We’re thrilled to announce Robigo’s $7M Seed Round! Led by @congruentvc with participation from @goodgrowthvc, @FirstStarVC, amongst others, this financing will be key in bringing safer and more effective bio solutions to agriculture🌱
Press release here! lnkd.in/eEs6vZPC
We’re #hiring! At Robigo, we’re engineering microbes to solve agriculture’s most pressing challenges and we’re looking for motivated teammates (robigo.bio/careers):
Microbial Engineer
Plant Microbiologist
Microbial Formulations
Head of Product Development
#StartupBoston is excited to announce that @RobigoBio has been named Best Student-Founded Startup by the #startupcommunity! This was awarded due to the student founder securing tremendous traction in their startup.
Learn more about this entire program: bit.ly/3zShkzh
We're excited to announce that Robigo has made it to the final round for the #StartupBoston Community awards! Voting is allowed daily from today until 9/2 and we would appreciate your support as we vie for the title. bit.ly/3zShkzh
➡️Best Student-Founded Startup Award
Thrilled to announce Robigo's pre-seed round of fundraising! This support will help us grow our facilities and team to build better pesticides.
agfundernews.com/robigo-raises-… via @AgFunder
@jennmarston
The team at @RobigoBio, MIT PhD students Andee Wallace, Connor Sweeney, Jai Padmakumar, won the Team to Watch Award, for the team most likely to break through walls and succeed. Robigo creates sustainable alternatives to traditional chemical pesticides
Over 200+ startups submitted their pitches at Founder-Led Bio and we've narrowed it down to the final 17. Now we're opening it up to the world to vote for their favorite at the Audience Choice Awards.
Vote now: founderledbio.com/vote
Robigo is solving one of the most fundamental and pressing issues-- plant pathogens that threaten food security.
And to combat these diseases without sacrificing human or environmental health, we needed to rethink the very notion of what a pesticide could look like.
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