Sharon Berberich

Chlorogen, Inc. develops plant-made drugs and vaccines for the treatment and prevention of human diseases. It provides several therapeutic proteins for high-mortality diseases of ovarian and pancreatic cancer. The company was founded by Henry Daniell in 2001 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO

Plastomics operates as biotechnology company, which develops chloroplast genetic for next generation of high performing crops. The company was founded by Ralph Bock and Jeff Staub in 2016 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

The Yield Lab Manager LLC (Yield Lab Manager) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Thad W Simons and Thomas Adamitis. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Pluton Biosciences LLC engages in the research and mining of beneficial microbes in the soil. Its products are used in pesticide, agriculture, pharmaceutical, and bioremediation industry. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

MotorLeaf, Inc. provides hardware and software for growers. It offers Motorleaf hardware, a plug n' play solution that enables users to decide which part of grow operation user could control/monitor and automate; and Motorleaf Operating System, an accessible online or offline solution on wireless enabled device, such as desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone. The company was founded by Ramen Dutta, Ally Monk and Scott Dickson Dagondon in June 2015 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Aker Technologies, Inc. develops and markets the mortgage-backed securities trading systems MBS expert system. It offers akerscourt, imagery, analytics, and aker pest network services. The company is headquartered in Winnebago, MN.

Impetus Agriculture, LLC is an American company that specializes in growing commercial biotech crops and developing bio pesticide formulations. The company was founded in 2018, and Martha Schlicher has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Kaiima Bio Agritech Ltd. provides breeding and agro-biotechnology, agro technology and energy services. The firm offers food, feed crops and castormax solutions. It uses its enhanced ploidy platform to increase crop productivity. The company was founded by Doron Gal, Zohar Benner and Amit Avidov, Dror Maayany and Alon Lerner in 2007 and is headquartered in Lower Galilee, Israel.

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is a non-profit research institute founded in 1998 with a mission to improve the human condition through plant science. The non-profit company's research, education, and outreach efforts focus on the intersection of food security and the environment, positioning St. Louis as a world center for plant science. The company is based in St. Louis, MO. The center is funded through competitive grants from various sources, including the National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The center's principal investigators conduct fundamental research that leads to useful crops and products that solve real problems.