Lucas Mann

Dirac is the first AI-driven production orchestration platform. At Dirac, we unify ERP, PLM, and MES systems to automate today’s fractured manufacturing planning: ECOs, assembly sequencing, work instructions, MBOMs, routings, and everything in between. Enable your factories to change at the speed of design with Dirac.

Launch CPG Products Faster. Improve Outcomes. Spend Less.

Bonsai Robotics is reimagining the agricultural industry with its AI-first platform that makes autonomous farming affordable, easy to use, and deployable across all farm equipment – whether retrofitted onto existing machines or built into next generation solutions. Its acquisition of farm-ng in 2025 combines its leading, vision-based autonomy software with modular, electric robotics to deliver next-generation machines adaptable for a wide range of crops, tasks, and environments. Bonsai empowers growers to monitor and manage all farm equipment — new or legacy, autonomous or not — through a single, intuitive app.

Bonsai provides vision-based automation and autonomous solutions to combat growers’ biggest challenge: the labor crisis. Bonsai partners with existing manufacturers enabling greater performance, efficiency, and insight than ever before.

Highlight is an in-home product testing platform that lets you do good research fast. We streamline everything from recruit to data set, including all the logistics of getting your product to your target customers, whether they are cat-owning millennials or women over 50 in California with oily skin looking for retinol.

People Science is a direct-to-consumer scientific research company providing a scaled R&D platform for alternative medicines. The company is dedicated to the public good and is poised to revolutionize the alternative medicine landscape with its data-driven approach - empowering patients, consumers, providers, and scientists to collectively improve health outcomes. People Science is powered by our proprietary software technology called CHLOE (Consumer Health Learning and Organizing Ecosystem) that integrates clinical care with scientific research. The People Science research marketplace offers a new model of popular access, research participation, and education - networking patient communities with healthcare providers and scientists to provide scientifically proven optimal care in alternative medicines. Companies that make alternative medicines will hire People Science to study their medicines and to differentiate their products with the People Science Seal of Approval in the rapidly expanding alternative medicines market. Examples of alternative medicines include medical cannabis and cannabinoids, microbiome and probiotic interventions, functional medicine and nutritional supplements, and psychedelic medicines. People Science is a for-profit Public Benefit Corporation and we are seeking partners, clients, and investors who are aligned with our long-term vision and the value of this venture to society.

AI-powered greenhouse management, made simple. Source.ag is making covered greenhouse agriculture accessible, profitable, and globally scalable. Together, we’re on a mission to feed the world, in a climate-resilient and resource-efficient way. Our solutions: 🪴Source Workspace: Centralizing Data for Smarter Operations 🪴Harvest Forecast: Predictable Yields for Smarter Sales and Operations 🪴Cultivation Management: Simulate, Optimize, and Execute for Maximum Yield 🪴Irrigation Control: Achieve Precise water and Nutrient Distribution with AI-driven Irrigation Strategies Our solutions offer in-depth data analysis, AI-driven cultivation management, forecasting, and autonomous execution strategies for lower risks and better results.

Founded in 2017, Meati Foods is working to unlock a more delicious, nutritious, equitable, and sustainable food system for everyone. Eat Meati™, the debut product line from Meati Foods, features cutlets and steaks made from mushroom root, a whole-food protein cultivated with a modernized version of ancient and natural processes that have helped preserve Earths ecosystems for millennia. Eat Meati™ made its early retail debut in July 2022 after multiple months of record sellouts through its direct-to-doorstep online shop. A national omni-channel footprint is planned for late 2023.

Our all-natural protective layer slows down the spoiling process of fruit, veggies, meats, and seafood to help you enjoy fresher food for longer.

Inari is the SEEDesign™ company, using new breeding technology to push the boundaries of what is possible by designing nature-positive seeds for a more sustainable global food system. A combination of AI-powered predictive design and a pioneered multiplex gene editing toolbox enables us to unlock the full potential of seed and advance critical solutions with broad applications for growing more food with fewer resources.

Back to the Roots is an organic gardening company founded by Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez. Back to the Roots has an award-winning line of organic soils, seeds, plant foods, raised beds, and indoor gardening kits. The duo co-founded Back to the Roots in college after discovering how to grow gourmet mushrooms on recycled coffee grounds. Since then, the organic gardening company has evolved from an urban mushroom farm in Oakland, CA to a thriving national brand and the fastest-growing gardening company in the country. With a mission to reconnect families back to their food and the land, Nikhil and Alejandro are transforming the gardening industry by making it easy for anyone, anywhere to grow their own food. The organic gardening products are currently distributed in over 15,000 stores including Walmart, The Home Depot, Target, Lowe’s, Tractor Supply, and Whole Foods, as well as on Amazon. The founders have been recognized globally for their efforts in sustainability, innovation, and entrepreneurship, appearing on lists including Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies”, BusinessWeek’s “Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25”, Inc.’s “30 Under 30”, Inc. 500, Forbes’ “30 Under 30”, CNN’s “10 Next Entrepreneurs to Watch”, BBC’s Top Global Social Entrepreneurs, Forbes 40 Under 40, EY Entrepreneur of the Year and President Obama’s Champions of Change. They have delivered multiple TEDx Talks, UC Berkeley’s Business School commencement address, and have been featured on CNBC Mad Money, CNN, Forbes, Bloomberg, Fox News, ABC News, NBC News, WSJ, Huffington Post, and the NY Times.

Dirac is the first AI-driven production orchestration platform. At Dirac, we unify ERP, PLM, and MES systems to automate today’s fractured manufacturing planning: ECOs, assembly sequencing, work instructions, MBOMs, routings, and everything in between. Enable your factories to change at the speed of design with Dirac.

Launch CPG Products Faster. Improve Outcomes. Spend Less.

Bonsai Robotics is reimagining the agricultural industry with its AI-first platform that makes autonomous farming affordable, easy to use, and deployable across all farm equipment – whether retrofitted onto existing machines or built into next generation solutions. Its acquisition of farm-ng in 2025 combines its leading, vision-based autonomy software with modular, electric robotics to deliver next-generation machines adaptable for a wide range of crops, tasks, and environments. Bonsai empowers growers to monitor and manage all farm equipment — new or legacy, autonomous or not — through a single, intuitive app.

Bonsai provides vision-based automation and autonomous solutions to combat growers’ biggest challenge: the labor crisis. Bonsai partners with existing manufacturers enabling greater performance, efficiency, and insight than ever before.

Highlight is an in-home product testing platform that lets you do good research fast. We streamline everything from recruit to data set, including all the logistics of getting your product to your target customers, whether they are cat-owning millennials or women over 50 in California with oily skin looking for retinol.