Benson Hill

company

About

Benson Hill is a provider of crop design platform to develop healthier and more sustainable food and ingredients.

  • 101 - 250

Details

Last Funding Type
Series D
Last Funding Money Raised
$150M
Industries
Agriculture,AgTech,Biotechnology,Machine Learning
Founded date
Jan 1, 2012
Number Of Employee
101 - 250
Operating Status
Active

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.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
6
$247.79M
Benson Hill has raised a total of $247.79M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Oct 29, 2020 from a Series D round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
Oct 29, 2020 Series D $150M 2 Detail
Sep 10, 2018 Series C $65M 1 Detail
May 28, 2017 Series B $25M 1 Prelude Ventures Detail
Aug 26, 2015 Series A $7.30M 1 Detail
Jun 24, 2013 Grant $224.17K 1 National Science Foundation Detail

Investors

Number of Lead Investors
Number of Investors
3
3
Benson Hill is funded by 3 investors. National Science Foundation and Louis Dreyfus Company are the most recent investors.
Investor Name Lead Investor Funding Round
National Science Foundation Yes Grant
Louis Dreyfus Company Series D
Prelude Ventures Series D