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Croptastic the InnerPlant PodcastCroptastic S5, Ep. 58: Field Day 2030 - Welcome, Shely AronovIn August of 2025, InnerPlant hosted a technology demonstration field day in Perry, IA, that took guests through the 2030 growing season with a walking tour featuring demonstrations representing a different day in the future season. Each stop on the tour showcased a specific aspect of how InnerPlant's technology will shape the future of agriculture.This special Croptastic series of episodes is designed to tell the story of that day and share the demonstrations with a wider audience. This episode features InnerPlant’s CEO and co-founder, Shely Aronov, setting the stage for the day’s demonstrations.Thi...
2025-10-2209 min
The Modern Acre429: How to Execute a Big Idea in AgTechTim and Tyler talk to Shely Aronov about founding and scaling Innerplant. — This episode is presented by Corteva R&D. — Links Innerplant - https://innerplant.com
2025-10-1427 min
Tools for Tech LeadersFrom Hummus to High-Tech: Building AgTech Startups That Defy the OddsCan you teach plants to communicate? In this episode, hear about Shely Aronov's journey, CEO of InnerPlant, from launching a food brand to creating biotech crops that send signals about their stress and health to farmers. Shely shares lessons on leadership, the pivotal role of strategy, and the evolving hiring needs of startups—from scrappy generalists to industry experts. Discover how InnerPlant uses cutting-edge science to make plants signal stress, how satellite imagery transforms farming, and why outsiders often drive the biggest breakthroughs. This episode is packed with insights on scaling a deep-tech startup, embracing change, and di...
2025-01-2346 min
Leaders on a MissionWhen Plants Talk: Using Crop Communication to Drive the Future of Farming with Shely Aronov, CEO @ InnerplantSummary:In this episode of Leaders on a Mission, CEO Shely Aronov discusses how her company InnerPlant is revolutionizing agriculture through real-time plant stress detection. By giving crops a way to optically signal when under attack from fungi and other threats, Inner Plant is transforming farming from an industry of guesses into one powered by data.Tune in to hear how their technology means farmers can pinpoint problems within days instead of weeks, helping boost yields and reduce waste. Shely also shares her entrepreneurial journey and the challenges of scaling an AgTech startup...
2024-03-2633 min
Agribusiness Matters with Venky RamachandranThe Business of Plant Communication with Shely AronovInner Plant Founder and CEO Shely Aronov joins us to talk about strategic tradeoffs, the evolution of technology, commoditization, and disrupting the consolidation of the Big 6 agri-input landscape.
These are the questions we delved into:
Why does Inner Plant consider its core business to be in traits and not chemistry? Would the farmer pay for data or the trait?
Why does InnerPlant firmly believe in their customer mantra: “No additional work, no changes to operations, scalable, and affordable”?
What are the trade-offs in building a biosensor platform? Why does InnerPlant focus on t...
2024-03-0152 min
Climate CEOs: Scaling StartupsMood Rings for Plants: VC-Funded AgTech Tackles 40% Crop Loss with Living SensorsShely Aronov, CEO of InnerPlant, reveals how her team is building crops that "talk" to farmers through optical signals, helping prevent yield loss while redefining the future of agriculture.⭐ My guest today is Shely Aronov, Founder and CEO of InnerPlant.InnerPlant is a VC-backed agtech company on a mission to transform farming by enabling crops to communicate with growers. Their Living Sensor plants emit optical signals detectable by tractors in the field or by satellites in space.Shely is a serial entrepreneur with experience in multiple sectors across multiple countries wi...
2023-12-0741 min
SHIFTLive: Leveraging Soil ComplexityTech companies and investors openly discuss the shifting role of soil in climate-proofing the world’s complex food systems in this live episode taped in front of an audience at New York Climate Week.
We Meet:
Shely Aronov, CEO of Innerplant
Avantika Daing, Managing Partner, Plum Alley and General Partner, Plum Alley Venture Fund
Ana Pavlovic, Chief Commercial Officer at Eion Carbon
Sara Eckhouse, Executive Director of FoodShot Global
Credits:
This show is produced by Jennifer Strong and Anthony Green with help from Emma Cillekens. It’...
2023-09-2936 min
What's Next in...Ag | Food Tech No. 2: An Interview with Shely Aronov and Amy WuDoon Insights' Managing Director Nick Sramek sits down with Shely Aronov, Founder and CEO of Inner Plant, and Amy Wu, journalist and author of From Farms to Incubators. Nick begins by asking Amy about her book which profiles female leaders in agtech and food tech, plus inquires about the state of female startup founders. Shely opens up about her company, Inner Plant, which codes crops to communicate when stressed by pathogens or drought. For more information about Amy's work, check out her page at https://www.farmstoincubators.com/. More information on Shely and her company...
2023-03-2800 min
The Leaders Who CareWhat If Plants Could Talk? Inside the Tech Revolutionising Farming!
Join us for this eye-opening conversation with Shely Aronov, the powerhouse CEO and co-founder of InnerPlant.
Shely and her team are pioneering tech that gives crops the power to communicate—transforming agriculture to boost yields, cut chemical use, and create healthier farms.
Understand how groundbreaking tech can redefine industries, this episode is a must-listen!
2023-03-0742 min
Ag News DailyOctober 4, 2022: #TechTuesday with InnerPlantToday we are joined by Shely Aronov, CEO of InnerPlant. She discusses the innovative seed technology created by the company and even dives into their newly announced investment from John Deere.
2022-10-0400 min
Ag News DailyOctober 4, 2022: #TechTuesday with InnerPlantToday we are joined by Shely Aronov, CEO of InnerPlant. She discusses the innovative seed technology created by the company and even dives into their newly announced investment from John Deere.
2022-10-0423 minCroptastic the InnerPlant PodcastEpisode 30: Tom AdamsWelcome to Croptastic the InnerPlant Podcast where your host Shely Aronov explores the global future of agriculture and food. In this episode, we’re joined by Tom Adams, CEO and co-founder of Pairwise. Tom has over 25 years of biotechnology leadership experience and chats with Shely about how that experience continues to influence his work using biotech to create healthier food at Pairwise.
2022-09-1427 min
LuminexusThe Future Of Agriculture: Engineering Plants To Communicate With FarmersShely Aronov | InnerPlant
"If you don't try, you fail. And if you want to succeed, you at least have a chance by trying. If you try enough times and have the right team to support you, the right attitude, and the right mentors, you might actually change the world.” - Shely Aronov
These are the kinds of knowledge bombs Shely drops in this conversation. Shely is the co founder and CEO of InnerPlant, a company combing AI, drone technology and gene editing to detect pest infestations on crops in real time. They genetically engineer the pla...
2022-08-0346 min
Future of AgricultureFoA 319: Cell-Based Milk with Fengru Lin of TurtleTreeThank you to our quarterly presenting sponsor: www.CalgaryAgBusiness.comTurtleTree: https://turtletree.com/"From Farms to Incubators" https://bookshop.org/books/from-farms-to-incubators-women-innovators-revolutionizing-how-our-food-is-grown/9781610355759 Joining us on today’s episode is Fengru Lin, co-founder of TurtleTree, which is based in both Singapore and California. The company describes itself as “a biotech company dedicated to producing a new generation of nutrition—one that’s better for the planet, better for the animals, and better for people everywhere. Utilizing its proprietary, cell-based technology, the company is creating better-for-you milk ingredients sustainably and affordably, with benefits that extend b...
2022-07-1329 min
The Feed with Amber Mac & Michael BRIP Microsoft Explorer & Teaching Plants To Communicate With Us To Produce More CropsCollision is underway this week and one Farm Tech company is teaching plants to communicate with humans to help improve crop yields. InnerPlant’s CEO and Co-Founder, Shely Aronov, joins us with more. Next, Alison Darcy, Founder and President of Woebot Health, explains the AI-powered chatbot that is capable of creating a therapeutic bond with users to help with mental health issues. Also, Manulife' Chief Information Officer, Shamus Weiland, reveals their plan to encourage more women to work in tech. Plus, we take a look at rad Dad gifts in tech.Links to this week's stories and discus...
2022-06-2149 minCroptastic the InnerPlant PodcastEpisode 27: David WallersteinWelcome to Croptastic the InnerPlant Podcast where your host Shely Aronov explores the global future of agriculture and food. David Wallerstein, Chief eXploration Officer and Senior Executive Vice President of Chinese Internet titan Tencent joins the show this episode to talk about the need for big solutions to the planet’s biggest problems. His water-focused documentary, “Day Zero” is available on Amazon Prime.
2022-06-1637 min
Species UniteShely Aronov: Google Translate for Plants"Our entire food supply is completely dependent on chemicals and completely dependent on four to eight companies around the world to produce all these products." – Shely Aronov Shelly Aronov is the founder and CEO of InnerPlant. InnerPlant is kind of like Google Translate for plants. They're bioengineering plant genes so that crops can send messages to farmers, and the farmers will literally be able to understand what's going wrong with the crops. So that when they're under attack, the farmers will know much earlier than they do now. The reason I'm so ex...
2022-03-1024 min
2022-03-0403 min
TechFirst with John KoetsierEngineering plants to talk via bioluminescenceWhat if plants could tell us when pests are attacking them, or they’re too dry, or they need more fertilizer. One startup is gene engineering farm plants so they can communicate in in fluorescent colors. The result: a farmer’s phone, drone, or even satellite imagery can reveal what is happening in hundreds of acres of fields …
That leads to better food, fewer crop failures, and more revenue for farmers.
In this TechFirst with John Koetsier we meet Shely Aronov, CEO and founder at InnerPlant, and chat about what plants say, and how farmers can unde...
2022-01-1917 min
Future of AgricultureFoA 290: Designing Crops That Tell Farmers What's Bothering Them with Shely Aronov of InnerPlantInnerPlant: https://innerplant.com/ "From Farms to Incubators" https://www.farmstoincubators.com/ This week we are exploring the concept of engineering a plant to provide signals of stress like pest pressure or disease pressure or nutrient deficiency. InnerPlant is developing traits that serve as biosensors for when each of these unique types of stressors occur. This can be monitored via satellite for early detection and hopefully swift and precise action by the farmer. InnerPlant founder and CEO Shely Aronov is joining us on today’s show. And when I say us, I not only...
2021-12-2237 minAg News Daily#TechTuesday with InnerPlantShely Aronov, CEO and Foudner of InnerPlant, joins the podcast for #TechTuesday! Tune in to hear us talk about the technology helping producers talk to plants.
2021-10-0525 minAg News Daily#TechTuesday with InnerPlantShely Aronov, CEO and Foudner of InnerPlant, joins the podcast for #TechTuesday! Tune in to hear us talk about the technology helping producers talk to plants.
2021-10-0500 min
Evolve.agInnerPlant is using plants as sensors to identify problems before they can be seenIn this episode, we interview the founder of InnerPlant, Shely Aronov. Her new technology builds biosensing capabilities into plants that provide early detection of crop issues with targeted, actionable data and recommendations for farmers.
InnerPlant is creating a valuable technology that can be planted right in the field. Their biosensing plants react to crop stressors and transmit location data, recommendations, and more back to the farmer. This allows farmers to proactively address the issue before it becomes widespread in the field. Because InnerPlant operates on the microbiological level, problems are identified much earlier and more acutely than w...
2020-05-2623 min
Today's Leading Women with Marie Grace Berg ~ Real Stories. Real Inspiration. Real Take-aways. 7-Days A Week!555: SHELY Aronov Brings True Flavors and Culture of Hummus to the USSHELY Aronov, born and raised in Israel, moved to the U.S. in 2009 to pursue an MBA at Stanford.
Sheâs always dreamed of bringing the fresh, healthy Middle Eastern food she grew up on to the US. So, after graduating, she founded Yamba Hummus, an authentic Israeli hummus line that brings the true flavors and culture of hummus to the U.S.
Yamba Hummus is currently selling in over 100 retailers in Northern California and expanding into other west coast regions.
2015-09-0500 min