FMC Ventures

FMC Ventures, the new venture capital arm of FMC Corporation, invests in start-ups and early-stage companies that are developing and applying emerging technologies in the agricultural industry.

AgroSpheres

AgroSpheres is developing novel, biodegradable encapsulation technologies to improve the delivery, stability and efficacy of biological-based crop protection products. It is also biomanufacturing double-stranded RNAi that silences vital genes of a target pest/pathogen, preventing off-target damage to non-harmful insects like bees and helping to promote biodiversity.

Guardian Agriculture

Guardian Agriculture is developing systems for drone-based precision applications in agriculture. Guardian’s system will be the first integrated, US-manufactured, commercial-scale eVTOL system purpose-built for agriculture.

Traive

Traive is re-imagining credit and financing for growers. The Traive solution looks beyond credit scores and considers factors such as agronomic performance and market and behavioral risks. This unlocks credit for growers, connects them to lenders and enables lenders to access more growers.

Micropep Technlogies

Micropep Technologies uses a proprietary technology to precisely enhance plant traits through the use of very small proteins called micropeptides. These micropeptides have the potential to become first-in-class “sprayable traits.”

Trace Genomics

Trace Genomics combines DNA sequencing with machine learning to explain how soil diseases emerge and identify beneficial microorganisms that can be developed into biological products that counter harmful pathogens.

Niqo Robotics

Niqo Robotics works at the intersection of robotics and AI-assisted computer vision to solve labor scarcity issues and increase the sustainability of production agriculture by automating manual tasks and significantly enhancing the efficiency of spray applications.

Scanit Technologies

Scanit Technologies is the creator of the SporeCam^™ instrument, a wireless sensor that captures physical spores in the air, processes the spore data through machine learning and alerts growers when harmful disease spore count reaches certain benchmarks. FMC and Scanit will partner on analyzing Asian soybean rust in Brazil using the SporeCam^™ instrument beginning in early 2021.

SOLASTA Bio

Solasta Bio is a UK-based bioinsecticide platform that can predict the effects of naturally occurring insect-specific neuropeptides on insect behavior. Solasta has the potential to shape the future of nature-inspired peptides in crop protection while being pollinator friendly.