Dagan

Dagan, Inc. was a specialized agtech company focused on providing data-driven insights into soil health for the agricultural sector. Founded in 2018 by William Salas, Stephen Hagen, and Ian Cooke, the firm operated out of Durham, New Hampshire, as a spin-out from Applied GeoSolutions. The company's core mission was to promote resilient agriculture by offering data to organizations that support farmers.

Dagan's business centered on quantifying and monitoring soil health to support regenerative agriculture. The company developed technologies that utilized satellite imagery and biogeochemical modeling to provide detailed environmental outcome data. Its services included the Operational Tillage Information System (OpTIS), which used satellite data to map agricultural practices like tillage and cover cropping, and the DeNitrification-DeComposition (DNDC) model, a soil simulation tool. This model analyzed soil conditions, weather, and management practices to estimate soil carbon levels, greenhouse gas emissions, and nitrogen cycling.

The company's clientele consisted of organizations within the agricultural ecosystem that rely on farm data, aiming to make sustainable farming practices more widespread. Dagan provided critical information on soil moisture, carbon sequestration, nutrient use efficiency, and overall productivity. The firm successfully raised $500K in a seed round in May 2019, followed by another round in January 2020. In a significant milestone, Dagan was acquired by FluroSat, a crop science company, in January 2021. The acquisition led to the formation of a new entity named Regrow, combining Dagan's soil health expertise with FluroSat's crop science platform to offer a comprehensive system for scaling and verifying sustainable agriculture practices.

Keywords: soil health, regenerative agriculture, agricultural data insights, agtech, soil carbon, greenhouse gas emissions, satellite mapping, biogeochemical modeling, OpTIS, DNDC model, sustainable agriculture, crop science, resilient agriculture, farm data analytics, environmental outcomes, nutrient management, carbon sequestration, agricultural technology, soil simulation, ecosystem services