Pluton Biosciences has reached the finalist round in the 2022 Radicle Carbon & Soil Competition, sponsored by Radicle Growth in partnership with UPL. The Radicle Challenge was pioneered by Radicle Growth, a company that invests in innovative ag and food tech start-ups, ensuring that powerful, disruptive technologies reach their full potential. The Challenge recognizes the best and brightest entrepreneurs solving a problem related to key investment themes, or looking to disr

Funds will be used to develop products to combat climate change and manage agricultural pests. St. Louis-based startup Pluton Biosciences is proud to announce the closing of its Seed Round, raising a total of $6.61 million in new investments. “With this new round of capital, we’ll be able to build Pluton’s value as an innovative force, providing solutions to the climate and agriculture challenges of our time. Credit goes to the leadership and science team who generated the re

Pluton team collaborated with top Donald Danforth Plant Science Center researcher Pluton Biosciences is excited to announce that its participation in the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) program has generated a deeper understanding of how three novel bacteria work to kill disease-carrying mosquitoes. Founded in 2017, Pluton Biosciences taps into the diverse world of microorganisms to develop eco-friendly products for carbon sequestration, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, b

Pluton will work with Bayer AG on development of a microbial-based carbon-capture soil amendment. Long-term carbon sequestration product to fight climate change and benefit farmers Collaborating with Bayer, Pluton will use its Micromining Innovation Engine to identify and develop microbes currently found in soil that can store carbon and nitrogen. Pluton’s proof-of-concept research predicts that such a consortia of microbes, applied in a spray at planting and harvest, can scr

Pluton has been accepted into Plug and Play Tech Center’s (Plug and Play) agtech accelerator program. Founded 15 years ago, Plug and Play invests in over 250 startups a year, boasting connections to 300 of the world’s most influential venture capitalists. Plug and Play hosts more than 50 industry-themed accelerator programs per year (each lasting 12 weeks) and provides startups of all stages and sizes with opportunities to meet mentors, venture capitalists, and angel investo

Pluton is the first St. Louis-based biotech to graduate from Illumina Accelerator’s first global funding cycle. Pluton was among a group of seven global startups to graduate this week from Illumina Accelerator, the company creation engine started by San Diego-based, global DNA sequencing leader Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN). During two, six-month funding cycles per year, Illumina Accelerator provides the selected startups with access to seed investment, Illumina sequencing sy

Pluton CEO Charlie Walch will join next week’s Ag Innovation roundtable as part of STL Startup Week. The second annual STL Startup Week offers an extended lineup of online workshops and special events designed for idea-thinkers, innovators, researchers, investors, entrepreneurs, and small business owners to connect, learn, and grow their businesses. The series of virtual events are scheduled for Nov. 9-13, 2020. Virtual attendees will have the opportunity to access over 62 s

Pluton Biosciences is the first St. Louis-based biotech company to be chosen for Illumina Accelerator, a company creation engine started by San Diego-based, global DNA sequencing leader Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN). The opportunity to build our company in San Francisco, a global center of the life sciences industry, is terrific, and to have an investment from Illumina, the world's largest sequencing company, is even better, said Pluton CEO Charlie Walch. Pluton is a microbia

The Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) has selected Pluton Biosciences to join the program as a member of IN2’s seventh cohort. The Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2), a technology incubator and platform funded by the Wells Fargo Foundation and co-administered by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), today announced that it has selected Pluton Biosciences to join the program as a member of IN2’s seventh cohort. The selected compa