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20 June 2025
BBSRC Impact Showcase 2025 – SOLASTA Bio Feature
In 2019, Professor Shireen Davies, SOLASTA® Bio’s CEO, was awarded a Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (BBSRC) Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellowship. This provided support for the commercialisation of ...
04 June 2025
SOLASTA® Bio in ‘9 Best Agritech Startups in United Kingdom to Watch in 2025’
https://www.seedtable.com/best-agritech-startups-in-united-kingdom
04 June 2025
SOLASTA® Bio in ’18 Glasgow Tech Startups You Need To Know About’
https://www.digit.fyi/18-glasgow-tech-startups-you-need-to-know-about
30 April 2025
SOLASTA® Bio’s New Regulatory Affairs Manager named as ACS AGRO fellow for 2025
Solito Sumulong, SOLASTA® Bio’s Regulatory Affairs Manager, has been appointed an American Chemical Society (ACS) fellow for 2025 for his dedicated and enthusiastic services to the Division of Agrochemicals, and ...
29 April 2025
BBSRC Sparking Innovation Conference 2025 – Keynote Speaker
Sparking Innovation is BBSRC’s flagship innovation conference series, which aims at bringing together the bioscience community to showcase bioscience innovation and enable meaningful connections and collaboration opportunities. The BBSRC Sparking ...
29 April 2025
SOLASTA Bio Makes Trio of Senior Appointments to Fuel Growth
SOLASTA® Bio has appointed three senior business and industry experts to support the company’s UK and US growth as it prepares for market entry.Emma Axelson, based in Scotland, joins as ...
10 March 2025
SOLASTA Bio Fast-Tracks to Market with Patent Win and EPA Green Light
We have passed a major inflection point with two significant developments which accelerate our path to regulatory approval and commercialization. Read more below! https://scottishfinancialreview.com/2025/03/10/solasta-bio-accelerates-with-patent-epa-green-light/ https://igrownews.com/solasta-bio-latest-news/ https://siliconscotland.news/agri-bio-firm-fast-tracks-to-market-with-patent-win-and-epa-green-light/
07 February 2025
Editorial Webinar: AgTech Navigator Investment and innovation outlook for North America in 2025
AgTech Navigator's "Investment and innovation outlook for North America in 2025" editorial webinar broadcasted yesterday at 11 AM CST (Chicago) ⏐ 6 PM CET (Paris) . Attendees benefitted from benefit from: Key insights from a ...
07 February 2025
SOLASTA’s Chief Scientific Officer to give invited seminar at School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Glasgow
02 December 2024
SOLASTA Bio completes $14m Series A to accelerate nature-inspired crop protection
SOLASTA Bio, a leading agri-biotech company specialising in the next generation of green insecticides, has completed an oversubscribed $14 million Series A funding round to accelerate the development of its ...
02 December 2024
SOLASTA Bio raises $14m, plans to commercialize peptide-based biopesticides in ‘half the time’ it takes for synthetics
UK-based ag biotech startup SOLASTA Bio has closed a $14 million oversubscribed Series A round, bringing its total funding to $19 million
02 December 2024
SOLASTA Bio completes US$14mn Series A funding round
“SOLASTA Bio has come a long way since we set out on this journey three years ago. Having established operations in the UK and US, we’ve now got an international ...
12 October 2024
SOLASTA Team gathering, October
The SOLASTA Bio R&D Team gathered together in October, following the completion of meetings which brought international colleagues together in London. SOLASTA's Chief Strategy Officer, Paula (centre), then made the ...
11 September 2024
Forbion Leads $14m Series A in SOLASTA Bio to advance development and commercialisation of first-in-class sustainable crop protection solutions
Forbion Leads $14m Series A in SOLASTA Bio Joy Faucher, Partner at Forbion for its BioEconomy Fund noted, “As traditional insect control agents struggle with resistance and impact to biodiversity, SOLASTA’s ...
11 September 2024
Business Insider – SOLASTA’s Series A Investment
Business Insider, 11th September 2024 https://www.businessinsider.com/solasta-bio-agriculture-biohealth-startup-raises-vc-funding-2024-9 "Solasta was founded based on fundamental research carried out by our team to understand how insects survive and how we could push select insects out without ...
11 September 2024
SOLASTA Bio completes Series A investment round with $14m
We've just completed an oversubscribed $14M Series A funding round to accelerate our nature-inspired crop protection technology. This milestone marks a significant step forward in our mission to revolutionise the global ...
12 April 2024
Laboratory Efficiency Bronze Award
SOLASTA Bio has been awarded a Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) Bronze Award for both 2022 and 2023. We are committed to efficient ways of laboratory working, and our continuous ...
19 March 2024
SOLASTA Bio announced as winner of the Radicle Natural Plant Protection (NPP) Challenge by UPL
Financial Times, 19th March 2024 https://markets.ft.com/data/announce/detail?dockey=600-202403190412PR_NEWS_EURO_ND__EN64868-1 We are delighted to have won The Radicle NPP Challenge by UPL. We look forward to accelerating our sustainable insect control solutions towards the global market ...
05 March 2024
Join us at WorldAgriTech, San Francisco March 19th-20th 2024
Join us at #WorldAgriTech in San Francisco on March 19-20, gathering 2,500 global leaders, from agribusinesses and equipment manufacturers to CPGs, regulators, investors and start-ups, the summit will be a ...
16 February 2024
Publicly backed bioscience spin-outs make big impact on economy
Hundreds of UK spin-outs, established following taxpayer-funded bioscience research, have contributed £5.2 billion to the economy and created thousands of jobs. SOLASTA Bio has been generously funded by BBSRC to ...