Grow Together is a venture fund built by growers and career investors. We partner with founders solving the problems farmers actually have — and back them with real customers, not just capital.
For farmers.
By farmers.
With farmers.
A partnership of operators & investors
We selectively partner with growers and supply-chain leaders with explicit track records of creativity, risk-taking, and commitment to progress. They aren’t reference calls — they’re at the table shaping what gets built and what gets bought.
Our GP includes a multi-decade grower alongside the institutional venture team at NXP — 18 investments across food and ag, a track record of exits, and manager of Chipotle’s $150M Cultivate Next fund.
Founders get real customers, real diligence, and real distribution — not just capital. We know what it takes because we’ve done it: our work with Bear Flag Robotics, acquired by John Deere, is the model we bring to every company we back.
How a deal happens
Network-sourced. Investor-diligenced. Farm-validated. Value shared.
Founders, co-investors, growers, and buyers — not a market map — tell us what’s breaking and who’s solving it.
Institutional venture rigor from a team with real exits.
With real operators, real data, and real economics — not pilots-in-a-lab.
As investors, customers, and validators. The value they help create flows back to them.
A short list of principles that decide what gets a check and what doesn’t.
Six places where growers are underserved, consumers are misled, and the supply chain is fragile.
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Intelligence belongs on the tractor, in the barn, and along the supply chain — not just in the dashboard.
Autonomy, sensor systems, and applied AI that turn labor bottlenecks into scaled, repeatable operations. Our team has invested and operated at the frontier of this domain.
02
Soil is the balance sheet. Rebuild it and the yields, margins, and resilience follow.
Biological inputs and land-management practices that cut synthetic-chemistry dependence while paying back on-farm in the current season.
03
The map of what grows where is being redrawn. Whoever controls the genetics owns the next decade of supply.
Breeding programs and pilots that expand what growers can plant, where they can plant it, and what the market can source domestically.
04
The distance between grower and eater is where margin dies. Shorten it and both ends win.
Software, commerce, logistics, humanoids, and robotics that restore margin to producers and quality to consumers.
05
Trust is now a supply-chain input. The next recall will cost more than the next detection technology.
Pathogen detection, traceability, and applied science that de-risk the food system from the field forward.
06
Functional, nutrient-dense food should be the default — not the premium tier.
Ingredients, formulations, and brands that make quality food affordable, measurable, and repeatable at scale.
See the live view of what we're tracking across the ecosystem.
Open the Command CenterEvery seat comes with skin in the game. Salinas Valley growers. Seed-company operators. Ex-Chipotle produce buyers. Physical-AI founders. This is the network our portfolio inherits on day one.
General Partner
Third-generation Salinas Valley grower. The grower voice on every deal.
General Partner
Managing Partner at NXP. Chemist by training, corporate-innovation architect by trade. 2026 GCV Top 50.
Special Advisor
Former Senior Director of Produce & Packaging Purchasing at Chipotle. Buyer-side perspective on every category.
Entrepreneur in Residence
Founder & former CEO of Bear Flag Robotics (acquired by John Deere, 2021). Physical AI on the farm.
Four companies. One framework for a new food system — soil health, cleaner inputs, direct distribution, measurable nutrition. We’re just getting started.
Recapture the nutrients trapped in crop residue — near-term yield, long-term soil health.
Biological residue management
Re-Gen is a proven biological that converts crop residue into bioavailable NPK — lifting yield while reducing synthetic fertilizer inputs, with a payback that shows up in the current season.
Localized, distributed fertilizer production with a far lighter footprint.
Distributed nitrogen
Producing organic nitrogen fertilizer from air, water, and renewable electricity — scaling a first-of-a-kind facility in California’s Central Valley.
Connect the best small and midsize growers to their customers and the wider food system.
Farm-to-fork commerce
The commerce platform for farmers, food hubs, restaurants, and grocers to source and sell direct — the digital backbone of a shorter, buy-direct food system.
Measure the nutrients actually delivered by producers across the supply chain.
Nutrient density analytics
Lab-verified nutrient testing and software that make food quality measurable — connecting soil health to human health so growers can prove and price the difference.
Growers, commercial buyers, and co-investors already at the table — the network our founders inherit on day one.
Part of DOE’s $117M Industrial Technologies Office round funding 56 projects. Non-dilutive federal capital to scale a Haber-Bosch alternative built on air, water, and electricity.
energy.govStrategic buyer validation from the same fund backing Local Line and Nitricity. Three Grow Together companies, one supply chain redesign anchored by a $10B+ operator.
Chipotle NewsroomFarm-to-fork commerce platform used by 10,000+ verified farms including Chipotle and Sweetgreen suppliers. Independent recognition of the growth curve.
CTV NewsMulti-year commercial anchor with the largest regenerative-organic standards body. Nutrient density — and the premium it can command — measured on real supply chains.
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