About Us

Clean Crop Technologies ("Clean Crop") stops crop loss at the source, removing pathogens from seeds before they are planted, increasing yields, reducing in-field waste, and improving food safety. Clean Crop’s Clean Current technology combines electricity and food-grade gases to create cold plasma, inactivating a broad spectrum of contaminants from seed surfaces in a dry, automated, and residue-free process. Clean Crop’s vision is to deploy its Clean Current system as the first line of defense against crop disease globally. We are building a dynamic team of engineers and technicians, administrators, and scientists with a passion for innovation, experimentation, pushing the envelope of what's possible, and a hunger to work at a fast-paced start-up. If that sounds like you, we'd love to talk! 

Diversity, equity and inclusion are priorities for our company. We believe that business has the opportunity to accelerate social change, and that it is our responsibility to further equality for all. Our aspiration is to create a workplace that looks like society, and to do this, we need to accelerate representation. We are committed to building a business where we attract and retain people and partners who provide their unique wisdom, perspective, and experiences. This requires providing justice, fairness, and access to opportunities and resources for the top talent that we attract and retain.

Our mission is to deploy sustainable technology solutions to help feed the world without burning it down. 

Our Values:

• “How can we solve our customer’s problems?” over “How can we use our technology?” Technology is a means to delight customers, not an end in itself. Nothing matters until it is generating value for customers and revenue for Clean Crop. We embrace curiosity about our customers’ problems, and will follow questions into any technical domain.
  
  
• Progress over Perfection  It is a valued skill here to triage priorities and deliver the right amount of effort to create business momentum and progress. This means optimizing work to get high quality signal as quickly as possible, to enable us to iterate rapidly.
  
  
• Yes And: We believe the best innovations come from trying to build on imperfect ideas constructively. We believe innovation can come from anywhere, and breakthroughs can come from any team member. We reject domain chauvinism, territorialism, and reflexive pessimism. We first vocalize what we agree on before sharing disagreements.
  
  
• “What needs to get done?” over “What’s my job?”: We are self-starters, constantly scanning for problems and proactively proposing solutions. We are here to win, and reject fear-based motivation. We understand that the only constant is change. We are utility players, resilient, flexible, and adaptable in the face of change, willing to learn and do anything needed to accomplish our goals.
  
  
• “Has this been solved before” over “How can I solve this”: We are intellectually curious and humble, and assume that someone, somewhere, knows more about any problem than we do, and seek them out first. We learn from them, so that we can focus our efforts on the bleeding edge of what must be solved. We ask for help quickly, and understand that this makes us smarter faster. We judge ourselves by how many problems we collectively find solutions for, not how many problems we solve ourselves. Before embarking on any new project, we should have a ‘first phone call’--who is your phone a friend that can ensure we are not reinventing the wheel?

"Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply." — Norman Borlaug