Regenerative Agriculture 101: GPS Technology on the Farm

Third in a series defining commonly used concepts and technologies relating to modern agriculture.

Q & A with Enko's Jacqueline Heard

BioCT

Jacqueline Heard Selected as one of HBJ's top 25 Women in Business Leaders 2024

Hartford Business Journal

Forward Fooding FoodTech 500

Enko earns spot 131 on ForwardFooding's Food Tech 500

2024 Power 50 Hartford Business Journal

Jacqueline Heard, Enko Co-Founder & CEO selected by HBJ news team for Power 50 spot

TIME America's Top GreenTech Companies 2024

2024 Ranking of GreenTech Companies by TIME and Statista

How to Fight Back Against the Food Chain Climate Catastrophe

via AgriTechTomorrow.com

Syngenta and Enko Accelerate the Discovery of Innovative Crop Protection Solutions

The discovery of novel chemistry for fungal control demonstrates digital technologies reduce the time needed for R&D discovery, while building in safety guardrails early

The Next in Ag Innovations, as Heard at WIAS23

WomeninAgribusiness.com

Industry Insights: Enko’s Jacqueline Heard on Leveraging AI and ML Technology to Find New Crop Protection Solutions

AgriBusinessGlobal.com

Revolutionizing Crop Protection

The Chemical Show with guest, Enko CSO, Tom Meade

Enko wins 2023 ITC Go Global AgTech Award

Enko is the 2023 recipient of the International Trade Council’s Go Global Award in the AgTech category.

Regenerative Agriculture 101: Healthy Soil

In our last 101 blog we talked about the key tenets of regenerative ag which include building back healthy soil. But what does healthy soil really mean?

5 Questions with Vipula Shukla, Ph.D., Senior Program Officer, Agriculture at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Jacqueline Heard, Ph.D., MBA, CEO and Founder Enko Chem, Inc.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Enko collaborate on novel crop protection.

Enko Joins the World Economic Forum's Innovator Communities as a Global Innovator

Enko Joins the World Economic Forum's Innovator Communities as a Global Innovator

Yahoo! Finance - Worldwide

Regenerative Agriculture 101: 5 Fundamental Regenerative Practices

‍First in a series defining commonly used concepts and phrases relating to modern agriculture.

Entrepreneurship in Agriculture

By Jacqueline Heard, Founder and CEO

With $150M raised, Enko brings artificial intelligence to pesticide development

Hartford Business Journal

David Jones Steps Down as Chair of Enko®

David Jones has stepped down from the Chairmanship of Enko® after over four years of engagement with the company. Marijn Dekkers, Chairman, Novalis LifeSciences LLC, and Enko board member since 2020, will take on the role as interim-Chairman.

2023 Best Tech Startups in Connecticut

TheTechTribune.com

Enko Chem, Inc. Announces Clean Energy Facility Upgrades in Partnership with the Connecticut Green Bank

Energy improvements are projected to create upwards of $10 million savings

3 Opportunities for the 2023 Farm Bill. Sowing Thought for the Future of Food.

by Jacqueline Heard, Ph.D., MBA Founder and CEO, Enko Chem, Inc.

Enko named a 2023 Top 50 THRIVE agtech innovator

The SVG Ventures THRIVE Award acknowledges the Enko team’s accomplishments discovering and developing safe and novel small molecules across all indications – herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides.

AgTech solutions, the need has never been more urgent

By Jacqueline Heard, Founder and CEO, Enko - We’re proud to work with investors who recognize the imperative of getting new crop health solutions into farmers’ hands quickly in response to these mounting threats.

Reflections from the 2023 World Economic Forum: Innovation, Equity and Resiliency:

As an agricultural industry innovator, Jacqueline Heard, Founder and CEO of Enko, offers her thoughts on the future of world food security after participating in the 2023 World Economic Forum.

Enko Completes its $80M Series C to Progress Sustainable Crop Solutions for World Food Security

The quality every leader should have to succeed in today's world, revealed

World Economic Forum 2023

Potato sack races, the Enkies and our first community garden: Enko’s favorite 2022 team moments

By Team Enko

After a devastating year for our food system, how will it evolve in 2023?

By Jacqueline Heard, CEO and Founder

Inside Enko: 7 Questions with Enko Fungicide Discovery Scientist Katrin Ayer

Enko named the State of Connecticut's Innovator of the Month

U.S. Connecticut State Senator Chris Murphy announced that Enko was named August’s “Innovator of the Month.”

Upstream Ag Insights July 31

Upstream Ag Insights

With ‘DNA bar code’ — and $140M — Mystic startup looks to change farming

CT Insider

Investors Ink $70M Bet on Enko

Magnetic Ag

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Cleerly Pumps Up Large Round; Carmot Leads Biotech’s Big Week

Crunchbase News

Enko Raises $70 Million Series C to Commercialize Safe Crop Protection through Machine Learning-based Discovery Technology

Mystic-based crop health company Enko announces $70 million in Series C funding

The Day

Enko harvests $70M Series C for crop protection

Enko Raises $70M Series C to Commercialize Safe Crop Protection through Machine Learning-based Discovery Technology

BREAKING: Nufarm leads $70m Series C for crop protection startup Enko

Enko Raises $70M in Series C

Ag tech Enko raises $70M, backed by Bill Gates, Nufarm

Nufarm Expands Partnership, Leads $70M Series C for Enko

Enko Raises $70M to Commercialize Safe Crop Protection through Machine Learning-based Discovery Technology

Enko Raises $70M in Series C Funding

FINSMES.com

Gates Foundation-backed Enko raises $70 million for sustainable crop treatments

Enko raises $70M in crop protection Series C round — is there life after glyphosate?

BioFuelsDigest.com

How Enko’s $70 million Series C funding will help grow healthy crops using AI

Enko CEO Jacqueline Heard talks Enko's Series C funding and how the money raised will help grow healthier crops by using AI

Agritech firm Enko raises $70M to commercialize crop-protection platform

6 Questions with Shahram Ebadollahi, Enko’s Newest Board Member

Enko's newest board member Shahram Ebadollahi answers important questions regarding Ag

Expanding our discovery capabilities with new DNA-encoded libraries

Enko CEO Jacqueline Heard talks expanding their capabilities with DNA-Encoded libraries

Enko advances Enkompass platform through DNA-encoded library technology enablement from X-Chem

Noor Shaker on Artificial Intelligence’s Promise in Agriculture

From the field to the dinner table, AI in agriculture can create a resilient food system

WEForum.org

Why we call Enko a crop health company?

Welcoming David Jones as Enko’s new Chairperson of the Board

Marijn Dekkers and Jacqueline Heard Reflect on the Future of Agriculture

Where does the name Enko come from? 

Have you ever wondered where the name Enko has come from? Read Enko CEO Jacqueline Heard latest blog!

From Start-up To Scale-up

Why we call Enko a crop health company

Why is Enko called a crop health company? Read Enko CEO Jacqueline Heard's latest blog here!

Enko, Nufarm Partner to Expand the Supply of Novel Herbicide Solutions

GlobalAgInvesting.com

Enko and Nufarm: Expanding Access to New Herbicide Solutions

Enko and Nufarm recently collaborated together to discuss new herbicide solutions.

Enko, Nufarm Partner on Novel Crop Health Molecules

Farmers need practical innovation, not moonshots, to stave off global food crisis

WEForum.org

Enko, Bayer Collaborate on New Chemistries

Agriculture.com

Joining Forces with Bayer to Help Farmers Tackle Weeds

Enko and Bayer team up to help farmers tackle weeds, read all the details here

Enko, Bayer Collaborate on New Chemistries for Safe Pesticides

A plant pandemic could be next. Here’s how we can prepare

FastCompany.com

Biologicals and chemistry: finding ways to commercialize the science

AgTechSoWhat.com

Inside Enko: A Conversation with Chemistry Research Fellow Neville Anthony

Chemistry Research Fellow Neville Anthony sits down for an inside scope into Enko

Germin8’s Michael Lavin on Creating a Resilient Food System for the Future

Germin8’s Michael Lavin on Creating a Resilient Food System for the Future

Enko Chem takes big data approach to green pesticide R&D from Greater Boston to CT

HartfordBusiness.com

New Pest Management Solutions to be Developed Through Enko, Syngenta Partnership

CropLife.com

Enko signs pesticide discovery deal with Syngenta

Syngenta Partners with Enko to Accelerate Molecule Discovery

Enko Partners with Syngenta to Develop New Pest Management Solutions

Enko to Co-develop Selective Crop Health Solutions with Major Ag Player

This Bill Gates-Backed Startup’s New Partnership Aims To Prevent Pandemics-In Food Crops

Enko and Syngenta Crop Protection: A New R&D Model for Crop Health

Read about Enko and Syngenta new partnership

Enko to Co-Develop Next-Gen Crop Protection with Syngenta

Global Ag Investing

What It Means for Enko to Join the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers

Enko joins the World Economic Forum

Enko Selected as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum

Why Earth Day’s Roots Matter for Today’s Growers

Why Earth Day’s Roots Matter for Today’s Growers

Enko Opens New Headquarters and Research Facilities in Mystic, Connecticut

Introducing Enko’s New HQ and Research Facility in Mystic, Connecticut

Enko has a new home, in Mystic Connecticut.

Enko Opens New Headquarters in Mystic CT

The 21 Startups to Watch in Boston in 2021

BizJournals.com

We asked 16 founders who raised almost $300 million during COVID-19 for their tips on wooing investors in a crisis

BusinessIndsider.com

Farm Journal's AgPro: From Pharmaceutical to FarmFarm Journal's AgPro: From Pharmaceutical to Farm

TheDailyScoop.com

Enko Named AgTech Company of the Year 

Enko was named AgTech company of the year!

Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit--And Pushing For Change

Forbes.com

Start-ups see an opening for new crop protection chemistry

c&en

15 Minutes with... Jacqueline Heard, CEO of Enko Chem

WomenInAg.com

Enko Chem garners $45 million

$66 million in funding for products that enable farmers to protect crops from pests and diseases

HortiDaily

$ 66 million investment in crop protection technology

FutureFarming.com

Gates Foundation backs Enko Chem’s eco-pesticides for Africa

Gates Foundation leads crop protection startup Enko’s $45 million Series B round

Ag Funder News

Enko chem aims to find new ways to protect crops from pests and disease