FMC Ventures

FMC Ventures, the new venture capital arm of FMC Corporation, invests in start-ups and early-stage companies that are developing and applying emerging technologies in the agricultural industry.

Investing In Our Future Technology

FMC Ventures evaluates emerging technologies of relevance to the agricultural industry and will invest in those that create a unique strategic advantage for FMC. Agriculture's most pressing challenges are being addressed through advances in artificial intelligence (AI), genomics, robotics, precision agriculture, biopesticides, synthetic biology and other innovations. As progress in these disciplines converge, they will radically alter how crop inputs are developed, sold, and applied. The new venture capital arm of FMC will focus investments in these advanced technology areas.

Trace Genomics

Trace Genomics combines DNA sequencing with machine learning to explain how soil diseases emerge and identify beneficial microorganisms that can be developed into biological products that counter harmful pathogens.

BioPhero

BioPhero is a pioneer in the production of pheromones used as highly sustainable and eco-friendly active ingredients in products for insect pest control in agriculture. This best-in-class, category-defining technology has the potential to commercialize pheromones for all crops.

Scanit Technologies

Scanit Technologies is the creator of the SporeCam^™ instrument, a wireless sensor that captures physical spores in the air, processes the spore data through machine learning and alerts growers when harmful disease spore count reaches certain benchmarks. FMC and Scanit will partner on analyzing Asian soybean rust in Brazil using the SporeCam^™ instrument beginning in early 2021.

Micropep Technlogies

Micropep Technologies uses a proprietary technology to precisely enhance plant traits through the use of very small proteins called micropeptides. These micropeptides have the potential to become first-in-class “sprayable traits.”

TartanSense

TartanSense works at the intersection of robotics and AI-assisted computer vision to solve labor scarcity issues and increase the sustainability of production agriculture by automating manual tasks and significantly enhancing the efficiency of spray applications.

Guardian Agriculture

Guardian Agriculture is developing systems for drone-based precision applications in agriculture. Guardian’s system will be the first integrated, US-manufactured, commercial-scale eVTOL system purpose-built for agriculture.