DryGro is an agtech company building the future of plant protein. Working with our academic partners and world-class research team, we develop technology to produce Water Lentils, a clean label protein crop that can be produced sustainably at industrial scale. We envision a world where everyone has access to high quality protein that is produced in an environmentally and socially responsible way.
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $6.49M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Sustainabl... | sustainabl... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 07.05.2020 | Series A | $4.7M | - |
| 07.11.2019 | Series A | $1.79M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.11.2024 | Duckweed Protein Pioneer Plantible Foods Grows Budget with $30M Investment | 4 Mins Read California’s Plantible Foods has closed a $30M Series B round to expand production of its duckweed-derived Rubi Protein. Among the constantly evolving search for nutritionally sound, climate-friendly, palate-appealing foods, a w... |
| 20.02.2024 | Day 8 emerges from stealth with plans to extract ‘holy grail of proteins’ from ag waste | Israeli startup Day 8 has emerged from stealth armed with $750,000 pre-seed funding from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub to develop an approach it claims could change the economics of RuBisCO protein by extracting it from discarded crop leaves. On... |
| 01.12.2023 | Lemna/duckweed processor Lemnature AquaFarms files for bankruptcy, asset sale set for Dec 12 | Florida-based foodtech firm Lemnature AquaFarms—which produced proteins and fibers from fast-growing aquatic plant lemna (a.k.a. duckweed)—has filed for bankruptcy. An online auction for the assets will be held on December 12, with bidding ... |
| 10.10.2023 | Meet the Startups Working with the Climate-Positive Alt-Protein Superfood That Grows Everywhere | 8 Mins Read In a world increasingly ravaged by the climate crisis and food insecurity, one crop could be a solution to meeting our future nutritional, environmental and health needs. Find out more about the startups growing duckweed, the fu... |
| 07.05.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Lemna cultivator DryGro closes $4.7m Series A to sustainably replace soy in livestock feed | There is huge scope for improvement in the farming of aquatic crops. Historically, these were overlooked in favor of soil-based staples. So most startups diving into the aquatic crop world need to wrestle with a legacy of incomplete plant s... |
| 13.04.2020 | How 165 Startups Are Adapting To Work-From-Home | Working from home - the new abnormalPixabay |
| 08.11.2019 | Three startups storm to victory at FoodBytes! by Rabobank in London | Remember, Remember! The 7th of November! That fateful night saw 15 agri-food tech startups set the room aflame and astir with quick-fire pitches to FoodBytes! by Rabobank in London. These were they: CPG: Seaweed & Co., Borrago, Plant Po... |
| 07.11.2019 | EXCLUSIVE: Let there be Lemna! UK’s DryGro secures £1.4m Series A to build out duckweed production | DryGro, a UK-based startup growing a high-protein variety of duckweed called Lenma, has closed its first tranche of Series A investment worth £1.4m, the company disclosed to AFN on Thursday just after the FoodBytes! by Rabobank event in Lon... |
| 23.09.2019 | Here are the 15 startups chosen to pitch to FoodBytes! in London this November | Remember, remember! The sixth and seventh of November! These two dates will mark the autumnal moment when fifteen fledgling agri- and foodtech startups try to make an explosive impression on FoodBytes! by Rabobank at Victoria House in Londo... |