Pivot Bio
Americas
Berkeley
,
United States
Scaleup
FOUNDED
2011
HEADCOUNT
101-500
FUNDING
Series D+
Keywords:
bacteria, metabolic_engineering, gene_editing, nitrogen_fixation, fertilizers
BUSINESS
Pivot Bio, founded in 2011 and based in Berkeley, California (manufacturing in St. Louis, Missouri), develops gene-edited nitrogen-fixing microbes that deliver nitrogen directly to crop roots as a complement or partial replacement for synthetic fertilizer. Product portfolio includes PROVEN G3 (corn), CERT-N (cotton), RETAIN (grain sorghum), and universal DRY formulations; four new product launches in 2025, the most in its history. Products used on millions of acres in North America, with Brazil expansion planned. PROVEN G3 field trials showed 90%+ win rate across 134 trials, replacing an average of 33 lbs synthetic nitrogen per acre with 2.1 bu/acre yield advantage.
BIOTECH INVOLVEMENT
Core agbio biotechnology using engineered microbes for nitrogen fixation.
TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
microbial engineering; gene editing
PRIMARY PRODUCTS
PROVEN 40 and RETURN microbial nitrogen products