Heritable Agriculture, a startup born from Alphabet’s moonshot factory X, has officially launched as an independent company aiming to improve crop yields, nutrition, and resilience through its cutting-edge AI-driven biotechnology platform. With investment from top venture capital firms FTW Ventures, Mythos Ventures, and SVG Ventures, Heritable is poised to address one of the world’s most pressing challenges: feeding a growing population sustainably.
The company’s AI-powered platform combines advanced technologies such as multi-omics, predictive breeding, and high-throughput gene editing to create “programmable” plants that can thrive in specific environments. This technology has the potential to significantly boost crop yields, enhance disease resistance, and reduce production costs.
Heritable’s founders, a team of machine learning experts and plant biologists, have spent years developing their platform and partnering with industry leaders like ArborGen, a global provider of tree seedlings. Initial research suggests that Heritable’s AI can halve the time needed for tree improvement, offering a promising solution to this critical challenge.
The venture capital firms backing Heritable believe that its technology has the potential to drive a step-change in productivity, resilience, and sustainability across the entire agri-food system. With its launch, Heritable Agriculture is poised to make a significant impact on global agriculture and contribute to solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
Source: https://www.businesswire.com/news/houstonmedicine/20250130584800/en