ENGAGE:
We're a team of diverse folks passionate about addressing some of the biggest challenges facing humanity.
Invaio Sciences is a technology company that unlocks the potential of our planet’s interdependent natural systems to solve pressing agriculture, nutrition & environmental challenges.
We leverage advanced sciences to understand the physiology of insects, and the diverse systems of nature. That understanding of these inner workings gives us a unique angle at reducing the use of pesticides globally. We leverage that knowledge to develop technology that’s mindful of beneficials, bad for pests, and safer for us all.
Simply, we make discoveries by investigating nature. These results inspire solutions to pressing problems in food, its production, our health and that of the planet.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
BASED IN NATURE
We are rooted in nature. Everything we enhance, create, or change we’ve learned from nature.
STUDENTS OF NATURE
We always stay curious because nature always has something to teach us.
FUTURE OPTIMISTS
We see infinite possibilities in nature. We’re not bound by previous limitations, and thinking of the past.
UNRELENTING INNOVATORS
It’s only by embracing risks that we will actually solve the world’s biggest problems.
EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED
We live outside of category silos. This allows us to reveal the connections that others cannot see.
LENS BEYOND THE HORIZON
Looking at what we do today from the view of tomorrow – to understand true impacts.
OUR LINEAGE
Invaio was founded in 2018 by Flagship Pioneering. Since the beginning we’ve built a diverse team with world-class capabilities and framed it around multidisciplinary sciences with systems thinking.
Our multi-platform technologies leverage breakthroughs from diverse fields including human therapeutics, agriculture, environmental science, and advanced manufacturing. We have vast industry experience ranging from agriculture, food systems, engineering, technology, biology, and ecology.
Together, we’re unbounded in our approach, and tireless in our effort to harness the possibilities nature provides to rebuild a flourishing planet where all can thrive. We continue to think long-term and strive to create teams that are greater than the sum of their individual parts.
We set to inspire new ideas, promote experimentation and support highly-motivated individuals for success in taking on some of the biggest problems facing humanity.
LEADERSHIP TEAM
John Chrosniak /
John previously served as President of DuPont Sustainable Solutions. In this role John led a global consulting and process technology business specializing in transforming workplaces and work cultures to deliver improvements in safety and environmental performance. He joined DuPont in 2005 as global marketing director, DuPont Crop Protection.
Gerardo Ramos / Ph.D.
Gerardo joined Flagship Pioneering in 2018 after a long career in the life science industries in various senior R&D roles with Ciba Geigy, Novartis and Syngenta. During the last 10 years he served as the global Head of Crop Protection R&D at Syngenta where he was instrumental in building an unrivaled crop protection chemistry pipeline, a state-of-the-art R&D infrastructure and a world class team. In 2019 Gerardo became CSO of Invaio.
Robert Berendes /
Robert joined Flagship Pioneering in 2014 as an advisory partner and in 2019 became an executive partner. Robert focuses on innovations that address sustainability in the agriculture and nutrition sectors. He currently serves as the chairman of Indigo Agriculture, CiBO Technologies and Inari.
Ignacio Martinez /
Ignacio joined Flagship Pioneering in early 2013 to lead the sustainability activities of the firm. He also focuses on entrepreneurial activities in life sciences more broadly, with a special interest in food, nutrition, and health. Ignacio is co-founder and founding CEO of CiBO Technologies, Inari Agriculture and founding director at Indigo Agriculture.
Laura Westby /
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Mark Bidwell /
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Tom Malvar /
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Aaron Niederhelman /
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Maier Avendano /
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Sara Salvador /
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Prashanth Vishwanath /
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Virginia Ursin /
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Who We Are In Short
At Invaio, we believe in order to change the world for the better we must invest in top talent. As you’ll see to the right – we’ve focused on building out a top-notch development team set on evolving status quo. We continue to think long-term and strive to create teams that are greater than the sum of their parts. We set to inspire new ideas, promote experimentation and support highly-motivated individuals for success in taking on some of the biggest problems facing humanity.
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A PIONEERING SPIRIT
It’s the discoveries about our relationships with systems that surround us that will amaze us in the future. Seemingly, it’s our practices in coexisting in those worlds and managing relationships with different elements of nature which will stabilize food systems and address the climate crisis.
Ultimately, we can fix this. We can stabilize the planet by focusing first on these different natural elements and harmonizing with biological systems. By working on these relationships that impact us the most, as with insects, aspects like how we feed ourselves and how we deal with our waste stream will lead to broader discoveries where nature will teach us the way to greater and prosperous practices of refinement.
Invaio Sciences has spawned out of the Flagship Pioneering business ecosystem. Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and develops first-in-category life sciences companies to transform human health and sustainability. Steeped in world class scientists and professionals, Flagship Pioneering seeks to improve the human condition.
Since its launch in 2000, the firm has applied a unique, hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in over $30 billion in aggregate value. To date, Flagship is backed by >$3 billion of aggregate capital commitments, of which over $1.5 billion has been deployed toward the founding and growth of its pioneering companies alongside >$10 billion of follow-on investments from other institutions.
ECOSYSTEM EMPLOYEES
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COMPANIES FOUNDED
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ACRES PLANTED
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"A nation that destroys is soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."
- FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT"Deforestation is changing our climate, harming people and the natural world. We must, and can, reverse this trend."
- JANE GOODALL"The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share."
- LADY BIRD JOHNSON
