We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.
There are 82 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $9.3b. The average funding per company in this subset is $134.3m.
Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.
Molecular Assemblies, Inc. is an enzymatic DNA synthesis technology founded in 2013 by Curt Becker, Bill Efcavitch and William Efcavitch.
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$83.0m
Money raised
Pheronym is a biotechnology company based out of Davis, California, which makes pheromones that control agricultural pests and can be used as a replacement for toxic pesticides.
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$725.0k
Money raised
Apeel Sciences is a company that develops treatments to prevent spoilage of fruits and vegetables using molecules naturally found in peels, which maintain moisture and keep out oxygen.
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Funding Rounds
$1.9b
Money raised
A Canadian food biotech company focused on the development of hypoallergenic peanuts
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Geltor is a cellular agriculture company making essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility.
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$114.3m
Money raised
An industrial biotech company developing a commercial bioprocess for manufacturing bio-based malonic acid.
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$50.0m
Money raised
The EVERY Company (formally Clara Foods) is a biotechnology company founded by two New Harvest community members David Anchel and Arturo Elizondo in 2014. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and manufactures animal- free proteins using using yeast bio-fermentation techniques fore use in food products.
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$191.8m
Money raised
Pivot Bio is a company that creates technology that is focused on nitrogen fixation in cereal crops through microbes.It was founded in 2010 and is located in Berkeley, California.
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$1.1b
Money raised
Formlabs is a 3D printing system company that provides digital fabrications for industries
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$267.4m
Money raised
Beta Hatch is an insect protein for farming company founded in 2015 by Virginia Emery.
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$41.3m
Money raised
DNA Script is a DNA synthesis company founded by Thomas Ybert, Sylvain Gariel, and Xavier Gordon in 2014, and headquartered in Paris, France.
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$427.1m
Money raised
A gene editing technology company founded in 2015 and based in Boulder, CO, USA.
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$677.0m
Money raised
Calysta is a biotechnology company seeking to improve worldwide food security through making animal feed. The company is based out of Menlo Park, California and was founded in 2012 by Josh Silverman.
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$274.2m
Money raised
Equinom is a computational seed breeding company providing multi-trait seed products specified for the food industry. The company offers pea, cowpea, chickpea, mung bean lentil, fava and sesame varieties.
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$38.0m
Money raised
Agriculture company developing novel methods of pest control
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$170.0m
Money raised
An agriculture technology company that manufactures advanced farming machines. It is located in Sunnyvale, California and was founded in 2011.
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$50.6m
Money raised
NovoNutrients produce microbes that break down industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and reassemble them into aquaculture feed.
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$5.0m
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An agricultural biotechnology company producing renewable, biomass-based fuels and raw materials
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$65.4m
Money raised
Biosortia is a therapeutics, agrochemical and cosmetics company developing products from microbial small molecules through microbiome mining.
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$25.4m
Money raised
Vestaron is a Kalamazoo, Michigan-based agricultural technology company manufacturing bioinsecticides from naturally occurring peptides
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$273.6m
Money raised
A synthetic biology company making agricultural biologicals.
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$37.7m
Money raised
Developing technologies to produce jet fuel and other biofuels from algae
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$85.0m
Money raised
AgBiome is focused on the discovery and development of biological and trait products for crop production.
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$252.5m
Money raised
Indigo is an agricultural technology company utilizing natural microbiology and digital technologies to improve farmers' profitability, environmental sustainability and consumer health.
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$1.2b
Money raised
Recombinetics is a biotechnology company that uses gene editing for agriculture and medicine
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$67.4m
Money raised
TerViva is an Alameda, California-based food and agriculture technology company that produces pongamia trees with oil and protein-rich beans, similar to soybean, for plant-based food ingredients.
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$109.7m
Money raised
A company replacing chemical pesticides with plant based products.
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$54.8m
Money raised
SwineTech is a company focused on the health of piglets founded in 2015 by Matthew Rooda.
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$11.3m
Money raised
Inari is a biotechnology and agricultural technology company
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$452.1m
Money raised
Hazel Technologies is a biotechnology for foodwaste prevention company founded in 2015 by Patrick Flynn, Amy Garber and Adam Preslar.
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$102.5m
Money raised
Brightseed is a biotechnology company that uses Artificial Intelligence technology which discloses powerful compounds that are hidden in nature
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$122.0m
Money raised
Agragene develops sterile male insects to replace chemical pesticides for the control of crop pests
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$5.2m
Money raised
A plant genetics company with technologies in crop protection that aims to help farmers produce healthy food from sustainable crop systems.
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$94.2m
Money raised
Mootral develops carbon reduction solutions for companies and governments. Its first solution is a natural feed supplement that significantly reduces methane emissions from ruminants.
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$10.8m
Money raised
Pairwise uses CRISPR, gene editing and natural diversity in agricultural crops to address global food challenges. The company is working to develop new varieties of crops.
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$115.0m
Money raised
Cemvita Factory is an Houston-based clean technology company founded by Moji Karimi and Tara Karimi.
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A biotechnology company providing a discovery platform focused on microbial products for agriculture, human, and animal health.
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$2.0m
Money raised
Safetraces, Inc. is a Pleasanton, California-based biotechnology company developing an indoor air quality verification that actively measures pathogen risk.
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$18.0m
Money raised
Tropic Biosciences is a genome editing company founded in 2016 by Gilad Gershon.
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$38.5m
Money raised
PlantResponse is a biotechnology company developing soil health solutions and products for crop nutrition.
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$90.4m
Money raised
A company that develops biotechnology solutions for agriculture & environmental management
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$54.6m
Money raised
A company that develops a microbiome discovery platform for animal health.
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$3.6m
Money raised
Front Range Biosciences is an agriculture science for cannabis company founded in 2015 by Nick Hofmeister, Christoper Zalewski and Jonathan Vaught.
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$21.5m
Money raised
Trait Biolabs is working to make safer hemp and cannabis products by modifying cannabinoids to make them water soluble.
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$22.1m
Money raised
Programming biolCellibre is a best-in-class manufacturing technology company.. Employing an organism-agnostic approach, we turn cells into specialized, sustainable factories for the manufacture of globally significant products at scale.ogy to turn cells into factories company
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$33.2m
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FYTO is a technology company that develops systems that grow high quality crops using much less resources.
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$15.0m
Money raised
AgriProtein is a Cape Town-based developer of insect based nutrient recycling to create sustainable sources of protein for the mono-gastric animal feed industry.
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$106.6m
Money raised
Phytoform Labs is a biotechnology company.
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$5.8m
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Beeflow is a company focused on improving bees' immune system and teaching bees to pollinate targeted crops to increase bee population and crop yields.
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$8.3m
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An agricultural biotechnology coompany developing microbial consortia for improved agricultural yields
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$32.0m
Money raised
Phage Technologies is an animal and human food technology company developing diagnostic tools for food-borne bacteria.
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$40.0k
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Invaio is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotechnology company founded by Ignacio Martinez.
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$88.9m
Money raised
Holganix is a Pennsylvania-based producer and supplier of plant-based bio-stimulant soil supplements.
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$200.0k
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Carbo Culture captures and sequesters carbon from agricultural waste by turning it into biochar, a material that can be used to amend soil and help plant growth.
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$48.4m
Money raised
3Bar Biologics is a microbe delivery and manufacturing company that partners with microbe discovery and commercialization companies.
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$3.0m
Money raised
Smart Diagnostics Systems is a Jefferson City, Missouri-based biotechnology and diagnostics company developing diagnostics for the detection of dangerous microorganisms.
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A company developing diagnostic products to cure on-farm animal diseases
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$11.0m
Money raised
An agricultural biotechnology public company that commercializes technology derived from and designed for Space to world agriculture
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$1.0
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Cooks Venture is the first vertically integrated agricultural company to operate solely on regenerative agriculture.
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$76.0m
Money raised
A biotechnology company that develops products for improved and enhanced yield in agriculture
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$32.3m
Money raised
The company is working with ranchers to use red algae as a feed additive. Including red algae reduces methane emissions from livestock by up to 90%.
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$7.0m
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Sistema.bio is a manufacturer of prefabricated modular biodigester systems for farmers to produce fertilizer and biogas.
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$27.0m
Money raised
Technology to transform human urine into an alternative to agricultural fertilizer.
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$25.2m
Money raised
A company developing technologes for predictive, preventive and personalized healthcare and food security
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$5.5m
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Willow Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on the development of a disruptive bio-based process for the production of high purity cannabinoids. Its Burnaby lab houses state-of-the-art molecular biology, tissue culture, plant cultivation and analytical chemistry capabilities focused on correlating the physical and chemical characteristics of cannabis plants with their unique genetic makeup.
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$1.2m
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Amfora is building a platform of technologies that enhance the nutritional density of food and feed crops. The company is applying these technologies to develop a pipeline of products aimed at meeting the growing global demand for foods that are high in protein while enhancing sustainability.
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$11.0m
Money raised
Modular Science is a robots and machine learning for agriculture company founded in 2014 by Kristopher Overbo.
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$2.5m
Money raised
Ostara is a Vancouver-based company founded in 2005.
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$49.0m
Money raised
Little Fly Labs is a company developing therapies for mosquito-borne viruses founded by Edward Cheung, Richard Sayre and Kimberly Harrison.
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$2.0m
Money raised