Our agtech startup Agulus is excited to announce that we have been accepted as a South Carolina Research Authority client company. SCRA is a tremendous resource for South Carolina startups like Agulus. We’re looking forward to a long and fruitful relationship. Our mission is to expand the market access of American farms by leveraging innovative, cloud-based solutions and deep industry knowledge. With SCRA on our side, we can more rapidly provide benefits to farms, rural communities, and the greater agricultural ecosystem.
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Patrick O’Neil – Information Security & Data Privacy Advisor

Patrick O’Neil has been a champion of smart, sensible information security throughout his career as an Information Security Engineer. Patrick has helped major e-commerce companies such as Amazon and Zulily provide secure online platforms for their customers. Building and maintaining trust with customers is important to Patrick, and he applies the lens of customer impact to all of his decisions. Mr. O’Neil has signed on to help Agulus make intelligent security decisions from the ground up, so that their customers may participate in the digital marketplace with confidence.
Kevin Nadeau – Agulus Logistics & Transportation Advisor

Kevin Nadeau of True Load Time is our Logistics & Transportation advisor here at Agulus. Kevin is an upstate SC native with 24 years of operational experience in air freight, final mile, and truckload operations. He founded True Load Time (TLT) in 2018 to combat the costly and deadly effects of excessive truckload detention. TLT’s patent-pending cloud-based technology provides users with access to the industry’s first comprehensive wait time database for shipping and receiving locations across the country.
Prior to founding TLT, Kevin served in senior management roles within the overnight small-parcel industry, manufacturing supply chain logistics, and for-hire truckload transportation sector. In his roles, he worked directly with customers, including BMW, Michelin, Caterpillar, and WestRock. Kevin also serves on the advisory boards of the South Carolina Research Authority – BSAB, Industry 4.0, and the Upstate Mobility Alliance – Technology and Innovation Task Force. In his spare time, he is an automotive racing enthusiast, personal fitness advocate and is passionate about volunteering, mentoring, and networking to help create opportunity within his local community.
Agulus Featured in Upstate Business Journal
Were grateful to be on cover of the latest edition of the Upstate Business Journal. A very well-written article on Agulus, our backgrounds, and our mission to stabilize global food supply chains by modernizing the agricultural marketplace.
New Agulus Headquarters at NEXT Innovation Center
A big thanks to our friends at NEXT Upstate for the amazing ecosystem they’ve helped establish for entrepreneurs. Agulus is very happy to call Greenville, SC home, and the NEXT Innovation Center our new headquarters.

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Agulus in TechCrunch Article on Helium
Agulus received a mention in a TechCrunch article on our awesome friends at Helium. Helium uses a blockchain to facilitate decentralized wireless networks – perfect for low-cost, low-power, and long-range devices. This innovative technology has amazing potential in the agricultural industry for farmers and logistics companies.
Agulus Joins Greenville’s NEXT
Agulus is excited to announce that we are now a member of the NEXT ecosystem. NEXT is a Greenville-based program dedicated to promoting economic development in upstate South Carolina.
“NEXT provides entrepreneur services and infrastructure to all types of high-growth ventures that are reinventing the global marketplace and strengthening the Greenville/Upstate region’s economy by creating quality jobs, attracting outside capital, and creating wealth through company ownership”.
Learn more about NEXT at https://nextsc.org and see https://nextsc.org/companies/ for info about other businesses in the NEXT ecosystem.

Join Agulus at the 2019 Southern US Hemp Conference & Expo
Agulus is an exhibitor at the 2019 Southern US Hemp Conference & Expo. The conference will be held December 2nd – 4th in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Stop by booth 407 to say hello, and check out what Agulus is offering the American hemp industry!
Click here for more information about attending the hemp conference & expo.
