- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Silicon Valley venture capitalists will focus on investment opportunities in Central Valley agriculture during a conference at UC Davis this summer, Grow-California.com announced yesterday. The California Agriculture Innovation Conference takes place in Freeborn Hall July 20 and 21.
Conference participants will meet with policymakers such as California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross and USDA Rural Development State Director Glenda Humiston. and “game changing” agriculture companies, the Grow-California news release said. LA...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
A group of "big name" investors are on a tour of California's Central Valley today to introduce them to the state's $30 billion agriculture industry and to ag-related companies as potential investments. The tour started yesterday at UC Davis, where the group heard from researchers and professors about water policy and UC Davis research priorities, according to a press release published on Stock Market News. The tour ends this evening in Fresno.
Investors on the tour represent such firms as Mohr Davidow Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, US Venture Partners and J.R. Simplot...