Terviva Inc.

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Growing the world’s most scalable, cost-effective and environmentally friendly source of oil and protein

Naveen Sikka

Founder & CEO at Terviva Inc.

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Employees 51–100

Headquarters Alameda, California, United States

Founded in 2010, Terviva is an agricultural innovation company partnering with farmers to grow pongamia, a climate-resilient tree which which helps to reforest land and revitalize communities. Pongamia is uniquely suited to meet today’s environmental challenges because it sequesters carbon, improves soil health and water quality while growing on land where other crops can’t grow. This helps to avoid deforestation and revitalize agricultural lands and communities around the world.

After more than a decade of innovation, Terviva has developed a way to harvest and transform pongamia beans into sustainable food ingredients and bioenergy. The company's transparent and equitable supply chain spans wild harvesting and non-GMO bean collection in India as well as roughly 1,500 acres of pongamia planted around the world in Florida, Hawaii and Australia.

Energy & Environment

Currently Operating in Three Regions

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May 20, 2021

Terviva Partners With Danone for Pongamia Tree-Derived Food

The deal comes as companies seek to use agriculture to meet their climate-change goals.

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March 29, 2024

Terviva to 'divert Pongamia volumes more towards biofuels & feed'

Aloha plant protein bars partner with Terviva to use Pongamia beans for Ponova oil. Terviva's strategic pivot focuses on longer development cycles compared to economic cycles. The partnership...

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March 26, 2024

Terviva Expands Relationship with ALOHA with New Pa'akai Bar, Made with Sustainable Ponova® Oil

Terviva, a sustainable agroforestry company, partners with Aloha Pakai to expand their supply of pongamia trees for producing biofuel and animal feed. The collaboration aims to address...

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May 20, 2021

BREAKING: Terviva raises $54m and partners with Danone on plant proteins from regenerative crop pongamia - AgFunderNews

Danone has frequently shown itself as a leader in exploring environmentally beneficial food production methods, often around regenerative agriculture but also plant-based dairy alternatives.

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