From the Vault: Mark Wootton on Carbon-Neutral Farming at Jigsaw Farms

2022 was a wild year– both in the world of agtech broadly, and for us here at Tenacious Ventures. We’ve covered a lot of ground, spanning everything from scaling soil tech, to the future of ag marketi...

22 Dec 202215min

There is a lot of momentum in agtech right now around investing at the intersection of ag and climate– and inevitably, many conversations start with a focus on how to measure impact. The problem we’ve...

14 Dec 202238min

We’ve talked and thought a lot about autonomy this year, and despite what we think are some promising developments, overall, we continue to be struck by just how hard it is to bring solutions to marke...

30 Nov 202237min

We’ve been thinking a lot recently about how much the world of agtech has changed over the last two decades, and how companies, and more importantly, their customers, are adapting to an increasingly d...

16 Nov 202234min

Today we're tackling part two of our future of Nitrogen fertilizer discussion, focusing on the realm of business models and strategies. We chat with two companies exploring how we might reimagine the ...

2 Nov 202231min

This is the first episode in our series on the future of fertilizer, starting with Nitrogen - the N in NPK.Russia’s war in Ukraine has collided with natural gas supply chain disruptions and sent the p...

19 Okt 202234min

For a year that has already seen so much downside for US farmers in the form of extreme weather - from droughts to soaring temperatures - there’s another risk looming: rising interest rates. Adapting ...

12 Okt 202230min

While early-stage agtech tends to play in the venture world, it pays to check in with how folks sitting in banking think about their role as partners to startups. Traditional lenders can draw on the b...

5 Okt 202228min