Pivot Bio

Pivot Bio is an agricultural biotechnology company headquartered in Berkeley, California with additional operations in St. Louis, Missouri. The company engineers naturally occurring soil microbes to fix atmospheric nitrogen on crop root systems, providing a biological alternative to synthetic nitrogen fertilizer that reduces nitrous-oxide emissions, nitrate runoff, and exposure to volatile fertilizer prices. Pivot Bio's product line includes PROVEN 40 and PROVEN G3 (corn and corn silage), RETURN (wheat and small grains), CERT-N (cotton), and RETAIN (sorghum). The company also operates N-OVATOR, an outcomes-based program that pays farmers for verified emissions reductions; the program reports having paid out more than $6M to growers since 2022 and contributing to over 1,050,000 metric tons of CO2e avoided. Pivot Bio was founded by Karsten Temme (CEO) and Alvin Tamsir. Investors include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Temasek, DCVC, Generation Investment Management, Pavilion Capital, G2 Venture Partners, Bond, and others. Pivot Bio's product is the microbe, not an API; the company operates a farmer-facing Salesforce-based portal but does not publish a public developer API or SDK.

Pivot Bio is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, and Microbial Nitrogen.

Pivot Bio’s developer surface includes FAQ, product news, engineering blog, developer portal, YouTube channel, and 18 more developer resources.

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8.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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AgricultureAgTechBiotechnologySynthetic BiologyMicrobial NitrogenNitrogen FixationSustainable AgricultureCornWheatSorghumCottonClimate TechCarbon Credits

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Composite quality — 8.9/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

FAQ

FAQ

Company 9

The organization behind the API

Website

About

News

Blog

Careers

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Facebook

Facebook

Instagram

Instagram

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Other 10

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Technology

Corn

Silage

Wheat

Sorghum

Cotton

FieldData

UsingProduct

Email

Phone

Phone

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: pivot-bio
name: Pivot Bio
description: Pivot Bio is an agricultural biotechnology company headquartered in Berkeley, California with additional operations
  in St. Louis, Missouri. The company engineers naturally occurring soil microbes to fix atmospheric nitrogen on crop root
  systems, providing a biological alternative to synthetic nitrogen fertilizer that reduces nitrous-oxide emissions, nitrate
  runoff, and exposure to volatile fertilizer prices. Pivot Bio's product line includes PROVEN 40 and PROVEN G3 (corn and
  corn silage), RETURN (wheat and small grains), CERT-N (cotton), and RETAIN (sorghum). The company also operates N-OVATOR,
  an outcomes-based program that pays farmers for verified emissions reductions; the program reports having paid out more
  than $6M to growers since 2022 and contributing to over 1,050,000 metric tons of CO2e avoided. Pivot Bio was founded by
  Karsten Temme (CEO) and Alvin Tamsir. Investors include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Temasek, DCVC, Generation Investment
  Management, Pavilion Capital, G2 Venture Partners, Bond, and others. Pivot Bio's product is the microbe, not an API; the
  company operates a farmer-facing Salesforce-based portal but does not publish a public developer API or SDK.
type: Index
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Agriculture
- AgTech
- Biotechnology
- Synthetic Biology
- Microbial Nitrogen
- Nitrogen Fixation
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Corn
- Wheat
- Sorghum
- Cotton
- Climate Tech
- Carbon Credits
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created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pivot-bio-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.pivotbio.com
- type: Technology
  url: https://www.pivotbio.com/our-technology
- type: Corn
  url: https://www.pivotbio.com/corn
- type: Silage
  url: https://www.pivotbio.com/silage
- type: Wheat
  url: https://www.pivotbio.com/wheat
- type: Sorghum
  url: https://www.pivotbio.com/sorghum
- type: Cotton
  url: https://www.pivotbio.com/cotton
- type: FieldData
  url: https://www.pivotbio.com/provenit
- type: UsingProduct
  url: https://www.pivotbio.com/using-pivot-bio
- type: FAQ
  url: https://www.pivotbio.com/faqs
- type: About
  url: https://www.pivotbio.com/about-us
- type: News
  url: https://www.pivotbio.com/in-the-news
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.pivotbio.com/blog
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.pivotbio.com/careers
- type: Portal
  url: https://pivot-bio.my.site.com/pivotbioportal/s/
- type: Email
  url: mailto:support@pivotbio.com
- type: Phone
  url: tel:+18774511977
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pivot-bio
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/PivotBio
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@PivotBio
- type: Facebook
  url: https://www.facebook.com/PivotBio
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/pivotbio
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com