EDISON AGROSCIENCES INC

St. Louis, MO · Founded 2013 · Agritech · Private

High-yield rubber-producing sunflower crops developed through computational genomics

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Updated Oct 23, 2026 · edisonagro.com

Sector: Agritech
Headquarters: St. Louis, MO
Founded: 2013
Latest Form D: $600K, Jul 2024
Total capital: $2.7M

Federal grants: $1.9M; 3 awards · 2015–2025; Rank in peer group#5 of 20
Private capital raised: $600K; 2 Form D · last Jul 2024; 27 months since last filing
Federal contracts: $225K; 1 award · Interior; Rank in Agritech#58 of 882
Granted patents: None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.

Capital timeline

Latest events

Sep 2025Federal grantAgriculture · Natural Rubber Is An Essential Manufacturing Material That Possesses Performance Properties That Are Superior To Synthetic Rubber For Many Product Applications. Aircraft Tires, For Example, Are Made Of Natural Rubber; Whereas, Synthetic Rubber (less Expensive To Procure) Is Used For Less Demanding Products. However, Natural Rubber Production Is Limited To A Single Species (rubber Tree) In A Limited Geographic Area (southeast Asia), Concentrations That Have Enabled Leaf Fungus To Spread In Rubber$130K
Jul 2024Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 2nd filing$600K
Jan 2021Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Development of a Sunflower Crop for Large Scale Production of Natural Rubber$1.5M
Aug 2019Federal contractInterior · STTR 18.C, Natural Rubber Production$225K
Nov 2015Offering registeredForm D · SEC · 1st filing$830K
Jan 2015Federal grantNSF · Phase I · STTR Phase I: Enhancing plant genetic transformation by Agrobacterium$225K

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Federal first

10months

from EDISON AGROSCIENCES INC’s first federal award to its first private round.

First federal award · Jan 2015: NSF · $225K
First Form D · Nov 2015: $830K · 1st Form D
Awards before first raise: 1 award

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Standing among 20 peers

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Agritech · Material

Federal grants#5 · top 25%

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Founders and team

Researcher links verified by same-company patents and grants

Thomas HohnResearcherExecutive Officer, DirectorLinked by $1.7M in grants as PI
Dan BroderickDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
David WoodburnExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
Katrina CornishDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
Matt B HelmsDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
Matthew CrispExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings

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Tom ChristensenExecutive Officer, Director, PromoterNamed in SEC Form D filings
Tom B MarshDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings

What it has protected

No granted patents are on record.

USPTO usually publishes applications 18 months after filing, so recent applications may not be visible yet. Patents assigned under a different entity name won’t match.

Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026

ENGINEERED COMPOST SYSTEMS, INC.Similar federal contract value in Agritech · $297K in contracts
PHENOTYPE SCREENING CORPORATIONSimilar federal contract value in Agritech · $283K in contracts
AGREN INCSimilar federal contract value in Agritech · $256K in contracts
Freight Farms, Inc.Similar federal contract value in Agritech · $207K in contracts
AQUACULTURE SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.Similar federal contract value in Agritech · $197K in contracts
SEMEN AND EMBRYO ADVANCED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES (SMART), LLCSimilar federal contract value in Agritech · $174K in contracts

Regulatory activity · Agritech

Sector-level, not company-level

09 Jul 2026Supplemental Disaster Assistance Programs, Marketing Assistance Loans, and Sugar ProvisionsCommodity Credit Corporation
09 Jul 2026Revisions to the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Loan ProgramRural Business-Cooperative Service
06 Jul 2026Organic Certification Cost Share Program (OCCSP)Commodity Credit Corporation
29 Jun 2026Technical Guidelines for the Production of Regenerative Agricultural Biofuel FeedstocksEnergy and Environmental Policy Office
17 Jun 2026Rescinding Portions of U.S. Department of Agriculture Title VI Regulations To Conform More Closely With the Department of Justice's Regulations To Implement Executive Order 14281
11 Jun 2026Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers (ASCF) Program; Approval of Information Collection RequestCommodity Credit Corporation

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Sources

Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.

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Data freshness

SEC Form D filings through Oct 23, 2026. SBIR and STTR awards through Oct 21, 2026.