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.

Leaps by Bayer

Polaris Partners invests in healthcare and biotechnology companies. Their healthcare portfolio companies' care delivery models include digital health, consumer-centric businesses, patient-provider solutions, data science, and analytics. Their life sciences and biotechnology portfolio companies focus on molecules and platforms, therapeutics, and genomics.

Polaris Partners

ARCH invests primarily in companies co-founded by scientists and entrepreneurs, concentrating on bringing to market innovations in life sciences. They enjoy special recognition as a leader in the successful commercialization of technologies developed at academic research institutions and national laboratories. ARCH has raised ten venture funds totaling over $3 billion and has invested in the venture capital rounds for more than 150 companies. ARCH investors include corporations, pension funds, endowment funds, financial institutions, and private investors.

ARCH Venture Partners

Innotech Advisers

With some 25 tiny technology companies in our portfolio, Harris & Harris Group, Inc.Â®, is one of the most active nanotechnology investors in the world. They have funded companies developing nanoscale-enabled solutions in solid state lighting, emerging memory devices, printable electronics, material science discovery and mass-manufacturing, organic-inorganic hybrids, next-generation semiconductor devices and equipment, thermoelectric, photovoltaic and battery technologies, as well as in various life-science applications of nano-structured materials.  They participate in venture capital syndicates in most of their investments, alongside top-tier venture capital firms as well as strategic (corporate) investors. Increasingly, Harris & Harris Group is a lead investor. They believe in the classical early stage venture capital model and disciplines and that most technology-based start-ups can use all the help they can get from the diversified experiences, RolodexesÂ®, complimentary business networks, technical expertise, up-to-date customer connections and financial resources that a syndicate of professional venture capital investors can provide.  Harris & Harris Group will invest at any stage prior to a company's initial public offering, and they will invest anywhere in the United States. Occasionally, they have also made private investments in publicly held companies (so-called ''PIPE'' investments). They have invested outside the United States, but rarely. Their current portfolio companies are distributed all across the country, plus one in Canada.  Harris & Harris Group is looking for scientific, technological, business and execution excellence. They are attracted to markets of significant size and back passionate entrepreneurs who want to change the world with their tiny technology-enabled products.  Proprietary, well-protected and highly differentiated technology is a prerequisite. But above all, they are eager to invest in companies with market-centric strategies that seek to define and dominate large product categories.

180 Degree Capital

Syngenta Ventures is the corporate venture capital (VC) team of Syngenta, a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling farmers to make better use of available resources. Created in 2009, Syngenta Ventures was one of the first venture capital teams dedicated to agriculture. With an experienced team of investment professionals possessing more than 45 collective years of VC experience, Syngenta Ventures has established itself as one of the most active and knowledgeable agricultural investors. Syngenta Ventures is stage agnostic, from investing in seed rounds to larger growth equity rounds. They typically invest alongside other financial and corporate VC investors, and they avoid asking for any rights or options for Syngenta as they recognize the importance of having the interests of all shareholders aligned. They use their deep experience as investors and running commercial Ag businesses to work with their portfolio companies to help them maximize their potential value. They often take board or board observer roles, spending the time needed with the company and management to help them achieve their goals. Finally, they are connected into Syngenta, ranging from R&D to commercial teams, around the world. They can help their portfolio companies validate new products in field trials, increase market visibility, and share industry knowledge and contacts. While they encourage technical and/or commercial collaboration with Syngenta, these are negotiated by Syngenta and not connected to their investment. Linked to this, they maintain a strict firewall with Syngenta to protect any confidential information from being shared. They take this responsibility seriously and can provide references from their portfolio companies to demonstrate this.

Syngenta Ventures

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a grant-making foundation that supports initiatives in education, world health and population, and community giving in the Pacific Northwest. In its local region, the foundation promotes strategies and programs that help low income families.The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was co-founded by Bill Gates and Melinda Gates in 2000 and is based in Seattle, Washington, with regional offices in Washington, D.C.; New Delhi, India; Beijing, China; and London, United Kingdom. Its trustees are Bill and Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Aliment Capital is a pioneering growth capital investor in food and agriculture technology. It makes global investments in growing businesses that boost agricultural productivity, nutrition, health, sustainability, and supply chain efficiency. The firm was founded in 2014 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Aliment Capital

University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO) is an endowment arm of University of Texas. The firm manages various endowment funds and other operating fixed income and equity funds. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investments markets of the United States. The firm invests in short-term money market obligations, including securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. Government or its agencies or instrumentalities, certificates of deposit, time deposits, bankers’ acceptances and other short-term obligations issued by domestic banks, or London branches of domestic banks, repurchase agreements, and high grade investment bonds to make its fixed income investments. University of Texas Investment Management Company was founded in March 1996 and is based in Austin, Texas.

UTIMCO

Fidelity is a privately-owned investment manager focusing on a diverse set of customers. It also provides IRAs, 401(k) rollovers, annuities, discount brokerage services, retirement services, estate planning, wealth management, securities execution and clearance, and life insurance services to its clients. Fidelity provides its services to individual investors, businesses, financial advisors, and institutions. It manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds. Fidelity invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It conducts in-house research to make its investments.  It helps over 32 million people feel more confident in their most important financial goals, manage employee benefit programs for over 22,000 businesses, and support more than 13,000 financial institutions with innovative investment and technology solutions to grow their businesses. Headquartered in Boston, Fidelity serves its customers through 12 regional offices and more than 190 Investor Centers in the United States.

Fidelity

Blue Horizon Corporation is an investment firm that invests in companies and businesses in the agriculture and food processing sector. The firm also partners with farmers, food producers, and distribution chains. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Plant based, food tech,

Blue Horizon Corporation

DOV Management is a New York-based investment firm with focus on frontier technology companies.    We leverage multiple approaches and alternative investment strategies across venture capital, private equity and digital assets to create value for investors seeking durable growth and long-lasting capital appreciation through all market cycles and across the entire risk spectrum.

DOV Management

Novalis Lifesciences LLC, is a globally acting venture capital firm focused on breakthrough technologies in Life Science. Founded and managed by Dr. Marijn E. Dekkers, current chairman of Unilever and former chief executive officer of Bayer AG and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Novalis works with a diversified group of project-based specialists leading in their respective life science fields

Novalis LifeSciences

Founded in 2019, Volta Circle is an early-stage evergreen VC investor, based in London and backed by a single LP. The firm invests in technology-driven startups across three core verticals covering food systems, circularity and climate, with a mission to enable founders to create maximum value, scale, and impact. The team is based between Geneva, Milan, London and Bangkok.

Volta Circle

AgBiome

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.

<div><p>AgBiome manufactures biological and trait products for crop protection. The company offers a range of products such as Azomar, an insecticide that offers instant and permanent control over chewing and sucking insects on crops; Mazolin, a fungicide that helps control the four main fungal groups; and Lektivar 40SC and Howler, fungicide protectants for attacking pathogens. Its product portfolio also consists of Marazo, a fungicide that helps prevent crop-damaging diseases; Perissim, a fungicide that helps control and prevent yield-robbing diseases; and Miresa and Xiphosin are systemic fungicides for preventing major diseases and promoting plant growth.</p></div>

Biologically protecting plants from pests

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    AgBiome manufactures biological and trait products for crop protection. The company offers a range of products such as Azomar, an insecticide that offers instant and permanent control over chewing and sucking insects on crops; Mazolin, a fungicide that helps control the four main fungal groups; and Lektivar 40SC and Howler, fungicide protectants for attacking pathogens. Its product portfolio also consists of Marazo, a fungicide that helps prevent crop-damaging diseases; Perissim, a fungicide that helps control and prevent yield-robbing diseases; and Miresa and Xiphosin are systemic fungicides for preventing major diseases and promoting plant growth.
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    Israel-based entity Groundwork BioAG, produces mycorrhizal inoculants to be used in commercial agricultural solutions. Its use of mycorrhizal fungi extends the plant root system with mycelium, which acts as a secondary root system to absorb nutrients and water. Groundwork BioAG&rsquo;s main product Rootella utilizes mycorrhizal symbiosis to enhance nutrient uptake and release soil phosphorus for root absorption. The company partnered with NovaTero BioAg to offer Rootella BR ULTRA to expand seed treatment application methods in soybean, corn, and other cereals. Groundwork has offices in India, China, Brazil, Europe, Canada, New Zealand, and the US.
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Groundwork BioAG

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    Solasta Bio provides solutions for modern pest management. Its technology for developing biopesticides has limited environmental impacts and produces low residue, and targets short peptides to disrupt functions in specific pest species, without affecting beneficial insects and vertebrates. Solasta Bio is funded by investors, such as its lead investor, the Yield Lab Europe, and SIS Ventures, its impact investor. Other investors include the UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKi2S) and Scottish Enterprise.The company’s headquarters is in Glasgow in Scotland.
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    Enko Chem is a crop health company that provides environmentally friendly pest management solutions. Its platform offers cost-effective resources that are smarter and safer, faster, more efficient, scalable, and of higher value. Its technology platform includes target-based discovery, DNA encoded libraries (DEL) in the agriculture industry, in vivo testing to rapidly investigate molecular activity, molecular exploration through data-driven multi-parameter experimentation, and predictive analytics using datasets of compound attributes. Enko's innovation process consists of target discovery with early compound screening, development by optimizing field performance, the launch of integrated pest management, and reaping benefits such as improved soil health.
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    BioPhero, headquartered in Denmark, provides cost-effective pest management solutions using safe pheromone-based products. It aims to combat the challenges of insect resistance, toxic traditional pest management methods, increased consumer demand for safe pesticides, and regulatory constraints. The company aspires to control pests instead of killing them, leading to sustainable agriculture and a greener environment. The solutions focus on disrupting mating and controlling reproduction, mass-producing low-cost pheromones for use in row crops, and strategically placing pheromones for integrated pest management and increased sustainability. BioPhero's products center on its technology platform, biological production, pheromone products, and application equipment.
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BioPhero

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    Redag Crop Protection is an agriculture chemical discovery company that manufactures products for pest control management. Its solution offers a chemistry-based approach, which includes researching and developing products for companies seeking new active ingredients that are effective and economical. Its approach is also said to reduce the cost of the life cycle from product discovery and market launch as well as redundancy in testing and development times. It has secured patents for its discoveries and operates a flexible and efficient platform that provides quick results. Redag Crop Protection is headquartered in the UK.
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Redag Crop Protection

Provides natural alternatives to chemical pesticides

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Companies that use microscopic living organisms (such as viruses, bacteria or nematodes) or toxins produced by these organisms to act as pest control. This also includes companies developing technology platforms to use microorganism chemistry to develop different kinds of microbial pesticides.

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