Ag Startup Engine
The premier seed program for agricultural innovators. Posts will include thoughts and insights from the Ag Startup Engine team on new ag technology, venture capital industry, fund operations, and how we think about investing in ag-tech startups.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 27 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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From “I Can’t Build” to “Why Didn’t I Try?”
Every morning starts the same way. Coffee (still debating if decaf was the right decision), laptop, and before I do anything remotely productive, I open the New York Times games. Wordle, Connections, The Mini.
It’s become a ritual. Part ha...
The AI Gap Is Real, and Founders Are Already Exploiting It
Last month, we hosted a roundtable for our founders so they could discuss how they are using AI and agents in their companies.
It was impressive to see just how many use these tools on a daily basis and are creating infrastructure to manua...
Ag Startup Engine Closes $7 Million Seed Fund to Back the Next Generation of Agricultural Innovation
Ag Startup Engine (ASE), an early-stage venture firm focused on investing in transformative technologies across the agriculture and food value chain, has closed its third fund, a $7 million Seed Fund.
The fund builds on ASE’s mission of br...
2025: A Year in Review
We just released the Ag Startup Engine 2025 Report (you can read it here).
If I had to describe the year in one word, it wouldn’t be collapse….or contraction…or even reset.
It would be: filter.
Capital didn’t disappear in 2025. We just s...
If You’re Only Talking Payback, You’re Missing the Point
When major companies evaluate potential acquisitions, they don’t just ask, “What’s the payback?” They break decisions into three buckets: P&L impact, balance sheet effects, and intangibles. And it struck me that this is exactly how founders...
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