Plastomics

Saint Louis, MO · Founded 2017 · Privately Held (backing)

Developer of chloroplast engineering technology designed to improve crop yields and nutritional quality. Plastomics is based in Saint Louis, MO and was founded in 2017. It was valued at $28 million at its later-stage round in Oct 2025, the last priced event on record. It has raised $16.6 million across 3 recorded rounds; the latest was a $7.1 million early-stage round in Sep 2021.

PMV mark · valuation
$28.0M
Oct 2026
Priced at
its later-stage round
Oct 2025
Total raised
$16.6M
Last round
Early Stage VC
Sep 2021

Plastomics key facts

as of Oct 2026
  • Developer of chloroplast engineering technology designed to improve crop yields and nutritional quality.
  • Plastomics is valued at approximately $28.0M as of Oct 2026, set at its later-stage round, Oct 2025; nothing has traded since, per PrivateMarketView’s mark.
  • It has raised $16.6M across 3 recorded rounds; the latest was Early Stage VC ($7.1M) in Sep 2021.
  • Notable investors include US National Science Foundation, Cultivation Capital, Argonautic Ventures, iSelect Fund, The Yield Lab — 25 tracked in total.
  • Plastomics has filed 5 Form Ds with the SEC since 2018, most recently Dec 2021 ($7.1M sold to 13 investors).
  • Status: Privately Held (backing).
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$28.0M

Valued at $28.0M at its later-stage round, Oct 2025. Nothing has traded since.

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Plastomics funding rounds

3 rounds
Sep 2021Early Stage VC$7.1MSEC filing▮
Apr 2021Seed Round$3.2MSEC filing▮
Dec 2017Debt$2.4MSEC filing▮

Plastomics valuation

Plastomics was valued at $28 million at its later-stage round in Oct 2025. That is the last priced event on record: no secondary trade or institutional fund mark has moved the figure since.

How much has Plastomics raised?

Plastomics has raised $16.6 million across 3 recorded rounds since 2017. The largest was a $7.1 million early-stage round in Sep 2021.

Plastomics has filed 5 Form Ds with the SEC since 2018, most recently in Dec 2021 ($7.1 million sold to 13 investors).

Plastomics investors

25 investors are on record for Plastomics, including US National Science Foundation, Cultivation Capital, Argonautic Ventures and iSelect Fund. By type, the record holds 9 venture capital firms, 1 family office and 1 growth equity firm. The early-stage round in Sep 2021 drew 13 investors.

About Plastomics

Developer of chloroplast engineering technology designed to improve crop yields and nutritional quality. The company's platform precisely inserts beneficial traits into the chloroplast of plant cells, enabling seed companies to develop more effective and efficient biotech crops with a wider range of traits with its chloroplast technology that eliminates cross-pollination, enabling companies to control trait expression in plants, and reducing breeding timelines and costs to market.

Sector
Materials and Resources
HQ
Saint Louis, MO, United States
Founded
2017
Employees
23
Ownership
Privately Held (backing)

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