All tagged AgTech
May 2: Screening Event at Middlebury Institute
May 2 screening and discussion of "Farms To Incubators" at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, formerly known as the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Seeds of Change: Cultivating the Next Generation
A special section called "Seeds of Change: Cultivating the next generation" in USA Today features a series of profiles of women of color AgTech entrepreneurs!
May 3: Steinbeck Fest screening!
"Farms to Incubators" is screening as part of the National Steinbeck Center and Maya Cinemas' "Women in Film Series," introducing the 2018 Steinbeck Festival (May 4-6), which will explore "The Women of Steinbeck's World.
Part 3: And Their Daughters After Them
From Farms to Incubators: The last of a three-part series of stories about minority women entrepreneurs in AgTech in the Salinas Valley and beyond. The series is sponsored by a grant by the International Center for Journalists. Part 3 focuses on efforts from the public and private sectors to develop a knowledge-based workforce, and a new generation of girls and young women considering a future in AgTech.
Challenges & Opportunities: Miku Jha of AgShift
Miku Jha’s affinity for agriculture started with mango trees. Although raised in Mumbai, Jha came from four generations of farmers. As a little girl, she grew up surrounded by the family’s main staple – mangos. Jha, 39, said what she learned on the family farm was priceless.
“I was looking at daily challenges and how things could be improved,” said Jha. “I kind of always had this feeling that we can put technology into changing certain things, and (using it) to improve this whole ag ecosystem especially for small and medium commercial farms.”
— Excerpt from profile published Feb. 16, 2017
Challenges & Opportunities: Trace Genomics' Diane Wu, Poornima Parameswaran
On any given day, Diane Wu and Poornima Parameswaran can be found on the farm, in the lab or inside the agtech incubator in Salinas. Their venture combines all three aspects.
Trace Genomics, launched in 2015 as a microbial evaluation system to detect diseases in soil. emerged in the Salinas Valley a year ago when it won the 2016 THRIVE Accelerator competition beating out 10 other finalists out of a pool of 200 applications from 36 countries.
Founded by Wu and Parameswaran, two young Ph.D.s from Stanford University ...
Challenges & Opportunities: Jessica Gonzalez of HeavyConnect and Rivka Garcia
Excerpts from a profile of HeavyConnect Co-founder Jessica Gonzalez and Rivka Garcia, front-end developer. Published Feb. 15, 2017:
Challenges & Opportunities: Christine Su of PastureMap
Three years later, PastureMap is well on its way to success. Last April, the product officially launched to 5,000 ranchers in 50 states and 26 countries. In 2016, the company raised over $1 million.
Part 2: Challenges and Opportunities
From Farms to Incubators: Stories of minority women entrepreneurs in agtech in the Salinas Valley and beyond. The series is sponsored by a grant from the International Center for Journalists. Part Two focuses on the emergence of agtech, a new generation of young women in the agtech space, and the challenges and opportunities they face.
"Change is the only constant in life” — Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher.
Part 1: Transforming Time and Generations
From Farms to Incubators, profiling minority women entrepreneurs in AgTech in the Salinas Valley and beyond. This series, published in The Salinas Californian, is sponsored by a grant from the International Center for Journalists.
“I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”
- John Adams, second U.S. president
First of a three-part series