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Arvegenix
http://www.arvegenix.com/Last activity: 13.11.2018
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Arvegenix Arvegenix is the industry leader in the development of Field Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) as a significant new crop for the corn-soy growing regions of the world. Pennycress will grow over winter between the corn-soy rotation thereby providing growers with an additional revenue crop.
Location: United States
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2013
Investors 1
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| 13.11.2018 | CoverCress Raises $2m to Develop Gene-Edited Cover Cash Crop | 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 breeding company using CRISPR gene editing tools to develop and ... |
| 02.11.2017 | Is St. Louis the Silicon Valley of Agtech? | St. Louis has worked hard to be a magnet for Fortune 500 companies. Nine members of this elite class call the city home, not the least of which is multinational agricultural giant Monsanto. Walmart has more than 20,000 employees in St. Loui... |
| 07.09.2017 | What is Agriculture Biotechnology? | Agriculture biotechnology (ag biotech) applies to all technologies used on the farm involving biological or chemical processes. It is a broad category involving many different types of technology and science, including breeding, genetics, m... |
| 30.03.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Latin American Startups, Ag Marketplaces, Bio-Inputs, Sensors, more | Arvegenix, an ag biotech company creating genetically improved field pennycress for oil, raised a $2.4 million venture round with a long list of investors, including some agtech-focused funders like agtech accelerator The Yield Lab, Cultivi... |
| 01.02.2017 | The Yield Lab Invests $300k in Latest Agritech Cohort Taking Total to $1.8m | The Yield Lab, the accelerator program based in St Louis, Missouri, has made three new investments of $100k each in agritech startups joining its 2017 cohort. This takes The Yield Lab’s total investment in agtech startups to $1.8 million ac... |
| 02.12.2015 | Advice For Higher-Yielding Agriculture Startups | Gabriel Wilmoth Contributor Gabriel Wilmoth is an investment manager at Syngenta Ventures and has spent more than a decade helping farmers and ag innovators become more profitable and more sustainable. With interest and investment in food a... |
| 25.09.2015 | Agtech Accelerator Yield Lab Opens for Class of 2016 – Exclusive | Yield Lab has launched the application process for its 2016 business accelerator program, giving agriculture technology entrepreneurs the opportunity to access $100,000 in funding, and nine months of mentoring, training and support. This is... |
| 11.05.2015 | Arvegenix Secures $2.5 Million in Series A Funding for Pennycress Crop Development | Arvegenix announced recently that it has received $2.5 million in aggregate funding from Monsanto, Cultivation Capital, The St. Louis Arch Angels, and BioGenerator. Located in St. Louis, Arvegenix is exploring the use of Pennycress as an oi... |
| 22.01.2015 | Yield Lab accelerator announces first class of agtech startups | Yield Lab, a new St.Louis-based ag tech accelerator program launched in September, announced its first class of five startups. More than 100 companies applied to the program from around the world, and the first batch includes one company fr... |