Solis Agrosciences Raises Growth Funding

Solis Agrosciences

Solis Agrosciences, a St. Louis, CA-based company providing R&D crop development services to Agtech companies, raised an undisclosed amount in Growth funding.

The round was led by Hermann Companies, McKelvey, and BioGenerator Ventures.

The company intends to use the funds to expand talent and infrastructure to meet the needs of its customer base.

Launched in May of 2022 as a collaboration between Ag executives Martha Schlicher and Mary Fernandes, biotech startup entrepreneurs David Smoller and Tom Cohen, and Charlie Bolten, Sr. Managing Director at company builder BioGenerator Ventures, Solis Agrosciences is a plant sciences company offering technology & research services to Agtech innovators. The company aims to rapidly design, create and deliver new biotech plant traits in multiple crops using the proprietary Plant Pipeline as a Service™ (PPaaS) for gene-edited and transgenic plant generation & characterization.

Solis plans to meet customer demand by continually launching new services, adding new crop species, acquiring new technologies, and building infrastructure in an eco-friendly way.

FinSMEs

12/12/2022