Leaps by Bayer

Leaps by Bayer invests in paradigm-shifting advances in the life sciences and specializes in the fields of biotechnology, agriculture, and scientific breakthrough. The firm's approach is making significant and sustained investments in disruptive biotechnologies that could have the greatest impact on humanity. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Leverkusen, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Paimun Amini

Senior Director of Venture Investments Agriculture

Fabio Pucci

Senior Director of Venture Investments Health

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ChrysaLabs

Series A in 2023
ChrysaLabs has developed a real-time, portable and accurate soil fertility assessment technology to enable growers and agronomists to better managed their fertilizers and increase their yield.

Capstan Therapeutics

Series A in 2022
Capstan Therapeutics is advancing precision in vivo cell engineering to develop therapeutics for a broad range of disease categories with unmet or underserved clinical need.

ReCode Therapeutics

Series B in 2022
ReCode Therapeutics is a genetic medicines company that specializes in mRNA and gene correction therapeutics. Its selective organ targeting (SORT) lipid nanoparticle (LNP) platform is a genetic medicines technology that enables precise delivery to target organs and cells beyond the liver. The company aims to leverage innovative technologies to provide solutions for individuals affected by genetic diseases.

Senti Biosciences

Post in 2022
Senti Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on synthetic biology and gene circuit engineering for therapeutic applications. Senti Bio utilizes a synthetic biology platform named Gene Circuits to develop therapies that offer improved precision and control. These circuits are engineered to selectively eliminate cancer cells while sparing healthy ones, enhancing specificity for target cells, and regulating drug expression post-administration.

Senti Biosciences

Convertible Note in 2022
Senti Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on synthetic biology and gene circuit engineering for therapeutic applications. Senti Bio utilizes a synthetic biology platform named Gene Circuits to develop therapies that offer improved precision and control. These circuits are engineered to selectively eliminate cancer cells while sparing healthy ones, enhancing specificity for target cells, and regulating drug expression post-administration.

9amHealth

Series A in 2022
9amHealth offers complete cardiometabolic care—a first-of-its-kind, whole-body approach to preventing and treating diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, and hypertension. We partner with employers, PBMs, and health plans to provide effective health benefits for those living with chronic conditions. 9am's members receive personalized care plans, prescription delivery, at-home lab tests, and unlimited specialist access. 9amHealth was founded in 2021 by the team behind mySugr and is backed by Cigna Ventures, 7Wire Ventures, Human Capital, Founders Fund, and Define Ventures. More at www.join9am.com.

Apollo Agriculture

Series B in 2022
Apollo Agriculture is an agtech company that offers farmers access to agricultural inputs, financing, and advice. Apollo helps farmers in emerging markets maximize their profits. The company uses agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile phones to deliver a customized package of credit, high-quality farm inputs, and advice that can double farm yields, starting in Kenya. Apollo assesses farmer credit risk and customizes each package to a farmer's specific location using satellite data, soil data, farmer behavior data, and crop yield models.

Triumvira Immunologics

Series A in 2022
Triumvira Immunologics, Inc. (“Triumvira”) is an immunotherapy company co-founded in 2015 by Dr. Jonathan Bramson at McMaster University and Bloom Burton & Co., with the vision of developing novel T cell therapies that are safer and more efficacious than current cancer treatments, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and engineered T cell receptor (TCR) therapies. Their proprietary T cell Antigen Coupler (TAC) technology recruits the entire natural T cell receptor and is independent of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), allowing for the development of better therapies for a broader range of patients with solid or liquid malignancies and also with diseases other than cancer.

Woebot Health

Venture Round in 2022
Woebot Health is a mental healthcare center for people and businesses. Their behavioral health platform combines sophisticated AI, decades of clinically-proven therapeutic research, and an engaging relational agent called Woebot, which together form the foundation for delivering continuous care via purely digital, empathic, and personalized apps that are easy to talk to and fit right into people’s lives.

Cylinder

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2021, Cylinder delivers personalized, clinician-backed care to those suffering from digestive issues through its virtual health platform and has helped nearly 100K members to date. Cylinder's platform offers dynamically updated content and care plans designed to improve engagement and outcomes. Members enjoy access to a dedicated care team nationwide, including health coaches, registered dietitians, and GI doctors. Cylinder’s vision is to create a world where people receive convenient, personalized, and affordable access to the quality digestive health care they need to improve their overall health. Trusted by businesses including Texas A&M University, US Foods, and more, Cylinder showcases up to 5:1 ROI and an average of 13% employee engagement. Learn more at cylinderhealth.com.

Indapta Therapeutics

Series A in 2022
Indapta Therapeutics is a privately held biotechnology company developing an NK (natural killer) cell therapy platform for the treatment of blood and solid tumor cancers.

Dewpoint Therapeutics

Series C in 2022
Dewpoint Therapeutics is a biotech company developing a drug platform that targets biomolecular condensates. Its technology uses machine-learning-based image analysis tools for visualizing condensates and offers an engine for genetically linked condensatopathy which is a collection of engineered cell lines with trackable condensates to prevent harmful protein sequestration, helping healthcare providers to have access to new therapies to address unmet needs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Gandeeva Therapeutics

Series A in 2022
Gandeeva Therapeutics is a precision biotechnology company integrating the power of cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and machine learning to develop differentiated therapeutics by targeting and modulating key protein-protein interactions. Gandeeva’s structure-guided drug discovery platform encompasses target prediction and validation (SPOTLIGHT™), hit identification by screening virtual and fragment libraries (HYPERFOCUS™), and lead optimization (CRYO-CADD™). Gandeeva has a robust preclinical oncology pipeline targeting difficult-to-treat cancers with novel protein interaction modulators such as interfacial glues (iGlues™) and allosteric inhibitors. Gandeeva is headquartered in the Greater Vancouver area, Canada. Please visit www.gandeeva.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter for more information.

Metagenomi

Series B in 2022
Metagenomi uses metagenomics and machine learning to discover novel genome editing systems for therapeutics development. The company's metagenomics-powered discovery platform and analytical expertise reveal novel cellular machinery sourced from otherwise unknown organisms. Metagenomi forges these naturally evolved systems into powerful gene editing systems that are ultra-small, extremely efficient, highly specific, and have a decreased risk of the immune response. Metagenomi's goal is to revolutionize gene editing for the benefit of patients around the world. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Cellino

Series A in 2022
Cellino is building a scalable, automated biomanufacturing system for potentially curative personalized cell therapies. Cellino’s vision is to enable healthier lives worldwide with personalized treatments derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which can serve as the basis for therapies for a host of chronic degenerative diseases, including vision loss and Parkinson's disease.

Bloom Science

Series A in 2021
Bloom Science is a clinical-stage, central nervous system (CNS) company, trailblazing a path to transformative, novel therapeutics for patients with rare and complex neurological disorders. Bloom’s proprietary discovery platform, IrisRx™ enables a fundamentally different approach to developing medicines by harnessing our expanding insight into the Gut-Brain Axis to design and develop therapeutics that target novel biology with superior safety profiles. The IrisRx™ platform unlocks the potential for developing multi-functional therapeutics from the most common cell type in the human body, gut commensal microbes, while also utilizing an expanding proprietary knowledge base to advance therapeutic candidates based on synthetic biology. Bloom Science is advancing a deep pipeline of programs, including Dravet syndrome, other rare epilepsies, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), and other neurodegenerative and cognitive disorders.

MedArrive

Series A in 2021
MedArrive offers a care management platform that connects the workforce of EMS professionals to patients from their homes. It enables healthcare providers to seamlessly care services into the home, unlocking access to high-quality healthcare for more people at a fraction of the cost. MedArrive's technology, network of field providers, and holistic care model serve vulnerable populations in their homes while fostering patient self-advocacy, reducing overall healthcare costs, and re-engaging disengaged patients in primary care. By utilizing an underutilized workforce, this innovative method provides patients with access to reliable medical knowledge, resulting in continuity of care, improved patient outcomes, and significant cost savings for payers and providers alike.

GRO Biosciences

Series A in 2021
GRO Biosciences is leveraging breakthrough technologies from computational protein design and synthetic biology to develop best-in-class protein therapeutics with enhanced properties. The company has established multiple genomically recoded strains of bacteria that can incorporate non-standard amino acids into proteins to confer increased potency, stability, and targeted delivery. GRO Biosciences is applying its technology platform to develop improved protein therapeutics for diabetes, growth disorders, and autoimmunity.

Deka Biosciences

Series A in 2021
Early stage biotechnology start-up developing next generation cytokine therapeutics

Mozart Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Mozart Therapeutics is a biotech startup focusing on the development of disease-modifying therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The company is using a novel regulatory CD8 T cell network to create disease-modifying CD8 Treg modulators for a variety of autoimmune diseases. Mozart is developing a pipeline of first-in-class 'CD8 Treg modulators with the goal of restoring long-term immune balance and preventing the progressive damage caused by an autoreactive and pathogenic immune response.

Zerigo Health

Series B in 2021
Clarify Medical is innovating a well-established treatment, UVB therapy, to become easier, more convenient, more empowering, and more connected for psoriasis, eczema and vitiligo patients. The company also focused on developing innovative technology, products, and services that improve care for people with chronic skin conditions. Clarify Medical indicated for the localized phototherapeutic treatment of dermatologic conditions such as psoriasis, vitiligo, atopic dermatitis (eczema), seborrheic dermatitis, and leukoderma on all skin types (I-VI). It is the first and only connected phototherapy system that uses an app on the patient’s own smartphone (iOS or Android) to manage the dose, frequency, and duration of UVB light therapy, helping to ensure that patients receive the proper doses recommended by the American Academy of Dermatology and Vitiligo Working Group. The treatment regimen is prescribed by the patient’s physician but monitored and controlled by the Clarify System, enabling patients to administer treatment with clinical precision in the convenience of their homes. The connected system monitors dosing, adherence, compliance, patient progress, and satisfaction.

EarthOptics

Series A in 2021
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.

Sound Agriculture

Series C in 2021
Sound Agriculture uses molecular discovery to create climate-resilient crops, enhancing harvest yields for growers. They also use an innovative life science approach to sustainably increase farming productivity. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Andes

Series A in 2021
Andes develops an integrated microbial technology to help accelerate crop growth. Its technology is combined with artificial intelligence to develop its seeds while reducing input costs and environmental footprints and helps farmers to boost their agricultural output and income. Andes was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Alameda, California.

Woebot Health

Series B in 2021
Woebot Health is a mental healthcare center for people and businesses. Their behavioral health platform combines sophisticated AI, decades of clinically-proven therapeutic research, and an engaging relational agent called Woebot, which together form the foundation for delivering continuous care via purely digital, empathic, and personalized apps that are easy to talk to and fit right into people’s lives.

Transcarent

Series B in 2021
Transcarent is a consumer-directed health and care platform for employees of self-insured employers and their families. Using a combination of software, technology, health guides, and data science, the company helps consumers with unbiased information, trusted guidance, and access to high-value care.

Kojin Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Founded by Stuart Schreiber, Benjamin Cravatt, Stephanie Dougan, and Vasanthi Viswanathan, Kojin is accelerating a drug discovery platform that connects complex cell states to known biochemical processes such as ferroptosis, or iron-dependent cell death, and enables the development of selective therapies for a broad range of hard-to-treat diseases. The company’s investors include Polaris Partners, Newpath Partners, Cathay Health, Leaps by Bayer, AbbVie Inc., Eventide Asset Management, Alexandria, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute venture firm, Binney Street Capital.

Ada Health

Series B in 2021
Ada is a global health company founded by doctors, scientists, and industry pioneers to create new possibilities for personal health. Ada’s core system connects medical knowledge with intelligent technology to help all people actively manage their health and medical professionals to deliver effective care. Ada is proud to collaborate with leading health systems and global non-profit organizations to carry out this vision. Ada Health was founded in 2011 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Huma

Series C in 2021
Huma is a global health technology company that provides a modular platform to support digital 'hospitals at home' across different disease areas. Its platform combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers, and real-world data to advance proactive, predictive care and research. The company's technology integrates data from hospital databases, patient wearables, and mobile devices to provide real-time information to healthcare providers.

Edifice Health

Venture Round in 2021
Edifice Health is a spin-out company from a 10-year research study on immune profiling from Stanford University, the Stanford 1,000 Immunomes Project. The technology is the first biomarker composite scoring system to measure immune health and the Inflammatory Age® of an individual which predicts the onset of multiple chronic diseases and provides comprehensive health insights designed to help people change the course of their aging process.

Guardian Agriculture

Seed Round in 2021
Guardian Agriculture has developed an integrated eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) system for precision application, extending growers’ reach, reducing environmental impact, and minimizing product resistance. It helps the farmers own the ability to apply from the air with the only automated, electric, aerial crop protection systems designed specifically for agriculture.

Pyxis Oncology

Series B in 2021
Pyxis Oncology is a developer of antibody therapeutics intended to promote the body's immune response to cancer. The company has engaged in deep analyses of tumor antigen-specific tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) within hot tumors and of tumor cell signaling pathways within cold tumors, providing laboratories with development of novel antibody-based immunotherapies. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Covercress

Series B in 2021
CoverCress is a biotechnology company that focuses on research and development of renewable fuel and livestock feed. It specializes in producing an oilseed crop for food, bioenergy, and cattle feed. It specializes in the fields of agriculture, biotechnology, plants, genetics, cover crop, and precision agriculture. CoverCress was founded in 2013 by Jerry Steiner and Dr. Tim Ulmasov and is headquartered in St. Louis Missouri.

Century Therapeutics

Series C in 2021
Century Therapeutics builds an allogeneic iPSC-derived cell therapy platform that integrates gene editing, protein engineering, technical development, and manufacturing capabilities to generate allogeneic, iPSC-derived NK and T cell therapies for both hematological and solid tumor malignancies with significant unmet medical needs.

EGenesis

Series C in 2021
EGenesis is a biotechnology company developing solid organ and therapeutic cell transplantation to treat diseases. It offers gene editing and genome engineering platform to develop human-compatible organs, tissues, and cells, aiming to provide an alternative solution to the global organ shortage.

Grão Direto

Series A in 2021
The agriculture that has so much technology inside the gate and gives lessons of modernity to Brazil and to the world can also be so technological and modern in the commercialization of its products! The Grão Direto forms a web between buyers and producers of grains connected in a much more intelligent way. Through technology, they can interact digitally and much faster and more efficiently. This is either for spot, future or barter trading. Grão Direto was created with the necessary flexibility to support all the chain's profiles: cooperatives, tradings, traditional brokers, feed factories, warehouses, traders and much more. The platform generates market intelligence gains for producers and buyers to make better decisions, as well as more agility in processes associated with marketing (logistics, contract management, financial products and more).

Amfora

Series B in 2021
Amfora is a biotechnology company that is harnessing biology to sustainably nourish the world’s population and enhancing wellness. Amfora's mission is to meet the growing global demand for foods that are high in protein by enhancing the nutritional density of food and feed crops, while reducing the cost of food and the environmental toll on the planet.

Pairwise Plants

Series B in 2021
Pairwise is a purpose-driven food+tech company dedicated to building a healthier world through better fruits and vegetables. Founded in 2017 by Drs. David Liu, Feng Zhang, J. Keith Joung, Tom Adams, and Haven Baker, Pairwise holds licenses from Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital to base editing and high-fidelity enzymes, and has an expanding internal portfolio of tools and traits. The Pairwise team is growing new types of fruits and vegetables, including leafy greens, berries, and stonefruit, with the first products expected within a few years. The Pairwise team is comprised of leaders in agriculture, CPG food, and research and development.

Ukko

Series B in 2021
Ukko is a biotech company improving the lives of millions that suffer from food allergies and disorders. The company's computational engineering platform re-designs food allergens into safe and effective therapeutics that will become best-in-class allergy therapy. Ukko is creating a comprehensive, clinically validated map of the molecular structure of food allergies, revealing critical information about the biological mechanisms that govern human-food interactions. They use the platform to create new versions of proteins that do not elicit an immune response based on this map. These proteins enable a completely new approach to treating protein-based allergies.

Senti Biosciences

Series B in 2021
Senti Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on synthetic biology and gene circuit engineering for therapeutic applications. Senti Bio utilizes a synthetic biology platform named Gene Circuits to develop therapies that offer improved precision and control. These circuits are engineered to selectively eliminate cancer cells while sparing healthy ones, enhancing specificity for target cells, and regulating drug expression post-administration.

Rantizo

Series A in 2020
Rantizo delivers targeted liquid dry applications for agriculture precisely where and when they are needed in the field.The company's system utilizes an electrostatic spraying technology which reduces problems with uneven coverage and covers crops uniformly, enabling farmers to apply pesticides and chemicals in the farms evenly without a hassle and within a short duration of time.

Metagenomi

Series A in 2020
Metagenomi uses metagenomics and machine learning to discover novel genome editing systems for therapeutics development. The company's metagenomics-powered discovery platform and analytical expertise reveal novel cellular machinery sourced from otherwise unknown organisms. Metagenomi forges these naturally evolved systems into powerful gene editing systems that are ultra-small, extremely efficient, highly specific, and have a decreased risk of the immune response. Metagenomi's goal is to revolutionize gene editing for the benefit of patients around the world. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Azitra

Series B in 2020
Azitra is a clinical-stage medical dermatology company that leverages extensive scientific knowledge about the skin microbiome to discover and develop novel products for the treatment of adverse skin conditions and diseases.The Company’s technology platform, developed in collaboration with scientists at Yale University and the Jackson Laboratory, is based on a proprietary strain of the natural commensal bacteria Staphylococcus epidermidis.

Dewpoint Therapeutics

Series B in 2020
Dewpoint Therapeutics is a biotech company developing a drug platform that targets biomolecular condensates. Its technology uses machine-learning-based image analysis tools for visualizing condensates and offers an engine for genetically linked condensatopathy which is a collection of engineered cell lines with trackable condensates to prevent harmful protein sequestration, helping healthcare providers to have access to new therapies to address unmet needs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Series D in 2020
Recursion is a clinical-stage biotechnology company decoding biology by integrating technological innovations across biology, chemistry, automation, data science, and engineering, with the goal of radically improving the lives of patients and industrializing drug discovery. Central to our mission is the Recursion Operating System, or Recursion OS, that combines an advanced infrastructure layer to generate what we believe is one of the world's largest and fastest-growing proprietary biological and chemical datasets and the Recursion Map, a suite of custom software, algorithms, and machine learning tools that we use to explore foundational biology unconstrained by human bias and navigate to new biological insights which may accelerate our programs. We are a biotechnology company scaling more like a technology company.

Triumvira Immunologics

Series A in 2020
Triumvira Immunologics, Inc. (“Triumvira”) is an immunotherapy company co-founded in 2015 by Dr. Jonathan Bramson at McMaster University and Bloom Burton & Co., with the vision of developing novel T cell therapies that are safer and more efficacious than current cancer treatments, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and engineered T cell receptor (TCR) therapies. Their proprietary T cell Antigen Coupler (TAC) technology recruits the entire natural T cell receptor and is independent of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), allowing for the development of better therapies for a broader range of patients with solid or liquid malignancies and also with diseases other than cancer.

Unfold

Venture Round in 2020
Unfold focuses on innovating vegetable varieties that deliver optimized quality and sensory experience in the vertical farming industry. They combine leading seed genetics with the agronomic expertise to dramatically advance productivity, flavor, and other consumer preferences. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Sacramento, California.

Vesigen Therapeutics

Series A in 2020
Vesigen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops groundbreaking therapeutic products. Our patented technology, called ARMMs (ARRDC1 Mediated Microvesicles), enables the delivery of a wide range of payloads, including RNAs (mRNA, shRNA, ribozymes), proteins (signaling proteins, enzymes, antibody fragments), and gene-editing complexes (Cas9/gRNA) directly into the cytoplasm of target cells, expanding the universe of druggable targets.

Apollo Agriculture

Series A in 2020
Apollo Agriculture is an agtech company that offers farmers access to agricultural inputs, financing, and advice. Apollo helps farmers in emerging markets maximize their profits. The company uses agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile phones to deliver a customized package of credit, high-quality farm inputs, and advice that can double farm yields, starting in Kenya. Apollo assesses farmer credit risk and customizes each package to a farmer's specific location using satellite data, soil data, farmer behavior data, and crop yield models.

Covercress

Venture Round in 2020
CoverCress is a biotechnology company that focuses on research and development of renewable fuel and livestock feed. It specializes in producing an oilseed crop for food, bioenergy, and cattle feed. It specializes in the fields of agriculture, biotechnology, plants, genetics, cover crop, and precision agriculture. CoverCress was founded in 2013 by Jerry Steiner and Dr. Tim Ulmasov and is headquartered in St. Louis Missouri.

Oerth Bio

Corporate Round in 2020
Oerth Bio is a developer of targeted protein degraders for agricultural applications. The company leverages Arvinas' novel PROTAC protein degrader technology to develop new human therapeutics for patients with cardiovascular, oncological, and gynecological diseases.

NewLeaf Symbiotics

Series D in 2020
NewLeaf Symbiotics is an agriculture technology firm focused on discovering and developing sustainable agricultural solutions based on bacteria and related microorganisms. The company's services are primarily focused on the study, development, and commercialization of symbiotic bacteria, which are helpful plant bacteria that help farmers combat plant disease and boost agricultural yields.

Immunitas Therapeutics

Series A in 2019
Immunitas is unlocking human immunology using novel single cell analyses to develop targeted therapeutics for patients with challenging, complex cancers. Translating findings from laboratory research to meaningful clinical advances in humans is a longstanding challenge in the oncology field. Immunitas was founded to directly address this problem and unlock a variety of novel drug targets based on discovery rooted in human biology. They are pursuing this goal with a team of pioneers in these areas across their scientific founders, management, and investors. At Immunitas, they employ a single cell sequencing platform to dissect the biology of immune cells in human tumors. Their focus on human samples allows us to start with and stay closer to the most relevant and translatable biology for patients and accelerates the pace of their research. They are identifying novel, exciting oncology targets and, importantly, developing key biomarkers to guide the selection of patients who may benefit from their new drugs. They are leveraging expertise in antibody discovery and engineering to create powerful therapies that modulate these targets, and are currently advancing a number of programs toward early human studies.

EGenesis

Series B in 2019
EGenesis is a biotechnology company developing solid organ and therapeutic cell transplantation to treat diseases. It offers gene editing and genome engineering platform to develop human-compatible organs, tissues, and cells, aiming to provide an alternative solution to the global organ shortage.

Huma

Series B in 2019
Huma is a global health technology company that provides a modular platform to support digital 'hospitals at home' across different disease areas. Its platform combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers, and real-world data to advance proactive, predictive care and research. The company's technology integrates data from hospital databases, patient wearables, and mobile devices to provide real-time information to healthcare providers.

Pyxis Oncology

Series A in 2019
Pyxis Oncology is a developer of antibody therapeutics intended to promote the body's immune response to cancer. The company has engaged in deep analyses of tumor antigen-specific tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) within hot tumors and of tumor cell signaling pathways within cold tumors, providing laboratories with development of novel antibody-based immunotherapies. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Century Therapeutics

Series A in 2019
Century Therapeutics builds an allogeneic iPSC-derived cell therapy platform that integrates gene editing, protein engineering, technical development, and manufacturing capabilities to generate allogeneic, iPSC-derived NK and T cell therapies for both hematological and solid tumor malignancies with significant unmet medical needs.

Dewpoint Therapeutics

Series A in 2019
Dewpoint Therapeutics is a biotech company developing a drug platform that targets biomolecular condensates. Its technology uses machine-learning-based image analysis tools for visualizing condensates and offers an engine for genetically linked condensatopathy which is a collection of engineered cell lines with trackable condensates to prevent harmful protein sequestration, helping healthcare providers to have access to new therapies to address unmet needs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

AgBiome

Series C in 2018
AgBiome, LLC, a biotechnology company, engages in delivering research and discovery to the agriculture industry. The company develops biological product that controls the predominant soil-borne diseases of greenhouse and major row crops. It identifies plant-associated microbes that enhance plant health, pest resistance, and yield applying based on genomics and screening technologies. AgBiome, LLC has strategic partnerships with Genective and ElevateBio. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Resson

Series C in 2018
Resson Aerospace is a bioinformatics and data analytics company, delivering customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients. Utilizing recent advances in large-scale cloud-based data processing, swarm robotics, and advanced data analytics, its proprietary Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System gives the agricultural operator analytical insight and dynamic control over the farm area. Resson Aerospace’s Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System, data-driven agriculture solution, analyzes crop metrics to assess crop status and health, providing operators with the information required to optimize agricultural operations, improve efficiency, boost yields, and maximize profitability. It is headquartered in Fredericton, N.B.

Pairwise Plants

Series A in 2018
Pairwise is a purpose-driven food+tech company dedicated to building a healthier world through better fruits and vegetables. Founded in 2017 by Drs. David Liu, Feng Zhang, J. Keith Joung, Tom Adams, and Haven Baker, Pairwise holds licenses from Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital to base editing and high-fidelity enzymes, and has an expanding internal portfolio of tools and traits. The Pairwise team is growing new types of fruits and vegetables, including leafy greens, berries, and stonefruit, with the first products expected within a few years. The Pairwise team is comprised of leaders in agriculture, CPG food, and research and development.

Joyn Bio

Series A in 2017
Joyn Bio is a joint venture founded by Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks developing probiotics for plants to provide growers with next generation solutions to their biggest challenges. Joyn Bio’s first area of focus will be on engineering microbes that provide cereal crops with their nitrogen needs to reduce agriculture’s reliance on nitrogen fertilizer and its environmental impact. Joyn Bio brings together microbiologists, synthetic biologists, plant scientists, and ecologists at its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and its plant research facility in West Sacramento, California.

NewLeaf Symbiotics

Series C in 2017
NewLeaf Symbiotics is an agriculture technology firm focused on discovering and developing sustainable agricultural solutions based on bacteria and related microorganisms. The company's services are primarily focused on the study, development, and commercialization of symbiotic bacteria, which are helpful plant bacteria that help farmers combat plant disease and boost agricultural yields.

FarmLead

Series A in 2017
Built by farmers for farmers, FarmLead is reinventing how grain is marketed and sold through the world’s fastest growing grain marketplace. Available online and as a mobile app, FarmLead also provides farmers access to exclusive market research, grain testing, price visibility and reduced brokerage fees and risks. The FarmLead Marketplace facilitates greater equality, efficiency and transparency for the grain industry. Farmers find more verified buyers and identify the best possible deal, while grain buyers easily access and identify the grain for sale in their desired location.

BlueRock Therapeutics

Series A in 2016
BlueRock Therapeutics is a biotech company that plans to develop induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) therapies to cure a range of diseases using an industry-leading platform. One of the initial programs is to regenerate heart muscle in patients who have had a heart attack (myocard infarction, MI) or are suffering from chronic heart failure, leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwid.

Resson

Series B in 2016
Resson Aerospace is a bioinformatics and data analytics company, delivering customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients. Utilizing recent advances in large-scale cloud-based data processing, swarm robotics, and advanced data analytics, its proprietary Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System gives the agricultural operator analytical insight and dynamic control over the farm area. Resson Aerospace’s Resson Agricultural Management and Analytics System, data-driven agriculture solution, analyzes crop metrics to assess crop status and health, providing operators with the information required to optimize agricultural operations, improve efficiency, boost yields, and maximize profitability. It is headquartered in Fredericton, N.B.

Plant Response

Series A in 2015
Plant Response is accelerating biological solutions to advance and restore the agricultural ecosystem. PRB is based on technology initially developed by the CBGP Researchers. Their goal was to create synergy and value in their crop protection research programs and thus meet the current challenging agricultural market needs.

AgBiome

Series B in 2015
AgBiome, LLC, a biotechnology company, engages in delivering research and discovery to the agriculture industry. The company develops biological product that controls the predominant soil-borne diseases of greenhouse and major row crops. It identifies plant-associated microbes that enhance plant health, pest resistance, and yield applying based on genomics and screening technologies. AgBiome, LLC has strategic partnerships with Genective and ElevateBio. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

AgBiome

Venture Round in 2014
AgBiome is a biotechnology company using new knowledge of the plant-associated microbiome to create innovative products for agriculture. Partnerships with leading agricultural companies to accelerate our discovery process and allow us to deliver solutions for global markets. We employ 85 full-time and 2 part-time employees and occupy a state-of-the-art 30,000 square foot laboratory and greenhouse facility in the Research Triangle Park in Durham, North Carolina. AgBiome’s products will help farmers combat many of the most important unsolved problems in agriculture, including insects, nematodes, and diseases.
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