Purdue Ag-celerator Fund, an investment vehicle linked to Purdue University’s agtech accelerator competition, has backed two US-based plant science spinouts each with $50,000 in funding.
The investees, both finalists in the Ag-celerator competition, are animal vaccine enhancement developer ZeaVaxx and crop dehydrator manufacturer JUA Technologies International.
ZeaVaxx has designed a plant-sourced nanoparticle ingredient for animal vaccines that could bolster the specimen’s immune response, open up alternative biological pathways and enhance resistance to temperature changes.
The spinout was co-founded by Purdue…
