Benson Hill

United States
Estherwood, Louisiana, United States, 63132

Company profile

Benson Hill company profile

Benson Hill is a crop improvement company that unlocks the natural diversity of plants and empowers innovators with a revolutionary crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients. Benson Hill empowers innovators to develop more healthy, flavorful, and sustainable food by unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants. Benson Hill’s CropOS™ platform combines machine learning and big data with breeding techniques and plant biology to drastically accelerate and simplify the product development process.

Business identity

Contact email
[email protected]
Phone number
314-222-8218
Operating status
Active
Company type
For Profit
Employee range
251-500 employees
Revenue range
$10M-$100M
Founded
2012-01-01, Year

Headquarters

Postal code
63132
Country code
US
Continent
North America

Capital profile

Funding and company signals

Funding stage
IPO
Funding rounds
15
Total equity funding
$592.1M
Last funding
Post IPO Equity / $85M / 2022-03-28
Last equity funding
Post IPO Equity / $85M
Investors
32
Lead investors
10
Founders
2
Articles
167
Exited on
2021-09-30

Founders and investors

Founders

Matthew B. CrispTodd C. Mockler

Lead investors

BioGeneratorGoogle VenturesGrosvenor Food & AgTechiSelect FundLewis & Clark VenturesMercuryMiddleland CapitalNational Science FoundationPrelude VenturesSt. Louis Arch Angels

Investors

BlackRockCollaborative FundCultivation CapitalLa CaisseS2G Investments