Viridian Seeds

Viridian Seeds is a private ag-biotech company developing improved legume crops, or "super-legumes," for sustainable agriculture and plant-based food systems. The company applies genomics, computational biology, AI-assisted allele discovery, TILLING-based mutation screening, and CRISPR gene editing to create non-GMO and gene-edited protein crops with higher yield, improved nutrition, and better biotic and abiotic stress tolerance. Its crop focus includes yellow peas, lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans, and lupins. Viridian Seeds appears to operate at an R&D and early commercialization stage rather than as a human therapeutics company, with its value proposition centered on climate-smart crop improvement and sustainable plant protein production.