Rikolta
Agriculture & Food
Autonomous tractors, precision agriculture, and cellular farming. Building Farmer Data Sovereignty DACOs that leverage America's 2,000+ existing agricultural cooperatives to create regenerative food systems.
Investment Thesis
American agriculture stands at an inflection point. Farm consolidation has concentrated land ownership while extractive technology platforms capture the value of farmer-generated data. Meanwhile, soil degradation threatens long-term productivity and climate volatility increases production risk.
Rikolta inverts this trajectory by funding technology designed for cooperative ownership. With over 2,000 agricultural cooperatives already operating across America, the infrastructure for farmer-owned technology already exists—it simply needs the right tools.
Autonomous Equipment
Self-driving tractors, harvesters, and specialized equipment that can be shared across cooperative members, reducing capital requirements while increasing utilization rates.
Precision Agriculture
Sensor networks, satellite imagery analysis, and AI-driven agronomic recommendations—all owned by the farmers generating the underlying data.
Cellular Agriculture
Lab-grown proteins and precision fermentation systems that can be operated at cooperative scale, enabling farmers to capture value in emerging food technology markets.
Farmer Data Sovereignty
DACO structures that give farmers control over their operational data, enabling collective bargaining with processors and access to fair pricing mechanisms.
E2C Pathway
Rikolta portfolio companies develop technology serving existing agricultural cooperatives. As adoption scales, equity converts to cooperative membership— creating technology cooperatives owned by the farmers who use them. This ensures technology serves farmer interests permanently rather than being sold to extractive acquirers.
The Farmer Data Sovereignty model specifically addresses the extractive dynamics of current ag-tech, returning control of farm-generated data to its creators while enabling collective action that individual farmers cannot achieve alone.
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