Venture capital fund company Radicle Growth selects innovative ag and food tech start-ups for investment.

“We have about 1,000 companies a year that apply for funding from us and it’s not just about the funding, it’s really the company- building aspects that we bring to bear,” said Kirk Haney, managing partner of Radicle Growth in San Diego, California. He said innovation and technology is the best way to feed a growing world population and accelerate bringing it to market.

“We created this concept called the Radicle Challenge where in a very short time frame we can leverage our capital, our ecosystem and partnership and specifically our partnership with Nutrien to attract the best entrepreneurs in a specific geography or a specific vertical where we think that it needs more attention,” said Haney.

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