Rewriting the Rules: How Enko is Using AI to Fast-Track the Future of Herbicides

AgriBusiness Global

Tom Meade on How Enko Leverages AI to Enhance Crop Protection

iGrow News

Ag industry vet Klemm leads AI-backed pesticide development startup Enko into commercialization phase

Hartford Business Journal

WATCH: Enko’s Tom Meade explains how AI can make better ag biologicals

AgTech Navigator

Enko Earns #2 Spot Among the 10 Best Startups in Connecticut 2025

The Tech Tribune

Enko named one of TIME’s America’s Top Greentech Companies 2025

Enko on Forward Fooding Tech 500 2024 list

Pests on the Move

How climate is re-shaping pest populations globally

From Visionary Leader to Strategic Advisor: Jacqueline Heard Transitions as Enko Enters Its Next Growth Phase

AgTech Company Announces New CEO

Hartford Business Journal

AgTech Innovator Enko Chem Announces CEO Transition - Anthony Klemm Appointed CEO

Video Game Pro? Why Not Join Our Farm: Farmers Seek New Skills to Attract Workers

TheSpoon.Tech

Farming tech is on display at CES as companies showcase their green innovations and initiatives

AP

Syngenta and AI-partner ENKO Achieve Milestone Towards Sustainable Weed Control

GlobalAgInvesting.com

Enko Named to Fast Company Next Big Things in Tech 2024

FAST COMPANY

Regenerative Agriculture 101: Irrigation Innovations

Fifth in a series focused on new ag technologies that are helping farmers to be more efficient, sustainable, and profitable.

Enko Featured as a Connecticut Magazine 2024 Innovator

40+ Changemakers Featured

Jacqueline Heard Honored at Connecticut Technology Council's Annual Women of Innovation Awards

Connecticut Technology Council

Expanding the Toolbox for Agricultural Pest Control

Forbes.com

The venture capital model is still suitable for agtech. Sort of

AgFunderNews.com

Applying AI to World Food Systems Innovation: Enko and the Food Innovators Network

We have an obligation to use AI for good whenever and wherever we can. We can tackle these challenges to the global food supply, and we must.

Regenerative Agriculture 101: Robotic Systems

This article is part of a series focused on new ag technologies that are helping farmers to be more efficient, sustainable, and profitable.

Enko Welcomes Tim Hassinger as the Company’s Newest Board Member

Tim Hassinger, CEO, President, Intelinair, has joined Enko Chem, Inc., as the agricultural discovery company’s newest board member.

Ag Tech Talk: Enko’s Tom Meade Explores What Big Players Are Investing in for New Molecules

AgriBusiness Global

Enko Earns #1 Spot Among the 10 Best Startups in Connecticut 2024

The Tech Tribune

AI offers a new era in agricultural innovation: combating climate-driven crop pests

By Tom Meade, Ph.D. Enko CSO for the World Economic Forum

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

Yahoo! Finance - Worldwide

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

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

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

Crunchbase News

Investors Ink $70M Bet on Enko

Magnetic Ag

Enko harvests $70M Series C for crop protection

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

The Day

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

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

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

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

BioFuelsDigest.com

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

Enko Raises $70M in Series C Funding

FINSMES.com

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

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

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

Enko Raises $70M in Series C

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

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

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?

Marijn Dekkers and Jacqueline Heard Reflect on the Future of Agriculture

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

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 on Novel Crop Health Molecules

Enko and Nufarm: Expanding Access to New Herbicide Solutions

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

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

GlobalAgInvesting.com

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

WEForum.org

Enko, Bayer Collaborate on New Chemistries for Safe Pesticides

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

Agriculture.com

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