Phytoform Labs is improving crops to make agriculture more sustainable and nutritious.
Location: United Kingdom, England, Harpenden
Total raised: $5.7M
Investors 6
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Pale Blue ... | paleblue.v... |
| - | Wireframe ... | wireframev... |
| 15.02.2024 | Tet Ventur... | tet.vc |
| - | Refactor C... | refactor.c... |
| - | Fine Struc... | finestruct... |
| 10.06.2022 | ENIAC VENT... | eniac.vc |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 16.12.2021 | Seed | $5.7M | - |
Mentions in press and media 11
| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.07.2026 | Phytoform partners with major seed breeders to bring AI-powered plant design to corn crops | UK-based gene editing startup Phytoform is working with two of the world’s major seed companies—Beck’s Hybrids, the largest family-owned seed retailer in the US, and international breeder RAGT—to improve corn genetics for growers. The compa... |
| 12.06.2025 | Phytoform and Corteva partner on AI to boost disease resistance in corn | UK-based gene editing startup Phytoform will collaborate with ag giant Corteva to explore AI’s role in boosting disease resistance capabilities in corn. The two parties will use Phytoform’s CRE.AI.TIVE platform, which employs machine learni... |
| 04.11.2024 | Tiny tomato plants could be breakthrough crop for precision breeding and vertical farming | Phytoform founders Nicolas Kral and Will Pelton have developed a tomato that could revolutionise vertical farming Phytoform Lab's logo The precision-bred plants have miniaturised leaves and stems that fit in vertical farming systems, yet ca... |
| 04.11.2024 | Phytoform says its gene-edited tomato could produce ‘up to 400% more fruit’ in a vertical farm | In what could be a boon for local tomato production around the world, trait development company Phytoform just unveiled a mini version of the popular Ailsa Craig tomato variety that’s one-sixth the size of a conventional tomato plant and pr... |
| 21.03.2024 | Compute for Climate Fellowship Announces Inaugural Winners and Opens Applications for 2024 | The program funds proof of concepts for new ideas leveraging advanced cloud computing, including generative AI and high-performance computing, to solve some of the biggest challenges in the fight against climate change LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, ... |
| 11.05.2023 | Pale blue dot ups the ante, closes second fund at €93 million | Malmö, Sweden-based climate tech VC firm Pale blue dot has announced the close of its second fund at €93 million. According to the firm, they are still actively making investments from the first fund, and are ironing out the final details o... |
| 16.12.2021 | Phytoform bags $5.7m to boost crop resilience through genome edits | Agtech startup Phytoform Labs has raised a $5.7 million Seed round of funding to scale up its AI-based plant genome-editing platform. Seed-stage investor Eniac Ventures led the round. Wireframe Ventures, Fine Structure Ventures, FTW Venture... |
| 16.12.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: EzCater nets $100m, McCain bets $55m & Good Meat gets green light | This week, vertical ag player Infarm and corporate catering startup ezCater each closed funding rounds that kicked their valuations to over $1 billion. In the alt-protein world, Eat Just secured further regulatory clearances in Singapore fo... |
| 16.12.2021 | BREAKING: Phytoform bags $5.7m to boost crop resilience through genome edits | Agtech startup Phytoform Labs has raised a $5.7 million Seed round of funding to scale up its AI-based plant genome-editing platform. Seed-stage investor Eniac Ventures led the round. Wireframe Ventures, Fine Structure Ventures, FTW Venture... |
| 14.04.2021 | Pale Blue Dot aims to be Europe’s premier early-stage climate investor and has $100 million to prove it | When Hampus Jakobsson, Heidi Lindvall and Joel Larsson, all well-known players in the European venture ecosystem, began talking about their new firm Pale Blue Dot, they began by looking at the problems with venture capital. For the three en... |
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