Ascribe Bioscience
Harnessing Small Molecules for Natural Crop Protection
Ascribe Bioscience was founded in 2017, is headquartered in ITHACA, United States, lists 1–10 employees, and has $13.0M in recorded funding across 6 rounds.
- Headquarters
- ITHACA, New York
- Employees
- 1–10
- Founded
- 2017
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- ascribebio.com
- Total Funding
- $13.0M
- Last Round
- $12.0M Series AOct 2025
- Rounds
- 6
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About
Ascribe Bioscience is an Ithaca, NY-based agricultural biotechnology company developing natural crop protection solutions derived from small molecules discovered in the soil microbiome. Founded in 2017 from research at the Boyce Thompson Institute and Cornell University, Ascribe's platform applies metabolomics to identify bioactive compounds that prime plant immune systems against crop pathogens. Its flagship product, Phytalix, is a biofungicide that delivers the sustainability benefits of biologicals with the efficacy and ease of use of conventional chemical crop protection, targeting diseases including Bacterial Leaf Blight in rice. The company raised a $12 million Series A in October 2025 to advance its next-generation product pipeline.
Summary
Ascribe Bioscience is an Agtech company based in ITHACA, United States, founded in 2017. It lists 1–10 employees. It has raised $13.0M in total across 6 rounds, most recently a $12.0M Series A round in Oct 2025. Investors include Acre Venture Partners, The Yield Lab and National Science Foundation.
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Funding History
Oct 2025
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Funding: Grant through Series A. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.
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