Built in Minnesota. Deploying in Kentucky.
CryptEco Innovations Inc. is the operating technology company behind the Auric™ platform — an integrated waste-to-energy-to-food system designed to be deployed across rural agricultural sites in the United States.
The cryptic economy.
CryptEco Innovations engineers systems that unlock the cryptic economy of agriculture: the hidden economic value buried in waste streams and overlooked biological processes. In ecology, cryptic describes things that operate beneath visible detection. We apply that idea to the economic layer.
Where conventional farms and processors see liabilities — manure, food waste, waste heat, CO2, and nutrient runoff — CryptEco builds infrastructure to turn them into diversified revenue: renewable energy, recovered heat, captured CO2, nutrient-rich fertilizers, and new protein and produce streams. The value was always there; we just built the system to capture it.
Aurigen™ (pronounced “origin”) — the Golden Beginning — is the infrastructure. The cryptic economy is the market it unlocks.
Make distributed bioenergy boringly reliable.
Distributed anaerobic digestion has worked at lab scale for decades. Distributed CHP has worked at industrial scale for decades. What hasn't worked is putting them together — on a real working farm — and operating the loop as one engineered system.
That's what CryptEco builds. We design the digester, the CHP, the greenhouse interface, and the operating system that ties them together. Then we deploy and operate the result.
Our long-term thesis is that the next decade of energy infrastructure will be distributed, programmable, and tied directly to the agricultural feedstock and food output cycles already running across rural America. We are building the operating layer for that thesis — node by node, starting in Kentucky.
We are not a marketplace. We are not a SaaS layer riding on top of equipment we don't understand. CryptEco builds the physical equipment, writes the operating system, and signs the offtake agreements. The platform succeeds or fails on its own performance.
Founder & Principal Investigator
Robert Mullis
Founder, CEO & Principal Investigator
Robert is the founder and Principal Investigator on CryptEco's SBIR and USDA programs. He leads the technical architecture of the Auric platform and the operating roadmap for Node Zero. He is also the principal of Leovara Management LLC, CryptEco's parent company.
CryptEco Innovations Inc.
Minnesota C-Corporation, incorporated September 2025. Wholly-owned subsidiary of Leovara Management LLC. Operating engineering team based in Minnesota; deployment operations in Kentucky.
Sister entities
Leovara Estates LLC — will operate the Node Zero physical site at the future location in Northern Kentucky.
EGrow Labs — controlled environment agriculture program; greenhouse operations integrated into the Auric platform.
Equipment is owned by Leovara Management LLC and leased to CryptEco Innovations Inc. under an intercompany lease.
Two states, one platform.
Minnesota — Headquarters
Engineering, software development on Aurixen OS™, financial modeling, and grant operations. CryptEco's C-Corp registration and primary office.
Kentucky — Deployment
Future site in Northern Kentucky. The physical Node Zero deployment. Anaerobic digester, ExerGen™ CHP, aquaponic greenhouse, and on-site operations. Operated by Leovara Estates LLC.
We are early. We are deliberate. We are hiring partners.
Engineering hires, agricultural site hosts, grant program officers, and capital partners are all in scope.