Avishek Rao

Benson Hill Holdings, Inc. operates a crop design platform to develop sustainable food and ingredients. It offers CropOS (Crop Operating System), a cognitive engine that provides decision support to accelerate crop improvement and enhance the sustainability of food, feed, fiber, and fuel production using plant biology, big data analytics and cloud computing. The company was founded by Matthew B. Crisp, Todd Mockler and Thomas P. Brutnell in 2012 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Inventages Venture Capital Investment, Inc (Inventages Venture) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Gunnar Carsten Weikert. The firm is headquartered in Nassau with an additional office in London.

Al-Hosn Investment Company SAOC (Al-Hosn Investment) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2007. The firm is headquartered in Muscat, Oman.

NetAuthority, Inc. designs and develops strong authentication solutions for trusted Internet-connected devices and transactions. The firm's solution secures information and financial assets, assures user confidence that drives business, and protects assets and brand equity. The company was founded by Christopher D. Brennan in September 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Scale Computing, Inc. develops and manufactures data storage systems. It offers HC3 platform that integrates storage, servers, and virtualization software into an all-in-one appliance based system that is scalable, self-healing and as easy to manage as a single server. The firm also offers solutions for private cloud, VDI, V2V Migration, P2V Migration, file sync and share, disaster recovery and VM Security. The company was founded by Jeffery Ready, Nate Hardt, Ehren Maedge, Peter C. Fuller, Mike Olson, Alan D. Hahn, Jason Collier and Scott Loughmiller in 2008 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Soft Robotics, Inc. designs and builds soft robotic automation systems that can grasp and manipulate items of varying size, shape and weight with a single device. It also offers an ecosystem of robots, control systems, data and machine learning to enable the workplace of the future. The company was founded by Carmichael S. Roberts, Jr., Mitchell R. Zakin and George M. Whitesides in 2013 and is headquartered in Bedford, MA.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is a professional body for accountants. The non-profit company is based in Glasgow, UK, and has subsidiaries in Mauritius, United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. The British company offers a program called ALP-C, which approves learning materials from high-quality content providers to support studying towards ACCA's qualification. The role of the CFO is evolving beyond finance to include reporting on value-centric aspects of their operations, as companies move towards sustainable practices. The CEO of the company is Helen Joanna Brand.

Clear Labs, Inc. provides services related to food quality. The firm offers clear view platform, GMO test and WGS test products. The company was founded by Sasan Amini and Mahni Ghorashi in 2014 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Believer Meats operates biotechnology company. It transforms global meat production through distributive manufacturing of fat and muscle cells. The company was founded by Yaakov Nahmias in 2018 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

FoodLogiQ LLC develops solutions for global food chain issues. It offers audit, compliance, regulation, sustainability, tracebility, and supplier management solutions. The firm serves the food retail and grocery, consumer goods, food distributor and importers, and grower industries. The company was founded by Andy Kennedy and Thomas Finegan in 2006 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Tyson New Ventures LLC (Tyson New Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Tyson Foods, Inc. founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas.

Generate Capital Advisors, PB LLC (General Capital Advisors) is a private equity firm founded in 2014 by Scott Jacobs, Matan Friedman, and Jigar Shah. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Biocleave Ltd. develops and sells microbial technology for the production of renewable chemicals and biofuels. It also provides biobutanol and other C4 chemical products. The firm also engages in microbiology and metabolic engineering through fermentation and commercial production scale. Its products include biobutanol chemicals and fuel, acetone, and butyric acid. The company was founded by Edward M. Green in 2003 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Caresocius AG operates an online platform for health booking and travel logistics management.

Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (Virginia Innovation Partnership) is a private equity/venture capital non-profit operating division of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority firm founded in 1985. The firm is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.

Plasma Nutrition LLC engages in Biotechnology. It developes patented technology that dramatically improves the performance of protein. The company was founded by Stephen Motosko and Chris Flynn-Rozanski and is headquartered in Sarsaota, FL.

Prenexus Health LLC operates as a natural prebiotic ingredient company. It focuses on individual health and wellness through the scientific research, development, and production of natural prebiotic ingredients for nutrition. The company was founded by Timothy R. Brummels, Sandra Saville, Bradley A. Saville and Lance Reeves in 2015 and is headquartered in Brawley, CA.

Arzeda Corp. operates as a synthetic biology company. It works thru agriculture, functionalized sweeteners and ingredients, chemicals and materials, and pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. The company was founded by Eric Althoff, David Baker, Daniela Grabs-R?thlisberger, Michael A. Martino and Alexandre Zanghellini in 2008 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Conti Ventures (Conti Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Continental Grain Company Corp. founded in 1921. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Energy Development Oman SAOC is an Omani closed joint stock company established in December 2020 by royal decree to focus on realizing efficiencies and pursuing new growth opportunities in Oman's energy sector. The private company is located in Oman. The company is 100%% owned by the government of the Sultanate of Oman. Oman has a very long and deep-rooted history and culture, and its territory encompasses an area of 309,500 square kilometers.

Rakiza Telecommunication Infrastructure LLC invests in companies located in Oman and Saudi Arabia. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of renewables, power and water, social infrastructure, telecommunications, and transport and logistics sectors. It also makes co-investments.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

S2G Ventures LLC (S2G Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Victor E. Friedberg. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Clean Energy Trust is a non-profit organization which provides clean energy technology solutions. The firm also specializes in commercializing research from labs and universities into the market. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Vindara, Inc. operates as an agriculture technology company, which engages in the provision of seeds for indoor farming. The company was founded by Roger Kemble and Jade Stinson and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Egg Innovations LLC engages in the packaging and distribution of eggs. The firm offers cage free, organic, and omega 3 certified eggs. It supports the farmers of America in treatment of animals. The company was founded by John Brunnquell in 1999 and is headquartered in Warsaw, IN.

Sound Agriculture Co. engages in the development of crop protection and crop enhancement products. Its Rapid Discovery platform focuses on finding solutions that increase the sustainability, productivity, and healthiness of food supply. The company was founded by Eric Davidson and Travis Bayer in 2013 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

NewLeaf Symbiotics, Inc. develops and commercializes a family of beneficial bacteria. It commercializes Pink Pigmented Facultative Methylotrophs bacteria that improves plant health, promote early growth, and increase crop yield. The company was founded by Stephen Kahn, Thomas R. Laurita and Michael Bielski in 2012 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.