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Overview

Pivot Bio is a California company founded in 2011 that engineers microbes to fix nitrogen for crops. Its products replace part of the synthetic fertiliser used on maize and other cereals. The company sells across the United States farm belt.

News

Blog 7 months ago
The Gesture Worth a Thousand Words
Maddux Graham hadn't inherited his father's gift of gab. He wasn't blessed with Danny's quintessential Southern penchant for weaving a colorful yarn. He couldn't have everyday conversations, much less pepper them with the kind of metaphors that have you p
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Blog 10 months ago
A Slice of Humble Pie: How One Farmer's Harvest-Time Tradition Is Lifting Up Her Community
Pivot Bio's "Pivotal People Inspired by Real Farm Heroes Series Spotlights Marilyn Backman and her world-famous pies MINNEAPOLIS, December 23, 2025 - Marilyn Backman isn't your ordinary farmer. Part entrepreneur and farmer with her family's seed business,
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Blog 1 year ago
Mid-May Agronomy Team Update
We checked in with members of the Pivot Bio Agronomy team from across the country to understand where things stand in mid-May. Makala Pittman - North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia Planting season has been going pretty well for the region. We've had f
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Blog 1 year ago
Pivot Bio's Early Season Agronomic Outlook
We spoke with Pivot Bio Agronomists across the country to understand what impact the winter months had on the outlook for the 2025 crop season. Hear from our team members in Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, the Carolinas, and Ohio on where the season stands
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Blog 1 year ago
Pivot Bio To Showcase What's New at 2025 Commodity Classic
At the 2025 Commodity Classic in Denver, attendees can hear about the exciting new advances at Pivot Bio during Monday's "What's New" session at 9:15 a.m. in the Mile High Ballroom (Room 4AB). Pivot Bio's Senior Director of Product Management Rick Myroup
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Blog 1 year ago
RETURN OS Provides Value in the Northern Plains
From the Pivot Bio Northern Plains Agronomy Team If you ask any plant nutrition expert, they'll be the first to admit that understanding soil biology and plant fertility interactions are far from an exact science. Pivot Bio agronomists have engaged with c
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Blog 1 year ago
PROVEN 40 Results from the 2024 Growing Season in the Northern Plains
From the Northern Plains Commercial Agronomy Team The 2024 growing season will go into the agricultural history books as a very favorable year for crop production in the Far Northern Plains - even a record best year for many farm operations when strictly
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Blog 1 year ago
Recapping the 2024 Crop in Ohio
Shelby Fite is part of the second generation of Mann Farms, a grain farming operation in Jackson Center, Ohio. You can see her on RFDTV's Top Crop. Harvest 2024 flew by thanks to a dry fall, allowing us to complete the process in just 42 days on our opera
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Blog 1 year ago
N-Sights from the Farm: U of IL Paper Confirms Pivot Bio as a New Source of Nitrogen
What if your corn could pull nitrogen straight from the air? A new University of Illinois study confirms that Pivot Bio is a proven new source of nitrogen, delivering a unique mode of action and diversifying nitrogen fertility. In this episode, we unpack
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Blog 2 years ago
N-Sights from the Farm: Prominent Universities Confirm PROVEN 40's Mode of Action
Pivot Bio Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder, Karsten Temme, dives into groundbreaking research from Purdue and UW-Madison that validates PROVEN 40 as a revolutionary new mode of action for nitrogen in corn crops. Discover how PROVEN 40 outshines the
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Pivot Bio over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
12
Postings analysed
10
Stack modernity
64/100
Languages
SQL20%
Databases
Snowflake20%
Cloud & platforms
Databricks20%
Power BI20%
Tableau20%
TheHive10%
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Full Pivot Bio tech stack 12 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$96k
Typical range
$80k – $206k
Open positions
9
9 Jobs
Middle 11.1%
Senior 66.7%
Staff 11.1%
Architect 11.1%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 1 $80k $80k
Senior 6 $96k $94k – $120k
Staff 1 $140k $140k
Architect 1 $206k $206k
Highest paying role Director, Data & Information Architecture $206k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Pivot Bio By role, level and city, against the market · 9 jobs with pay

People

Alvin Tamsir
Executive Officer, Director
Karsten Temme
Executive Officer, Director
Roger Wyse
Director
John Hamer
Director
Matt Ocko
Director
Dheeraj Mehta
Director
Charles Rinzler
Director
Christopher Abbott
Director
Ryan Rakestraw
Director
Lisa Safarian
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
87/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
10
7 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
29 days
faster than 45% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Science & Research
29% ▲
Field & Service
29% ▼
Finance
24% ▼
Leadership
12%
Sales
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Science & Research (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added TheHive to stack Oct 2026
New location: Saint Louis Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026
Added Master Data Management to stack Sep 2026
Added Data Vault to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
6
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
Minnetonka
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Berkeley United States
HQ
Minnetonka United States
Regional office
Twin Cities
2 open roles 6 posted in 90 days $163k Avg Salary
hires for Leadership, Finance
seen since Jul 2026 careers board, job postings
Saint Louis United States
Regional office
Creve Coeur
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering $80k Avg Salary
hires for Science & Research
seen since Sep 2026 careers board, job postings
Hazelwood United States
Regional office
639 Lambert Pointe
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days $100k Avg Salary
hires for Finance
seen since Sep 2026 careers board, job postings
Goiânia Brazil
Regional office
Goiânia
careers board
Ames United States
Regional office
Ames 3
careers board

Jobs

$165k – $206k per year • Equity • In office • 10+ years exp • Minnetonka
SQL
Snowflake
Databricks
Analytics
Data Vault
Master Data Management
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≈ $57k – $155k per year (Estimated) • In office • Contractor • Bachelor's Degree • Saint Louis
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$64k – $80k per year • In office • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Saint Louis
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Financials

Total raised
$621.9M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $434.5M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $100M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 $71.3M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2016 $16M Details