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Location

United States, Missouri, Olivette

Employees

201-500

Phone

+1 314-587-1000

Total raised

$12.5M

Founded date

1998

Funding Rounds 1

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Aug 20, 2026	AgriFood Signals: Farmbot unearths fresh funding, Homestead Capital nabs $150m, Gates backs ‘HeatSmart’ cassava	AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news 🇩🇪 Oceanloop secures up to $44 million to scale land-based giant grouper farming Aquafeed 🇦🇺 Veteran...
May 21, 2026	AgriFood Signals: More Microsoft carbon deals, a $200m greenhouse in Mexico, rubber from dandelions	AgFunderNews rounds up the most important fundings, mergers, acquisitions, closures, and industry buzz in agtech and foodtech. Funding news 🇩🇪 Munich’s Feldwerke secures €12 million revolving credit facility to build 100 MW agri-PV portfoli...
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...
Sep 30, 2022	Sorghum’s Revival Goes Against The Grain	The world appears to be waking up to the potential of an ancient grain by the name of sorghum. Originally from the African continent, this gluten free grain, also known as guinea corn, jwari, jowar, kafir or milo, is increasing in global po...
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...
Aug 3, 2022	AgTech NEXT 2022 will examine how technology, trade and talent can reinforce our food system	The Donald Donald Danforth Plant Science Center just announced AgTech NEXT 2022, a three-day event that will examine the intersection of technology, trade, and talent as they relate to our regional and global food system. This is the first ...
Apr 8, 2022	BRDG Park: Growing the future of agrifood tech	Around half of all US agriculture production is within a 500-mile radius of St. Louis, Missouri, including 80% of the nation’s soybean and corn crops. In recent years, the Midwestern city has also earned the name “the Silicon Valley of agte...
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...
Aug 4, 2021	Midweek Digest: Delivery deals win the week as Gopuff gets $1bn, Bolt bags $711m	Your weekly roundup of agrifoodtech funding, partnership, and product headlines from around the web. Grocery delivery took the big bucks with Bolt and Gopuff each closing funding mega-deals. Gopuff raises $1 billion at $15 billion valuation...
Jul 22, 2021	AgTech NEXT launches 3-part conference series to tackle climate change	The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center has announced AgTech NEXT 2021, a three-part conference series that will discuss three powerful intersections where ag innovation can move the needle on climate change. For the first time, AgTech NEX...
Sep 17, 2020	AgTech NEXT 2020: Impossible’s Pat Brown in his own words, corporate partnerships, and the new realities of “risk” after Covid	This post is part of a collaboration with the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. The research institute is hosting its first AgTech NEXT conference—virtually—from September 22 to November 10. When the pandemic started, venture capital fi...
Mar 10, 2020	What do Walt Disney, Chuck Berry and Mark Twain have in common?	Editor’s Note: Dr Belinda Clarke is director of UK-based Agri-TechE (formerly known as Agri-Tech East), Europe’s largest independent membership business connecting farmers and growers with researchers, technologists, entrepreneurs and inves...
Feb 9, 2018	Ag Industry Brief: Walmart Buys into VR, Nestle Bets on AI with Nuritas, Florida Citrus Growers Get Some Relief, more	Florida Citrus Growers Finally Receive Disaster Aid Hurricane Irma dealt a heavy blow to Florida’s citrus industry, where orange production is down by 35% relative to last year from the one-two punch of hurricanes and the pervasive citrus-g...
Nov 2, 2017	Is St. Louis the Silicon Valley of Agtech?	St. Louis has worked hard to be a magnet for Fortune 500 companies. Nine members of this elite class call the city home, not the least of which is multinational agricultural giant Monsanto. Walmart has more than 20,000 employees in St. Loui...
Oct 13, 2017	Ag Industry Brief: GrubHub Buys Eat24 for $288m, Mealkit IPO All Over Again, $3.2m Goes to Maize Research, more	Danforth Lands $3.4 million Grant For Maize Research The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center has been granted $3.4 million over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the productivity of maize. The project led by ...
Oct 6, 2017	Ag Industry Brief: Agsolver Gets Acquired, Danforth Working on Biofuel for DOE, Walmart Moves into Same-day Delivery, more	EFC Systems Acquires Monsanto Portfolio Co. AgSolver Texas-based agricultural software provider EFC Systems, Inc. has purchased the assets of AgSolver, a software and analytics systems company for sustainable land management, valuation, and...
Sep 15, 2017	Ag Industry Brief: Israel, China in $300m Agtech Deal, Mistletoe CEO Launches Indian Agtech Accelerator, Protix Acquires Insect Breeder, more	Israel and China Strike $300m Deal to Bring Agtech East Israel and China have signed a $300-million trade agreement to facilitate the export of environmentally-friendly Israeli technology to China. A statement from Israel’s finance ministry...
Jul 3, 2017	Ag Industry Brief: California Puts Roundup on Cancer List, Hampton Creek to be Selling Cultured Meat Next Year? More	California Puts Monsanto’s Glyphosate/Roundup on Cancer List Monsanto’s herbicide Glyphosate, sold under the retail name Roundup, is officially part of California’s Prop 65 list of chemicals with carcinogenic properties despite Monsanto’s v...
May 2, 2017	A.I.’s Role In Agriculture Comes Into Focus With Imaging Analysis	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints The imaging technologies scanning farms today trace their roots to the space race. In 1965, the U.S. Geological Survey proposed using satellites to observe the planet. Seven y...
Feb 8, 2017	TechAccel Invests in Agrivida Solidifying its Unique Agritech Acceleration Platform	Agriculture venture development organization TechAccel has made a strategic investment in animal feed additive startup Agrivida alongside the Iowa Corn Growers Association‘s equity investment fund Iowa Corn Opportunities. The undisclosed in...
Jan 25, 2017	Gates Foundation Awards $6.1m Grant to Danforth Center for Sorghum Research	The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a three-year, $6.1 million grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to expand and accelerate the development and deployment of improved varieties of sorghum for smallholder farmer...
Aug 27, 2015	How the ‘Rockstar’ Scientists at The Photosynthesis Company Benson Hill Raised $7.3m Series A	“These scientists are rockstars,” Dan Watkins, managing director at Mercury Fund, tells AgFunderNews. Watkins is talking about the co-founders of Benson Hill Biosystems, the biotech company that is developing crop traits to improve crop pro...
Nov 20, 2014	A moment with Benson Hill CEO, Matthew Crisp	Benson Hill is establishing itself as “the photosynthesis company”. In less than two years they have built an all-star team, built their IP estate, obtained access to world-class facilities, developed an operational R&D pipeline and are...

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FAQ about Danforth Center

When was Danforth Center founded?

Danforth Center was founded in 1998.

How much funding has Danforth Center raised?

Danforth Center has raised $12.5M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about Danforth Center?

Parsers VC has collected 24 articles mentioning Danforth Center, among them “AgriFood Signals: Farmbot unearths fresh funding, Homestead Capital nabs $150m, Gates backs ‘HeatSmart’ cassava” (Aug 20, 2026) and “AgriFood Signals: More Microsoft carbon deals, a $200m greenhouse in Mexico, rubber from dandelions” (May 21, 2026).

Is Danforth Center still active?

Yes, Danforth Center is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 17, 2026.