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Spearhead Bio Closes Oversubscribed $1.62M Seed Round to Bring Next-Generation Crop Engineering Technology to Farmers

By celia | October 14, 2026 |

Spearhead Bio announced today that it closed an oversubscribed $1.62M seed round SAFE investment to advance the development and implementation of its patented TAHITI genome engineering technology. Spearhead Bio was founded in 2024 by Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Principal Investigator Dr. Keith Slotkin. TAHITI is a breakthrough platform that opens the door for the use of…

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Spearhead Bio Named Among St. Louis Bioscience Success Stories

By celia | June 4, 2026 |
A researcher in a white lab coat uses a micropipette to transfer samples into a multiwell plate inside a laboratory.

St. Louis Magazine spotlighted Spearhead Bio as one of the standout startups that has emerged from St. Louis’s growing bioscience ecosystem. The article, “How St. Louis Built a More Collaborative Bioscience Ecosystem,” highlights how the region’s research institutions — including the Danforth Plant Science Center — and supporting infrastructure have produced companies spanning agricultural innovation,…

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