DIAL Ventures, an innovation initiative launched by Purdue University, has set out to help digitize the agri-food system. Some areas that are being addressed by DIAL Ventures’ initiatives are food safety, supply chain transparency, labor shortages, sustainability, and environmental impact. Through its unique innovation process, DIAL Ventures strives to solve problems in agri-food’s globally distributed continuous production system.
“The agri-food system has consistently been recognized as one of the industries furthest behind in its ability to digitize. DIAL Ventures exists to solve that problem,” said Allan Gray, executive director of DIAL Ventures. “Our process de-risks the human talent needed to run startup companies and de-risks startup ideas.”