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Wild Microbes

Domesticated wild microbes as new precision-fermentation strains · wildmicrobes.com ↗

Domesticates wild microorganisms to build new production strains for precision fermentation.

Stage

R&D (step 1 of 6)

Strain-engineering R&D. No commercial product is reported.[1]

Revenue

Pre-revenue

No product sales are reported. Agronomics wrote the holding down to nil in FY2025.[2]

Next No public milestones reported.

Agronomics' holding

Fair value
£0 (written down) 30 Jun 2025
Portfolio weight
<1% / n/a
Stake
Not disclosed
Invested
£0.40m At £0 since Jun 2025[2]
Per year
−100.0% all holdings

Written down to nil (−£0.36m) in FY2025.

Sources[2]

Investments
What Agronomics put in, at the sterling cost it carries
DateCostRound
23 Feb 2023£0.40mUS$0.5m SAFE, Pre-seed; sterling cost is the year's cash purchases less its other investments[4] [5]

Approvals & markets

No approvals reported.

HQ
United States
Selling in
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Timeline

  1. Valuation

    Holding written down to nil[2]

    £0.36m fair-value loss in Agronomics' FY2025 accounts.

Sources

  1. Portfolio (company website, accessed 12 Nov 2026) Agronomics Limited
  2. Annual Report 2025: year to 30 June 2025 Agronomics Limited · 30 Dec 2025
  3. Wild Microbes raises $3.3m in pre-seed round to generate next generation microbial hosts AgFunderNews · 2023
  4. ANIC invests in Wild Microbes US$3.3m Financing Agronomics Limited (RNS) · 23 Feb 2023
  5. Annual Report 2023: year to 30 June 2023 Agronomics Limited · 27 Dec 2023