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Tim Hyde presents Swan Systems at our Ag | Food Tech 10, Workshop at Bonny Doon.

SWAN Systems is the world's most advanced irrigation technology company on a mission to create a sustainable future for irrigators by optimizing water use. Its cutting-edge water management software and years of field experience enable us to assist farmers, commercial irrigators, and water managers in making the most out of every drop of water.

With SWAN, users can schedule irrigation up to seven days in advance, manage nutrient applications, monitor crop health, and create water and nutrient budgets. Swan's software is configurable and hardware-independent, making it easy for growers to make data-driven decisions that improve crop quality, sustainability, and profitability.

Ethan Rublee presents Farm-ng at our Ag | Food Tech 10, Workshop at Bonny Doon.

Farm-ng is building general purpose off-road robotics hardware and software products. The company's mission is to transform the food system by democratizing access for the smallest farmer to cutting-edge robotics technology.

The Amiga is farm-ng's flagship product, a modular, affordable electric vehicle system for farms big and small. The Amiga benefits from gps-denied vision navigation technologies developed by farm-ng for the landing of the Blue Ghost spacecraft on a precise location on the Moon's surface.

Zane Starkewolfe presents Optimized Foods at our Ag | Food Tech 10, Workshop at Bonny Doon.

Optimized Foods is harnessing biology to make better, more sustainable foods. We are unlocking the cell-cultured food category using a cost-effective, scalable production platform, and by targeting premium products for a top-down approach to market entry. Our first product is Cultured Caviar - growing delicious, nutritious caviar, without the fish. But our platform opens up possibilities for partners across the food system.

Victor Chapela presents Suggestic at our Ag | Food Tech 10, Workshop at Bonny Doon.

Suggestic is a SaaS platform for personalized nutrition and Tele-Wellness. Companies in the Health, Wellness, and Nutrition industries use their white label Apps and modular technology to deliver at scale and increase revenue streams. With Suggestic, they can combine lab tests, wearables, coaching, telehealth, supplements, and food delivery into a unified user experience.

Windfall Bio is a nature-based agricultural technology company that harnesses methane-eating microbes to transform harmful methane into organic soil nutrients on site. Methane's accumulation in the atmosphere has accelerated rapidly and methane is now responsible for over half of current atmospheric warming and most methane that is emitted today is too dilute to capture economically.

Addressing these methane emissions, one of the largest and most underappreciated problems for global warming, is the most impactful strategy available today to address near-term climate change. To do this, Windfall Bio is developing the first-ever solution for capturing and transforming climate-harming methane emissions into living organic fertilizer. Windfall Bio uses proprietary nature-based technology that enriches natural methane-eating microbes (MEMs) from the soil. These organisms consume methane directly while also capturing nitrogen from the air to produce an organic fertilizer with potentially better bioavailability, reduced runoff, and reduced downstream emissions compared to synthetic ammonia fertilizers. The result is a living organic fertilizer that is more natural for soils and for the environment, available at the same price as current organic fertilizers. This practice enables sustainable farming practices for both large and small farms by providing a low-cost, low-maintenance solution to capture methane emissions.

Doon Insights' Managing Director Nick Sramek sits down with Shely Aronov, Founder and CEO of Inner Plant, and Amy Wu, journalist and author of From Farms to Incubators. Nick begins by asking Amy about her book which profiles female leaders in agtech and food tech, plus inquires about the state of female startup founders. Shely opens up about her company, Inner Plant, which codes crops to communicate when stressed by pathogens or drought.
For more information about Amy's work, check out her page at https://www.farmstoincubators.com/.
More information on Shely and her company can be found at https://innerplant.com/.
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