Pairwise (Group)

https://www.pairwise.com

Pairwise is a company dedicated to building a healthier world through better fruits and vegetables and is driven by the belief that healthy food should be consistently fresh, delicious, and convenient, Pairwise brings together leaders in agriculture, technology, and consumer foods to harness the transformative potential of new genomics technologies to create innovative new products. Pairwise is working to develop new varieties of crops, and to partner with organizations that seek to drive innovation and access across the plant-based economy. In February 2021, Pairwise raised $90 million in a successful series B funding round, bringing total fundraising to $115 million. Backed by industry leading investors Deerfield, Aliment Capital, Leaps by Bayer, and Temasek, Pairwise has grown to over 160 employees in five years with locations in North Carolina and California. The company was founded by Chief Executive Officer Tom Adams and Chief Business Officer Haven Baker, with scientific co-founders J. Keith Joung, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, David Liu, Director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, and Vice-Chair of the Faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; and Feng Zhang, McGovern Investigator and a professor at MIT *

	Start	2018-01-01 established
	Industry	AGRI LIFE SCIENCES
	Industry 2	genome editing (gene editing)
	Person	Adams, Tom (Pairwise 202308 CEO + Co-Founder before Monsanto 201708 VP Biotechnology)
	Person 2	Baker, Haven (Pairwise 202308 CBO + Co-Founder)

	Region	Durham, NC
	Country	United States (USA)
	City	n. a.
		Address record changed: 2023-09-04

Basic data	Employees	D: 101 to 500 (2023-08-29)

		* Document for »About Section«: Bayer AG. (8/29/23). "Press Release: Gene Editing – Pairwise and Bayer Start New Five-year Multi-million Dollar Collaboration to Further Advance Short-stature Corn". Durham, NC & Monheim.

		Record changed: 2023-09-04