Creating a better future for people and the planet.
Sandbox, in partnership with Cultivian Ventures, is among the earliest investors in the food & agriculture sector. Cultivian Sandbox portfolio companies leverage technology to drive improvements across the value chain, advancing regenerative agriculture, resource use efficiency, food waste mitigation, supply chain transparency, novel ingredient discovery and manufacturing and innovative consumer brands.
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Portfolio
On-farm diagnostic test tools for the early detection of subclinical mastitis in dairy cows
Proprietary breed of chicken grown in a pasture-raised environment, allowing for superior taste, diverse feed and animal welfare
Offers a more sustainable and premium coffee experience at-home and on-the-go
Making biomanufacturing a digital experience
A next generation biomanufacturing platform harnessing cell-free enzymes
Turning images into action through deep learning artificial intelligence
Distribution marketplace for excess and imperfect produce
Designing nature-derived, animal-free protein ingredients
Genetic engineering and advanced plant breeding for molecular farming.
Developer of an API platform for agriculture machinery, satellite imagery, weather, soil and operations data
Enriching depleted soil with sustainable alternatives to chemical-based fertilizers
Combining artificial intelligence and genomics to discover and unlock natural bioactive peptides with extraordinary health benefits
Reference database of environmental microbiome signatures to track and authenticate global supply chains
Combines molecular biology with modern computational power to develop products that help plants use soil nutrients more effectively
Evidence-based nutrition advancing health through the gut microbiome
Leading an innovative, sustainable peptide-based revolution in crop protection
Developing a spectrometer that can be used to accurately and cheaply measure soil carbon in-situ, with the goal of achieving similar accuracy to core sampling
News
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Yard Stick secures $225 million in grants from the USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Initiative
SEPTEMBER 21 | 2022
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Copper Cow Coffee Raises $8.5 Million in Series A Funding Round
MAY 4 | 2021
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Sound Ag | How Biological Products Are Poised to Make Their Mark in U.S. Agriculture
NOVEMBER 15 | 2020
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Culture Bio | C&EN’s 2020 10 Start-Ups to Watch
NOVEMBER 15 | 2020
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FarmlandFinder Launches Marketplace for Farmland
NOVEMBER 3 | 2020
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Cooks | Chicken, Chicken! Blue Apron Vet Matt Wadiak Is Raising A Better Bird
OCTOBER 22 | 2020
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Leaf Raises $2M to Scale Unified Farm Data API
SEPTEMBER 22 | 2020
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Full Harvest | Fixing the Covid Food Disaster Can Slash Climate Emissions
AUGUST 13 | 2020
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Phylagen | New Test Allows People to Swab for Coronavirus on Surfaces in Public Places
JULY 30 | 2020
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Geltor Raises $91.3 Million Series B Funding To Accelerate Development Of Animal-Free Ingredients
JULY 27 | 2020
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Cooks Venture Raises $10 million in Series A Funding
JULY 22 | 2020
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Cooks Venture Raises $10 Million in Series A Round
July 22 | 2020
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Descartes Labs wins AFWERX Phase II SBIR
July 8 | 2020
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Vestaron earned EPA Green Chemistry Challenge Award for Bioinsecticide SPEAR
June 16 | 2020
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Phylagen Named as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum
June 16 | 2020
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Full Harvest named to Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards
April 28 | 2020
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Phylagen Uses DNA to Make Supply Chain Sustainability Transparent (Bloomberg)
April 23 | 2020
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Nuritas receives grant from Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) to identify therapeutic peptides for the treatment of patients with COVID-19 (Business Wire)
April 22 | 2020
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Sound Agriculture Announces Adam Litle as Chief Executive Officer (Yahoo Finance)
April 16 | 2020
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Geltor Announces First Biocompatible Elastin for Skincare Market (PR Newswire)
April 14 | 2020
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Descartes Labs Unveils its Advanced Mineral Exploration Package (Yahoo Finance)
March 2 | 2020
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Sound Ag | Epigenetics: A New Plant Breeding Technology (SeedWorld)
February 13 | 2020
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Sound Agriculture | Three Years of Trials Validate the Effectiveness of Source™ by Sound Agriculture (Benzinga)
February 13 | 2020
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Newly released satellite data from Descartes Labs reveals the patterns of record warmth in 2019 (The Washington Post)
January 29 | 2020
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Geltor CEO, Alex Lorestani, highlights scaling objectives to fulfill Gelita collaboration (Nutrition Insight)
January 20 | 2020
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Geltor – CPG industry veteran Gina Boswell joins Geltor’s Board of Directors (PR Newswire)
December 3 | 2019
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Geltor – Cruelty-Free Beauty Products, Biodesigned in Silicon Valley (Forbes)
November 6 | 2019
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Full Harvest welcomes Former USDA Secretary & UNICEF Director, Ann Veneman, to their board (AgFunder)
October 29 | 2019
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Descartes Lab – Governor of New Mexico, Michelle Lujan Grisham, and CEO of Descartes Labs, Mark Johnson write Op-Ed for Wired
October 2 | 2019
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Neogen licenses food safety data analytics platform from Corvium
September 24 | 2019
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Full-Harvest | Christine Moseley, Founder of Full Harvest, named to Inc.’s Female Founder 100 list
September 16 | 2019
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Nuritas – Farm Tech Meets Fin-Tech — Grain Silos And Data Silos
August 20 | 2019
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Nuritas | Nora Khaldi, CSO & Founder of Nuritas, featured in ‘9 Women Entrepreneurs You Must Know
August 12 | 2019
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These Tech Start-ups are Changing What it Means to Farm (World Economic Forum)
July 1 | 2019
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Descartes Labs discusses their use of AI technology to help spot wildfires faster (CNN)
March 19 | 2019
