Amid Covid-19 uncertainty, ag-tech startups have harder time gaining traction

By   – Staff Writer, Sacramento Business Journal

 

Being designated an essential industry hasn’t kept the founders of Pheronym from encountering work-stopping disruptions.

“We were allowed to keep working, but the people we work with aren’t,” said co-founder Karl Cameron Schiller.

Pheronym is a Davis-based agricultural technology startup working to develop pest-control products based around its research on pheromones that control tiny worms in the soil called nematodes.

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Company founders CEO Fatma Kaplan and Schiller were preparing to bring their products to market next year.

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