Andes

Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Alameda, California, Andes develops biological solutions that enable positive action for fighting climate change. Andes empowers microbes by engineering them and has developed a process for seamlessly integrating microbes into the agriculture process. Andes first generation of solutions focus on the agricultural... industry. Through its novel microbial seed treatment technology, Andes is reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers by enabling the seed to draw down nitrogen from the air. Andes is also developing microbes that thrive in plant roots and can create nature-based permanent carbon capture solutions to sequester and store CO2 from the atmosphere into the soil. Both solutions have the potential to reduce annual CO2 emissions by the gigaton.Read More