FORAY BIOSCIENCE, INC.
Plant cell culture processes and scientific tools to produce tree-derived products from cultured cells without harvesting whole trees, plus a database and predictive models for optimizing plant specie
- Sector
- Agritech
- Headquarters
- CAMBRIDGE, MA
- Founded
- 2022
- Latest Form D
- $3.4M, Mar 2024
- Total capital
- $3.6M
- Federal grants
- $180K
- 1 award · 2023
- Rank in peer group#34 of 41
- Private capital raised
- $3.4M
- 1 Form D · last Mar 2024
- 31 months since last filing
- Federal contracts
- None on recordNo federal contract awards found.
- Granted patents
- 0
- 1 pending
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$3.4M
- Federal grantAgriculture · Forests Are Shrinking By Billions Of Trees Per Year While Demand For Forest-sourced Products Continues To Increase. Innovative Approaches Are Needed To Ensure Continued Access While Conserving And Bolstering Intact Forest Landscapes. Foray Bioscience Is Developing Plant Cell Culture Processes To Produce The Same Tree Products Without Need To Harvest Or Process Whole Trees. The Capability Of Culturing Tree Products Creates New, Strategic Sourcing Opportunities For Products That Cannot Be Efficien$180K
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Federal first
8months
from FORAY BIOSCIENCE, INC.’s first federal award to its first private round.
- First federal award · Jul 2023
- Agriculture · $180K
- First Form D · Mar 2024
- $3.4M · 1st Form D
- Awards before first raise
- 1 award
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Standing among 41 peers
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- Federal grantsBelow median
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Founders and team
From SEC Form D filings- Ashley BeckwithExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
What it has protected
USPTO · 0 granted of 1- PendingTunable Plant-based Materials Via In Vitro Cell Culture Using A Zinnia Elegans ModelUSPTOApplication 18061095
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Regulatory activity · Agritech
- Supplemental Disaster Assistance Programs, Marketing Assistance Loans, and Sugar ProvisionsCommodity Credit Corporation
- Revisions to the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Loan ProgramRural Business-Cooperative Service
- Organic Certification Cost Share Program (OCCSP)Commodity Credit Corporation
- Technical Guidelines for the Production of Regenerative Agricultural Biofuel FeedstocksEnergy and Environmental Policy Office
- Rescinding 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
- Assistance 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.
How to read this page
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Data freshness
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