Velocity company Ceragen helps make the impossible possible to boost food security.

Ceragen, a company at Velocity, University of Waterloo’s startup incubator, has developed probiotics for plants to improve crop yields by up to 20 per cent, and the company is participating in the Homegrown Innovation Challenge, a research challenge funded by the Weston Family Foundation. The challenge aims to increase Canadian food security by increasing produce growth domestically. Ceragen’s project group just received $1 million to optimize several aspects of domestic indoor strawberry production, including preserving the summer-quality strawberry taste.