Department of Agriculture (USDA) — 2020 Investments

AgCreate produces educational and marketing materials—including e-learning, videography, websites, graphic design, and live training—for the pork and broader agriculture industries.

AgTechEdTechMarketing Tech

Air Sciences is an air quality consulting firm offering permitting, monitoring, compliance, modeling, data management, fire characterization, dust mitigation, and decision support services.

CleantechClimate TechEnterprise SoftwareGolden, US

Bear Fiber produces a cotton-like hemp fiber using proprietary methods and offers raw fiber, yarn, textiles, and finished garments.

Circular EconomyConsumerNew Materials

Chi Botanic uses plant cell culture to grow plant compounds and ingredients in a lab without soil or pesticides, producing products such as cell-cultured Aloe vera, vanilla, and citrus.

AgTechBiotechFoodTech

Jon Meuser(Co-founder & CEO)Robert Jinkerson(Co-founder & CSA)

Eden Concepts develops patented, all-electric precision planting systems that germinate seeds on the farm and plant them directly into the soil, eliminating the seedling growing and transplanting process.

AgTechHardwareRobotics

From The Land is relocating to a new farm and rebuilding its website, with plans to offer small-scale farms ("Littlest Big Farms"), workshops and training programs, products and services, community partnerships, and a farmer's market.

AgTech

Xenia, US

Jonathan Jackson(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardJames A Ellis(Director)Dean Didato(Director)

GRAYSTAR Pacific develops ocean-based technologies and marine biology products spanning marine biotechnology, marine-derived bioactive compounds and nutraceuticals, anti-fouling, athlete hydration, maritime security, and environmental analysis, with a focus on Arctic and sub-Arctic sources.

BiotechDefense TechNew MaterialsAnchorage, US

Stephen T. Grabacki(President)

AvantGuard develops Avantamine, an antimicrobial molecule that eliminates bacteria, viruses, and fungi on surfaces and skin without generating resistance, with an initial focus on topical treatment of the drug-resistant fungal pathogen Candida auris.

BiotechHealthtechNew Materials

Insulights makes a universal electric fence monitor that flashes when the fence is live, giving ranchers and farmers visual confirmation their fence is working from up to half a mile away at night.

AgTechHardwareIoT

MicroBio Engineering is a team of engineers and scientists providing consulting and engineering services for microalgae systems, including process design, site selection, equipment specification, and techno-economic and life cycle analysis.

BiotechCleantechDeep Tech

NanoAffix makes a portable, handheld sensor that connects via Bluetooth to a mobile app for real-time detection of lead in tap water, giving results in seconds at the point of use.

CleantechHardwareIoT

Nanohmics develops a chip-scale snapshot hyperspectral image sensor that integrates into standard COTS imaging systems with minimal size, weight, and power impact.

Deep TechHardwareSemiconductors

Napigen develops technology for mitochondrial and chloroplast genome editing.

Biotech

Parallel Flight develops heavy-lift unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) technology for applications such as aerial firefighting and industrial operations.

Deep TechHardwareRoboticsLa Selva Beach, US

Joshua Alan Resnick(Executive Officer)Craig Stevens(CEO)David Adams(Director of Hardware + Systems)Bobby Hulter(Director of Software + Controls)Joshua Resnick(Co-founder)

SafetySpect builds a handheld, multispectral imaging device (CSI) with on-device machine learning that detects biological residues and contamination on surfaces in real time, replacing ATP swab spot testing.

AI & Machine LearningFoodTechHardwareLos Angeles, US

DAVID ALLEN CARROLL(SECRETARY, DIRECTOR)THOMAS KENNEDY BURKE(CFO, DIRECTOR)KENNETH EDWARD BARTON(CEO, DIRECTOR)

Simonpietri Enterprises is a Hawaii-based, woman-owned company that develops and designs renewable fuel manufacturing and waste-to-energy projects, converting construction, demolition, and organic waste into renewable jet fuel, clean hydrogen, fertilizer, and energy.

Circular EconomyCleantechEnergy

Joelle Simonpietri(President)

Sun-Catch develops solar thermal technology and related products, including flexible piping and water tanks, along with R&D projects in solar thermal desalination, zero liquid discharge (ZLD), gravity-based energy storage (GraviStore), and heat pumps (VAST-HP).

CleantechClimate TechEnergy