Command Center

More than a fund. A commercialization engine. Built for farmers. By farmers. With farmers. Built by growers and career investors, anchored by Chipotle, and connected from Salinas to national grower friends.

Christian lens · experienced GP oversight

Experienced GP lens highlights thesis, IC, and priority investment judgment.

Pipeline Prospects15Four rails active

Active Workstreams2Grand Challenge + soil testing

Current PortCos4Portfolio kept separate

Anchor LPChipotleCultivate Next

Priority Lanes

Source — Vetted Startups 4 rails

Instrument the ground Matt

TerraBlaster, Miraterra, Soil Action, and Soiltech Wireless define the sensing/data substrate.

Program the plant Camden

Heritable, Verinomics, and Varianza map AI breeding to crop-system fit.

Compound — Growers as Investors Christian

Roll pipeline learnings into grower LP priorities and IC materials.

Validate — Steering Committee 2 workstreams

Salinas Lettuce Drop Grand Challenge Tim

CDPR grant around Sclerotinia, Fusarium, and Pythium; field hosts for inputs and biologicals.

Soil-Testing Program — consultant + growers Matt

Edacious engaged; Eurofins + Regen Labs pricing in hand; grower lineup forming.

Adopt — Trials & Off-takes Tim

Convert field validation into purchase commitments and commercial partner pathways.

Invest — Investment Decisions IC-ready

IMIO follow-on memo Christian

$100K total across two $50K Series A tranches; PDF-backed memo now in Memos.

Reduce the chemistry Christian

Harpe, TRIC, Global Neighbor, and Airbuild concentrate input-replacement decisions.

What Changed vs June 6

Moved Forward

MoveDealflow view now follows the four rails from the September review.

UpReduce the chemistry added as rail 03 for input replacement.

NewIMIO follow-on investment memo moved into a dedicated Memos tab.

Network & Capital

NewCommercial Partner Network formalized as demand-side pull.

UpSalinas Lettuce Drop Grand Challenge added to active workstreams.

MoveSoil-testing program ties Edacious, growers, and lab partners.

Silicon Valley of Food & Ag. Grow Together is more than a fund: a commercialization engine where Source — Vetted Startups flow to Validate — Steering Committee, Invest — Investment Decisions, Adopt — Trials & Off-takes, and Compound — Growers as Investors.

Opportunity Areas

Verdict cards scored on Timing, Market, Fit, Crowding, and Capital efficiency. Verdicts: PRIORITIZE, SELECTIVE, WATCH.

Pipeline / Dealflow

Prospect workflow from the September Dealflow Review: four operating rails, active workstreams, stage/structure, and next action. Current PortCos remain only in the Portfolio tab.

Portfolio

Distinct portfolio view for current Grow Together PortCos only. Pipeline / Dealflow remains a separate prospect workflow.

Portfolio scope. Only current PortCos are shown here: Local Line, Nitricity, IMIO, and Edacious. Pipeline prospects stay in Pipeline / Dealflow.

News & Financing Signals

Source-backed operating feed for market news, company movement, and financing announcements. Items stay staged until they change a flywheel action.

1 Scrapesource registry + fixture/web output

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2 Stageoperator review queue

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3 Promotevalidated signals only

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4 Buildstatic payload for Vercel

News Desk

Policy, market, customer, and field signals that could change sourcing or validation work.

Daily light refresh

Date / Source	Signal · Why it matters · What changes	Lane	Node / Area	Evidence	Owner / Decision	Status

Financing Announcements

Rounds, grants, non-dilutive capital, and strategic financing events that affect radar priority and IC pipeline.

Target monitor

Capital Matrix

Compact read across every financing event — capital type, round quality, and routing.

At a glance

Company	Capital type	Round quality	IC relevance	Radar relevance	Next action

Review Queue

Every live signal by review status. Promote, watch, or reject upstream in the scraper pipeline.

Live signals

Signal	Kind	Node	Owner / Decision	Review by	Status

Scraper→ Staged (staged-signals.json)→ Promote / triage→ Live (live-signals.json)→ Build payload→ Vercel redeploy

Showing live, promoted signals only (static-safe). Promoted = accepted, plus curated staged/watch records that cleared review. The full staged scraper queue lives in data/staged-signals.json and is triaged before promotion to data/live-signals.json.

Grower Network

Growers, commercial buyers, and co-investors already at the table — the network our founders inherit on day one.

Network member	Role	Network lane	Operating tie	Status

Network logos are copied into assets/network/ from the public Grow Together partner and quote sections, including Fischer Farms from the regenerative beef producer quote.

Reports

PDF-only report library for decks, dealflow reviews, and thesis pieces. Company investment memos live in the separate Memos tab.

PDF-backed Reports

Memos

Company investment memos are separated from the Reports library. The first PDF-backed memo is the IMIO Series A follow-on recommendation for the Grow Together Investment Committee.

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