This Startup Just Raised Funding to Coat Crops
“It’s the brainchild of a serial entrepreneur and former UC Berkeley professor. Is the answer to feeding 9 billion people by 2050 to coat our crops? That’s the new idea by a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup called Crop Enhancement. The five-year-old company makes a thin film out of a polymer that coats crops and protects them from pests and diseases, thus decreasing the need for pesticides.”