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Bloomberg: 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,…

Purdue 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…

NYT: 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,…

Genetic 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…

Fast 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…

AgFunder 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…

Forbes: Patents Aim to Boost Corn and Soy Performance

Food is so complicated – making it, growing it, choosing what to eat of it. It’s tempting to say this is relatively recent, but if you could travel back in time…

Farm Progress: Major Plant Breeding Investments Continue

Inari, based in Cambridge, Mass., is all about applying powerful gene-editing tools to make desired changes in plants and unlock unprecedented yield potential, spokespersons say. Recently, the company announced a…

Journal & Courier: Gov. Holcomb Visits West Lafayette to Celebrate Seed Gene-Editing Company’s Expansion

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb stopped in West Lafayette Wednesday to congratulate a seed gene-editing company that continues to grow in this Central Indiana soil. Inari Agriculture used Holcomb’s visit to…

Forbes: Gene Editing Seeds with CRISPR is Transforming Agricultural Biotechnology

One of the main focuses of agricultural biotechnology is to feed a hungry world in a more sustainable way. Many current farming methods are inefficient because they require large amounts…