Pairwise is a start-up food company that uses technology to break down the barriers that keep us from eating produce. At Pairwise, we are passionate about building a healthier world through better fruits and vegetables.
Headquartered in Durham, NC, our team is made up of leaders in R&D, agriculture, and consumer products. Founded in 2017 and opened in 2018, Pairwise is working to deliver breakthrough innovation in agricultural sciences and in healthy consumer foods.
Our team of proven leaders features Dr. Tom Adams, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr. Haven Baker, Chief Business Officer (CBO), and eminent scientists Drs. Feng Zhang, David Liu and J. Keith Joung serve as advisors.
Headquartered in Durham, NC, our team is made up of leaders in R&D, agriculture, and consumer products. Founded in 2017 and opened in 2018, Pairwise is working to deliver breakthrough innovation in agricultural sciences and in healthy consumer foods.
Our team of proven leaders features Dr. Tom Adams, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr. Haven Baker, Chief Business Officer (CBO), and eminent scientists Drs. Feng Zhang, David Liu and J. Keith Joung serve as advisors.
Location: United States, North Carolina, Durham
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $130M
Founded date: 2018
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| 14.04.2021 | Pontifax A... | pontifaxag... |
| - | Aliment Ca... | alimentcap... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 17.09.2024 | Series C | $40M | - |
| 09.02.2021 | - | $90M | - |
Mentions in press and media 25
| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.09.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: eGrocer Flink nabs $150m, biotech co Arzeda lands $38m, Kubota acquires Bloomfield Robotics | Venture capital to the eGrocery category may be down 90% since the fundraising heyday of 2021, but the sector’s far from dead. Case in point: Germany-based Flink’s mega-raise this week. Elsewhere, biotech startup Arzeda raked in funds to de... |
| 17.09.2024 | Pairwise: Cultivating the Future of Agriculture with Gene Editing | In the heart of Durham, North Carolina, a revolution is brewing. Pairwise, a technology company at the forefront of gene editing, has just secured $40 million in Series C funding. This latest round, led by Deerfield Management, pushes their... |
| 17.09.2024 | Pairwise raises $40m series C, forms JV with Corteva to accelerate gene editing on row crops | Pairwise, a startup pioneering gene editing in plants, has closed a $40m series C funding round and formed a five-year joint venture collaboration with agtech giant Corteva to advance the tech to increase climate resilience in corn and soy.... |
| 17.09.2024 | Pairwise Closes $40M Series C Funding | Pairwise, a Durham, NC-based technology company which specializes in gene editing to improve plant breeding in specialty and commodity crops, raised $40M in Series C funding. The round, which brought the total amount to $155M, was led by De... |
| 12.06.2024 | CRISPR and the new era of precision plant breeding: In conversation with Pairwise CEO Dr. Tom Adams | CRISPR-Cas9 technology—billed as ‘programmable DNA scissors’— first hit the headlines in 2012. Since then, it has been used to create everything from pig kidneys that can be transplanted into humans to treatments for sickle cell disease. Bu... |
| 03.06.2024 | AgriTech Innovations Blossom with Funding Surge | In the vast expanse of the AgriTech industry, a recent surge in funding has breathed new life into innovative solutions aimed at revolutionizing the way we approach agriculture. Among the notable beneficiaries of this funding wave is Saudi ... |
| 03.06.2024 | Bayer teams with CRISPR startup Pairwise for bitterless mustard greens | Bayer is expanding its partnership with Pairwise to introduce an improved leafy green with higher nutrition than average lettuce. Bayer signed a licensing deal with the US-based ag-tech startup to develop and commercialize Pairwise's genome... |
| 30.05.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Venture studio Squared Circles raises $40m, iyris nabs $16m for indoor ag | Squared Circles, the venture studio behind Nutrafol and other health, wellness, and food brands, announced a $40 million Series A fundraise this week led by private equity firm L Catterton. There were fundraises a’ plenty coming from the ME... |
| 12.04.2024 | ASU scientist studies how bans, regulations on food technology affect consumer acceptance, perceptions | How do people process scientific developments with outside influences, warnings, biases and others’ opinions filtering in? That’s the question Caitlin Drummond Otten, environmental social scientist, works to answer in her research. She is a... |
| 28.03.2024 | CAST Releases Paper Exploring the Future of Agriculture with Genome Edited Crops | Sarah Evanega presenting the paper in St, Louis, MO (photo by Carlos Back Vianna/CAST) On Wednesday, March 20, the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) hosted a successful rollout event for its latest issue paper, "Ap... |
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