Pheronym

Pheronym had a booth at the SOSV Climate Tech Summit on Thursday, October 21!

To learn more about the event and its speakers, click here.

By Olga Grinevich

Pheronym is excited to be featured in Invest Foresight, an online business magazine based in Russia!

Pest Control Nematodes

“The farming dream was brought to life by San Francisco-based startup Pheronym. Founded in 2017, the company has developed pheromone solutions that affect the behavior of roundworms.”

“The idea to use pheromones to control worms comes from Fatma Kaplan, Ph.D. in molecular and plant cell biology” Keep Reading 

Dr. Kaplan is invited to speak at the session “Entomopathogenic Nematode Signaling and Behavioral Ecology Translates into Improved Sustainable Insect Management On-Demand Presentations” organized by Dr. Ivan Hiltpold Senior Entomologist Plant ProtectionAgroscope Nyon, Vaud, Switzerland and Dr. David Shapiro-Ilan Research Leader at the SE Fruit and Tree Nut Research Station USDA-ARS, Byron, Georgia.

 

Dr. Kaplan, our CEO, is honored to speak at the Women in Biological Agriculture webinar for the Biological Products Industry Alliance.

BPIA is dedicated to fostering continued improvements to the biological products regulatory process.

 

This free webinar for representatives of BPIA member companies will profile women making a difference in biological agriculture.

Join us on October 25, 2021, at 12 pm PST (3:00 pm EDT) to learn more about the women making a difference in agriculture.

Thank you, Sophie Purdom and Kim Zou for this great article about Activate, Activate fellowship and the startups including Pheronym.

Ilan Gur, founder, and CEO of Activate, puts it best: “technical ideas aren’t the limiting factor to impacting global change. The binding constraint is the lack of opportunity for an enormous pool of talented scientists to go all-in on commercializing their ideas.”

Activate’s climate cohorts

With more than 100 Activate Fellows over 7 years, Activate supports scientists working across sectors, from energy to ag to defense, to commercialize hard-tech innovations, many of which are climate tech solutions. Over the next five years, Activate plans to expand to 100 new fellows per year, most of whom will focus on climate change.

🌱 Food & Ag: Circe Bioscience (CO2 to fats), Nitricity (renewable nitrogen fertilizer production), Perlumi (better seeds), Pheronym (non-toxic pest management), Takachar (transforming waste biomass), Trophic (seaweed-based protein), ZestBio (food waste into products).

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Panel: Women Innovators Working to Solve Farming Challenges

Dr. Kaplan is part of a new generation of startups led by women, with a diversity of backgrounds and ethnicities, seeking to provide novel perspectives and solutions to agriculture’s problems with tech innovation.

Join us on October 14, 2021, at 7:00 am PST for a moderated discussion and audience Q+A!

Register here

If you missed the Women in Ag panel, you have a second chance to listen: https://youtu.be/FrQ9In1Pp_s

Honored to be among these amazing women farmers and founders in Women in Ag panel.

📣 Plug and Play Tech Center is all about building a strong supportive network for #womeninag.

Join us this upcoming Thursday 📆 Sept 23, 2021, 🕔 11 AM – 12 PM (CST), 👉 Register: https://lnkd.in/ePvaeumN

From fully autonomous berry harvesters to plant-based lupini bean protein bars, the startups competing for $3 million in prize money at this year’s Grow-NY Food and Agriculture Competition are bringing revolutionary innovations to the market.

Ten of this year’s finalists have connections to the Cornell community, including: Pheronym (Davis, California): Advised by Pam Marrone ‘78, former staff and Board of Trustees member, Pheronym is using pheromones to control the behavior and development of microscopic roundworms called nematodes, offering a nontoxic path for farmers as they transition away from conventional pesticides.

A Summit Showcase with services for startups and awards ceremony will be held Nov. 16-17 at the Syracuse Oncenter, and available to stream virtually. Keep Reading

 

We are excited to share that Pheronym has been selected as a finalist in the unprecedented food and agriculture competition, Grow-NY! The competition received more than 330 applications from 32 countries, and we are beyond thrilled to be in the top 20. Our journey now begins with preparing our final pitch that we’ll present at the virtual Summit on November 16-17, 2021.

Click here to learn more.

Our CEO, Dr. Kaplan, is honored to be among the amazing panelist at the USPA ACC Western Region Webinar

Join us on September 9th, 2021, at 1:00pm PST

Register here