More About Osage

Osage Orange trees, also called hedge trees, are tough, fast growing, resilient trees that have grown along the fence rows of Heartland farms for centuries. We strive to cultivate tough, resilient companies that will grow rapidly alongside existing industry leaders in the Heartland mainstay verticals of agriculture, construction, and logistics

Legacy industries like agriculture, construction, and logistics face mounting sustainability challenges that threaten both profitability and their core business models. Yet these established sectors often lack the agility, resources, or expertise to identify and commercialize breakthrough solutions. Existing companies struggle to innovate beyond their core business, universities sit on untapped intellectual property, and disconnected from both the business needs and the buried intellectual property. 

Osage Orange bridges these critical gaps. By partnering with established companies and regional universities, Osage systematically uncovers unaddressed business opportunities, transforms dormant IP into viable solutions, recruits the right entrepreneurial talent, validates market fit, and provides crucial pre-seed capital. This venture studio model accelerates the creation of new companies specifically designed to solve sustainability challenges in industries that have been slow to transform—turning what could be years of fragmented effort into streamlined pathways for meaningful impact. Without this coordinated approach, countless innovative solutions remain trapped in research labs or boardroom discussions, never reaching the market when we need them most. 

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