BetterSeeds
Formerly CanBreed
CRISPR-Based Crop Trait Platform for Climate-Resilient Agriculture
Startup A Agriculture & Food Technologies Est. 2017
Total Raised
$15.5M
A
Last Round
$3.5M
4 rounds
Investors
2
2 public
Team
6
11-50 employees
Confidence
97/100
News
12
articles
Patents
1
About
BetterSeeds develops gene-editing solutions for agriculture through its EDGE platform, which expands the application of CRISPR technology from a limited number of crops to a broad range of staple food plants. The platform enables the integration of proprietary climate-resilient traits, such as drought tolerance and improved water efficiency, directly into crops. By enhancing plant performance under climate stress, BetterSeeds supports higher yields, resource-efficient farming, and greater food security in the face of environmental challenges.
Classification
Sector
Climate TechFood & Land UseSustainable FarmingSustainable Water SolutionsAgriculture & Food TechnologiesAg TechGenetics & Input
Core Technology
BiologicalsGenes
Target Customer
Agriculture & FoodCrops
Business Model
B2B
Tags
climate-techagribusinesscropsbiotechnologyplant-protectionsmart-farmingseedsgeneticsbreedingagtechgene-editing
Funding & Events
Oct 2022
Convertible Debt $3.5M
OurCrowd (Lead)
Oct 2017
Pre-Seed $1M
Nov 2020
Seed $4M
Smart Agro (Lead)
May 2022
A Round $7M
OurCrowd
News (12)
Mar 20, 2025 · www.linkedin.com
BetterSeeds and Syngenta are teaming up to tackle tomato processing challenges
Mar 18, 2025 · www.forbes.com
From Israel With Smart Technology: Improving Global Food Security
Mar 5, 2025 · www.agtechnavigator.com
BetterSeeds appoints CRISPR pioneer to address ‘critical bottleneck’ in crop gene editing
Feb 24, 2025 · www.linkedin.com
BetterSeeds announces that its genome editing-based ROP9 trait for drought resiliency in processing tomatoes has received commercialization approval from the USDA
Feb 20, 2025 · forwardfooding.com
Bio-engineered Crops: A Breakthrough for Climate-Resilient Farming
Jul 3, 2024 · news.agropages.com
BetterSeeds announces USDA approval for PeaMAX, the world's first gene-edited cowpea
Jun 4, 2024 · www.agtechnavigator.com
BetterSeeds welcomes former Bayer executive as chairman
May 3, 2024 · www.vcpost.com
BetterSeeds' CRISPR-Based Technology: The Key to Agricultural Resilience and Sustainability
Sep 14, 2023 · www.agribusinessglobal.com
BetterSeeds Acquires Business Unit of Israeli Seed Company
Mar 21, 2022 · www.jpost.com
growth-positive
New Collaboration to validate CRISPR Genome-editing tools in plants
Partners
Sep 29, 2021 · www.israel21c.org
growth-positive
Creating the crops we need to save our future
CustomersPartners
Jul 7, 2021 · www.mmjdaily.com
growth-positive
Genetics and seeds company CanBreed rebrands as BetterSeeds
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Details
Product Stage
Released
Employees
11-50
Exact Count
18
District
Center District
Founded
2017
Registrar
515729671
Locations
Birkat Am Street 54, Givat Hen, Israel
Links
Website
LinkedIn
Careers
Admin
Last Update
Apr 3, 2025
Verified by
Yanina Wainscheinker
Claimed
Yes
Missing
video or image, markets
Team (6)
Helmut Schramm
Chairman
Ido Margalit
Co-founder & CEO
Founder
Tal Sherman
Co-founder, CIO & CTO
Founder
Ilanit Madari
CFO
Shira Corem
VP R&D
Yarden Dloomy
Head of Sales and Business Development
Internal
Created by
Ido Margalit (ido.margalit1@gmail.com)
Created
2020-10-22T00:00:00.000Z
Last editor
Ortal Wein (ortalw@sncentral.org)