OUR PRODUCT
Our proprietary generator uses air and electricity to generate sustainable, salt free nitrates in an aqueous solution or Nitrogen Enriched Water (NEWfertilizer™) that can be applied through any irrigation system.
Preliminary design for 2.0 product
OUR Technology
The ionization of nitrogen and oxygen to form Reactive Nitrogen Oxygen Species (RONS) has existed for over a century. By using proprietary non-thermal plasma generators, NTP produce sustainable, salt-free nitrates on-site, and on demand.
Our Impact
The $120 billion synthetic nitrogen fertilizer industry contributes to 2% of global GHG emissions, or roughly 1.5 Gigatons of carbon per year. For every 1 pound of nitrogen used as fertilizer, approximately 15 pounds of CO2e are emitted into the atmosphere. NTP is revolutionizing the industry, helping pave the way toward a cleaner, more sustainable future in agriculture.
Our Team
CEO
Serial Entrepreneur, MIT MBA, Brown ScM Chemical Engineering.
Advisory Board
Graduate 2022 ICAP program for Customer Discovery
Placed 2nd out of 79 applicants and 10 Finalists
2023 Regional Winner; Top 6 Nationally, Ag Prize
Graduate of the 2023 Propelus I-Corps program
2023 Participant in the GROW Impact Accelerator form over 600 applicants worldwide
2022 Ag Prize winner
Founded in 2013 and based in Silicon Valley, AgFunder is one of the world’s most active foodtech and agtech VCs.
We back MIT founders - SBXi is jointly backed by Accel, Polaris Partners, GETTYLAB, General Catalyst, Pillar, Danaher, Underscore VC and Glasswing Ventures
© 2023 NTP Technologies, Inc.
CEO
Minos Athanassiadis is a Vice President at iFoodDS. He is part of the market leading team which provides SaaS food safety and traceability tools to grower-shippers globally, as well as quality assurance and management tools to top grocery retailers in the US and Australia.
Minos has deep expertise in both the agriculture and technology industries. He has held a series of senior positions with production agriculture companies including Dole Fresh Vegetables and Underwood Ranches. As Managing Director of the advisory firm Fresh Link Group, he led projects for a broad spectrum of clients including Walmart, John Deere, and numerous privately held companies. Minos also serves on the board of AG RX, a leading independent supplier of traditional and organic crop protection and nutrient products.
He is a graduate of the University of California at Davis and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Advisory Board
Chris Berkner is the Founder and CEO of Berkner Group, a leading executive and technical search firm for innovative, high-growth companies in Climate Tech and AgTech.
Chris was formerly Co-founder and Managing Director of One Earth Capital, an early-stage AgTech fund that invested tens of millions of dollars in various AgTech startups (including Marrone Bio, which went public on NASDAQ in 2014). From 2009 to 2012 he was CEO of PureSense, a 50-person AgTech hardware and software company that helped hundreds of large farms save billions of gallons of water while participating in demand response programs with PG&E and SoCal Edison. During his tenure, the company nurtured and formed relationships with a range of agricultural distribution partners including Wilbur Ellis, Helena Chemical, and local irrigation suppliers.
In his more distant past, Chris was VP of Software Engineering at an internet startup, did research on solar nanotechnology at Stanford, and taught karate to kids and adults. In his spare time, Chris enjoys hiking, yoga and playing music.
CEO
John Ireland has held positions as CEO, CFO, COO and Director of Business Development in both private and public corporations in several verticals.
Mr. Ireland currently owns a hydroponics farm in Maryland and along with his own consulting practice, is part of a small consulting group focused on helping colleges and universities with their sustainability and resiliency initiatives.
As part of his consulting practice, Mr. Ireland has worked in many industries assisting companies to prosper. He has been engaged by diverse companies including: a solar thermal company, a privately held software company, an electronics company, an upstream energy transaction exchange, a healthcare leasing company, a medical imaging company, a transaction based marketing company, and a tree seed oil company.
Mr. Ireland has been part of the Clean Tech Open accelerator as a lead mentor for 9 years and was awarded mentor of the year in 2019. He was also the treasure of the MIT Enterprise Forum of CT for 10 years.
One of Mr. Ireland’s notable accomplishments was his tenure as the CFO and COO for Sightlines, a facility benchmarking firm that grew from less than $1 million in revenue to over $7.5 million and was eventually sold for 13x EBITDA.
Mr. Ireland raised startup capital for and was the Founder and CEO of Downstream Energy Corporation. Downstream developed a SaaS solution that provided an alternative to the existing manual business processes and proprietary technologies available to support communication between suppliers and marketers of refined petroleum products.
Mr. Ireland spent eight years at Tosco Corporation in Business Development and Strategic Planning. He was instrumental in the growth of Tosco through mergers and acquisitions from a single refinery to the largest independent oil refiner and marketer in the United States whose assets included 7 refiners and over 5000 retail assets.
Mr. Ireland graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in biochemical engineering. He also holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Mr. Ireland sits on several Boards as both a member and an advisor. He was elected to the Board of Education for his local town and was a lacrosse coach for over 12 years.
