Wendigo
In Algonquian folklore, the wendigo () or windigo is a mythical man-eating monster or evil spirit native to the northern forests of the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes Region of the United States and Canada. The wendigo may appear as a monster with some characteristics of a human or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous. It is historically associated with murder, insatiable greed, and the cultural taboos against such behaviours.
David Berry (inventor)
In 2013, Berry founded Indigo to pioneer microbial solutions that naturally promote plant health and improve agricultural production by harnessing the beneficial microbes residing within plants. Plants live in harmony with their microbiome. The plant microbiome has been an unappreciated means to change agriculture for the better. The company raised over $200M in 2017 with a valuation of over $1.4B, having raised one of Boston's biggest financing rounds in 2017 and making it a unicorn, after having raised the largest private agtech financing round in history in 2016 at 100M. The company has raised over $350M since inception. Indigo's products have been shown to improve yields by 10+% including in a 50,000 acre field trial in Texas.