AgBiome

AgBiome was an agricultural biotechnology company headquartered in Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina. Founded in 2012 by Scott Uknes, Eric Ward, Jeff Dangl, John Ryals and Paul Schulze-Lefert, it built the proprietary GENESIS discovery platform — a collection of more than 100,000 fully sequenced, isolated plant-associated microbial strains and hundreds of millions of gene sequences, screened with high-throughput assays for insect, disease and nematode control — and turned it into crop-protection biologicals. It commercialized the Howler and Theia biofungicides and had a third, Esendo, before the EPA, and it spun out the genome-editing venture LifeEDIT Therapeutics in October 2020 (acquired by ElevateBio in October 2021). Backed by Syngenta, Novozymes, Monsanto, ARCH Venture Partners, Polaris, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Pontifax and UTIMCO, the company nonetheless failed to raise further capital: it filed a North Carolina WARN notice in late 2023 covering its entire staff of 123, sold Howler and Theia to Certis Biologicals (a Mitsui & Co. subsidiary) in March 2024, and sold its platform assets to Ginkgo Bioworks in April 2024 for roughly $18.2 million in stock. AgBiome never published a developer program, public API, SDK, or machine-readable specification, and agbiome.com no longer serves the company site — it answers from a Nexcess shared-hosting placeholder under a certificate issued to CN=nxcli.net. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.

AgBiome is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Agriculture, AgTech, and Biotechnology.

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0.0/100 minimal Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
0 APIs
CompanyDefunctAgricultureAgTechBiotechnologyMicrobiologyCrop ProtectionBiologicalsLife SciencesResearch

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
Composite quality — 0.0/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17
Access Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 0.0 / 9
Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: agbiome
name: AgBiome
description: 'AgBiome was an agricultural biotechnology company headquartered in Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina.
  Founded in 2012 by Scott Uknes, Eric Ward, Jeff Dangl, John Ryals and Paul Schulze-Lefert, it built the proprietary GENESIS
  discovery platform — a collection of more than 100,000 fully sequenced, isolated plant-associated microbial strains and
  hundreds of millions of gene sequences, screened with high-throughput assays for insect, disease and nematode control —
  and turned it into crop-protection biologicals. It commercialized the Howler and Theia biofungicides and had a third, Esendo,
  before the EPA, and it spun out the genome-editing venture LifeEDIT Therapeutics in October 2020 (acquired by ElevateBio
  in October 2021). Backed by Syngenta, Novozymes, Monsanto, ARCH Venture Partners, Polaris, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
  Pontifax and UTIMCO, the company nonetheless failed to raise further capital: it filed a North Carolina WARN notice in late
  2023 covering its entire staff of 123, sold Howler and Theia to Certis Biologicals (a Mitsui & Co. subsidiary) in March
  2024, and sold its platform assets to Ginkgo Bioworks in April 2024 for roughly $18.2 million in stock. AgBiome never published
  a developer program, public API, SDK, or machine-readable specification, and agbiome.com no longer serves the company site
  — it answers from a Nexcess shared-hosting placeholder under a certificate issued to CN=nxcli.net. This profile is retained
  as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/agbiome/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-harvest-source-url: https://equityzen.com/company/agbiome
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-founded: '2012'
x-shutdown-note: Filed a North Carolina WARN notice in late 2023 covering all 123 employees; sold the Howler and Theia biofungicides
  to Certis Biologicals in March 2024 and its microbial platform assets (115,000+ sequenced strains, 500M+ unique gene sequences,
  plus the development pipeline) to Ginkgo Bioworks on 2024-04-10 for approximately $18.2 million in Ginkgo Class A stock.
x-domain-status: placeholder
x-domain-note: agbiome.com still resolves (Cloudflare nameservers, Google Workspace MX) but the web origin is a Nexcess shared
  host (209.126.25.32) presenting a TLS certificate for CN=nxcli.net that does not match the hostname; the root returns the
  stock Nexcess placeholder page and every other path returns a bare Apache 403 or 404. It is NOT the AgBiome company site
  and is deliberately not wired as a Website pointer. The former harvest Website pointer was an EquityZen secondary-market
  listing page, which is a trading venue rather than a company web presence (roadmap#56); it has been moved to x-harvest-source-url.
  See well-known/agbiome-well-known.yml.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-12'
modified: '2026-09-12'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Agriculture
- AgTech
- Biotechnology
- Microbiology
- Crop Protection
- Biologicals
- Life Sciences
- Research
tags_raw:
- Company
- Defunct
- Agriculture
- AgTech
- Biotechnology
- Microbiology
- Crop Protection
- Biologicals
- Life Sciences
- Research
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: AgBiome wound down across 2023-2024 — all 123 staff on a WARN notice, Howler and Theia sold to Certis Biologicals
    in March 2024 and the microbial platform sold to Ginkgo Bioworks in April 2024 — and agbiome.com now answers from a Nexcess
    shared-hosting placeholder under a mismatched CN=nxcli.net certificate, returning a bare Apache 403 on every /.well-known/
    path and 404 on /openapi.json, /llms.txt, /robots.txt and /apis.json, while api., docs., developer., app. and status.agbiome.com
    are all NXDOMAIN and a Wayback sweep of every archived agbiome.com path from 2014 to 2026 finds no developer or specification
    URL.
  evidence:
  - url: https://agbiome.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://agbiome.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://agbiome.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://agbiome.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 403
  - url: https://agbiome.com/.well-known/agent.json
    status: 403
  - url: https://agbiome.com/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 403
  - url: https://agbiome.com/apis.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://portal.agbiome.com/
    status: 525
  - url: https://blog.agbiome.com/
    status: 403
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/agbiome
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-09-12'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-12'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v3

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