Brian Klepke

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.

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.

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.

Clear Frontier Ag Management LLC acquires and develops farmlands. The company was founded by Justin Bruch in 2019 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SG Holdings LLC offers services to the agriculture industry. The company is headquartered in Harrisonburg, VA.

S2G Ventures LLC (S2G Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Victor E. Friedberg. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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.

5AM Venture Management LLC is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2002 by Terry M. Graunke and Paul G. Yovovich. 5AM Venture Management LLC is headquartered in Chicago.

Diabetic Care Rx LLC provides customized nutritional therapy to patients with end stage renal disease. It focuses on providing patient-specific IDPN and IPN therapies that can help increase a patient’s Serum Albumin and decrease the risk of fluid retention, inflammation, infection, hospitalizations, mortality and morbidity. The firm’s pharmacists deliver patient-specific nutritional formulations based on nutritional lab values provided by renal dietitians. Its services include NutriTrak, NutriPlan 7 Oral Protein Jumpstart, Patient Plus and Clinical Support. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Pompano Beach, FL.

Earth Science produces value-added products for the retail, landscapers, golf, sports, lawn care, and forest fire restoration markets. Its products include fact acting lime, gypsum, iron, and lawn kit. The company was founded by Michael D. Krysiak in 1999 and is headquartered in Green Bay, WI.

BRM Holgings LLC engages in facilitating the reuse of industrial byproducts. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

PSE Investments LLC provides investment services. The private company is based in Taylor, MI. The CEO of the company is Patrick D. Mayette.

Skyline Global Partners LLC (Skyline Global Partners) is a private equity firm founded by Sachin Gupta, Christopher E. Freeburg and Ross J. Christianson in 2010. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Lighthouse Global Network, Inc. provides innovative design, communications, and marketing solutions services. The company was founded by Paul G. Yovovich and Terry Graunke and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

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.