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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
