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Inari scientific strategy board member Jennifer Doudna has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work to identify and develop CRISPR-Cas9. CRISPR is the revolutionary genome editing tool with enormous potential across agriculture and other areas of bioscience.…

Inari, the biotechnology company developing next-generation seeds, announced Stuart Brown has joined the company as chief financial officer. Brown will lead the internal financial team and spearhead efforts with the investor community. “I am delighted to welcome Stuart to our…

BOSTON (August 26, 2020) – Three women have been recognized with the Women in Agribusiness Demeter Award of Excellence for their outstanding achievements in ag. They are: Priscila Vansetti Machado of Corteva Agriscience, Ponsi Trivisvavet of Inari and Amy Wu…

Dozens of women lead CRISPR-based projects worldwide. Here are a few who’ve built start-ups around the technology   https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/gene-editing/CRISPR-technology-Where-female-entrepreneurs-thrive/98/i9…

Inari announced that it has entered into a $45 million loan and security agreement with K2 HealthVentures (K2HV), a life sciences-focused investment firm. Inari-Secures-45-Million-Debt-FinancingDownload…

Inari today announced that Tara Levine has joined its leadership team in the newly created role of chief growth officer. Levine, who has two decades of experience in global business transformation and marketing leadership, will drive efforts to deliver strategic…

Inari Agriculture has been awarded the 2020 Newcomer of the Year Trophy by Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT). Inari (US) opened its first foreign R&D branch in Ghent’s biotech valley just over a year ago. Since then, the Belgian team…

Looking back over the past several decades, Ponsi Trivisvavet says genetic improvement has added less than 1% yield improvement per year for corn. She believes genetic improvement will have to occur much faster to meet expected future global demand for…

Ponsi Trivisvavet, CEO, attended the 2020 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos representing Inari as a 2019 Technology Pioneer – an exclusive group recognized for the potential to “transform their industries.” …

As champion of the wheat genome, this scientist talks about the mindset needed for success.…

Agbiotech newcomer Inari has raised $89 million to pursue an ambitious goal: to challenge the status quo in agriculture. Inari, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, plans to use the total $144 million it has raised so far to develop crops that…

Inari closes Series C funding round with $89 million.…

Inari has been chosen as a 2019 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.…

The plant genetics work being done in both public and private laboratories is taking new shapes as more advanced genetic tools become available. One innovator is Inari, which is bringing new tools to plant breeding work. Recently the startup announced…

Purdue University Photo/Tom Campbell Inari CEO Ponsi Trivisvavet was among a select group of agribusiness executives invited to meet earlier this month with USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue at the home of Purdue University President Mitch Daniels. Read on for Ponsi’s …

Inari, a company that is advancing plant breeding by tapping nature’s genetic diversity, continues to expand its capabilities with exclusive patent licenses to technologies developed at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL).…

Inari announced today that Tom Halverson has joined as Chief Financial Officer. Halverson, who brings decades of experience in finance and capital markets, will lead the company’s financial operations and investor relations.…

This month, Inari announced an exclusive patent licensing agreement for epigenetics technology through the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The license, based on discoveries by UCLA Professor Steve Jacobsen, a scientific co-founder of Inari, provides the company with a …

UCLA biologist Steve Jacobsen, who is a professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology, specializes in plant epigenetics—the study of how a gene’s function can change without changes to the DNA sequence. His research could lead to more resilient crops.…

Inari has secured exclusive patent licenses for epigenetics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The agreement gives Inari access to tools that will positively influence crop performance without altering a plant’s genetic code.…

Inari, a company revolutionizing plant breeding by tapping into natural genetic diversity, today expands its research footprint to Europe, with the opening of a laboratory in Ghent, Belgium.…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – January 9th, 2019– Inari, a company that is revolutionizing plant breeding through tapping natural genetic diversity, today announced that William W. Helman IV has been appointed to its board of directors.  Helman is long…

What if a seed developer could divide the time it takes to develop an improved plant by three and the cost by 10? That’s the goal of Inari, an innovative startup that has opened a new on-the-ground breeding facility at…

Cambridge, Mass. – November 8, 2018 – Inari, a Flagship Pioneering company, today introduces the world’s first Seed Foundry as part of the company’s mission to reintroduce genetic diversity, revolutionize the seed industry and create a winning food system. Purdue…

Inari CEO Ponsi Trivisvavet was featured on a panel of leaders who are launching innovative business models in agriculture. Read on for what was discussed at the World Food Prize 2018 in Des Moines, Iowa. Rise to the challenge. It’s…

When the news that scientists had finally cracked the bread wheat genome sequence broke in the journal, Science, (last month), it was a high point for many scientists and breeders across the globe including co-author Dr. Catherine Feuillet,…

The Rockefeller University has announced that Jennifer Doudna will receive this year’s Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, a major international accolade honoring outstanding women scientists. Doudna is a professor of chemistry and molecular and cell biology at the University of California,…

Sequencing the wheat genome – once considered by scientists to be an insurmountable task – has been achieved through a worldwide collaboration of researchers spanning 13 years. On Friday the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) published a detailed description…

Inari, the latest venture from venture development organization Flagship Pioneering, has raised $40 million in Series B funding. The company describes itself as a plant breeding technology company aiming to “transform plant breeding to significantly reduce time and cost by…

CAMBRIDGE, MA (August 9, 2018) ​- Inari, a transformational plant breeding technology company with a mission to transform agriculture and positively impact society and the environment, announced today it has completed a $40 million Series B financing round, bringing its…

Xconomy Boston — The seeds farmers plant in their fields can carry certain desirable traits, such as drought tolerance or pest resistance. Breeding or genetic engineering can produce such traits, but ag biotech startup Inari Agriculture aims to take trait…

Cambridge, Mass. – July 18 — Inari, a Flagship Pioneering company headquartered in Cambridge, launches a transformational plant breeding technology company. Inari began in early 2016 and has since recruited more than 80 leading research scientists and academic advisors from…

LIKE ANY SELF-RESPECTING farmer, Zachary Lippman was grumbling about the weather. Stout, with close-cropped hair and beard, Lippman was standing in a greenhouse in the middle of Long Island, surrounded by a profusion of rambunctiously bushy plants. “Don’t get me…

Inari grew out of a simple question we asked 3 years ago: “Why isn’t anyone doing in plant sciences what they’re doing in human sciences?” It was this kind of challenger mindset that led us to form a new venture…

Zachary Lippman, a plant biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, stood among 2 acres of his experimental crops, including some altered with a gene-editing technology called Crispr-Cas9, one of the most ambitious efforts yet to improve on what nature created.…