Brightseed is a biotechnology company that features artificial intelligence that reveals powerful compounds hidden in nature. The company enables a healthier future by illuminating and activating the connections between people and plants. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Brightseed

Elaine Leavenworth

David Russell

Jim Flatt

Pharmavite

Brightseed is a pioneer in biosciences and artificial intelligence that illuminates nature to restore human health. Through Forager® A.I. and clinical evaluation, Brightseed helps companies gain the deepest insight into bioactives and their innovation potential. Forager A.I. accelerates bioactive discovery and biological validation from years to months – and is rapidly revealing new connections between nature and humanity. Brightseed partners with companies across the consumer health continuum to provide novel insights and science-backed health solutions.  Bioactives are small molecule compounds produced by plants, fungi, and microbes that grow in and adapt to environments that present a wide range of challenges to their survival. Bioactives also benefit the health of humans – they are the enlivening caffeine in tea, the powerful antioxidant lycopene in tomatoes, and they inform active ingredients in medicines like Taxol, Aspirin, and Metformin, a first-line treatment for Type 2 diabetes, derived from the French lilac flower. Science has long known that bioactives are critical to human health, yet the vast majority remain unknown and uncharted. Brightseed’s A.I., Forager®, discovers bioactives in nature and maps them to human health outcomes at a rate and accuracy that was previously impossible.

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Lee Chae

Sofia Elizondo

Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Brightseed

Fifty Years

Financial services company based in San Francisco, California

Horizons Ventures

Financial services company based in Kong'an, Hubei Province, China

S2G Ventures

Bart Swanson

Continental Grain Company

Food and drink company based in New York City, New York

AgFunder

Lewis & Clark Agrifood

Germin8 Ventures

Gates Foundation

Private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates

VamosVentures

iSelect Fund

Venture firm investing in critical global issues

Temasek

Investment company owned by the Government of Singapore

A Community of Friends (ACOF)

Nonprofit offering housing for individuals and families

Astor Perkins

San Francisco

Consolidated city and county in California, United States

United States of America

Country primarily located in North America

San Francisco Bay Area

Metropolitan area in California, United States

California

Australia

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Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

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Publishing Industries (except Internet)

Archer Daniels Midland

American global food processing and commodities trading corporation

Ocean Spray

Danone

White Wave Foods

American consumer packaged food and beverage company

Blue Diamond Growers

Agricultural cooperative based in Sacramento, California

Brightseed Funding & Investors

Total Amount Raised: $120,800,000

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