2026-07-28 — The North Carolina plant-biotechnology company raised an undisclosed seed financing led by LeVert Ventures to advance its SwitchBlade platform.
Upstream Biotechnology, a North Carolina plant-biotechnology company, has closed an undisclosed seed financing led by LeVert Ventures, with participation from Corteva Catalyst, Silver Blue and VTC Ventures.
The funding will advance its SwitchBlade platform, which activates crop-resistance traits in response to disease or environmental stress rather than keeping them permanently switched on - an approach designed to avoid the yield penalty of constitutive defence expression.
The North Carolina plant-biotechnology company raised an undisclosed seed financing led by LeVert Ventures to advance its SwitchBlade platform.
· Biologicals · United States · 2 min
Upstream Biotechnology, a North Carolina plant-biotechnology company, has closed an undisclosed seed financing led by LeVert Ventures, with participation from Corteva Catalyst, Silver Blue and VTC Ventures.
The funding will advance its SwitchBlade platform, which activates crop-resistance traits in response to disease or environmental stress rather than keeping them permanently switched on - an approach designed to avoid the yield penalty of constitutive defence expression.
Source: AgFunderNews