Tropic Biosciences UK Ltd is a pioneering leader in the development of novel high-performing commercial tropical crop varieties and traits using advanced genetic breeding (e.g. CRISPR) technologies. Tropic currently focuses on the massive coffee, banana and rice crops, which play a critical role in global agriculture, trade, and nutrition, but face significant, yet addressable, disease and supply-chain challenges.
Location: United Kingdom, England, Colney
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $73.5M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 9
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 10.01.2024 | Series B | $28.5M | - |
| 06.07.2022 | - | $35M | Tekfen Ven... |
| 13.06.2018 | Series A | $10M | - |
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| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.01.2024 | Tropic Biosciences banks $28.5m in Temasek-led Series B for gene-editing, RNAi approach | - |
| 09.09.2022 | Brief: Brazil, US can expect a ‘healthier supply’ of fertilizers than last year, says Rabobank | Key commodity growing markets in the Americas, particularly Brazil and the US, can expect a “healthier supply” of fertilizers than last year, according to the latest Rabobank North American Agribusiness Review. Growers may also see “further... |
| 07.07.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Green Generation Fund raises $120m, Amazon takes Grubhub stake | This week, Germany’s Green Generation Fund landed more capital to invest in alt-protein startups, while Israeli foodtech firm Phytolon scored funding for its natural food coloring tech. In the food delivery realm, Amazon bought a stake in G... |
| 07.07.2022 | Exclusive: Meta veteran David Fischer makes a move into venture capital | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. After more than 11 years at Facebook—or, more recently, Meta, where he ultimately climbed to Chie... |
| 06.07.2022 | Tropic Biosciences Raises $35M to Solve Crises of the $400Bn Banana, Coffee, & Rice Markets | Next gen impact investor Blue Horizon has announced an investment in Tropic Biosciences, a developer of high-performance varieties of tropical crops such as bananas, coffee, and rice. Leading a $35 million round for the company, Blue Horizo... |
| 06.07.2022 | BREAKING: Crop gene editor Tropic Biosciences banks $35m in fresh funding | UK ag gene-editing startup Tropic Biosciences has raised $35 million for its latest funding round, it announced today. Swiss impact investor Blue Horizon led the bridge round. ADQ, Bloom8 (previously Rage Capital), Skyviews Life Science, Su... |
| 28.05.2021 | Climate-conscious sovereign wealth funds opt for energy, transport investments over agrifood: study | Sovereign wealth funds invested close to $2.3 billion in businesses, technologies, and other projects aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change in 2020, more than doubling the previous year’s funding, new research says. But state-li... |
| 21.05.2021 | To help solve climate change, look to the biosciences | President Biden’s pledge to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 is an admirable and ambitious undertaking. It’s nearly double the goal set by President Obama in 2015. And it establishes the United States as a world leader in b... |
| 10.03.2021 | Brief: Temasek invests $500m into impact fund LeapFrog | Singapore sovereign fund Temasek has invested $500 million into LeapFrog Investments, an impact-focussed private equity firm. The pair said Temasek’s commitment will take the form of a “multi-fund investment […] to anchor LeapFrog’s future ... |
| 10.03.2021 | Brief: Temasek invests $500m into impact fund LeapFrog | Singapore sovereign fund Temasek has invested $500 million into LeapFrog Investments, an impact-focussed private equity firm, as part of a wider strategic partnership. In a joint statement, the pair said Temasek’s commitment will take the f... |
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