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Khosla And Otter Fund Ag Biotech Firm

by Marc S. Reisch
April 14, 2014 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 92, Issue 15

BioConsortia has raised $15 million from the venture capital firms Khosla Ventures and Otter Capital. The money will advance the Davis, Calif.-based company’s technology for selecting communities of beneficial fungi and bacteria to increase crop yields. Khosla had earlier provided $4 million in seed capital. Last month BioConsortia hired Marcus Meadows-Smith as CEO. Meadows-Smith previously led biopesticide maker AgraQuest, which Bayer CropScience acquired in 2012 for $425 million.

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