Deep Root BioLabs

Rapidly Reprogramming Plants from the Inside Out

Based based in United States, Deep Root BioLabs works in agtech, founded in 2025.

Profile

Industrial pollution and mineral shortages have created an urgent need for sustainable cleanup and resource recovery. Conventional methods rely on excavation and landfill disposal—slow, costly, and damaging to ecosystems. Deep Root BioLabs reprograms plants from the inside out. Using engineered endophytes, microbes that live in plant roots, the company delivers biomolecules that transform plants into living tools for pollutant removal and critical mineral recovery. The approach is rapid, low-cost, and works across plant species without genetic modification. Founded by Johns Hopkins scientists John Sittmann, PhD, and Tom Curtis, PhD, the company holds a patent-pending platform and early partnerships in mining and energy. Deep Root BioLabs aims to make environmental restoration scalable, profitable, and regenerative.

Within the agtech space, the company focuses on its core offering rather than a broad product line.

Its base of operations is United States.

Directory data places it at the SOSV portfolio company stage.

The company reports a headcount in the 2-10 range.

Website: deeprootbio.com