AgroSpheres

Inspiring visit today with BASF Agricultural Solutions and AgroSpheres Great technology and I’m excited about the potential to work together to bring innovative BioSolutions to the world’s farmers! Thanks for the hospitality!

AgroSpheres had an outstanding year with a new facility in production following a $25M Series B round, and a partnership with FMC Corporation. We caught up with Co-Founder Reese Blackwell to hear more on the importance of external R&D partnerships, the start-up's upcoming product launch, and advice for fellow innovators raising capital.  

🌿Recap of our plenary session Accelerating Change: The Rise of the Ecopreneur. How can a new generation of ecopreneurs accelerate the transition to a net zero and a nature positive economy by building businesses that prioritize sustainability alongside profitability? 🎯You have to be fearless when building a company; don’t be intimidated by people in powerful structures who look and sound different to you. 🎯Learn from your suppliers’ values, remain connected to every level of your company and community and embrace those who challenge you. 🎯Policy creates the necessary framework for going forward. Policymakers are looking for innovation, so utilize their support. 🎯Creating a business is capital intensive - enter entrepreneurship competitions, get your face known to sustainably fund managers, investors and policymakers. With Jean-Claude Burgelman, Director, FRONTIERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION Sofi Khwaja-Horekens, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Thesus Ameer Shakeel, Founder & CTO, AgroSpheres Barney Swan, CEO, ClimateForce Moderator Professor David Gann CBE, Chairman, UK Industrial Fusion Solutions Ltd. and Vice-Chair of the Board, Villars Institute Foundation

Grateful for a very productive Euro trip meeting our partners, testing out our manufacturing facility equipment and getting caught in the Euros 🇨🇭 We grately value the partnerships we are building to realize our vision of a future built by Nature’s technologies Reese Blackwell Joseph T. Frank

Thanks to The Villars Institute for having Zebra Impact Ventures for the Villars Symposium 2024! - I've been honored to moderate an intergenerational workshop on how to scale innovations that can help us achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to education and the environment UpLink - World Economic Forum & Allison Voss The scaling of innovation means taking a proven solution or new invention and expanding its reach and impact by increasing its adoption, production, or distribution. For example, there are 12 climate technologies that could potentially reduce as much as 90 percent of man-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions if deployed at scale. Congrats to all the participants. - Then, Zebra was more than happy to bring AgroSpheres (from Virginia, USA) in Switzerland in order to inspire next generations around ecopreneurship and how building businesses that prioritize sustainability alongside profitability and also entails systems thinking to develop innovative products and services that reduce environmental impact, promote resource conservation, and support social responsibility. Ameer Shakeel was the perfect illustration on how new generation of ecopreneurs accelerate the in accelerating the transition to a net zero and nature positive economy. Thanks a lot to Lee Howell , Karen E. Wilson & Emma Benameur, MBA for the opportunity. #impactinvesting #agritech #sustainableagriculture #agriculture #sustainablefinance Mirabaud Asset Management The Villars Institute World Economic Forum #VillarsFellows #VillarsSymposium #naturepositive #netzero #biodiversity

Agrosphere's unique encapsulation technology has garnered the attention of the agriculture industry. Novel encapsulation used in crop protection is critical to increasing efficacy, sustainability, and farmer ROI. The controlled release of all types of active ingredients - including biologicals, fertilizers, pesticides, stimulants - through encapsulation has the potential to shape the future of our food system. Excited for the collaboration between AgroSpheres and FMC Corporation. Nice work Mark S. Brooks, Lisa Emele Hoffman, Payam Pourtaheri!

We are very excited to announce AgroSpheres collaboration with FMC Corporation. It was great working with Lisa Emele Hoffman on the agreement. We are excited to launch our partnership with the FMC team. Thank you Lisa and FMC team!

We are so excited to kick off this collaboration with AgroSpheres ! A big thank you to Reese Blackwell for working so diligently with me on this agreement.

We are so excited to kick off this collaboration with AgroSpheres ! A big thank you to Reese Blackwell for working so diligently with me on this agreement.

Upstream Ag Professional - Week of May 12th 2024 This week's essential news and analysis for agribusiness leaders includes: •Jevons Paradox, Complement Disruption and Precision Applications in Agriculture: Implications for Crop Protection Manufacturers and Beyond | Upstream Ag Insights Ron Adner Corteva Agriscience Syngenta InnerPlant •Seeing Into the Future of Farm Autonomy | SwarmFarm Robotics Tenacious Ventures Sarah Nolet •Precision Ag and Patents: ‘Farmers increasingly interested in more precise planting’ | Precision Planting John Deere Blue River Technology •FMC Corporation announces multi-year collaboration with AgroSpheres | Payam Pourtaheri Ameer Shakeel •AgZen’s Vishnu Jayaprakash on spraying, praying, and sticky droplets + Distribution Strategies •GenerativeAI and Agriculture: Generating (Somewhat) New Biology with AI + AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of molecules + Phi-3: Redefining What’s Possible with SLMs | Microsoft Ranveer Chandra Google •Venture Capital’s Space for Sheep + more! Check out the link in the first comment. #agtech #agribusiness #agriculture #strategy #innovation Upstream Ag Ventures