Stuart Mill Venture Partners, L.P. invests principally in small to medium size companies with substantial growth prospects. The fund has a special focus on the clean technology sector, but also considers investments in areas such as technology, travel/hospitality, and federal government services.

Stuart Mill Venture Partners

[Clean Pacific Ventures](http://www.cleanpacific.com) invests in early stage clean technology companies.

Clean Pacific Ventures

Saffron Hill Ventures a london-based global venture capital firm, Saffron Hill was founded in 2000 by a group of principals and shareholders to pursue opportunities presented by the rapid growth of the European technology sectors. We have expanded our reach to cover both the European and US markets, and have built a portfolio of assets within the software, and cleantech sectors, helping to develop companies from the earliest stages through to IPO.

Saffron Hill Ventures

Calvert Group Ltd., known in 1976 as the Government Securities Management Company (GSMC), was brought to life by two young entrepreneurs driven by the need for change and creativity. While conventional investment strategies at the time recommended putting capital into low-interest-bearing savings accounts, former college friends D. Wayne Silby and John G. Guffey, Jr., saw the opportunity to create a higher-yielding money market fund available to the general public. In 1976, they introduced the First Variable Rate Fundâ€”the first variable-rate money fund in the countryâ€”that sought to combine short-term, fixed-rate securities with long-term, variable-rate securities to provide attractive yields, as well as a strong measure of safety.

Calvert Social Venture Partners

One Earth Capital is a boutique venture capital firm specializing in companies rooted in the clean technology industry.

One Earth Capital

Wavepoint invests in capital efficient seed and early-stage companies in the medical, information and clean technology sectors.  By bringing capital, experience and relationships to young companies, Wavepoint helps committed teams bring unique innovations to market faster and more efficiently, resulting in more wealth creation for entrepreneurs and investors.

Wavepoint Ventures

Valley Oak invests in private companies, funds, and real assets focusing on early-stage companies in food & ag tech, prop tech, and fin tech. Valley Oak manages a permanent capital base and partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs to build enduring companies.

Valley Oak Investments

[Mitsui & Co. Global Investment](http://www.mitsui-global.com/en/) is a venture capital fund that focuses on early stage companies.  Mitsui's expertise lies in helping companies build their business globally.  Mitsui & Co. Global Investment Co. is an investment company as a division of the financial business, to invest in companies that significant growth is expected. The headquarters in Tokyo, and we are investing activities from a global perspective, as opposed to complete in each country and a network of offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing, Mumbai, while also focusing on Japan and the United States China and India.

Mitsui Global Investment

Syngenta Ventures is the corporate venture capital (VC) team of Syngenta, a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling farmers to make better use of available resources. Created in 2009, Syngenta Ventures was one of the first venture capital teams dedicated to agriculture. With an experienced team of investment professionals possessing more than 45 collective years of VC experience, Syngenta Ventures has established itself as one of the most active and knowledgeable agricultural investors. Syngenta Ventures is stage agnostic, from investing in seed rounds to larger growth equity rounds. They typically invest alongside other financial and corporate VC investors, and they avoid asking for any rights or options for Syngenta as they recognize the importance of having the interests of all shareholders aligned. They use their deep experience as investors and running commercial Ag businesses to work with their portfolio companies to help them maximize their potential value. They often take board or board observer roles, spending the time needed with the company and management to help them achieve their goals. Finally, they are connected into Syngenta, ranging from R&D to commercial teams, around the world. They can help their portfolio companies validate new products in field trials, increase market visibility, and share industry knowledge and contacts. While they encourage technical and/or commercial collaboration with Syngenta, these are negotiated by Syngenta and not connected to their investment. Linked to this, they maintain a strict firewall with Syngenta to protect any confidential information from being shared. They take this responsibility seriously and can provide references from their portfolio companies to demonstrate this.

Syngenta Ventures

The Contrarian Group, Inc. company research & investing information.

The Contrarian Group

Marrone Bio Innovations

Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc., a biopesticide company, engages in the discovery, development, and marketing of natural products for weed, pest, and plant disease management. Its products include Regalia, a product that protects food and ornamental crops from fungal and bacterial diseases; GreenMatch EX, a post-emergence herbicide for burndown weed control for organic growers; and GreenMatch, a burndown herbicide that controls various annual and perennial weeds. The company also offers insecticides, herbicides, and products for controlling invasive zebra and quagga mussels in waterways. In addition, it finds naturally occurring microorganisms from habitats and develops them into products for controlling insects, weeds, nematodes, and plant diseases. The company provides its products online. Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Davis, California.

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    Marrone Bio Innovations provides sustainable biopesticides and plant health products that can be used for turf and ornamental, agricultural, and water treatment applications. Its products include various crop protection solutions, such as fungicides, bactericides, disinfectants, biofungicides for plant health, a sun damage protection product, and insecticides and nematicides. Emergen, Pacesetter, and UBP 110 help with crop health, while TerraConnect and UBP Seed Treatment help with crop nutrition. The company's Cultivated Garden range offers pest management solutions for medicinal plants as well as greenhouse and ornamental plants.
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Marrone Bio Innovations Q1 Revenue $4.3 Million Versus $4.2 Million

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Companies that develop pesticide substances produced by plants as a result of genetic manipulation. These companies use technology such as genetic engineering to derive natural substances that plants can produce to kill pests that feed on them.

Companies that use machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to develop plant-based replacements to synthetic chemical. These companies develop biochemicals that use naturally occurring substances such as pheromones, and insect attractants to trap and control pests in plants.  This also includes companies that offer plant intelligence for creating biochemicals.

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Companies that use natural enemies or predators like lady beetle, true bug, lacewings or parasitoids to protect the plants from pests.

Companies that use natural resources such as diatomaceous earth, mineral oil, water, minerals such as sulfur, potassium, or even organic acids for controlling various types of pests.

Companies that use biologically-derived substances such as microorganisms, seaweed extracts, and other organic matter that are applied to the plants or the soil to improve nutrient uptake, enhance tolerance of plant stress, and in turn improve crop growth and yield.

Marrone Bio Innovations

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