(Ag Industry News) 39 North Startup Plastomics Secures $7.1 Million in Series A Funding

New Investors have signed on to help deliver better-performing seeds to farmers feeding the planet. Plastomics, Inc., a biotechnology company helping to develop higher performing seeds for the agriculture sector via their novel chloroplast trait delivery platform, announced it completed a $7.1 million Series A funding round. The financing was led by Lewis & Clark AgriFood, a St. Louis based food and agriculture-focused investment firm, with co-investors Fulcrum Global Capital, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, QRM Capital, iiM, and CIG Spectrum. Existing investors iSelect, Missouri Technology Corporation, The Yield Lab, BioGenerator, and Centennial Investors also participated in this round. READ MORE