Horst Ninnemann

Cultivian Ventures LLC (Cultivian Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Sandbox Holdings LLC founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Descartes Labs, Inc. is a predictive intelligence company. It offers artificial intelligence, machine learning, image recognition, satellites and deep learning. The company was founded by Brendt Wohlberg, Mark Johnson, Steven Brumby, Mark M. Mathis, Mike Warren, Rick Chartrand and Tim Kelton in 2014 and is headquartered in Santa Fe, NM.

K-UTEC AG Salt Technologies is a German engineering company that specializes in researching, developing, advising, planning, testing, and delivering key components for the salt and mineral extraction processing industry. The private company is based in Sondershausen, Germany. The company works on projects and tasks of any scale all over the world. The company was founded in 2008 by Heiner Marx, who has been the CEO since 2008.

Sociedad Punta de Lobos SA produces and distributes salt. It markets salt under the brand name Sal Lobos in Chile. The group consists of three subsidiaries: International Salt Company LLC, Empresa Maritima Estado SA, and Salina Diamante Branco Ltda. Punta de Lobos was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Las Condes, Chile.

K+S Minerals & Agriculture GmbH operate as a mining company. It offers soil conditioners, as well as liquid and foliar fertilizers. The company is headquartered in Kassel, Germany.

Potash One, Inc.’s principal business is the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral and diamond properties. The company’s sole mineral property asset was an option to earn 50% interest in the Stope Baby property. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Corvium, Inc. engages in the development of fist synthetic biology-based bacterial monitoring platform. Its product include Control-Pro, an EMP automation software that converts data into action. The company was founded by Bob Langer, Timothy Lu, Michael Koeris, Brett Chevalier, Micah Rosenbloom, Tanguy Chau, and James J. Collins in March 2009 and is headquartered in Woburnc, MA.

Novogy, Inc. delivers bio-based solutions for production of food, fuel, and chemicals. It offers Robust a proprietary integration of molecular biology and process engineering that develops process competitiveness and reduces the need for antibiotics. The company was founded by Ginja R. Collins and Robert Colin South on April 17, 2009 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

AquaSpy, Inc. designs, manufactures, and distributes moisture sensors. Its solutions include AgSpy analytics, moisture gauge, water and energy savings, chemical savings and process control. The company was founded in 1998 by Peter Moller and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Harvest Automation, Inc. designs and produces robotics for manual labor applications. It enables growers to create a sustainable workforce of robots working safely alongside people to increase efficiency, reliability and plant quality. The firm’s robots are powering the next innovation surge in agriculture and has engineered the first practical, scalable robots for a range of agricultural applications. The company was founded by Clara Vu, Paul E. Sandin, Charles M. Grinnell and Joseph L. Jones in 2008 and is headquartered in Billerica, MA.

Conservis Corp. engages in the design, development, and operation of a cloud-based platform which enable farm owners and managers to create operational plans and drive field activities. The firm offers Conservis platform. The company was founded by Patrick Christie, Mike Borman, and Eric H. Jackson in 2008 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is a research institution that specializes in magnetic confinement experiments using the tokamak approach. The company is based in Princeton, NJ. The company is ultimately controlled by the Government of the United States of America.

Latrobe Specialty Steel Co. manufactures and distributes alloys. The company was founded on November 16, 2006 and is headquartered in Latrobe, PA.

Whitehead Associates, Inc. manufactures and markets electrical products. The private company is based in Charlotte, NC.

Environmental Operating Solutions, Inc. provides solutions for biological contaminant removal in the wastewater treatment process. ITS solutions include sensors and instrumentation audit, diagnostic process analysis, performance monitoring and data management and process optimization. The company was founded by Steven H. Boyd, Michael Moreau and A. R. M. Azad in 2003 and is headquartered in Bourne, MA.

Ameropa AG engages in the production of grains and fertilizers. It specializes in physical trading of fertilizers and grains, supported by auxiliary assets, such as silos, warehouses or port facilities as well as upstream assets, such as fertilizer production plants. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Binningen, Switzerland.