THE
PROBLEM
Modern farming is
hooked on chemicals.
Our food system is extremely dependent on chemical fertilizers and pesticides. It's bad for the planet, expensive for farmers, and a growing concern for consumers.
OUR
SOLUTION
Our advanced microbes promote crop yields.
Quorum Bio engineers non-model microbes to accelerate crop growth, confer resilience to climate-stress like drought, and control plant disease. Our biological solutions are environmentally friendly and 10X cheaper than chemicals.
OUR
TECHNOLOGY
We invented the most powerful engineering platform for plant bacteria.
Diversity
Wide phylogenetic range
We've established genetic tools to engineer several of the microbial phyla that dominate microbiomes of all plants, enabling us to create solutions for any crop on any farm worldwide.
Functionality
Daring
targets
We engineer microbes to produce the powerful small molecules, peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids that can replace synthetic chemical inputs but remain untapped by the industry due to their complexity.
Speed
100X
efficiency
Our platform enables us to generate novel crop growth-promoting microbial strains at 100X the throughput of others, positioning us to create industry-leading products that create real value for farmers and positively impact agriculture.
OUR
TEAM
We are an early-stage startup accelerated by the Activate Fellowship and inspired by cutting-edge research from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Sudharsan Dwaraknath, Ph.D.
Co-Founder & CEO
Marco Allemann, Ph.D.
Yasuo Yoshikuni, Ph.D.
Co-Founder & Advisor
Dylan Rahe, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Lisa Kalkbrenner
Research Associate
Sam Bischof
Greenhouse Technician
Senior Scientist
Joseph Labrador
Research Assistant
Patrick Fardella, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist
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180 Varick Street, Floor 6
New York, NY, 10014