Kansas City’s Technology Acceleration Partners (TechAccel) announces two deals to advance scientific discoveries in the agriculture sector. TechAccel is a private capital development company created in August 2014 to invest in, acquire and advance discoveries in agriculture, animal health and food ingredient sectors.
In the first transaction, TechAccel has entered into a licensing agreement for a bio-pesticide with Kansas State University. The agreement between the two organizations secures an exclusive license on the patent entitled, “Doubled-stranded RNA-based Nanoparticles for Insect Gene Silencing.”
In the second transaction, TechAccel made an equity investment and science advancement commitment in Benson Hill Biosystems. Specifically, the investment is in a new technology platform which The MIT Review named as a 2015 breakthrough technology of the year.
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