# Pivot Bio

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/pivot-bio/  
**Website:** https://www.pivotbio.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 7.4 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 7.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Pivot Bio Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Microbial Nitrogen, Nitrogen Fixation, Sustainable Agriculture, Corn, Wheat, Sorghum, Cotton, Climate Tech, Carbon Credits

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/pivot-bio/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.