Become A Venture Partner

Do you want to back innovative projects? Are you seeking to de-risk the process of investing in innovative ideas and new startup leaders/teams?

Then welcome to DIAL Ventures!

We can give your early investment a higher chance of success with a pipeline to ideas, talent, and a lower risk. Plus, you get a faster path to higher and more consistent returns! We can do this because we have a Fellow cohort who works with our corporate partners to handle the ideation, field trials, prototyping, first sales avenue and de-risking. This gives you a proven process to take a chance on unproven ideas and personnel without a high level of risk.

We have a unique participation path with focus on markets where we have advantages on opportunity identification and new business creation.

DIAL’s strategy focuses on increasing the probability of successful startup companies, developing a new pool of talent for the industry and delivering attractive returns to venture investors like you!

Let's partner together to change the industry.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why would we as a venture investor or family office be interested in the Food and Ag industry?

In 2021 over $52B was invested in new companies in AgTech and FoodTech and these are now two of the fastest-growing technology segments worldwide. Why? Because the journey from farm to fork is often inefficient, fragmented, wasteful, and exposed to environmental and safety issues; and as an industry, the agricultural food chain has traditionally been one of the laggards in technology adoption. Agri-Food systems must change to benefit the world and savvy investors recognize this as a critical inflection point.

How specifically could DIAL Ventures help our firm?

By engaging with DIAL Ventures, you keep abreast of innovations within this high-growth industry. As part of our select strategic engagements with investors, we would invite you to our closed-door ideation workshops with the top industry leaders and strategists so you can get early insights into the latest industry trends. In addition, if engaged with us, you would have an opportunity to get an early look at the companies we launch, which may in time fit into your overall portfolio strategy. Finally, if it fits your investment thesis, DIAL has a venture fund to support the studio process and give you ownership in each company we launch. Participation can lead to an attractive ROI commensurate with other venture investment options and provide diversification into the digital food and ag segments.

You talk about an innovation ecosystem, what does that mean?

DIAL Ventures has established an innovation ecosystem that leverages our 150-year history at Purdue University and #1 ranking in Agriculture and Ag-Bioscience. This results in deep and impactful relationships with corporate partners, and leaders in innovation science, in turn leveraging advances in technology applications to benefit our industry. We invite you to be a part of this ecosystem to both learn and contribute and keep abreast of the latest trends and discoveries in agri-food.