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DSM: Modeling the Path to Nature-Positive Agriculture
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Read MoreThe Hill: This Thanksgiving highlights the need for agriculture innovation
This Thanksgiving, even as many people prepare to spend a day with family and friends reflecting on our blessings over a bountiful table, avoiding thoughts of our global food system’s compounding challenges is becoming increasingly difficult. The serious discussions around COP27, the ongoing impact of the war in Ukraine, this year’s cadence of concerning U.N. climate reports…
Read MoreFinancial Times: Mood in Europe shifts on gene-edited crops
Inari, a US agritech company set up in 2016, has been working on gene editing to increase yields on wheat, corn and soyabeans as well as reducing the necessary water and nitrogen fertiliser. Its chief executive Ponsi Trivisvavet, who oversaw a recent $124mn late-stage investment round, describes gene editing as a “super powerful technology.” Read…
Read MoreUnlocking Seed Potential for Greater Yield with Fewer Resources
Now in its third edition, the Credit Suisse Cleantech Innovation Whitepaper focuses on innovative companies and industries that are accelerating technology and infrastructure to tackle climate change. For the latest report, CFO Stuart Brown sat down to discuss how Inari is using nature-positive design to create seeds that serve the population, the planet, and the…
Read MoreBloomberg: Agtech Startup Inari Nabs New Funding at $1.5 Billion Valuation
Seed technology startup Inari has reached $1.5 billion valuation after raising $124 million in fresh financing. Company makes seeds to withstand climate-change impacts. Gene-edited corn, soy seeds use less land, nutrients, CEO says. Read full article at Bloomberg.
Read MoreInari 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…
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