Our vast network of more than 5,000 industry experts drives startup success. Over six months, our Innovation Fellows refine their ideas through immersive residencies, workshops, and Pitch Days, ensuring concepts resonate with real needs. Learn more at dialventures.com.

At our Strategic Opportunity Workshop, agrifood leaders explored one guiding question: if the industry could focus on a single challenge, which would matter most? We invite professionals across the value chain to share their perspective.

Our 2026 Innovation Fellows began August 10, spent residency on the road in August, and brought their findings to our Strategic Opportunity Workshop on September 29 and 30. Next: Pitch Day on December 11. Follow along at dialventures.com.

On September 29 and 30, Purdue DIAL Ventures hosted its Strategic Opportunity Workshop, where agrifood leaders pressure-tested what our Innovation Fellows learned in the field. Next stop: Pitch Day on Dec 11.

A signal is not a business idea. At Purdue DIAL Ventures, it marks the start of the work: deeper research, testing with industry leaders and quantifying whether a problem is worth building a company around. Read more: dialventures.com/library/ai-…

Climate-smart agriculture in 2024. Food as health followed. Digital and AI today. The research behind Purdue DIAL Ventures follows the priorities of the agrifood industry.

Theme. Opportunity area. Job to be done. Concept. Pitch. Every company at Purdue DIAL Ventures moves through each stage, and each one demands deeper evidence than the last.

Companies built through DIAL Ventures Fund II at @LifeAtPurdue launch alongside @GritRd. 6 studio cohorts. 9 venture-backed companies. $30M+ portfolio (PitchBook). Interested? Book a 20-minute conversation with Jarrod Sutton at [email protected].

No. 1 graduate program in agricultural and biological engineering (U.S. News & World Report). No. 3 College of Agriculture in the nation (QS). Top 10 U.S. public university for four years running (QS). The research strength behind DIAL Ventures at @LifeAtPurdue.

Solving a problem for one organization is a project. Solving it for an industry is a company. Purdue DIAL Ventures focuses on problems large enough, and shared widely enough, to support a durable business. A strong concept on its own does not clear that bar.

Equipment makers, input suppliers, livestock producers, CPG companies, and cooperatives all have a place in Purdue DIAL Ventures Fund II, where partners help define what gets built.

Every industry once had to learn what the internet meant for its business. Agrifood is now at that point with AI. Purdue DIAL Ventures applies scientific rigor to real problems and builds solutions with industry.

That gap between what is marketed and what is actually used is where real opportunity sits. Finding it requires sitting down with the people doing the work.

AI is not the value proposition. A better decision, a workflow that runs smoothly and a handoff that no longer breaks are. Jarrod Sutton of Purdue DIAL Ventures shares five signals from the road. Read more: dialventures.com/library/ai-…

Everyone in agrifood is investing in AI, but few are able to clearly show what that investment has returned. We're working to understand why, and Studio 7 is building AI companies designed to prove ROI. If your organization is asking the same question, let's talk.

The problems worth building around are rarely the ones people complain about. They are the ones that have been absorbed into the routine.

Fund II is in a rolling close. Partners gain direct access to customer discovery and venture creation. Become a partner at dialventures.com.

Fragmented supply chains. Data locked in systems that do not talk. Operators named these pains years ago. The problem has not changed. The capability to solve it has. Help us decide what gets built.

One conversation is an anecdote. The same frustration in six separate meetings is a pattern. That is when we stop asking and start building.

More than 100 concepts. Cut to 16. Then 8. Then 4. Every cut made with operators in the room, against real demand. Four companies come out the other side, built and not theorized. Learn more about us at dialventures.com.

Technology usually reaches you fully built, designed around someone else's version of the problem. Our partners get in earlier and help define it. That seat is open; start a conversation with Jarrod Sutton at [email protected].