Cerelixis develops precision crop protection products that optimize plant growth and enhance resilience. The company uses a proprietary screening technology to identify small molecules that modulate plant physiology, generating early-stage R&D assets for licensing to the agricultural industry.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Modern agriculture faces challenges in food security and productivity due to climate change, evolving pests, and resistance to existing crop protection products. The innovation pipeline for new crop protection solutions has slowed, while regulatory scrutiny has increased.
Solution
Cerelixis develops precision crop protection products designed to optimize plant growth and enhance resilience to adverse conditions. The company's approach focuses on developing new tools that modulate plant physiology rather than targeting pests or weeds directly. This is achieved through a proprietary high-throughput screening technology that identifies small molecules with the potential to improve crop productivity. Cerelixis generates early-stage research and development assets that are then licensed to the agricultural industry for further development and registration.
Target Audience
The primary customers are companies within the agricultural industry seeking to license early-stage R&D assets for the development of next-generation crop protection products.
Features
- Proprietary high-throughput screening technology for identifying novel small molecules.
- Pipeline of small molecules targeting specific proteins to optimize plant growth.
- Focus on modulating plant physiology for enhanced resilience and productivity.
- Rational drug design approach for rapid optimization of lead compounds.
- Generation of early-stage R&D assets for licensing.