Nematology

BeeHero Lands $19M to Scale Data-Driven Precision Pollination and Transform the Global Food Crisis

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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

New plans include ramping up the company's end-to-end services for major food growing operations on an accelerated path to becoming the largest pollination provider in the US and helping solve the global food crisis.

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  • New plans include ramping up the company's end-to-end services for major food growing operations on an accelerated path to becoming the largest pollination provider in the US and helping solve the global food crisis.
  • "BeeHero continues to drive transformation in the pollination industry," said Richard O'Gorman, MD of the Rabo Food & Agri Innovation Fund.
  • "Solving the global food crisis depends on conjoining efforts of growers and beekeepers to scale their operations, incrementally innovating current and generational knowledge and processes," said Omer Davidi, CEO of BeeHero.
  • With millions of dollars in revenues since launch, BeeHero is rapidly becoming the largest pollination provider in the US by augmenting the precision agriculture movement.

AgBiome Awarded Multi-Year Grant for Biological Nematicide Project

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Thursday, June 14, 2018

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., June 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --AgBiome, LLC has recently been awarded a multi-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the area of nematology.

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  • RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., June 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --AgBiome, LLC has recently been awarded a multi-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the area of nematology.
  • The project, entitled "Biological Nematicides for Root and Tuber Crops," aims to discover and develop a microbial solution for smallholder farms in West Africa to manage yield-damaging plant-parasitic nematodes.
  • The project will be led by AgBiome nematologist Christy Wiggins and project team contributors Dr. Vadim Beilinson, Dr. Lee Simmons, and Dr. Lynn Dickey with collaborations with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and nematologist Dr. Danny Coyne.
  • AgBiome discovers and develops innovative biological and trait products for crop protection.