Copper Cow Coffee is a premium specialty Vietnamese coffee company based in Los Angeles. CCC supports sustainable agriculture in Vietnam and works to make specialty Vietnamese coffee more accessible in the US through modern design, innovative packaging, as well as socially and environmentally conscious sourcing.

Culture is your bioreactor lab, in the cloud. We help scientists accelerate bioprocess development with our high-throughput bioreactor cloud lab. You design your experiment, and we execute the experiment in our lab using our 250ml bioreactors. We take care of the high-quality execution so that you can focus on developing processes. While your experiment runs in our lab, you can monitor and analyze your data in real time using our online dashboard. With Culture, get faster insights to make better, data-driven decisions.

Descartes Labs is a technology company that automates the analysis of geospatial data to help organizations answer key questions about the physical world. It enables the analysis of Earth observation data at scale, providing services and solutions across commodity sourcing and forecasting, resource exploration, and climate resilience.

Full Harvest helps growers get the most out of a harvest and food companies save money by bringing farm excess to market. We are a B2B platform connecting large farms to food businesses to sell significantly discounted, yet perfectly good surplus and imperfectly shaped produce that would have otherwise gone to waste. Approx. 20 billion pounds of produce go to waste in the U.S. annually simply because they are not perfectly shaped for strict retailer standards. We aim to solve this problem by creating a marketplace for this unutilized edible and delicious produce. Our vision is three-fold: bring an additional revenue stream to farmers, lower the cost of healthy food production, while significantly reducing wasted food and resources. A win-win for everyone.

Biodesigned proteins for beauty, wellness, and beyond.

Indico Data develops machine learning tools that automate the extraction and analysis of unstructured data. The tools enable users to process information from documents, images, and other non-standard formats. The focus is on facilitating access to relevant data for various applications.

Leaf Agriculture is the provider of a unified farm data API, and it builds the future of food and agriculture.

Nuritas is revolutionising the discovery of novel, natural and scientifically proven active ingredients that can manage and improve human health. The company’s disruptive computational approach to discovery uses Artificial Intelligence and genomics to, for the first time ever, rapidly and efficiently predict and then provide access to the most health-benefiting components hidden within food, called bioactive peptides.

Sandbox Industries, founded in 2003, is a Chicago-based venture capital firm with three main business lines: venture funds formed alongside strategic corporate partners, new business accelerator programs, and an innovation consulting business. Sandbox is the exclusive partner for Blue Cross and Blue Shield Venture Partners I and II, which connects entrepreneurs innovating in the healthcare space with 25 Blue plans across the country for strategic investment and partnerships. The Cultivian Sandbox Food & Agriculture Fund II is a leading fund in the US which invests in new technologies in the food and agriculture space. Healthbox, founded in partnership with BCBSVP, is a healthcare accelerator with a presence in several US cities as well as in London. Sandbox is also partnered with TechStars Chicago (formerly Excelerate Labs). The firm's innovation consulting business, Sandbox Innovation Partners, connects established corporations with emerging companies and helps them work together through pilots, partnerships, investments, or acquisitions.

Sound Agriculture uses molecular discovery to create climate-resilient crops, enhancing harvest yields for growers. They also use an innovative life science approach to sustainably increase farming productivity. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Vestaron is leading a peptide-based revolution in crop protection. The company is committed to providing growers with novel, effective, peptide-based biopesticides that address proven targets. Vestaron's peptides overcome existing resistance issues while offering a desired safety profile for workers, beneficial organisms, and the environment. Vestaron has earned global recognition for its work, including the inaugural 2015 Bernard Blum Award for novel biocontrol solutions, the prestigious Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute in 2020, and Best New Biologic Product in the 2021 Crop Science Awards.

Yard Stick measures soil carbon. Scientists and farmers alike know that climate-friendly agricultural practices have the potential to remove atmospheric CO2 at a gigaton/year scale. When these practices are adopted, more carbon is stored in soils, improving soil health and fighting climate change. But significant measurement challenges have held soil carbon efforts back - until now. By reducing the cost of soil carbon measurement by over 90%, Yard Stick will dramatically expand the opportunities for evidence-based regenerative practices to simultaneously improve ecosystem health, increase farmer income, and combat climate change.