The Seed of an Idea — Grows the Next Generation
The founder narrative behind Clean Seed Capital Group — three decades of precision-seeding work, the patent foundation, and the platform that grew out of it.
Company
The Company Behind the Architecture.
Three decades of precision seeding work — now the architecture the global equipment industry is converging on.
Clean Seed Capital Group is the platform company behind precision seeding at scale — originating the architecture, advancing its evolution, and operating the partner network that deploys it globally.
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Who We Are
Platform · By Design
A platform company — by architecture, not by pivot.
Clean Seed is not a traditional equipment manufacturer. It is a platform company — structured to originate an architecture, scale it through partners already operating at industrial scale, and participate across the broader equipment ecosystem as the precision seeding category formalizes around the patented model.
The Business
The system beneath the category.
The architecture is the asset. The patent estate protects it. The partner network deploys it. The licensing framework extends both. The discipline has been the same for three decades — build the standard, not the slight advantage.
Capital follows the architecture, not the equipment. Manufacturing, distribution, and service sit at the edges of the model — operated by Mahindra, JAS, and the Soil + Sky Alliance. Clean Seed operates the platform itself.
Principle 01
Architecture First
Engineer the standard before commercializing it. The patent estate predates the market it now defines.
Principle 02
Partner-Led Scale
Deploy through partners already operating at OEM and channel scale. Avoid the capital weight of owning what others already own.
Principle 03
License the System
Convert industry convergence around the patented architecture into long-duration royalty participation across the equipment ecosystem.
Company Description · As Disclosed
Clean Seed is an agricultural technology company advancing the commercialization of its award-winning SMART Seeder™ technologies, including the MINI‑MAX™ platform and the Company's broader precision seeding and agronomic control systems. The Company's technologies are designed to improve input efficiency, support stronger crop performance, reduce waste, and enhance farm profitability.
At the heart of Clean Seed's offering is the SMART Seeder™ system — a breakthrough in precision seeding that combines advanced electronic metering with intuitive software control. Its ability to deliver row-by-row variable rate inputs positions it as a leading innovation in the next generation of sustainable farming.
Clean Seed is partnered with Mahindra, the world's largest tractor manufacturer by volume, strengthening its global path to market and large-scale adoption.
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Leadership
Operators · Architects
The team operating the platform.
Clean Seed's leadership combines three decades of agricultural equipment engineering with platform-business discipline. The team is focused on advancing the architecture, expanding the partner network, and executing the licensing model that compounds with industry adoption.
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Graeme Lempriere
Chairman & Chief Executive OfficerFounder of Clean Seed Capital Group. Accomplished corporate and financial entrepreneur with proven senior management experience across public and private companies, including business development and venture management through Marvelle Corporate Development Group. Leading Clean Seed through the corporate transformation, TSX-V reactivation, and the Mahindra partnership rollout.
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Noel Lempriere
VP · Marketing & Business DevelopmentSenior marketing and team-management professional with 20+ years across agricultural technologies, sustainable manufacturing, hospitality, and major international events. Has worked directly with the Chairman & CEO on Clean Seed strategy, branding, and commercial development since the platform's inception, and served in an advisory role to the board on the 2010 World Masters Championships launch.
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Jeet Jheetey
Chief Operating OfficerFifteen years of operations and supply chain leadership across the high-mix agricultural equipment and automotive industries. Led production-system transformations that compressed lead times from five weeks to five days, increased throughput by 20%, and reduced work-in-progress inventory by 75%. B.Eng. Mechanical Engineering (University of Waterloo); Manufacturing Management Certificate (Athabasca).
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Steven Brassard CPA, CA, MPAcc, C.Dir.
Chief Financial OfficerAccounting and governance professional with deep venture-stage experience across public and private companies. Builds and operates finance, compliance, and reporting infrastructure aligned to strategic objectives. Chartered Professional Accountant, Chartered Director, and holds a Master of Professional Accounting from the University of Saskatchewan.
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Gord Wilson
Director · Research & Development30+ years of manufacturing and product-development experience across consumer products and industrial equipment. Brings deep capability in 3D-CAD product design, OEM sourcing, production management, and facilities design — and a track record of meeting development objectives. Long-standing advocate for green technology and sustainable engineering.
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Chuck Schembri
Lead Electronics OfficerHead of electronics development at Clean Seed since 2011. Previously designed embedded electronic control systems for fuel-cell powered industrial equipment at Plug Power, and integrated portable fuel-cell systems at Ballard Power — including the P2000 control module for Ford's first fuel-cell vehicle. Diploma in Electronics Technology, BCIT.
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Ed Quon
Director · Embedded Software25+ years of electronics and embedded software experience. Joined Clean Seed after extended service at New Flyer Industries, where he applied embedded controls modifications to hybrid and fuel-cell electric vehicle systems. Earlier work spans engine-management systems, data acquisition, and high-volume manufacturing automation at Northern Telecom.
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Steve Larocque
Agricultural & Agronomic AdvisorIndependent crop advisor and owner of Beyond Agronomy, managing 55,000+ acres of cropland and publishing the weekly Beyond Agronomy News. One of the first to implement full controlled-traffic farming and inter-row seeding systems in Western Canada. Certified Crop Advisor, B.Sc. Agriculture (Lethbridge), and 2007 Canadian Nuffield Scholar with international field study across nine countries.
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Mark Tommasi
Corporate CommunicationsFormer investment advisor with 15+ years of corporate communications and marketing experience across public and private companies in the United States and Canada. Has served as director and officer of numerous public companies, building dynamic market-awareness programs spanning investor relations, marketing communications, and corporate development.
Senior officer disclosures, committee assignments, and shareholdings are available via Investor Relations — ir@cleanseedcapital.com
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Board of Directors
Governance · Oversight
Governance aligned with the platform.
The Board provides oversight across strategy, governance, financial reporting, and risk. Directors bring experience across agriculture, capital markets, intellectual property, and global operations — matched to the structure of a platform company operating through partners on three continents.
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Graeme Lempriere
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & DirectorFounder of Clean Seed Capital Group. Capitalized the Company, built the technology and management team, and continues to lead the platform's licensing-led commercialization strategy and the Mahindra partnership through international rollout.
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Gary Anderson
Advisor & DirectorCo-founder of Ag Growth International (AGI). Brings 40+ years of manufacturing experience and significant organic-growth and M&A track record across the agricultural-equipment sector.
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Glenn Gatcliffe
Independent Director20+ years of capital-markets and M&A experience. Former Managing Director and Head of Consumer, Agriculture, Chemicals & Manufacturing at Raymond James.
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Dr. Ulrich Trogele
Independent Director34-year leadership career in global agribusiness with significant M&A experience across the sector.
Director disclosures, committee memberships, and shareholdings are available via Investor Relations — ir@cleanseedcapital.com
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Origin
Three Decades · One Architecture
A single conviction, held for thirty years.
Clean Seed exists because of one conviction held since the early 1990s — that precision seeding, done right at the point of placement, would become the defining architecture of modern agriculture. The work to build it began long before the industry began converging around it.
Chapter 01
1990s · Foundation
It started on a paper napkin — and reached the U.S. Senate.
Dr. Noel Douglas Lempriere — agricultural engineer, conservation tillage pioneer, and one of few inventors invited to address the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Sustainable Agriculture — sketched the first opener concept on a paper napkin in the 1990s. He had spent decades inside the U.S. conservation tillage movement and was frustrated by seeding systems that wasted seed, fertilizer, and water on every pass.
What followed was a sustained body of patent work: the Terra-Glide planting system, deep fertilizer placement at shallow drilling depths, and the first integration of electric metering onto no-till drills. Those original patents became the foundation of what is now the SMART Seeder MAX™ architecture — and the basis of the patent estate Clean Seed continues to extend across new technologies and software layers.
"This technology will change food for the world. It requires less input, less seed, less fertilizer — and the harvest will be much greater."
Chapter 02
Public by Design
Capital from the people who plant the seed.
Clean Seed went public not for institutional capital alone, but to invite the farming community into the architecture's development. The majority of the company's funding has come from the operators who run the equipment — a deliberate alignment between the platform and the people whose ground it serves.
The intent has not changed: build the standard, with the people who depend on it. The shareholder base is structurally aligned with the long-duration nature of an architecture-led business — patents that compound, partnerships that deepen, licensing that participates as the industry adopts the model.
Chapter 03
Discipline of the Platform
Radical advancement, not incremental advantage.
Refusing slight differentiation has been the operating principle from day one. The architecture was engineered to redefine the seeding pass — variable-rate metering, precise placement, integrated control — not to improve on existing equipment by a margin. Every patent in the estate, every technology added to the platform, has been measured against a single test: does it raise the standard for the entire category, or only for one product?
"We don't build something slightly different with a slight advantage. We make radical advancements."
Chapter 04
Institutional Alignment
Public-sector belief from the beginning.
The architecture has drawn structural support across jurisdictions and decades. Issued patents in the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, and additional markets — alongside Government of Canada agreements, USPTO continuations and extensions, and provincial alignment with Saskatchewan — anchor the platform's institutional posture. Recognition of intellectual property worth protecting, not subsidies for a product.
Canada
Federal funding agreements
Government of Canada interest-free loan agreements supporting platform development and Canadian operations.
United States
USPTO grants & extensions
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants and keystone-patent extensions reinforcing the patent estate.
Europe
Patent arrangements
European patent arrangements extending the architecture's IP coverage across major agricultural jurisdictions.
Saskatchewan
Provincial alignment
Central Saskatchewan operations established with multi-year provincial tax reduction recognizing the platform's commercial innovation.
The architecture was engineered first. The platform was structured to scale it. The industry is now operating within it.
Clean Seed Capital Group
The architecture is ours. The scale is the industry's.
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On Record
Documentary Library
The story, on record.
Two long-form films published by Clean Seed Capital Group — the founder origin story and a documentary on soil and the technology built to repair it.
Earth On The Edge — A Clean Seed Capital Documentary
A documentary on soil at the edge of viability and the role of precision-seeding technology in restoring it. Selected as finalist at the 48th Annual Alberta Film & Television Awards.