Operating CompanyGreater St. Louis

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Operating Company · St. Louis, MO

St. Louis independent plant-science research institute — anchor of its agtech cluster.

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About St. Louis

St. Louis sits at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and Monsanto's historic headquarters there left behind a plant-science and agtech research base — the Danforth Plant Science Center and the Cortex Innovation District both grew out of that same agricultural-science lineage. Washington University anchors the biosciences side of an economy that's agricultural science more than it's a typical biotech hub.

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Total firms 43

VC / investors 13

Companies 28

Universities 2

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AgTech

BioScience

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