Tag: gene-editing

Future Food-Tech San Francisco

March 11, 2021

Future Food-Tech is a world-leading event series focusing on the most disruptive technologies transforming our food system. The flagship event, held in the innovation capital

Future Food-Tech London

October 22, 2020

The Future Food-Tech Summit returns to London and brings together over 500 leaders, senior executives, pioneering innovators and VCs from around the globe. The

World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit

October 20, 2020

The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit takes place each year in London, San Francisco and São Paulo . With more than 41 countries represented in London

Tropic Biosciences banks $28.5m in Temasek-led Series B for gene-editing, RNAi approach

June 3, 2020

Tropic plans to use the funding to commercialize its tech and to add rice to the roster of tropical crop cultivars it has in development.

The top 20 Ag Biotech deals of 2019

May 13, 2020

Despite a slow down in investment in 2019, Ag Biotech was still one of the top categories for seed funding, and the most active upstream category.

3rd Precision CRISPR & NBT AgBio Congress

June 24, 2019

Optimize the Discovery of Functional Traits & Engineer Next Generation Ag-Products that Improve Yield, Productivity & Tolerance Securing sustainable food security for the global population

For Elo Life Systems, Gene Editing is About Giving Consumers Exactly What They Want

May 6, 2019

Elo Life Systems, the food-focused subsidiary of the recently listed gene-editing group Precision Biosciences, is focused on developing food crops with nutritionally-improved characteristics.

5 Key Quotes from Crop Innovation in Business in Amsterdam

April 24, 2019

Consumers and digitization were at the forefront at the Crop Innovation in Business Conference hosted in Amsterdam this week. The conference is conducted every other

Europe’s Gene Editing Regulation Exposes the Messy Relationship Between Science and Politics

April 10, 2019

A lot of the questions surrounding the technology are not really scientific but about what this technology is feeding into: power politics, the changing structure of agriculture and smallholder farmers, and long-term effects.

Pontifax AgTech Achieves 2nd Exit as Precision Biosciences IPOs with $870m Valuation

March 28, 2019

Pontifax AgTech targets returns of three times its investments and sources close to the deal said it is likely the Precision Biosciences exit will come close.

Evolving to Serve a Dynamic Agri-Food Market – What’s Next for Benson Hill?

March 7, 2019

Matt Crisp is cofounder and CEO of Benson Hill Biosystems, a crop genomics platform using computational biology and gene editing. Here he writes about the startup’s evolution and transition to now serving a broad range of clients across the food system.

CoverCress Raises $2m to Develop Gene-Edited Cover Cash Crop

November 13, 2018

CoverCress (formerly Arvegenix) has closed a $2 million bridge investment round co-led by Bayer Growth Ventures and BioSTL’s investment arm BioGenerator. CoverCress is a plant

What is the Role of Gene Editing in Food System Change?

November 9, 2018

“GMOs are an old, bludgeon tool that feels dated,” said Sam Kass, food entrepreneur, former White House chef and senior policy advisor for nutrition, founder

GV Leads $60m Series C for Benson Hill Biosystems to Focus on Health and Nutrition

September 10, 2018

Benson Hill Biosystems, the data-led crop genetics discovery and gene editing platform, has raised $60 million in Series C funding in a round led by GV (formerly Google Ventures).

Inscripta Acquires Former Illumina Team via Solana Biosciences to Commercialize Gene Editing Tools

September 5, 2018

Solana was founded in 2017 by a team of former employees of Illumina, the leading genetic tools provider, which guided the launch and production of hundreds of products – including market-leading DNA sequencing solutions.

Cibus Raises $70m Series C for Gene Editing “Indistinguishable” from Traditional Plant Breeding

June 26, 2018

The “precise and predictable outcomes” of Cibus’ gene editing technology are “identical to those that could occur in nature, given enough time,” argues the company.

Tropic Biosciences Raises $10m Series A for Tropical CRISPR Tech

June 13, 2018

Tropic Biosciences is using gene-editing technology including CRISPR to optimize coffee and banana crops.

Should You Be Using CRISPR for Your Ag Business?

May 10, 2018

Management teams in plant genetics companies have likely been asked by at least one well-intending board member: “Are we using CRISPR? I sat next to this guy on the plane and he said that CRISPR will change everything,” writes Vonnie Estes.

Ag Industry Brief: USDA Approves CRISPR-Edited Food While Bucking NOSB Recommendations, more

April 6, 2018

The USDA makes multiple impactful rulings while Food System 6 Accelerator chooses a new cohort and BayWa announces an agtech competition in this week’s brief.