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PI Labs

Plant Intelligence. Beyond Nature's Limits.

PI Labs is a plant deep-tech platform from the Weizmann Institute that uses deep genetic technologies to create plant biofactories that produce high-value products and ingredients at lower cost and higher consistency than conventional manufacturing.

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Origin
Weizmann Institute
Platform
Plant biofactories
Active verticals
4
The thesis

Why deep tech is the solution for sustainability, food security and safety

Living Systems

Plants sense signals and allocate resources dynamically, acting as a programmable production system.

The Ceiling of Nature

Evolution optimizes for survival, not industrial output, so natural plants hit limits in yield, speed and consistency.

Precision Biology

Our genetic and metabolic engineering toolkit rewires plants to manufacture targeted high-value ingredients at scale and sustainably.

The catalogue

One platform. Four high-value markets.

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Natural Food Colors

Ever:Red

Plant-based carmine & natural colors

Red is one of the most popular colors in the food and beverage industry, found in everything from juices and candies to sauces and cosmetics. With regulators banning synthetic red dyes and manufacturers shifting to natural alternatives, demand is growing fast. What most people don't know is that the most common source of natural red coloring is carmine, extracted from cochineal insects. EVER:RED is a deep-tech initiative developing the world's first plant-based alternative, produced from genetically engineered duckweed, vegan, halal and kosher compliant, with up to 90% cost reduction in production.

$2.5B

Addressable market

Early

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Global Turf Ecosystem

NextGrass

Climate-resilient turfgrass

Grass is one of the most widely cultivated plants in the world. More land is covered by grass than corn in the US, yet it is rarely treated as a crop or managed efficiently. NextGrass is a breakthrough technology developing genetically edited turfgrass for hot and water-scarce regions, requiring significantly less water, tolerating recycled irrigation, and reducing maintenance costs.

$30B

Addressable market

Pilot & Semi-Commercial

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Global Denim

INDEE.BLUE

Cotton that grows already blue

Cotton dyeing is one of the largest industrial polluters, responsible for over 20% of global industrial water pollution. Dyeing a single pair of jeans requires 3,781 liters of water and releases toxic chemicals into waterways. INDEE.BLUE is a deep-technology venture that engineers cotton to grow already blue, with indigo pigment produced naturally inside the fiber, eliminating the dyeing process entirely. Blue cotton is the first in a pipeline of dyed cottons that will revolutionize the textile industry.

$75B

Addressable market

Early

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Regenerative Medicine

NexGF

Plant-derived growth factors

NexGF produces plant-derived growth factors, the high-value proteins essential to regenerative medicine and cultivated-meat production, manufactured inside engineered plants at a fraction of conventional cost.

$150B+

Addressable market

Early

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Fragrance & Flavor

ScentSeizer

The purest aroma in the world, harvested from air

The purest aroma in the world, harvested from air. The next venture in the PI Labs pipeline.

Next in our pipeline
Why a platform

Why a platform beats single-asset peers

Shared Operations

A unified platform and shared infrastructure cut capital expenditure by 40–60%, accelerating the path to profitability.

Platform Defensibility

Multiple verticals create compounding defensibility versus single-asset peers through shared IP, expertise and infrastructure.

Lowest Production Cost

Proprietary biomanufacturing achieves the lowest production costs, creating insurmountable pricing advantages.

Flexible Go-to-Market

Multiple commercial pathways per vertical: technology licensing, royalty-based supply, co-development JVs and strategic spinouts.

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Plant Intelligence. Beyond nature's limits.

PI Labs is a plant deep-tech platform from the Weizmann Institute that uses deep genetic technologies to create plant biofactories that produce high-value products and ingredients at lower cost and higher consistency than conventional manufacturing.

Partner with PI Labs