Sandbox Sustainability Ventures Portfolio: Vestaron
Vestaron is leading a peptide-based revolution in crop protection. They are committed to providing growers with novel, effective chemistries that address proven targets. Their peptides overcome existing resistance issues while offering a desired safety profile for workers, beneficials and the environment.
Conventional synthetic pesticides can offer good efficacy and reliable performance, but they can also have undesirable impacts on workers, consumers, beneficial organisms and the environment. It is increasingly difficult to discover and commercialize new synthetic active ingredients due to rising development costs, late-stage failures and challenging regulatory hurdles. Existing solutions continually face pesticide resistance issues. At Vestaron, they believe that biological peptides are an answer. Their Peptide Empowered pipeline promises continued novel MOAs to reset the resistance clock, re-drugging the industry.
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