financial, and industrial products and services. It specializes in food service, agriculture, meat and poultry, transportation, pharmaceutical ingredients, and beauty products. The company was founded by William Wallace Cargill in 1865 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

OmniLytics, Inc. develops solutions for infectious disease control. It offers bacteriophage solutions for pathogen control in the agricultural, food and water, industrial, pharmaceutical, and defense markets. OmniLytics was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

P2 Science, Inc. operates as a specialty chemical biorefinery company. It offers cosmetics and personal care, flavors and fragrances, specialty materials, and bioactives. The company was founded by Neil A. Burns, Paul Anastas, and Patrick Foley in 2011 and is headquartered in Woodbridge, CT.

Buckman Laboratories International, Inc. manufactures specialty chemicals for water treatment, pulp & paper and leather industries. It offers chemicals and services for the paper industries that include tissue, printing and writing, virgin pulp, packaging, recycled fiber and newsprint/mechanical grades applications and water treatment solutions. The company was founded by Stanley J. Buckman in 1945 and is headquartered in Memphis, TN.

Cargill Animal Nutrition provides customized animal productivity solutions to commercial producers in the US, Europe, and Asia. It offers aquaculture, beef, dairy, pork, and poultry. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Innova Memphis Inc (Innova Memphis) is a venture capital subsidiary of Memphis Bioworks Foundation founded in 2007. The firm is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

Synergy Technologies is the recognized leader in the poultry & meat industry, providing innovation solutions to some of the world’s largest protein providers. With multiple product offerings & a keen understanding of the processing environment, Synergy Technologies is well equipped to reduce & eliminate harmful pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella, E.coli, Camphylobacter and Listeria. They are committed to offering practical, effective & economical antimicrobial programs to ensure the safety of the food supply

Growers Holdings, Inc. offers an all-in-one crop planning, sales, and precision software. The company was founded by Steven Valencsin in 2011 and is headquartered in Garner, NC.

Secure Food Solutions, Inc. operates as a food safety diagnostics company. It develops technology solutions to detect dangerous pathogens in the global food supply. The firm’s solutions include special imaging – Aflatoxin and microbiological tests – vibrio vulnificus/parahaemolyticus. The company is headquartered in Martin, TN.

HerdDogg, Inc. offers smart ear tags and readers for livestock ID and health monitoring. The company was founded by Melissa Brandao and is headquartered in Ashland, OR.

EarthSense, Inc. develops and produces robots for the agricultural industry. It offers TerraSentia, a robot that improves in-field plant trait data collection. The company was founded by Girish Chowdhary and Chinmay Soman in 2016 and is headquartered in Champaign, IL.

Binsentry, Inc. operates as an an agricultural IoT company focused on feed bin monitoring. The company was founded by Randall Schwartzentruber and Nathan Hoel in 2017 and is headquartered in Kitchener, Canada.

Grain Weevil Corp. has developed a grain bin safety and management robot called the Grain Weevil. Grain Weevil is based in the center of grain storage country and is driven by a strong sense of community. The robot engages with the surface of the grain to level, break crusts, conduct inspections, and feed grain into extraction augers. The American company aims to keep farmers safe and improve the quality of stored grain. The company was founded in 2020 by Zane Zents, Chad Johnson, and Benjamin Johnson, with Chad Johnson serving as CEO since then.

Global Neighbor, Inc. specializes in Directed Energy (DE) weed control technology, which was developed with support from the US Air Force SBIR Program. The company is based in an undisclosed location and was founded by Jon Jackson. Additionally, the American company is developing agriculture products with support from the USDA SBIR Program.

Lewis & Clark AgriFood (Lewis & Clark AgriFood) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016. The firm headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Agrisync, Inc. develops a mobile application that connects farmers, advisors, and other partners in agribusiness. Its mobile application and Web dashboard enables users to view, solve, and track agriculture support issues; and provides solutions for time tracking, team collaboration, exporting data to excel, sharing results, branding their dashboard, assigning tickets, and calling through a live video technology. The company was founded by Casey Niemann on July 1, 2014 and is headquartered in Des Moines, IA.