Ag biotech firm Front Range Biosciences raises $1.5M

LAFAYETTE — Front Range Biosciences Inc., a startup agricultural biotech firm based in Lafayette, has raised $1.5 million in funding from five venture-capital firms.

Seed-round investors include Intuitive Private Equity, Salveo Capital, Sand Hill Angels, Harvard Business School Angel Alumni of New York and New York Angels.

Front Range Biosciences, founded in November 2015, provides industrial-scale tissue culture propagation and advanced breeding for plants that will be less susceptible to diseases and mold contamination, reducing the need to use pesticides.

“Investor demand was greater than expected, and we oversubscribed the round, validating our unique value…