Matt Knott

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP provides legal services to financial institutions and corporations, government entities, charitable and health care organizations and individual private clients. It was founded in 1792 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

Mercaris, Inc. operates an online trading platform for organic and non-GMO agricultural commodities. The company was founded by Kellee James and Chris Duesing in November 2013 and is headquartered in Silver Spring, MD.

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.

Deloitte LLP (New York) engages in the provision of audit, consulting, tax, and advisory solutions. It offers services relating to tax, consulting, audit and assurance, Deloitte private company services, mergers and acquisitions, risk and financial advisory, analytics, and cloud. The company was founded by William Welch Deloitte, George A. Touche, Charles Waldo Haskins, and Elijah Watt Sells in 1845 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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.

The Nature Conservancy in Illinois engages in conserving land and water. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

GreenLight Biosciences, Inc. engages in a biotechnology company.. It delivers attractive solution for production of chemicals and fuels from renewable resources, eliminating the need for petroleum feedstocks. The company was founded by Andrey J. Zarur, Marta Ortega-Valle, and James R. Swartz and is headquartered in Medford, MA.

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.

Impact Engine (Impact) is a private Equity and venture capital firm founded in 2011. 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.

Shenandoah Valley Organic LLC operates as an organic chicken processor and wholesaler. The firm offers boneless, bone-in, seasoned items, fully cooked products, and chicken bone broth. The company was founded by Corwin Heatwole and Jefferson Heatwole in 2013 and is headquartered in Harrisonburg, VA.

Hazel Technologies, Inc. develops technology to increase the shelf life of fruits. Its products include FruitBrite and BerryBrite. The company was founded by Amy Garber, Yuvaraj Kundasi, Adam Preslar, Patrick Flynn and Aidan Mouat and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

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.

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.

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.

Solarea Bio, Inc. engages in the development of microbiome-based therapeutics to treat human disease. The company is headquartered in Hopkinton, MA.

Apeiron Labs, Inc. provides ocean monitoring solutions. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The CEO of the company is Ravi Pappu.