Agrisoma Biosciences Inc
Presenter: Steven Fabijanski, CEO
Company Information
Company Type: Cleantech
Development Stage: Private
Company Profile
Agrisoma is building a seeds business in the rapidly expanding biofuel feedstock crop segment of the $40B global agricultural seeds market. The Company is developing new dedicated oilseed varieties engineered for the efficient production of bio-feedstock for the bio-refinery. These new crop varieties will provide superior yields of optimized bio-feedstock oils for both domestic and international markets, with oils optimized for the displacement of petroleum in liquid fuels for the transportation sector including biodiesel and aviation
Company Strategy
The Company is developing crops to meet the rapidly growing, government mandated renewable fuels standards, focusing on the high value portion of renewable fuels, oil-derived fuels for biodiesel and aviation.
Intellectual Property
Agrisoma has a worldwide patent portfolio protecting its technology and technology applications in all plant species. The patent estate includes three major patent families encompassing the broad outline of the technology itself, specific applications and use of the technology for agricultural applications, and finally methods to engineer and modify plant chromosomes. The company has patents pending in the area of oil modification for renewable fuels and manufacturing. The intellectual property of Agrisoma provides a route for freedom to operate for new crop development that avoids the current intellectual property roadblocks for product development. Agrisoma technology offers a means to avoid these technologies and have a clear path to product commercialization. Agrisoma technology can be successfully employed to avoid all major plant transformation intellectual property roadblocks.
Programs
Agrisoma is combining two enabling and field tested intellectual property suites, a highly efficient and proven trait stacking platform and proprietary traits for enhanced yields of oils and improvements in crop performance. Together, this technology package is being delivered to the market in a non-food biomass oilseed, B. carinata, a fast growing, highly productive crop that is tolerant to heat, drought and agricultural pests, enabling production on lesser quality lands with reduced agricultural inputs. This product represents the potential for a billion dollar seeds business, adding an additional billion dollars in market value to the $40 billion crop seeds business.
Investors
Equity investors include Business Development Bank of Canada, Growthworks and Calyx Bioventures
Management Team
Agrisomas senior management includes a CEO with more than 20 years experience in agribusiness, a CFO with more than 15 years of experience in private and public biotechnology markets and a VP of Technology with more than 10 years experience in industrial biotechnology.
Presenter Bio
Steven Fabijanski has over 20 years experience in agribusiness with proven record of managing companies focused on technology development in the seeds business. He has been involved with the crop biotechnology industry since 1986. He is currently Chair of the Ag-Nutrition Advisory Board (ANAB) of Biotech Canada and participates in many industry initiatives in agbio and the renewable fuels business. Steve holds a Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Southern California. Previous positions include President of the FAAR Biotechnology Group and Director of Research for Paladin Hybrids.
Contact
Agrisoma Biosciences Inc
Suite 323, 5929L Jeanne D'Arc Blvd.
Ottawa
Ontario, Canada
K1C 7K2
ph: 613.834.5265
fx: 613.834.4133
www.agrisoma.com
sfabijanski@agrisoma.com
