Andes is a biotechnology company founded in Emeryville, CA, in 2018. Andes develops biological solutions that enable positive action for fighting climate change. Andes empowers microbes by engineering them and has developed a process for seamlessly integrating microbes into the agriculture process. Andes first generation of solutions focus on the agricultural industry. Through its novel microbial seed treatment technology called Microprime, Andes is reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers by enabling the seed to draw down nitrogen from the air. Andes is also developing microbes that thrive in plant roots and can create nature-based permanent carbon capture solutions to sequester and store CO2 from the atmosphere into the soil. Both solutions have the potential to reduce annual CO2 emissions by the gigaton. For more information go to www.andes.bio. Find more information at www.bayer.com.