Netcapital sponsored a Demo Day featuring 3 companies that had reached certain milestones in their efforts. MicroMGx was one of those 3 companies selected to participate. Last Wednesday, our CEO, Jack Kloeber, spoke to the Demo Day webinar attendees about our lead herbicide, our team, and our progress. Actinobacteria is a phylum of [...]
Plug and Play Tech Center has announced their 7th annual cohort for this year’s AgTech Accelerator ending with a 2-Day EXPO on June 14-15, in Topeka, Kansas. We are thrilled be working with one of the most active Venture Capital firms in the country. "This program aims to bring global innovation by facilitating opportunities [...]
In January, MicroMGx was selected as a finalist in the Hello Tomorrow Global Deep Tech Challenge. "The Global Challenge is a renowned international startup competition organized by Hello Tomorrow since 2014. It is uniquely designed to address the needs of early-stage deep tech startups across all industries. The Challenge gives deep tech and science-based [...]
On October 20th, 2022, the Hudson Alpha Research Institute announced that MicroMGx is one of five AgTech startup companies selected for the inaugural cohort in the Hudson Alpha Agtech Accelerator, sponsored by Hudson Alpha and powered by gener8tor. Actinobacteria is a phylum of Gram-positive bacteria with high guanine and cytosine content in their [...]
On Friday, September 2nd, our Crowdfunding site went LIVE! If you ever have read about exciting startup companies but are not an angel investor or venture capitalist, you are normally out of luck. But now, MicroMGx has its own offering page. This page will allow MicroMGX the essential kickstart to begin pumping out novel [...]
MicroMGx’s CEO, Jack Kloeber, spoke as an invited panelist during Gener8tor’s OnRamp AGTech conference, held for the first time in Champaign, Illinois, from 25-26 July, 2022. Sara Olson, FMC Ventures and Brennan Duty, Ginkgo Bioworks joined Jack as they addressed the important topic of De-risking Biologicals. MicroMGx’s platform is a scalable and efficient method [...]
Actinobacteria is a phylum of Gram-positive bacteria with high guanine and cytosine content in their DNA. Although understood primarily as soil bacteria, they might be more abundant in freshwaters. Considered to be one of the most prolific producers of natural products. Bacteria are single celled microbes. The cell structure is simpler than that [...]
MicroMGx is expanding the use of its metabologenomics natural product discovery platform to mine fungi for new sustainable crop protection products at an industrial scale. “Our platform is the first ever that can deliver new natural products at the scale required to meet that need.” Through this expanded agreement, MicroMGx expects to support targeted [...]
MicroMGx, Inc., a life sciences company dedicated to making high-throughput natural product discovery achievable, today announced an expanded agreement focused on accelerating natural products discovery with pure-play global agriculture company Corteva Agriscience. Read announcement: https://www.micromgx.com/micromgx-partners-with-corteva-agriscience-to-expand-use-of-natural-products-discovery-for-crop-protection/ Actinobacteria is a phylum of Gram-positive bacteria with high guanine and cytosine content in their DNA. Although understood [...]
Microorganisms have evolved the ability to produce complex molecules known generally as natural products (or secondary metabolites) that include numerous high-value compounds with applications in the food, agricultural, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. Discovering these high-value natural products has, in the past, been somewhat costly and inefficient so companies turned to man-made chemicals (synthetics), but [...]