Desmond R. Jimenez

Citizens JMP Securities LLC (Citizens JMP) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Joseph Jolson in 2002 and was formerly JMP Securities LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of JMP Holding LLC, ultimately held by Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG). Citizens JMP provides equity research, institutional brokerage, and investment banking services to public and private growth companies and their investors. They are a research-driven, growth-oriented firm that provides services to small- and mid-sized companies and the institutions that invest in them. The firm specializes in four high-growth sectors of the economy: technology, healthcare, financial services, and real estate.

Loveland Products, Inc. manufactures agricultural and professional products. It offers seed treatment products, plant nutrition products, fertilizers, adjuvants, and crop protection products. The firm also provides chemistry products, including herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, defoliants, and PGRs; and nutritional products, such as biological catalysts, enhanced macronutrients, enhanced micronutrients, micronutrients, nutritional enhancements, starters, and turf and ornamental products. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Loveland, CO.

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.

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

Burril LLC (Burrill) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 1994 by G. Steven. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MPM Bioimpact Inc (MPM Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Ansbert K. Gadicke and Luke B. Evnin. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

Egg Innovations LLC engages in the packaging and distribution of eggs. The firm offers cage free, organic, and omega 3 certified eggs. It supports the farmers of America in treatment of animals. The company was founded by John Brunnquell in 1999 and is headquartered in Warsaw, IN.

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.

BioGenerator (Venture Capital) (BioGenerator) is a venture capital subsidiary of BioGenerator founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

CureDuchenne provides funding for research projects and organizations. The company was founded in 2003 by Paul Miller and Debra Miller and is located in Newport Beach, CA.

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.

Agricen is an agricultural technology company delivering biochemical-based solutions for efficient and sustainable plant nutrition. Their solutions help growers adapt to the rapidly changing demands of modern agriculture by providing the most effective tools to increase nutrient availability and uptake, improve sustainability and increase yields. Helping Growers Meet Today’s Agricultural Challenges. Around the globe, commercial growers are facing increasing costs, the need for greater productivity and the demand for more sustainable agricultural practices. Agricen is committed to delivering the next generation of innovative plant nutrition products—ones derived from biological and biochemical sources—to help growers meet these challenges. Their products are biochemical tools that are designed to work within a grower’s established fertilizer program, making nutrients more available to the root system and stimulating greater plant growth than fertilizer alone. By incorporating Agricen’s products into their current fertilizer programs, growers can enhance their nutrient use efficiency and increase their yields economically and sustainably. Agricen’s products are innovative biochemical fertilizer catalysts that are distributed under the Company’s proprietary SoilBuilder and NutriLife brands, as well under the Accomplish LM and Titan PBA brands distributed by Loveland Products, Inc. (a subsidiary of Crop Production Services, Inc.). Tested and proven in over 600 field and greenhouse studies conducted by Agricen, universities, the USDA and other third-party evaluators, their products have been shown to perform consistently over a broad range of plant species, soil types, application methods and grower practices, including both certified organic and conventional production practices. Growers who incorporate Agricen’s technology into their programs generally see improved yield responses and reduced fertilizer losses, year after year.

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.

Agricen Sciences is an applied sciences research company leading the development of novel microbial and biochemical solutions for plant nutrition and health. The company’s cutting-edge research programs on soil-plant systems are yielding new insights for crop nutrition, soil science and nutrient management. By applying this knowledge, Agricen Sciences is developing innovative solutions to address the sustainability and production challenges facing modern agriculture. Advancing Soil-Plant System Research to Improve Agricultural Applications. At Agricen Sciences, their dedicated science team and network of third-party and university partners continue to garner attention for the research and development of new technologies with the potential to address the challenges facing modern agriculture. Using the PlantomicsTM system, which applies the integrated disciplines of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics and phenomics to the study of plant nutrition and health, they have a vast opportunity to unlock and apply new technologies and practices to enhance grower productivity. From investigating better ways to manage the complexities of the soil ecosystem to seeking a more advanced understanding of the effects novel agents may have in stimulating plant response, their goal at Agricen Sciences is to advance the applications of science for the benefit of growers worldwide.

CoverCress, Inc. operates as a renewable fuel company. It develops and commercializes field pennycress as an oilseed crop that is used to produces oil for industrial and renewable fuels, and meal for nutritious livestock feed. The company was founded by Vijay Chauhan, Dennis M. Plummer and Mike Roth and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Myotherix, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company focuses on the development of therapies. It focuses on the development of innovative therapies for patients suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other muscle disorders for which there are no treatments. The company was founded by John Kincaid and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

Bamboo Therapeutics, Inc. develops gene therapy products for central nervous system and neuromuscular diseases. Its therapeutic platform is based on the use of Adeno-associated virus as a gene therapy vehicle. The company’s proprietary technologies include chimeric vectors, self-complementary vectors, and dual glycan receptor. It focuses on the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, giant axonal neuropathy, Friedreich ataxia, and Canavan disease. Bamboo Therapeutics was founded by Richard Jude Samulski, Sheila A. Mikhail, Josh Grieger, Xiao Xiao, and Paola Leone in December 2014 and is headquartered in Chapel Hill, NC.

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.

Telluslabs, Inc. operates geographic insights platform that combines satellite imagery with a machine learning platform to answer critical, time-sensitive economic and environmental questions. The company was founded by David Potere and Mark Friedl and is headquartered in Allston, MA.

Amfora, Inc. develops biotechnologies for nutritionally enhanced forage crops. The company was founded by Jonathan Burbaum and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

GreenSight Agronomics, Inc. engages in the provision of turf grass remote sensing and analysis. Its platform includes a suite of autonomous drone hardware and sensors for remote sensing and mapping, as well as software for data processing, visualization, and assessment. It offers the GreenSight Flyer, GreenSight Sense, and the GreenSight Mission Control. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

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.

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.

GroundTruth Ag, Inc. operates as an investment holding company. The company is headquartered in Raleigh, NC.

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

Fidelity Labs LLC develops investing application for smartwatch. The company was founded on 2005 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Tabard Venture Capita LLC (Tabard Venture Capita) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Ryan D. Teksten. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Trinds LLC operates as a contract research organization which conducts research in neuromuscular and rare disorders. It offers solutions in clinical operations, data management, patient science liaison services, study measurements, and biostatistics. The company was founded by Avital Cnaan, Heather Gordish-Dressman and Eric Hoffman and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

IBI Ag - Innovative Bio Insecticides Ltd. engages in the development of chemical and biological crop-protection solutions. The company was founded by Rony Oren Benaroya and Amir Ayali in April 2017 and is headquartered in Misgav Regional Council, Israel.

Vesigen, Inc. develops groundbreaking therapeutic products directed to intracellular targets using a scalable and extracellular vesicle delivery technology. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Chrysalabs develops real-time, portable and accurate soil fertility assessment technology. The company was founded by Samuel Fournier, Gabriel Mangeat, Jacques Michiels, and Benjamin De Leener is and headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Kiwi Technologies, Inc., also known as Guardian Agriculture, is an American company that specializes in EVTOL-powered precision agriculture. The company is based in the United States and their mission is to define a new age of crop protection, empowering growers and their partners to refine their chemical use and grow more with less. The company offers data-driven, crop protection as a service, helping farmers grow sustainably and profitably. The company is backed by some of the world's largest agribusiness leaders and are transforming crop protection with the first integrated, US-manufactured, commercial-scale EVTOL system purpose-built for agriculture. The company was founded by Jeff Feldman Sparks and Adam Bercu, with Adam Bercu serving as the CEO since incorporation.