Pivot Bio In The News

the rising, July 3, 2020

Pivot Bio CEO Karsten Temme had a vision to create a better way to feed the world.

Pivot Bio secured $100 million in its Series C funding round, backed by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures and global investment firm Temasek.

cheddar, May 28, 2020

Pivot Bio’s Aims to Reduce Agricultural Environmental Footprint

Pivot Bio aims to change that with new technology that reduces the environmental footprint of agriculture while increase farmers crop output and revenue.

Biofuels Digest, May 6, 2020

Pivot Bio raises $100M as it proves out why it’s agtech’s next billion-dollar baby

After closing its $100 million Series C funding round, Pivot Bio will accelerate its plans to scale its first-to-market microbial nitrogen technology that increases crop yields and farmer revenue.

AgFunder News, Apr 20, 2020

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

The Berkeley, CA-based startup has announced the closing of a $100 million Series C round co-led by return investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

TechCrunch, Apr 30, 2020

With fresh support from its billionaire backers Pivot Bio is ushering in a farming revolution

A century after nitrogen fertilizer was introduced, a new group of scientists backed by government-owned international investment funds and some of the world’s wealthiest men and women is trying to save the world from

THRIVE, MAR 25, 2020

Pivot Bio Named to SVG Ventures 2020 THRIVE TOP 50 AgTech

Selected as a top 50 AgTech company by SVG Ventures, Pivot Bio was chosen in the biotechnology sector because it exemplifies the best in agriculture innovation.

FAST COMPANY, MAR 10, 2020

Pivot Bio Named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Biotech Companies List 2020

Pivot Bio was named to Fast Company’s most innovative biotechnology companies, which reflects the push in pharmaceuticals to expand past lucrative cures and focus on desperately needed solutions.

Farm Journal AgWeb, MAR 5, 2020

Farmer Quits Synthetic Nitrogen, Goes to N-producing Microbe in Corn

Central Iowa farmer Scott Henry changed course for 2020, swapping his traditional nitrogen program for Pivot Bio PROVEN™’s sustainable nitrogen-producing microbes.

East Bay Economic Development Alliance, Dec 12, 2019

8th Annual East Bay Innovation Awards 2020 Finalists Announced

East Bay EDA announced the Finalists for their 8th Annual East Bay Innovation Awards.

BusinessWire, Dec 5, 2019

Rabobank Presents 2019 Food and Agribusiness Industry Leadership Awards

Recipients have been announced, celebrating companies in the region that demonstrate exceptional achievements in innovation, sustainability and market leadership.

Farm Journal’s AgPro, Sept 12, 2019

Pivot Bio Expands Sales Distribution

Pivot Bio PROVEN™ is the first of its kind nitrogen-producing microbial product, which has an approved label in 33 states. The product can replace 25 lb. to 40 lb. of synthetic nitrogen in corn production.

CNN, Aug 8, 2019

Scientists say farmers could grow their way out of the climate crisis

Growing food around the world will only get harder as weather gets harsher and more unpredictable.

OneZero, June 13, 2019

The Corn That Grows Itself

How microbes could upend America’s toxic dependence on nitrogen fertilizer.

Forbes, May 27, 2019

Inside The High Tech World Of Microbes For Crops

Pivot Bio ‘re-awakens’ the nitrogen-producing capabilities occurring naturally in soil microbes by using genomic sequencing to identify these crop-associated microbes with the natural ability to produce nitrogen.

Chemical & Engineering News (c&en), May 25, 2019

The newest food trend is in the ground

Food companies’ sustainability goals hinge on soil health.

MPR News, May 22, 2019

Farmers testing new fertilizer alternative: bacteria

The bacteria will help the corn plants convert nitrogen from the atmosphere into a form the corn plants can use as fertilizer. The idea is to eventually replace synthetic nitrogen fertilizer with microbes.

High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal, Apr 7, 2019

Microbe product’s trials show potential for corn farmers

Pivot Bio touted its microbe technology as a way to increase production by more than 7 bushels per acre in normal soil and 17 bushels an acre in sandy soil when tested against fields with traditional nitrogen fertilizer.

gatesnotes, Mar 26, 2019

We should discuss soil as much as we talk about coal

What if we could fertilize plants without releasing harmful nitrous oxide into the air? Bill Gates highlights several companies, including Pivot Bio, that are developing creative solutions.

Thrive, Mar 11, 2019

Thrive AgTech 2019 Top 50 Report

An annual ranking of 50 leading global AgTech companies exemplifying the best in agriculture and food-focused innovation.

Business Insider, Mar 6, 2019

Billionaires are betting on a bacteria that could change the way we grow food

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria may not sound like the most alluring topic, but it’s capturing the attention of the world’s most influential billionaires, who see it as a concrete way to help save the planet.

The Mercury News, Mar 5, 2019

Berkeley’s designer bacteria: The end of fertilizer?

Scientists build novel microbe that lets us re-imagine how we grow food.

Fast Company, Feb 20, 2019

Pivot Bio Named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List

Pivot Bio makes the world’s first nitrogen-producing microbial that grafts onto corn to act as a sustainable fertilizer.

AgFunderNews, Feb 7, 2019

Pivot Bio’s PROVEN Microbes Can Reduce Negative Impacts of Fertilizer Overuse and Leaching

In a six-year trial, spanning 13 states, 45 different soil types, and 11,000 acres, farms using PROVEN produced on average 7.7 bushels of corn more per acre than those using traditional synthetic fertilizer.

Forbes, Feb 7, 2019

Midwest Corn Farmers Put New Fertilizer Alternative To The Test

The San Francisco-based startup has now completed over 11,000 field trials of its microbes with Midwest farmers, bringing the company one step closer to commercialization.

Successful Farming, Jan 16, 2019

8 Ag Tech Start-ups Worth Watching in 2019

As you look across the ag tech landscape, the number of companies vying for farmers’ attention seems to continuously be on the rise. It’s also creating fatigue.

San Francisco Business Times, Jan 7, 2019

From Akero to Zymergen, 20 Bay Area biotech companies to watch around JPM19

The 37th annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, along with the Biotech Showcase, Startup Health Festival and other conferences in San Francisco this week, feature big names, such as Amgen Inc., Gilead Sciences Inc.,

elephant journal, Jan 4, 2019

Energy Technologies to Be on the Lookout For

The need for alternate energy and major climate change initiatives has never been more vital, now that the world’s carbon emissions have reached an all-time high.

Business Insider, Jan 5, 2019

44 Enterprise Startups to Bet Your Career on in 2019

Here’s our annual list of promising enterprise startups who did so well in 2018, they are poised for future success in 2019 and beyond.

Inc., Dec 27, 2018

Recession, Blockchain, Drones and Other Tech Predictions for 2019

Technology is evolving at an exponential pace and undoubtedly a year from now the landscape will look different than it does today. Here’s what tech insiders see coming around the bend.

Xconomy, Dec 27, 2018

From Alnylam to Zayner: Xconomy’s Top Innovation Stories of 2018

As the year winds down, we’re reflecting on the big innovation trends and developments that will carry over to next year.

Fast Company, Dec 24, 2018

6 Glimmers of Climate Optimism for the End of a Dark Year

It was a year of frightening reports on the future of our planet. But sustainability experts are still feeling optimistic about some of the strides we’ve made this year.

Farm Journal Ag Tech, Nov 27,2018

Bayer and Pivot Bio Collaborate on Soybean Inoculant

Earlier this week Pivot Bio and Monsanto Company, a member of the Bayer group, announced a collaboration they entered earlier this year to develop a new soybean inoculant. The collaboration focuses on developing

WIRED, Oct 2, 2018

Farmers Can Now Buy Designer Microbes to Replace Fertilizer

Fertilizing is essential to yielding a healthy harvest, but it’s expensive enough that he stresses about it, and, as he’s well aware, it’s not great for the planet.

MIT Technology Review, Oct 2, 2018

Replacing Fertilizer With Plant Probiotics Could Slash Greenhouse Gases

“If we can start reducing the pollution tied to fertilizer, then we’re literally cleaning up the planet,” said Karsten Temme, the company’s chief executive, in an interview.

Xconomy, Oct 2, 2018

Pivot Bio Gets $70M, Led by Bill Gates’s Fund, to Replace Fertilizer

Scientists at agriculture startup Pivot Bio say the key to delivering an important nutrient to crops has been at the plants’ roots all along—and the company is now preparing to offer farmers an alternative to fertilizer.

Grist, Oct 2, 2018

Death by Fertilizer

Nitrogen fertilizer is a disaster. Abandoning it would be a bigger disaster. Now a dozen billionaires are funding an alternative.

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