urban-agriculture
(2)Satish Vemuri
Satish Vemuri is the CEO of ëko Incorporated, a New York-based venture that stitches urban farms into the real estate that hosts them - matching developers, architects, biologists, and agriculture specialists to grow food for the restaurants and shops downstairs. He studied Finance and Economics at NYU Stern with a math minor, and he tends to reach for spreadsheets and mathematical models before making a call on how the company should move.
Alex Tyink
Alex Tyink is the founder and CEO of Fork Farms, a Green Bay, Wisconsin food-access technology company behind the Flex Farm, a mobile indoor hydroponic system that grows up to 25 pounds of leafy greens a month in nine square feet. A trained opera singer from Appleton who studied voice at Northwestern, he traded a New York vocal-performance career for urban farming after volunteering at a Brooklyn rooftop garden in 2010. Fork Farms now works with more than 5,000 schools, hospitals, food pantries and companies across all 50 states and dozens of countries, and closed a $2 million Series A in 2021.