Bond Pet Foods makes pet food from real animal protein, without the animal by working with biotechnology. Bond Pet Foods develops meat proteins obtained from animal cells (no slaughter required) and natural microbes. It is fed a nutrient-rich broth of vitamins, sugars, and minerals in fermentation tanks, without the pharmaceuticals. Bond Pet Foods was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.
Brightseed is a pioneer in biosciences and artificial intelligence that illuminates nature to restore human health. Through Forager® A.I. and clinical evaluation, Brightseed helps companies gain the deepest insight into bioactives and their innovation potential. Forager A.I. accelerates bioactive discovery and biological validation from years to months – and is rapidly revealing new connections between nature and humanity. Brightseed partners with companies across the consumer health continuum to provide novel insights and science-backed health solutions. Bioactives are small molecule compounds produced by plants, fungi, and microbes that grow in and adapt to environments that present a wide range of challenges to their survival. Bioactives also benefit the health of humans – they are the enlivening caffeine in tea, the powerful antioxidant lycopene in tomatoes, and they inform active ingredients in medicines like Taxol, Aspirin, and Metformin, a first-line treatment for Type 2 diabetes, derived from the French lilac flower. Science has long known that bioactives are critical to human health, yet the vast majority remain unknown and uncharted. Brightseed’s A.I., Forager®, discovers bioactives in nature and maps them to human health outcomes at a rate and accuracy that was previously impossible.
one.bio is a fast-paced, emerging biotechnology spinout from UC Davis creating ingredients for food and biopharmaceutical applications. We use proprietary technology to create novel oligosaccharides from natural products, with a focus on producing ingredients that beneficially modulate the microbiome and immune function.
ImmunoPhotonics develops immunotherapy-based treatments for cancer. A minimally invasive therapeutic cancer vaccine for the treatment of metastatic solid tumors. ImmunoPhotonics has a strategic partnership with Veterinary Cancer Therapeutics, LLC. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Columbia, Missouri.
Molecular Assemblies is a San Diego-based company developing a revolutionary, enzymatic DNA synthesis technology capable of powering new products in industrial synthetic biology, personalized therapeutics, precision diagnostics, and eventually information storage, nanotechnology and more. Inspired by nature, the company’s proprietary DNA synthesis method is designed to produce long, high quality, sequence-specific DNA reliably, affordably and sustainably. With a highly experienced executive and scientific team and an expansive intellectual property portfolio, Molecular Assemblies has attracted investments from Agilent Technologies, Cavendish Impact Capital Fund, Data Collective Venture Capital, Eleven Two Capital, Genomics Investment Syndicate, Keshif Ventures, Newport Holdings, LP, and Alexandria Venture Investments.
Harpe Bioherbicide Solutions is a Raleigh-based company that provides sustainable weed-management solutions for organic and industrial agriculture. Harpe Bio's technologies deliver natural crop protection by utilizing a variety of plant extracts. The plant extracts serve as a platform that may be tailored to various weed management circumstances. Harpe's herbicide platform can be used alone or in conjunction with any currently marketed herbicide. Harpe's new modes and areas of action will improve synthetic herbicide efficacy, including the reduction of resistant weed populations.
Kula Bio specializes in sustainable, biological solutions for modern agriculture. It energizes nitrogen-fixing microbes to produce organic fertilizer. By rewiring the energy flow from the sun to soil, they are disrupting synthetic fertilizer to eliminate the division between affordable practices and stewardship of our land, sea, and air. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Cyrus Biotechnology builds software tools to accelerate basic research in biotech, pharma, and industrial biotechnology. Cyrus Bench delivers an enterprise version of the Rosetta molecular modeling and design toolkit, with the associated array of bio-molecular computation tools. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
GroundTruth Ag is a soil cloud creator specializing in sustainable agricultural management. GroundTruth offers insights into soil management and health as well as near-real-time actionable data layers that cover the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the soil. This technology allows farmers to obtain accurate soil information while also offering carbon creditors low-cost, hyper-accurate verification.
Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from top universities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT. Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT.
Sentera provides decision support and insights to growers, advisors, and enterprise customers. Our products use machine learning, modeling, and data sciences tools to gather data, organize it, and quickly turn it into insights that improve outcomes for growers, advisors, and retailers. We deliver the best insights from high-resolution drone imagery, satellites, field equipment, and other sensors, and combine it with advanced modeling and analytics tools at scale.
Kula Bio specializes in sustainable, biological solutions for modern agriculture. It energizes nitrogen-fixing microbes to produce organic fertilizer. By rewiring the energy flow from the sun to soil, they are disrupting synthetic fertilizer to eliminate the division between affordable practices and stewardship of our land, sea, and air. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Molecular Assemblies is a San Diego-based company developing a revolutionary, enzymatic DNA synthesis technology capable of powering new products in industrial synthetic biology, personalized therapeutics, precision diagnostics, and eventually information storage, nanotechnology and more. Inspired by nature, the company’s proprietary DNA synthesis method is designed to produce long, high quality, sequence-specific DNA reliably, affordably and sustainably. With a highly experienced executive and scientific team and an expansive intellectual property portfolio, Molecular Assemblies has attracted investments from Agilent Technologies, Cavendish Impact Capital Fund, Data Collective Venture Capital, Eleven Two Capital, Genomics Investment Syndicate, Keshif Ventures, Newport Holdings, LP, and Alexandria Venture Investments.
Pattern Ag provides soil microbiome analysis and recommendations for input optimization on farms. Focused on specific pest and disease pressures faced by corn and soybean farmers, the firm recommends what to purchase and application solutions for when and where they are needed.
Stony Creek Colors is engaged in the production of bio-based dyes together with farmers, mills, and brands, in partnership with small farmers in the Southeast U.S. Stony Creek Colors was founded by Sarah Bellos in 2012 and is based in Tennessee, United States.
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.
TradeLanes is a technology company that automates supply chain for traders, shippers, and merchants. It developed a SaaS platform that brings global trade operations entirely online - from generating the contract to allocating inventory, to booking a shipment, to delivery. Its system allows all parties to collaborate digitally, from one set of data and documents. TradeLanes aims to power frictionless global trade for all. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Oakland, California.
Biodesigned proteins for beauty, wellness and beyond.
one.bio is a fast-paced, emerging biotechnology spinout from UC Davis creating ingredients for food and biopharmaceutical applications. We use proprietary technology to create novel oligosaccharides from natural products, with a focus on producing ingredients that beneficially modulate the microbiome and immune function.
MOBILion Systems is a biotechnology company that specializes in identifying and analyzing the most challenging molecules that other instruments fail to detect. Its technology focuses on biologic therapeutics, discovering biomarkers, and improving the accuracy of diagnostic tests.MOBILion’s technology makes it easy to separate, identify, and analyze the most challenging molecules that other instruments fail to detect. The company's analytical instruments provide unprecedented sensitivity, resolution, and throughput that will fuel the development of better therapeutics, the ability to detect disease earlier, and the power to attack diseases at their roots instead of their symptoms.
Molecular Assemblies is a San Diego-based company developing a revolutionary, enzymatic DNA synthesis technology capable of powering new products in industrial synthetic biology, personalized therapeutics, precision diagnostics, and eventually information storage, nanotechnology and more. Inspired by nature, the company’s proprietary DNA synthesis method is designed to produce long, high quality, sequence-specific DNA reliably, affordably and sustainably. With a highly experienced executive and scientific team and an expansive intellectual property portfolio, Molecular Assemblies has attracted investments from Agilent Technologies, Cavendish Impact Capital Fund, Data Collective Venture Capital, Eleven Two Capital, Genomics Investment Syndicate, Keshif Ventures, Newport Holdings, LP, and Alexandria Venture Investments.
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.
Journeys Metabolic is a digital solution provider filling the gap of metabolic care beyond PCP office. The in-home, interoperable HITRUST 6-month program for obesity and T2 diabetes reversal enables health systems and ACO's to transition to value-based care with no burden no the care team. Based on five years of sustained behavior modification, the physician-developed program uses AI-enabled precision pathways, computer vision of food for education, and proprietary Biosense biomarker of fat oxidation levels. Journeys Metabolic supports shared savings optimization in boht metabolic diseases and nutrition related disorders with nutritional interventions.
Artemis operates an intelligence platform for indoor farms. It specializes in indoor farming software solutions. Artemis help indoor farm operators use data to make more profitable production decisions. It tracks and analyzes all farm data in one place, enabling growers to optimize plant performance and reduce operating expenses. Allison Kopf and Jason Camp founded Agrilyst in 2015 that later became Artemis. It has its headquarters in Brooklyn in New York City.
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.
HerdDogg is a global herd health and data science platform. It is a two-part system that helps ranchers track health and proximity data from their herd. The company's device gathers the data captured by the ear tags and reports it directly to the rancher via an app or web database.
At Shield, we’re ensuring that antibiotic resistance doesn’t become more deadly than cancer. In 2050 more people will be dying of antibiotic resistant pathogens than cancer. Infections that were once treatable with a simple oral antibiotics are now requiring complex, painful treatments and resulting in serious health complications for patients. Gonorrhea is one such infection, having become resistant to over 10 different antibiotics, they have only one treatment that is still effective and resistance to this has already begun to emerge. With 820,000 new infections every year in the US, antibiotic resistance will spread quickly, which is why the CDC has resistant gonorrhea at an urgent threat level, the highest level available. Shield's novel genomic testing platform enables STI clinics to identify the antibiotic resistant strains of gonorrhea and other pathogens that their patients have, so they can select the correct antibiotics and halt the spread of antibiotic resistance.
Entac Medical is developing medical devices for predictive and diagnostic medicine based on a novel platform technology, audio spectral analysis. Its first application, PrevisEA, is a late stage, Class II noninvasive, disposable device that is clinically proven to predict post-operative ileus (POI) in surgical patients (GI paralysis occurs 2-6 days after surgery in 25% of patients). Prediction of ileus risk improves treatment protocols and patient outcomes while reducing readmissions and saving hospitals millions of dollars in unnecessary treatment costs.
Artemis operates an intelligence platform for indoor farms. It specializes in indoor farming software solutions. Artemis help indoor farm operators use data to make more profitable production decisions. It tracks and analyzes all farm data in one place, enabling growers to optimize plant performance and reduce operating expenses. Allison Kopf and Jason Camp founded Agrilyst in 2015 that later became Artemis. It has its headquarters in Brooklyn in New York City.
They created Bonumose as a new company in 2016 for the purpose of commercializing Dr. Daniel Wichelecki’s enzymatic technology breakthrough for the production of affordable, delicious, healthy tagatose. Since then, Bonumose has developed methods for producing affordable allulose, too, as well as other #goodsugars.Bonumose’s vision is to earn a place among the world’s most trusted food ingredient manufacturers. With a mindset of business as a moral imperative, Bonumose’s purpose includes:
Cofactor Genomics is a company focused on predictive immune modeling. They aim to advance precision medicine by overcoming existing barriers. Cofactor facilitates the shift from single-analyte biomarkers to more comprehensive multidimensional biomarkers using health expression models. Their capabilities include molecular, informatic, and database tools, with one of the first CAP-certified clinical RNA sequencing laboratories. This certification helps their partners conduct clinical trials more efficiently and cost-effectively. Their expertise in molecular biology, informatics, and database management enables them to provide high-quality services to the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors, contributing to medical research and improving patient outcomes.
Agrible was established in 2007 by Bill Northcott, Chris Harbourt, and Paul Miller, who all met in 1997 while completing higher degrees at the University of Illinois. There they began conceptualizing a small engineering firm based off their research, but their ideas were a bit ahead of the technology of the time.
PopBookings is a cloud-based software that automates the hiring process for temporary and promotional staffing companies. It makes the process of booking and communicating with promotional staff simple by streamlining every step on one easy platform. They connecting agencies and brands with event workers, helping find everyday people to celebrate beloved brands through beautiful events. PopBookings was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.
Holganix produces plant probiotics that uses soil microorganisms to optimize soils and grow healthier, more sustainable plants. Holganix is a cost-efficient, natural way to get thick, green, healthy lawns and trees while reducing the use of fertilizers by as much as 90%. Instead of chemicals, it uses natural microorganisms that turn a small amount of fertilizer into the most effective lawn and tree treatment available. With Holganix, people can lower their fertilizer costs, reduce environmental footprint, and get great results. Holganix was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in Aston, Pennsylvania.
Honcho is the only AI-powered communications protection software that coaches and trains as employees type to help compliance and HR professionals build and maintain exceptional communications practices in their companies. Our communications-protection software helps reduce the risk of non-compliant communications. Detect when users are composing potentially problematic messages, have the ability to archive official communication channels, and support supervisory review of any issues that arise. Show employees, customers, and the world that you care about ensuring an ethical and compliant workplace. And, invest in your communications now to avoid costly litigation, regulatory fines, negative press, and a demoralized culture later.
Euclises Pharmaceuticals, Inc is developing novel pain and cancer medications that offer superior safety margins compared to existing drugs. The company is based on new inventions from Dr. John Talley, the most accomplished medicinal chemist in the world. Dr. Talley previously invented Celebrex and seven other approved drugs. New compounds from Euclises will offer both improved efficacy and safety relative to existing therapies. Euclises is located at the BioGenerator Accelerator Labs.
Bractlet is an information technology company that specializes in providing building energy modeling, mesh networks, building operations, and big data. It features an infrastructure investment platform that provides the real estate industry’s most innovative solution for optimizing building performance and maximizing invested capital. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Kultevat develops the Russian Dandelion to become the leading source of domestic rubber. Kultevat has an aggressive program of breeding, crop improvements, and strain selection for industrially relevant dandelion varieties. Kultevat’s crop system serves agricultural markets in a number of ways, primarily by the production of rubber and mixed sugar feedstocks for the production of biofuels.
Epharmix is a digital healthcare company that creates clinically validated and condition-specific communication tools. It helps care teams automatically monitor underserved patients to improve care & reduce workload with interventions proven to impact engagement and outcomes. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.
StreamLink Software-is a Software-as-a-Service company that develops grant management software for nonprofits and the public sector. Ther grants management solution, AmpliFund, is designed for managing every stage of the grant lifecycle and is at the forefront of automating grant compliance and data standardization in the public sector. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
Neuros Medical is a neuromodulation company, is focused on developing proprietary therapies for the unmet needs of patients worldwide. The Company's patented platform technology, Electrical Nerve Block, is focused on the elimination of chronic pain in a variety of applications including neuroma/residual limb pain, chronic post-surgical pain, and chronic migraine.
Open Studio Network Access to premier musical artists, through a simple, interactive online lesson platform.
Mentor Spaces is a community-driven mentorship platform designed to make it easier for companies to attract, hire and retain underrepresented talent. As a mentorship community for underrepresented professionals, the platform facilitates conversations with experts aligned to one’s professional interests and goals. Mentor Spaces allows companies to cultivate relationships with underrepresented talent ahead of formal recruiting events.
Antegrin Therapeutics
Seed Round in 2015
Antegrin Therapeutics, LLC, is a drug discovery and development company focused on the development of novel therapies for fibrotic diseases. Our lead program aims to develop a treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive, life-threatening condition that currently has no FDA-approved medication.
Euclises Pharmaceuticals, Inc is developing novel pain and cancer medications that offer superior safety margins compared to existing drugs. The company is based on new inventions from Dr. John Talley, the most accomplished medicinal chemist in the world. Dr. Talley previously invented Celebrex and seven other approved drugs. New compounds from Euclises will offer both improved efficacy and safety relative to existing therapies. Euclises is located at the BioGenerator Accelerator Labs.
BenchmarkONE is sales and marketing software for small businesses and marketing agencies. We help agencies and small business owners propel relationships into sales with all-in-one CRM and marketing automation. Cut through the clutter and complexity of bulky tools with a simple, affordable platform made for you.
Bractlet is an information technology company that specializes in providing building energy modeling, mesh networks, building operations, and big data. It features an infrastructure investment platform that provides the real estate industry’s most innovative solution for optimizing building performance and maximizing invested capital. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Ward Alternative Energy was born from a passion to provide American, low cost, clean transportation fuels for vehicles. Discovering, producing and compressing natural gas in the field is a deep upstream expertise built over the past 50 years at Ward Petroleum. At Ward Alternative Energy, we add the down-stream natural gas, fueling and NGV expertise of our industry veterans. Our team is well prepared to be the natural gas fuels, station services and vehicle services provider and partner of choice for fleets. We started our business in Colorado in 2012 but are now expanding to Wyoming, New Mexico, northwest Texas and east through Kansas to St. Louis.
BenchmarkONE is sales and marketing software for small businesses and marketing agencies. We help agencies and small business owners propel relationships into sales with all-in-one CRM and marketing automation. Cut through the clutter and complexity of bulky tools with a simple, affordable platform made for you.
ImmunoPhotonics develops immunotherapy-based treatments for cancer. A minimally invasive therapeutic cancer vaccine for the treatment of metastatic solid tumors. ImmunoPhotonics has a strategic partnership with Veterinary Cancer Therapeutics, LLC. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Columbia, Missouri.
Kultevat develops the Russian Dandelion to become the leading source of domestic rubber. Kultevat has an aggressive program of breeding, crop improvements, and strain selection for industrially relevant dandelion varieties. Kultevat’s crop system serves agricultural markets in a number of ways, primarily by the production of rubber and mixed sugar feedstocks for the production of biofuels.
Gremlin Social offers organizational tools to streamline all of your social media marketing needs. Save time and money with Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn all in one easy-to-use dashboard. Engage with customers, search Twitter hashtags and brand mentions, and schedule your posts in as little as 15 minutes a day at the optimal time and frequency in each social network without leaving GremlinSocial.com. Gremlin Social employs a staff of experts who specialize in social media best practices. We offer services for our customers including strategy, training, analytics, and research (STAR). Gremlin Social Guardian is also endorsed by the American Bankers Association – through its subsidiary the Corporation for American Banking - and the New York Bankers Association (NYBA) as the recommended social media management and compliance toolkit for all member financial institutions. Products Gremlin Social offers enterprise and white label options for banks and financial services. Gremlin Social features include: team management, scheduled and recurring posts, keyword filtration, translation, branded reports, analytics, content libraries, Bit.ly and Brev.is link shorteners, and much more!
ImmunoPhotonics develops immunotherapy-based treatments for cancer. A minimally invasive therapeutic cancer vaccine for the treatment of metastatic solid tumors. ImmunoPhotonics has a strategic partnership with Veterinary Cancer Therapeutics, LLC. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Columbia, Missouri.
Time To Cater is a web-based platform that helps companies and individuals coordinate their ideal catered even at NO EXTRA COST to client. If you have had to coordinate catering for events or if you need food ordered quickly online, and especially if you have done it consistently, you understand that valuable time is wasted calling potential caterers for availability, prices, and delivery details, etc. We fix this problem by providing a web-based platform and mobile app that helps companies and individuals coordinate their ideal catered event. Our client only has to submit their event details and budget to our web application and then show up for the event and enjoy! We take care of EVERYTHING in between. And the BEST part is that there is NO EXTRA COST to our client for our service! We make money by making a commission from the caterers in our Preferred Caterer Network.
CrazyForEducation is a K-12 software designed by Flip Teachers for Flip Teaching. The company was founded by Dr. Renato Cataldo in 2012 and is based in St Louis, Missouri, United States.
Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.
AdFreeq is a socially integrated classified ad service that brings buyers and sellers together in real-time. The platform allows companies to present all of their goods or services as a simple ad on any website. AdFreeq was founded in 2011 and is based in Columbia, Missouri, United States.
AdFreeq is a socially integrated classified ad service that brings buyers and sellers together in real-time. The platform allows companies to present all of their goods or services as a simple ad on any website. AdFreeq was founded in 2011 and is based in Columbia, Missouri, United States.
Tansna Therapeutics is a developer of an oral anticonvulsant agent that reduces seizure frequency in patients with epilepsy. The company was founded in 2010.
Time To Cater is a web-based platform that helps companies and individuals coordinate their ideal catered even at NO EXTRA COST to client. If you have had to coordinate catering for events or if you need food ordered quickly online, and especially if you have done it consistently, you understand that valuable time is wasted calling potential caterers for availability, prices, and delivery details, etc. We fix this problem by providing a web-based platform and mobile app that helps companies and individuals coordinate their ideal catered event. Our client only has to submit their event details and budget to our web application and then show up for the event and enjoy! We take care of EVERYTHING in between. And the BEST part is that there is NO EXTRA COST to our client for our service! We make money by making a commission from the caterers in our Preferred Caterer Network.
Tansna Therapeutics is a developer of an oral anticonvulsant agent that reduces seizure frequency in patients with epilepsy. The company was founded in 2010.
Time To Cater is a web-based platform that helps companies and individuals coordinate their ideal catered even at NO EXTRA COST to client. If you have had to coordinate catering for events or if you need food ordered quickly online, and especially if you have done it consistently, you understand that valuable time is wasted calling potential caterers for availability, prices, and delivery details, etc. We fix this problem by providing a web-based platform and mobile app that helps companies and individuals coordinate their ideal catered event. Our client only has to submit their event details and budget to our web application and then show up for the event and enjoy! We take care of EVERYTHING in between. And the BEST part is that there is NO EXTRA COST to our client for our service! We make money by making a commission from the caterers in our Preferred Caterer Network.