Monday, April 7, 2014

BioConsortia Harvests $15M For Crop Improvement

Davis, California-based BioConsortia, which develops agricultural biotechnology to help select microbes to help improve crop yields, has raised $15M in a funding round. The Series B funding came from Khosla Ventures and Otter Capital. BioConsortia is led by marcus Meadows. The company's technology focuses on using genomics to optimize the microbe community for crops, to help improve yields and characteristics of agricultural crops. More information »