About Us



Our Model
AgLaunch is a national platform of innovative farmers from a broad range of farming operations that provide due diligence, shares data, coordinates field trials, and provides investment capital to support agtech startup companies from idea-to-scale. AgLaunch-affiliated farmers own a portion of the agtech companies we work with. This model promotes ownership within the value chain and ensures the technologies we help develop directly benefit the farmers who use them.
AgLaunch’s platform bridges the gap between how we farm now and the way we will farm in the future. AgLaunch believes that the future of farming includes nutrient dense crops, carbon neutral farms, and more equitable ownership in the value chain.
Our Team

Thomas Greenlee
Farmer Relationships & Farm Trial Coordination

Sarah Kate Kavich
Startup & Investment Support

Pete Nelson
Founder & President, Strategy, Farmers Innovation Fund
Special Project Contributors

Tony Brannon, EdD
Farmer Recruitment, West KY Ecosystem & WAVE Ag

Sam Brown
IP & Science Strategy

Jane Chadwell
Sr. Leadership Support & Data Cooperative

Michael Frank

Alex Paraskevas
Community Development & Pacific Northwest Ecosystem

Loran Steinlage
Farmer Relationships, Midwest Ecosystem & AgVa
Board of Directors

Marcus Coleman, Ph.D.
Professor of Practice, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University

Fayre Crossley
Nonprofit Executive

Allan Daisley
Entrepreneur, Accelerator Builder and Innovation Ecosystem Leader

Schuyler Dalton
Regenerative Agriculture Impact Investing Manager,
World Wildlife Fund

Corinne Gould
Senior Director of Communications, Tennessee Municipal League

Hubert Hamer
Retired, Administrator USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)

Teresa Lynch
Founder and Principal, Mass Economics

Arielle Moinester
Senior Program Director, Women’s Earth Alliance

Loston Rowe, Ph.D.
Founder and Principal, AgRowe, LLC








