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• $108 Million in investment & revenues and 215 direct and indirect jobs created
• Built global innovation sourcing platform across 12 countries
• Health Care India Netherlands Brazil
UK Singapore Denmark
REDUCING POST-
HARVEST WASTE
REDUCING PEST
DAMAGE AND BREEDING HIGHER
LOSSES YIELDING CROPS
5.5 TIMES AS
MUCH LAND
EXPANSION
WOULD HAVE BEEN
NEEDED
Innovations can reduce the
pressure for land-use-change
7B 9B
2015 2050
Source: “The Quadruple Squeeze: Defining the safe operating space for freshwater use to achieve a triply green revolution in the
Anthropocene,” Rockstrom & Karlberg, Royal Swedish Academy of Science 2010. S. Dutia Kauffman Report
Source: SAM “Harvesting Opportunities for a Sustainable Food Supply”; S. Dutia Kauffman Report
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OUR PHILOSOPHY & VISION
Leverage a biological process at the point of production to
recycle the manure into organic protein and fertilizer and
scale this to handle the World’s manure.
7 6 5
Wells Fargo
Foundation
Processors Startups
USDA; Reduces Grower
Land Grant Productivity
Univ.
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Creating a new path to bring innovation to Midwest producers
Today New Path
Global Innovation
Coops/ Equip. sourced to meet
Input Retailers suppliers producer needs
Companies
Early Adopters
Producers Drivers of innovation
Receivers of Innovation
Processors Growers
USDA; Startups
Land Grant
Univ.
Early
Adopter
Innovation Grower
Deployment Innovation
Community
(EAGIC)
EAGIC:
• Growers as drivers of innovation
• Magnet for grower-centric global innovation
• Rigorous & transparent innovation evaluation
Midwest Growers
• Hire local talent to scale innovation
• Shrinking the time to scale & impact
Portfolio companies
have raised
$ 845M
• Invested $22 million in 79 high-growth ventures
• Shapes business and IP strategy
• Recruits industry-seasoned management
BioGenerator’s investment leveraged • 170 Global Venture and Strategic investors have
Data from PitchBook. For select BioGenerator companies, additional data added where available
WORLD’S SECOND LARGEST PET FOOD CO. ANIMAL HEALTH & NUTRITION
$11.2 Billion in Revenue $1.2B in Revenue, operating in 90+ countries
800 Million
don’t have enough food today
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40%
LAND
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Agriculture uses That Leaves 30% for
70%
Everything Else:
Drinking Water
Water for Cooking
of water worldwide. Water for Industry
AGRICULTURE TAKES A
MASSIVE TOLL ON WATER SUPPLY
The agriculture industry consumes the majority of freshwater, an increasingly
scarce resource in many geographies. CBInsights
WATER
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25%
Greenhouse gas emissions
from agriculture and
deforestation
CLIMATE
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CAN AGRICULTURE
SAVE THE PLANET
Source: UN FAO “World Agriculture Towards 2030/2050: The 2012 Revision”; S. Dutia Kauffman Report
Source: SAM “Harvesting Opportunities for a Sustainable Food Supply”; S. Dutia Kauffman Report
Sources: BCG interviews with a panel of farmers in France, Germany, Poland, and the UK; interviews with industry experts; analysis of
approximately 16,000 Derwent World Patent Index patent families registered from 2010 through 2014; BCG analysis.
Source: BCG interviews with farmers in France, Germany, Poland, and the U.K.
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