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The Danforth Technology Company facilitates the creation of startup companies from technologies developed by Danforth Center scientists.
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| May 14, 2025 | Danforth Technology Center launches gene-editing startup Spearhead Bio to solve ‘a major obstacle with CRISPR’ | The Danforth Technology Company (DTC) unveiled its latest startup this week with the launch of Spearhead Bio, which has developed a tool to complement existing gene editing techniques such as CRISPR. The technology “has a clear value to imp... |
| Oct 28, 2024 | Danforth Technology Center launches startup to open new research pathways through metabolite analysis | Researchers are finding more metabolites than anyone realized existed in datasets, but the limitations of existing tools mean we could be missing some critical ones, says Michael Bielski, CEO of newly launched startup Metablify. Metabolites... |
| Dec 11, 2023 | Why Invaio Sciences acquired Peptyde Bio: ‘Peptides represent a major opportunity for biologicals’ | Biotech platform Invaio Sciences has acquired Peptyde Bio, a Missouri-based startup that makes biofungicide tech for agriculture. Working together, the two teams will be able to speed up development of and access to sustainable crop inputs.... |
| Dec 11, 2023 | Meet the founder: Agrela’s Nadia Shakoor on how to restore biodiversity to US highways | “The PheNode is designed to be a platform for other folks’ innovation,” Agrela founder and CEO Nadia Shakoor says of her company’s environmental monitoring platform that recently launched commercially. Her company has spent the last eight y... |
| Nov 17, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Muncher grabs $27m for ghost kitchens, Freight Farms lands $17.5m | Besides a major milestone for cultivated meat, this week’s news also includes new fundraising for Colombian ghost kitchen startup Muncher and a Series B round for vertical farming startup Freight Farms. Meanwhile, it’s more bad news for foo... |
| Aug 25, 2022 | Startup profile: Peptyde Bio targets high costs and chemical-resistant pests with new bio-fungicide platform | Skyrocketing costs and supply chain disruptions have left farmers with a limited and rather expensive supply of traditional agrochemicals this year. Coupled with a need to reduce environmental footprint by lessening reliance on chemicals, t... |
| Feb 14, 2022 | New Danforth Center unit aims to launch more agtech companies from the campus | The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the largest US research institute and non-profit for plant science, has established a new company called Danforth Technology Company (DTC). The new venture aims to commercialize the Center’s researc... |
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What has the press written about Danforth Technology?
Parsers VC has collected 8 articles mentioning Danforth Technology, among them “Danforth Technology Center launches gene-editing startup Spearhead Bio to solve ‘a major obstacle with CRISPR’” (May 14, 2025) and “Danforth Technology Center launches startup to open new research pathways through metabolite analysis” (Oct 28, 2024).
Is Danforth Technology still active?
Yes, Danforth Technology is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 17, 2026.