Scott R. Horner

Benson Hill Holdings, Inc. operates a crop design platform to develop sustainable food and ingredients. It offers CropOS (Crop Operating System), a cognitive engine that provides decision support to accelerate crop improvement and enhance the sustainability of food, feed, fiber, and fuel production using plant biology, big data analytics and cloud computing. The company was founded by Matthew B. Crisp, Todd Mockler and Thomas P. Brutnell in 2012 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

MycoTechnology, Inc. is a food technology company, which engages in the development and delivering of fermentation process using gourmet fungi to transform agricultural products to improve taste, value, and health. Its products include ClearTaste and PureTaste. The company was founded by Alan D. Hahn, Pete Lubar, Jim Langan, and Brooks J. Kelly in 2013 and is headquartered in Aurora, CO.

Third Security LLC (Third Security) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by Randal J. Kirk. The firm is headquartered in Radford, Virginia.

Adarza BioSystems, Inc. develops and manufacturers a multiplex immunoassay technology that can identify proteins and genetic markers in medical specimens. The firm operates as a medical diagnostics company which also develops a rapid and label-free biological assay platform for measuring clinical and point-of-care samples and also its technology allows hundreds of tests to be run simultaneously on a single chip. The company was founded by Benjamin L. Miller, Randolph R. Henke, Terry Gronwall and Christopher C. Striemer in 2008 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Middleland AG Capital Partners LLC (Middleland AG Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010. The firm is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

ZeaKal, Inc. engages in the operations as a plant science company, which develops and commercializes synthetic biological traits. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Blue Prairie Brands, Inc. develops functional foods and ingredients. It discover, develop and bring foods and ingredients that benefit the health of consumers while providing functional benefits to foods themselves. The company was founded by Richard Peet and Brad Justice in 2014 and is headquartered in Scottsbluff, NE.

Plant Response, Inc. is engaged in providing agricultural biological services. It offers cybelion, power coat, biohp, neptunion, biopath and PRB9 products. The company is headquartered in Durham, NC.