• Groundwork BioAg operates at the intersection of food security and climate change, addressing the urgent need to increase agricultural productivity while restoring soil health and sequestering carbon.
  • At the core of this transition is the restoration of soil biological infrastructure using mycorrhizal fungi. When added to the soil, mycorrhizal fungi can enhance crop yields, optimize fertilizer use, and support durable carbon sequestration in soils.
  • While these benefits have been known for years, historically they were too expensive and difficult to produce at scale for most growers.
  • Through its proprietary production platform, Groundwork BioAg is tackling the problem by delivering high-concentration mycorrhizal inoculants at a scale and price point built for today’s mainstream growers.
  • Today, the company is scaling its technology over millions of hectares globally, including North America, Brazil, India, and China, to enhance yields and enable agriculture to act as a net carbon retainer.
By decarbonizing cropland across millions of hectares, we’re proving that agriculture can be a primary engine for climate restoration.
Dan Grotsky
  • The company’s innovation and leadership have been recognized globally, including ranking as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Food Companies (2022), inclusion in Forward Fooding’s Top 500 FoodTech (2024 and 2025), and participation in COP27 as part of the Israeli climate innovation delegation.
  • Dan Grotsky, the CGO and Co-Founder of Groundwork BioAg, has a background in engineering, AI, and entrepreneurship from MIT, and leads the company’s mission to position bioagriculture as a scalable, nature-based solution to climate change.
  • Motivated by the urgent link between food security and climate stability, Dan transitioned from a successful career in technology to focus on soil-based solutions, recognizing mycorrhizal fungi as a critical lever to restore ecosystems and enable agriculture to drive systemic environmental change.
Dan Grotsky

Dan Grotsky

Co-Founder, Chief Growth Officer

Focus area

Climate and environment

Impact topic

  • Regenerative agriculture
  • Food systems
  • Carbon removal

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