The world’s most valuable biological inputs startups

Companies that make biological and bio-based inputs for crops: microbial fertilisers and biostimulants, biopesticides and biofungicides (microbes, peptides, RNA, proteins), pheromones and other natural signals for pest control, and beneficial insects. Ranked worldwide by AI-estimated valuation, with listed pure players shown in grey at their market value for reference. The market sets the value; our AI estimates it.

Key metrics for this segment: key milestone. Figures as published by each company or the press, dated, not recalculated. The AIs weigh them alongside funding history and comparables.

Not in this segment. Listed, so not ranked: Biotalys (shown in grey), Bioceres Crop Solutions and Vittia, whose biologicals sit beside other crop inputs, Amoéba, Eden Research, Save Foods and Bee Vectoring. Bought by a group: Symborg (Corteva), BioPhero (FMC), Biotrop (BioFirst), Ceradis (Gowan), Plant Health Care (PI Industries), Marrone Bio (Bioceres), AgBiome (assets sold). Created by a group or owned by a family without outside investors: Koppert, Andermatt, Agrauxine (Lesaffre), Lavie Bio (Evogene), Suterra, Rizobacter, IPL Biologicals, ENAI (launched by Indigo Ag). Closed: Joyn Bio. In other segments: soil carbon programmes (Indigo Ag, Loam Bio) under Carbon credits, soil analytics and sensors (Biome Makers, Trace Genomics, Pattern Ag, Semios) under Precision farming; crop-protection chemistry discovered with AI (Enko, Moa Technology), plant genetics (Cibus, Ohalo), animal health and multi-industry fermentation (Locus Fermentation Solutions) are outside this segment. Chinese companies (Moon Biotech) are never ranked. A company appears in one segment only. Method