Showcase Startups – AgLaunch

: Thank you to Jayson Ryner, CEO of ReEnvision Ag, for participating in our annual Portfolio Showcase + Field Day. Their planter system holds the only provisional patent on a system of placing the seeds using a cone-shaped dibble to plant seeds in a precise location at an exact spacing. allows farmers to be the best stewards of the environment by reducing tillage and allowing the soil to be healthier.

: Thank you to Jayson Ryner, CEO of ReEnvision Ag, for participating in our annual Portfolio Showcase + Field Day. Their planter system holds the only provisional patent on a system of placing the seeds using a cone-shaped dibble to plant seeds in a precise location at an exact spacing. allows farmers to be the best stewards of the environment by reducing tillage and allowing the soil to be healthier.

: Stephanie Gable and Keith Vodrazka of EVOIA brought the fire to our annual Portfolio Showcase + Field Day in August, and it was such a pleasure to hear from them! Thank you for explaining the production-boosting benefits of fire-derived liquid biochar and its contribution to sustainable production agriculture.

: Thank you to Jayson Ryner, CEO of ReEnvision Ag, for participating in our annual Portfolio Showcase + Field Day. Their planter system holds the only provisional patent on a system of placing the seeds using a cone-shaped dibble to plant seeds in a precise location at an exact spacing. allows farmers to be the best stewards of the environment by reducing tillage and allowing the soil to be healthier.

: Carolyn King, Lead Agronomist for Continuum Ag, with Dr. Andrew Jordan, Consulting Engineer at Jordan Associates. Dr. Jordan is considered a pioneering sustainability advocate for the cotton industry,

: Carolyn King, Lead Agronomist for Continuum Ag

: Dr. Jiarui Li, CEO of Innatrix, updated farmers, investors and other stakeholders at the annual Portfolio Showcase + Field Day about their advancements with a biological platform to produce sustainable, eco-friendly biopesticides for currently untreatable crop diseases and pests. He also shared more details about recent grant awards from the National Science Foundation and the United Soybean Board. Congratulations to the Innatrix team!

: Dr. Jiarui Li, CEO of Innatrix, updated farmers, investors and other stakeholders at the annual Portfolio Showcase + Field Day about their advancements with a biological platform to produce sustainable, eco-friendly biopesticides for currently untreatable crop diseases and pests.

: Dr. Jiarui Li, CEO of Innatrix, updated farmers, investors and other stakeholders at the annual Portfolio Showcase + Field Day about their advancements with a biological platform to produce sustainable, eco-friendly biopesticides for currently untreatable crop diseases and pests. He also shared more details about recent grant awards from the National Science Foundation and the United Soybean Board. Congratulations to the Innatrix team!

: Spornado Team at Field Day 2023

: The Spornado Sampler is an innovative, easy-to-use crop disease early alert system that changes everything.

: The Spornado Sampler is an innovative, easy-to-use crop disease early alert system that changes everything.

: The Spornado Sampler is an innovative, easy-to-use crop disease early alert system that changes everything.

: Startup Founders Interact at AgLaunch Field Day In a day that included pitches, live demonstrations, and field visits, it was an interactive experience in technologies ranging from biologics and robotics to AI driven software and pest and plant disease monitoring platforms.

: It’s always great to learn more from our friends at Spornado, and we’re thankful CEO Kristine White and CTO Mike Saleh joined us at our annual Portfolio Showcase + Field Day in August. The Spornado Sampler is an innovative, easy-to-use crop disease early alert system that changes everything.

: Bioverse Labs was featured on the sunset farm tour portion of our Portfolio Showcase + Field Day. Francisco D’Elia, CEO, and Dylan Riffle, COO, described how they are automating species monitoring to help farmers and governments protect food supplies and human health. Innovative technologies like this offer the promise of more targeted insect control, reduced pesticide usage and more effective management of invasive species to protect our food, fiber and fuel supply.

: Bioverse Labs was featured on the sunset farm tour portion of our Portfolio Showcase + Field Day. Francisco D’Elia, CEO, and Dylan Riffle, COO, described how they are automating species monitoring to help farmers and governments protect food supplies and human health. Innovative technologies like this offer the promise of more targeted insect control, reduced pesticide usage and more effective management of invasive species to protect our food, fiber and fuel supply.

: Bioverse Labs was featured on the sunset farm tour portion of our Portfolio Showcase + Field Day. Francisco D’Elia, CEO, and Dylan Riffle, COO, described how they are automating species monitoring to help farmers and governments protect food supplies and human health. Innovative technologies like this offer the promise of more targeted insect control, reduced pesticide usage and more effective management of invasive species to protect our food, fiber and fuel supply.

: Francisco D’Elia, CEO, and Dylan Riffle, COO,

: The Dickens Ag team showed up and showed out at our annual Portfolio Showcase + Field Day! Jeff Dickens and team brought their Rantizo drone spraying system to demonstrate how it enables more production with less. Rantizo offers a complete turnkey system for individuals, custom applicators and ag retailers to provide drone custom application services for their customers for more effective and efficient impact. Fun fact: Rantizo participated as an early-stage startup in the 2017 AgLaunch365 accelerator in Memphis, TN. Just five years later and about 150 miles away, TN’s Henry County Co-op applied 5,000 acres with their Rantizo system.

: The Dickens Ag team showed up and showed out at our annual Portfolio Showcase + Field Day! Jeff Dickens and team brought their Rantizo drone spraying system to demonstrate how it enables more production with less. Rantizo offers a complete turnkey system for individuals, custom applicators and ag retailers to provide drone custom application services for their customers for more effective and efficient impact. Fun fact: Rantizo participated as an early-stage startup in the 2017 AgLaunch365 accelerator in Memphis, TN. Just five years later and about 150 miles away, TN’s Henry County Co-op applied 5,000 acres with their Rantizo system.

: We were happy to feature Jon Jackson, CEO of Global Neighbor, at our Portfolio Showcase + Field Day so farmers could learn how farm trials and farmer input has driven product development of their environmentally friendly Directed Energy (DE) technologies. Farmers, investors and other stakeholders had a chance to see how their Weed Seed Destroyer works to kill weed seeds. This is a promising solution for weed resistance issues many farmers face!

: We were happy to feature Jon Jackson, CEO of Global Neighbor, at our Portfolio Showcase + Field Day so farmers could learn how farm trials and farmer input has driven product development of their environmentally friendly Directed Energy (DE) technologies. Farmers, investors and other stakeholders had a chance to see how their Weed Seed Destroyer works to kill weed seeds. This is a promising solution for weed resistance issues many farmers face!

: We were happy to feature Jon Jackson, CEO of Global Neighbor, at our Portfolio Showcase + Field Day so farmers could learn how farm trials and farmer input has driven product development of their environmentally friendly Directed Energy (DE) technologies. Farmers, investors and other stakeholders had a chance to see how their Weed Seed Destroyer works to kill weed seeds. This is a promising solution for weed resistance issues many farmers face!

: John Mascoe, CEO of Leaftech Ag, was a part of arena demonstrations and had quite a captive audience at our Portfolio Showcase + Field Day! Their technology features a handheld “Digital Lab” that geo-locates and analyzes a plant’s leaf for nutrient composition. This on-demand tissue analysis technology provides 30x more site-specific data points at 3% of the cost in 3-5 minutes vs. 3-5 days as compared to current methods.

: John Mascoe, CEO of Leaftech Ag, was a part of arena demonstrations and had quite a captive audience at our Portfolio Showcase + Field Day! Their technology features a handheld “Digital Lab” that geo-locates and analyzes a plant’s leaf for nutrient composition. This on-demand tissue analysis technology provides 30x more site-specific data points at 3% of the cost in 3-5 minutes vs. 3-5 days as compared to current methods.

: John Mascoe, CEO of Leaftech Ag, was a part of arena demonstrations and had quite a captive audience at our Portfolio Showcase + Field Day! Their technology features a handheld “Digital Lab” that geo-locates and analyzes a plant’s leaf for nutrient composition. This on-demand tissue analysis technology provides 30x more site-specific data points at 3% of the cost in 3-5 minutes vs. 3-5 days as compared to current methods.

: Thank you, Maria Labreveux, for representing Lepidext at the AgLaunch Portfolio Showcase + Field Day! Maria shared with participants how Lepidext is revolutionizing insect pest control with their biopesticides that are easy to use, effective and species-specific as a safe solution for the farmer, the consumer and the environment.

: Thank you, Maria Labreveux, for representing Lepidext at the AgLaunch Portfolio Showcase + Field Day! Maria shared with participants how Lepidext is revolutionizing insect pest control with their biopesticides that are easy to use, effective and species-specific as a safe solution for the farmer, the consumer and the environment.

: Dave Krog, CEO of Salin 247, made the trip from Iowa to demonstrate their lightweight, small-scale equipment at our Portfolio Showcase + Field Day. They are literally autonomously driving the future of agriculture! Dave shared how farmer input has shaped the product design and development from tires to batteries.

: Dave Krog, CEO of Salin 247, made the trip from Iowa to demonstrate their lightweight, small-scale equipment at our Portfolio Showcase + Field Day. They are literally autonomously driving the future of agriculture! Dave shared how farmer input has shaped the product design and development from tires to batteries.

: Stephanie Gable and Keith Vodrazka of EVOIA brought the fire to our annual Portfolio Showcase + Field Day in August, and it was such a pleasure to hear from them! Thank you for explaining the production-boosting benefits of fire-derived liquid biochar and its contribution to sustainable production agriculture.

: Ben Johnson, Grain Weevil Chief Technical Officer, shared the latest updates on safety features and progress to get to market for Grain Weevil.