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Agriculture

Vestaron gets $40 million for biopesticides

by Alexander H. Tullo
June 15, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 24

 

Kalamazoo, Michigan–based Vestaron has closed a $40 million series B financing round led by Novo Holdings, parent company of Novo Nordisk and Novozymes. Vestaron develops biopesticides based on peptides found in spider venom. The start-up says they could prove to be environmentally friendly alternatives to synthetic crop protection chemicals. The company thus far has two products: one for greenhouse pests such as thrips, whiteflies, aphids, and mites and another for lepidopterans such as moths.

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