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Inari Raises $124 Million to Design Seeds for a More Sustainable Food System
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., October 4, 2022 — Inari today announced that it secured $124 million in the successful completion of its latest fundraise. Working to deliver nature-positive solutions, the SEEDesign™ company’s cumulative equity raised now totals $475 million. The investment will further advance Inari’s leading position in multiplex gene-edited seed technology, support expansion of company product development and ultimately deliver…
Read MoreFive Perspectives on 10 Years of CRISPR
This year marks a decade since the publication of Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier’s seminal Science article that brought the concept of CRISPR to the masses. Interestingly, initial response to the research was tempered, but once it caught on with the scientific community, it caught on fast. Ten years later, CRISPR is one of the most celebrated biological…
Read MoreInari Board of Directors Welcomes Solange Bullukian, Longtime Executive Finance Leader
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 12, 2022 – Inari, the SEEDesign™ company, has appointed longtime executive finance and accounting leader Solange Bullukian to its board of directors. In a career that has spanned both Fortune 500 and startup companies, Bullukian has extensive experience in the life sciences, technology, and computing industries. “Solange has an impressive track record of…
Read MorePurdue Research Foundation: Spotlight on Inari Agriculture
Inari is the SEEDesign™ company, combining artificial intelligence-powered predictive design and multiplex gene editing to unlock the full potential of seed. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company opened its second U.S. location in November 2018 at the Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette, where it has offices, greenhouse space and a farm. It also has…
Read MoreNYT: Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life
The same technology that allows medical researchers to tinker with human cells is letting agricultural scientists alter crop genes. When the first wave of CRISPR studies came out, Catherine Feuillet, an expert on wheat, who was then at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, immediately saw its potential for her own work… At Inari…
Read MoreGenetic Engineering News: Can CRISPR Feed the World?
Now in its second decade, CRISPR genome editing technology is being used to revolutionize agriculture—just in time to help us adapt to climate change. A decade has passed since the landmark paper by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier describing their Nobel Prize–winning research appeared in Science. The research, of course, was about the “genetic scissors” known…
Read MoreFast Company: 3 Steps to Identify the Most Impactful Companies to Invest In
Every year brings another wave of challenging climate news, but 2022 seems to be off to a particularly rocky start. From the IPCC Climate Reports to the crisis in Ukraine to the federal government’s struggles to pass any serious climate legislation, the news is filled with warning signs. Compounding these challenges is growing disillusionment with…
Read MoreAgFunder News: Charting the Course to a Resilient Food System with Dynamic System Modeling
Earth Day 2022’s theme — ‘invest in our planet’ — stands as a stark reminder that our economic security is entirely dependent on the health of our natural world. Earth Day demands that we ask: “What is the real bottom line?” Rarely in life are we presented with clarity. Climate change is clear. It is…
Read MorePlotting a Path to a Nature-Positive Food System
By Anya GandySustainability & Corporate Strategy – Happy National Agriculture Week! This and every week, I celebrate the essential workers that steward our farmland and bring food to the worldwide table. Raised on a small family farm, I understand the unrelenting and rewarding responsibility that caring for land and animals brings. A responsibility that hangs…
Read MoreExpansion Into Wheat Continues a Personal Journey
By Catherine FeuilletChief Scientific Officer – This week marked yet another exciting development in Inari’s progress toward helping to transform the global food system by deploying our SEEDesign™ technology platform in major crops, as we announced a key partnership with leading Australian cereal seed company InterGrain. But this news is also particularly inspiring to me on a…
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