Team
Grow Together is led by people who have built farms, sold companies, and allocated capital across food and agriculture. Every seat at the table comes with skin in the game.
The Team
General Partner
Founder of Visionary Vegetables and a lifelong Salinas Valley grower. Tim brings the grower voice to every deal — anchoring diligence in real-world crop economics, buyer relationships, and on-farm trial design. He is the reason our founders build for real demand, not theoretical markets.
General Partner
Co-founder and Managing Partner of NXP. Chemist turned venture investor, with two decades of institutional experience across XPRIZE, Technicolor Ventures, Industrious Ventures, and now NXP. Recognized on the 2026 GCV Top 50 Emerging Leaders list. Leads fund strategy, LP relationships, and portfolio thesis work.
General Partner
Co-founder and Managing Partner of NXP. Harvard psychology, Stanford Law, Silicon Valley founder. Alumnus of Lightspeed, Alchemist, and Noname Ventures. Leads fund formation, GP education, and the operating systems that keep Grow Together running.
Investment Manager
Seasoned investor with over 25 years of experience. Runs day-to-day deal execution and portfolio operations for Grow Together and Clinical A&F — diligence workflows, IC materials, and the 30/45/60-day fund-launch roadmap. The engine room of the fund.
Operating Partner
President and founder of Holaday Seed Company. Twenty-plus years sourcing and developing vegetable seed varieties for growers and shippers across California and Arizona. Brings the seed and breeding lens to every portfolio bet.
Special Advisor
Longtime VP of Ag Operations at Church Brothers Farms — 42,000+ acres across California, Arizona, and Mexico. National voice on ag automation, mechanization, and the future of the Salinas Valley workforce. Advises on on-farm technology pilots.
Special Advisor
Senior Director of Produce & Packaging Purchasing at Chipotle Mexican Grill. Based in Salinas, Erin brings deep buyer-side perspective on produce sourcing, category economics, and how category leaders evaluate new growers, varieties, and packaging formats.
Entrepreneur in Residence
Founder and former CEO of Bear Flag Robotics, the autonomous tractor company acquired by John Deere in 2021. Carnegie Mellon engineer, Stanford MS, Wharton MBA. Brings deep operator perspective on ag automation, robotics, and building through strategic exit — sourcing and de-risking the next generation of on-farm technology bets.
Extended Team
Grow Together is powered by the broader NXP platform — and by operators from the buyer, builder, and category-leader worlds who help us sharpen every bet we make.
Partner · Food Theme Lead
Partner at NXP and food theme lead. Yale BA, UCLA Anderson MBA, with a food-technology founder/operator background. Helped scale Cultivate Next from $50M to $150M and anchors NXP’s corporate-partner workstreams across Nongshim, Technomic, and CXF.
Head of Growth & Portfolio Impact
Head of Growth & Portfolio Impact at NXP. Michigan BSE and MBA, with a career across Raytheon, Amazon, Technicolor Ventures, Akatsuki Venture Fund, and Progression Fund. Sharpens portfolio companies from an industry perspective and leads NXP’s program execution.
Venture Partner · AI
Venture Partner at NXP leading the firm’s AI thesis and thought partnership on AI-native infrastructure. Anchors the NXP AI Resilience Fund workstream and advises on AI-adjacent food and agriculture bets.
Get in touch
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