Heartland founders, operating case studies and the essays arguing about where American growth comes from.
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A Colorado scaleup says its spray drones now apply biopesticides and beneficial microbes across roughly 300,000 organic acres, replacing much of the conventional ground and aerial spraying.
Elena Rostova • • 4 min read
ScaleupsA fictional Indianapolis scaleup re-engineered its pack casings around regional structural steel and local injection molding, cutting freight lead times from months to days.
ScaleupsA fictional Montana grower captures waste heat from a neighboring data center and stores it in water thermal mass, and says winter heating costs fell sharply as a result.
ScaleupsFor three decades, venture capital privileged bits over atoms. Now energy security, crop resilience and industrial electrification have made the factory floor and the 1,000-acre cornfield a frontier of scalable enterprise.
