Agragene

About:

Agragene is an agtech company that develops crop pests and eradicate mosquito-borne disease using biological insect control technology.

Website: http://agragene.com/

Top Investors: Missouri Technology Corporation, Ospraie Ag Sciences

Description:

Agragene operates as a sustainable agricultural technology company developing novel biological crop pest protection products. Agragene is advancing Precision-Guided Sterile Insect Technology (pgSIT), an eco-friendly CRISPR-based approach to engineer sterile male crop pests that mate with wild female crop pests. The company uses advanced genome engineering to create and commercialize sustainable products that are applicable to thousands of insect pests worldwide, thereby enabling farmers to enhance the quality and productivity of economically important foods and crops. Agragene was established in 2017 and is based in San Diego, CA.