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Founded

2010

Notable Investors

Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV)

Headquarters

Berkeley CA, US

Total Funding

$628M

About Pivot Bio Stock

Pivot Bio is an agricultural tech company that claims to take nitrogen from the air and make it available for plants. Pivot Bio has focused on developing its proprietary microbial technology that aims to supply the daily nitrogen cereal crops require. Pivot claims its microbes are specially designed to work on cereal crops, some of the most nitrogen hungry crops that are grown.
 
Pivot Bio was founded in 2010 by Karsten Temme and Alvin Tamsir and is headquartered in Berkeley, California. Notable investors include DCVC, Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), and Temasek Holdings. 

Investors

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Apeel Sciences, Pivot Bio, Butterfly Network, Schrodinger, Evolve Biosystems, Heliogen

Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Nature's Fynd, QuantumScape, Pivot Bio, Turntide Technologies, Commonwealth Fusion, CarbonCure Technologies

Bunge Ventures

Pivot Bio

Codon Capital

Pivot Bio

Continental Grain Company

Pivot Bio

DCVC Bio

Plenty, Carbon Health, Checkr, Pivot Bio, Illumio, Freenome, Tala

G2VP

Crusoe Energy Systems, Proterra, Pivot Bio, Wonolo, Turvo, Scoop Technologies, Kespry

Generation Investment Management

DocuSign, Convoy, Nature's Fynd, Proterra, Pivot Bio, Remitly, Optoro, Guideline, Andela, Asana

Genoa Ventures

Zymergen, Pivot Bio, InterVenn, Caribou Biosciences

Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV)

Pivot Bio

OS Fund

Pivot Bio, Emulate, Tempo Automation, Human Longevity, Verge Genomics, Elysium Health, uBiome, 3T Biosciences

Pavilion Capital

Tradeshift, Pivot Bio, Inari

Prelude Ventures, LLC

Zymergen, QuantumScape, Pivot Bio, Lime, Ripple Foods

Rockefeller Capital Management

Pivot Bio

Spruce Capital Partners

Pivot Bio, Groq

Tekfen Ventures

Pivot Bio

Temasek Holdings

PharmEasy, Tokopedia, Ola, Magic Leap, DoorDash, Impossible Foods, Wish, Snyk, AvidXchange, SambaNova Systems

Funding History

October 2014$1000K
March 2016$16.0M
September 2018$71.3M
April 2020$105M
July 2021$435M

Management

Chief Executive Officer

Karsten Temme

Chief Financial Officer

Doug Jeffries

Press

biospace - Nov, 11 2022

Pivot Bio Joins AIM for Climate as Innovation Sprint Partner

wsj - Jul, 21 2021

Fertilizer Startup Pivot Bio Shows Deep-Tech Investing Can Yield Social Benefits, VC Backer Says

TechCrunch - Jul, 20 2021

Pivot Bio rakes in $430M round D as modified microbes prove their worth in agriculture

prnewswire - Jul, 19 2021

Pivot Bio Raises $430 Million to Replace Synthetic Fertilizers in Agriculture

agfundernews - Jul, 19 2021

BREAKING: Pivot Bio scores $430m in DCVC, Temasek-led Series D round

ow - Mar, 10 2021

Pivot Bio Completes State-of-the-Art Lab and Offices

agfundernews - Apr, 30 2020

BREAKING: Pivot Bio raises $100m Series C to meet demand for sold-out nitrogen-fixing microbe product

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