Intrexon Establishes First Collaboration with Dedicated Fund

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Intrexon (XON) Enters First ECC with Harvest Capital-Sponsored Fund

October 1, 2015 8:07 AM UTC

Intrexon (NYSE: XON) announced that it has entered into its first Exclusive Channel Collaboration (ECC) with a startup backed by an investment fund sponsored by Harvest Capital Strategies, LLC. The fund is believed to be the world's first fund dedicated to the inventions and discoveries of a single company. The collaboration with the startup entity, Thrive Agrobiotics, Inc., will seek to utilize Intrexon's ActoBiotics® platform to express nutritive proteins for improving the overall growth and feed efficiency in piglets, thereby expanding the application of this innovative biologic delivery platform to animals.

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