Phyllox is raising its pre-seed round.

Precision AI for the next herbicide.

Phyllox discovers novel herbicide modes of action for the resistant weeds breaking modern agriculture — molecules superweeds have never seen.

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GLR3.4 target protein with ligand bound
The problem

Weeds are winning — and the chemistry can't keep up.

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documented resistance cases
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weed species
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herbicides defeated
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countries
Source: International Herbicide-Resistant Weed Database, weedscience.org (2026) · maintained with Cornell. Resistance is rising every year.
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Resistance is spreading

Superweeds now shrug off entire classes of herbicides across the world's biggest cash crops.

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$10B of the market is failing

Roughly a quarter of a $40B global market is breaking down as existing chemistry stops working.

03

30+ years, no new answer

No new herbicide mode of action has reached the market in three decades. The pipeline has run dry.

The platform

From target to licensed molecule.

Stage 01

Target

We point the AI at the GLR3.4 binding pocket — a new, unexploited herbicide target class.

Stage 02

Screen

Protein-language models predict which novel molecules bind, across billions of candidates in silico.

Stage 03

Rank

Candidates are scored and shortlisted by predicted binding, selectivity, and synthesizability.

Stage 04

Validate

Top hits are confirmed in the wet lab — predictions become real, working chemistry.

Stage 05

License

Validated modes of action are licensed to the major agriculture companies that need them.

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By the numbers

A market starved of new chemistry.

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Global herbicide market
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Resistance-driven segment
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Years, no new mode of action
Who we are

A team that ships science.

Nishant Jain

Nishant Jain

Chief Executive Officer

Independent science researcher (TRP pain-receptor channels). 1st, IFT Nutmeg & PepsiCo Engineering Awards. 1st at HackPrinceton. Researcher at Brown.

Lula Wang

Lula Wang

Chief Operating Officer

3× Regeneron ISEF Grand Award winner. 1st at JSHS '25, National STEM Champion '26, 1st in Applied Technology. Researcher at Yale.

Rithvik Suren

Rithvik Suren

Chief Technology Officer

IEEE-published AI/ML researcher (youngest author). 3M Young Scientist International GENIUS Olympiad — 1st Place Gold Medal – Science Category. 3rd @ JSHS 25'.

Discovering novel herbicides superweeds can't resist.

A pre-seed round to take Phyllox from validated targets to confirmed, licensable hits — capital goes straight into compound synthesis, wet-lab assays, and field validation.