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DIAL Ventures, the innovation arm of the Purdue Applied Research Institute, tackles big problems fac
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Location
United States, Indiana, West Lafayette
Employees
11-50
Mentions in press and media 8
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| Jun 3, 2026 | DIAL Ventures Has Built a $30M+ Agrifood Portfolio. Fund II Is Now Underway | Six studio cycles have been completed with companies moving from concept to paying customers. Next studio begins this summer. WEST LAFAYETTE, IN, UNITED STATES, June 3, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- DIAL Ventures, the agrifood venture studio a... |
| Jun 3, 2026 | Purdue’s DIAL Ventures says it’s a ‘defining moment’ for AI in agriculture after first close of Fund II | Agtech venture studio DIAL Ventures this week announced the first close of its Fund II, which will help build the firm’s next round of portfolio companies. Affiliated with the Purdue Applied Research Institute at Purdue University in Indian... |
| Apr 2, 2025 | Consumers should help pay for regen ag, say ag industry professionals. Consumers tend to disagree | The “vast majority” of of agriculture industry professionals surveyed are “pro regen ag,” according to a recent report from Purdue University venture studio DIAL Ventures. It’s in the details that the conversation becomes more nuanced, says... |
| Sep 13, 2024 | Inside DIAL Ventures studio program: ‘The more time we spend on the problem, the faster we get to solutions’ | If you’re going to build a venture-backable startup, you’d better have a product or service someone actually wants, says Jarrod Sutton, managing director of Indiana-based Purdue University’s agtech accelerator DIAL Ventures. In other words,... |
| Mar 5, 2024 | The economy will tighten in 2024. Could that be a catalyst for innovation in agbioscience? | This sponsored post has been published in partnership with AgriNovus, an initiative that promotes and accelerates the growth of the agbioscience community. A recent World Bank report predicts the global economy is on track for its slowest h... |
| Oct 19, 2022 | New startup Croft announces launch; will streamline the H-2A visa seasonal labor program for agriculture | "Growers just want to farm — they don’t want to be legal experts or the human resource department.” - Allan Gray, executive director of DIAL Ventures. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (PRWEB) October 19, 2022 DIAL Ventures, an innovation initiativ... |
| Jul 7, 2022 | Venture Studio at Purdue University launches to digitize the agri-food 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." - Allan Gray, executive director of DIAL Ventures. WEST LAFAYETTE,... |
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What has the press written about dialventures?
Parsers VC has collected 8 articles mentioning dialventures, among them “DIAL Ventures Has Built a $30M+ Agrifood Portfolio. Fund II Is Now Underway” (Jun 3, 2026) and “Purdue’s DIAL Ventures says it’s a ‘defining moment’ for AI in agriculture after first close of Fund II” (Jun 3, 2026).
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Yes, dialventures is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 11, 2026.