# Aanika Biosciences

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/aanika-biosciences

- Industry: Biotechnology
- Headquarters: Brooklyn, US
- Website: www.aanikabio.com
- Total disclosed funding: $15M
- Latest round: Series A (Nov 30, 2021)
- Investors on record: 4

## About

Based in New York, US, and founded in 2018 by Ellen Jorgensen, Nirmal Roy, and Vishaal B. Bhuyan, Aanika Biosciences, Inc., f.k.a. Carverr, Inc. is a biotechnology company that provides valuable insights about client’s supply chains and help them make better consumption choices. In November 2021, Aanika Biosciences, Inc. raised USD 12 million in a Series A funding led by Adit Ventures, with participation from Draper & Associates Inc and SOSV. Mr. Vishaal Bhuyan is the CEO of Aanika Biosciences, Inc.

The company offers a technological solution that enables farmers to watermark crops with edible food-friendly microbes to track, trace and authenticate the direct source of foodborne illness during the product’s journey through the supply chain to trace the direct source of foodborne illness. In addition, the company’s solutions include assure quality, limiting recalls, and mining useful data to find the actual happening throughout the client’s supply chain, and couple with a back-end system to give new insights to help reduce costs.

Aanika Biosciences, Inc. plans to use its proceeds from Series A funding to scale its food tracing technology platform, advance research, and expand its food safety and manufacturing facility.

## Funding rounds

- Series A, Nov 30, 2021, $12M — SOSV, Draper, Adit Ventures
- Seed, Nov 20, 2019, $2.5M — SOSV, Draper
- Seed, Feb 6, 2019 — SOSV, RebelBio

## Investors

- SOSV (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/sosv) — Seed, Series A
- RebelBio — Seed
- Draper (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/draper) — Seed, Series A
- Adit Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/adit-ventures) — Series A