Ravi Pappu

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.

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.

MycoTechnology, Inc. is a food technology company, which engages in the development and delivering of fermentation process using gourmet fungi to transform agricultural products to improve taste, value, and health. Its products include ClearTaste and PureTaste. The company was founded by Alan D. Hahn, Pete Lubar, Jim Langan, and Brooks J. Kelly in 2013 and is headquartered in Aurora, CO.

SG Holdings LLC offers services to the agriculture industry. The company is headquartered in Harrisonburg, VA.

Soli Organic, Inc. produces herbs and spices. Its products include basil, arugula, dill, chives, parsley, oregano, sage, cilantro edible flowers and mint. The company was founded by Mike Sarco, Philip Karp and Ken Koehn in 1989 and is headquartered in Rockingham, VA.

Global Environment Fund Management Corp (Global Environment Fund) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 1990 by Jeffrey Leonard and John Earhart. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

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.

CLSA Capital Partners (Singapore) Pte Ltd is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of CLSA Capital Partners (Hong Kong) Ltd founded in 2006. The firm is headquartered in Singapore.

Applied Minds LLC engages in the invention, design, and prototyping of products and services in the software and information technology fields. The company was founded by Bran Ferren, Daniel Abrutyn, and W. Daniel Hillis in 2000 and is headquartered in Glendale, CA.

TouchShare, Inc. offers geospatial collaboration solutions. The private company is based in Pasadena, CA. The CEO of the company is Robert A. Pette.

MariaDB Corp. Ab provides open source database products. It is a database company that supports the adoption of MariaDB - an open source database. The firm's product is available in the software repositories of Linux distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Centos, Debian, and Ubuntu. It also provides MariaDB Enterprise and MySQL subscription services; a range of services from architecture planning to database migration and performance tuning; training focusing on MariaDB and MySQL; and remote database administration services. The company was founded by David Axmark, Michael Widenius, Patrik Olof Backman, Max Mether, and Kaj Sigurd Ademar Arn? in 2010 and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.

National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc. operates a continental-scale observation system for examining ecological change over time. The private company is based in Boulder, CO.

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.

Midwestern BioAG, Inc. provides agricultural consulting services. It manufactures fertilizers, livestock nutrition, seeds, specialty crops, and organic agricultural products. The firm offers a range of fertilizer blends, dry and liquid fertilizers, and soil amendments; livestock nutrition products, including free-choice minerals and feed inoculants for lactating cows, dry and pre-fresh cows, and calves and heifers; a range of mineral products for berry, orchard, potato, and other fruit and vegetable crop programs; and a range of organic fertilizers and soil amendments for organic agriculture. The company was founded by Gary Zimmer in 1983 and is headquartered in Blue Mounds, WI.

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

Terramera, Inc. manufactures pesticides and agrochemicals products. It offers biopesticides for the control of bed bugs and other household pests, biopesticides for agricultural use in a variety of crops and applications for bee health, cold pressed neem oil, neem cake, karanja oil, karanja cake, and other ecologically friendly products for use in agriculture, human health, and cosmetic applications; and other professional products. The company was founded by Karn Manhas and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

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.

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.

Clear Frontier Ag Management LLC acquires and develops farmlands. The company was founded by Justin Bruch in 2019 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.