Purdue University Initiative Aims to Digitize Agrifood Chain
DIAL Ventures, an agrifood start-up studio launched by Purdue University, intends to help digitize the agrifood system through the creation of innovative companies that provide industry solutions. Areas that are being addressed by DIAL Ventures are food safety, supply chain transparency, labor shortages, sustainability, and environmental impact. Through its innovation process, DIAL Ventures strives to solve problems in the agrifood sector’s globally distributed, continuous production system.
DIAL Ventures states that its process “de-risks the human talent needed to run startup companies and de-risks startup ideas.” DIAL Ventures’ three-fold strategy is: