Heritable Agriculture, a Mountain View, CA-based company focused on advancing plant breeding and biotechnology, raised an undisclosed amount in funding.
Backers included FTW Ventures, Mythos Ventures, and both the Sunrise and Pioneer funds of SVG Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its plan to make plants programmable, with the goal to deliver higher yields, improved nutrition, better resilience to pathogen and climate stress, and faster seed breeding cycles at lower cost.
Led by CEO Dr. Brad Zamft, Heritable Agriculture combines advanced AI, the expanding field of multi-omics, new methods in predictive breeding, and high throughput gene editing. Together, these technologies offer new ways to breed plants to perform better in specific environments, or dial up particular properties like nutrition, color, or flavor. Its platform offers agriculture partners three key services: identifying important genes, designing specific edits to manipulate those genes, and predicting plant performance in the context of the local environment and management practices.
FinSMEs
03/02/2025