VC Private Financings for Pest Control

Athenix raises $10,000,000

Athenix Inc., a company developing technologies for genetic control of agricultural pests and industrial products such as biofuels, has raised a new $10 million round.  The company’s key products include major crops with enhanced traits such as tolerance to important herbicides and resistances to pests such as nematodes and insects. Nematodes, microscopic parasites that feed […]

AgraQuest raises $20,000,000

AgraQuest, Inc. raises $20 million.  AgraQuest is a biotechnology company that focuses on, discovering, developing, manufacturing and marketing effective, safe and environmentally friendly natural pest management products for the agricultural, institutional and home & garden markets

Oxitec Limited raises $3,077,000

Oxitec Limited completes interim financing round of $3,077,310.  Oxitec’s RIDL® technology employs genetics and molecular biology to improve significantly the cost-effectiveness and safety of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), and to extend SIT to a broader range of insect pests.  RIDL insects are bred to be sterile, but can live and reproduce normally when fed […]

Marrone Organic Innovations raises $3,750,000

Marrone Organic Innovations, Inc. (MOI) is pleased to announce that the company has raised $3.75 million in an oversubscribed private round of financing. Marrone Organic Innovations (MOI) discovers and develops effective natural products for weed, disease, and pest management

Nature Technologies raises $4,000,000

Nature Technologies, Inc. Receives $4 Million in Second-Round Financing to Expand Service Area of Proven Deer Deterrent System; Company Names Additions to Board of Directors