Learn about IMIO, the pioneering biotech company creating the next generation of regenerative agriculture products.

IMIO develops and manufactures regenerative agricultural products designed to outperform leading ag chemicals.

Agricultural products should work with nature, not against it. At IMIO, we combine cutting-edge science with beneficial microbes like bacteria, yeast, and fungi to create a new, more effective class of regenerative agricultural products.

Headquartered in Essex Junction, Vermont, we’re on a mission to make farms more profitable by restoring their soil health.

We’re working to make farms more profitable by restoring their soil health.

IMIO is rooted in an approach that we call Organic Intelligence.™ 

Rather than trying to bend nature to our will, we create products that work with it. Rather than prioritizing one outcome over all others, we think systemically. Rather than endangering people and the planet, we work organically.

Symbiotic, regenerative, and organic—this is the heart of IMIO. If we are to feed our planet without destroying it, this is the only acceptable standard for agricultural products. 

We create products that allow agriculture to return value to natural ecosystems.

We let science and nature work together, rather than pitting them against one another.

We believe that incremental progress, sustained over time, adds up to massive results.

We take inspiration from the natural symbiotic relationships between plants and beneficial microbes.

Microbes are nature’s growth engine. Where the right microbial communities flourish, plants and people flourish too. 

The microbial communities that form our products are the result of years of research and manufacturing innovation. We partner extensively with leading research labs and agronomists to ensure that every product we create is safe, consistent, and more effective than the leading chemical-based competitors.

IMIO was honored to receive as SBIR grant from the NSF supporting our R&D efforts and our commitment to environmental impact.

In fall 2020, IMIO (then called Full Circle Microbes) completed the Cleantech Open accelerator, the largest and longest-running clean technology accelerator.

As part of a National Science Foundation grant project, University of Vermont Plant and Soil Sciences quantified IMIO's inoculants best in class microbial performance and plant outcomes.

G—W Studios is an independent design agency working closely with early-stage companies. G—W is a proud design partner and investor in IMIO.

IMIO | About Us

Microorganisms (bacteria, fungi and more) have lived and evolved with plants for thousands of years. Many microbes and plants live in symbiosis, both benefiting from their relationship with the other. 

Our products are developed through extensive research, and have been vetted by University Labs and growers across wide-ranging geographies, cultivation types and scales. You can learn more about each in the scientific paper published by University of Vermont, and in the pictures, data, and quotes shared by wonderful growers. 

We know that seeing is believing, so don’t hesitate to request a free sample, or send us your questions.

The well-being of people, plants, and our planet are our top priority and this informs all aspects of the way we develop, produce, sell, and use our products. 

All microbes in our inoculants are naturally occurring and Generally Recognized as Safe. Any research indicating that a microbe is potentially dangerous means it is immediately eliminated as a candidate to be included in any of our products.

Ag Chemicals cause $157B in human health and environmental damage each year in the US alone. That’s the equivalent of Hurricane Sandy happening 4.5 times every year. 

The costs of using these chemicals is only increasing. They deplete our best soils, robbing them of nutrients and beneficial microbes, so you need more and more chemical inputs each year. Right now it’s estimated the the US Corn Belt is losing $2.5B/year.

The human cost motivates us even more than these huge numbers. Exposure to Ag Chemicals is linked to higher rates of cancer, respiratory disease, miscarriages and impotency. These harms are felt most by communities of color, who also suffer the most from the current and escalating damage of climate change.

Why are you trying to replace chemical inputs?

We’ve validated Root and Re-Gen on a wide variety of crops and have customers using them on various grains, vegetables, vineyards, and hops. To name a few specific crops, customers use Re-Gen on corn, wheat, rye straw, hops, and cannabis crop residuals. Root has been used on an even wider variety of plants including but not limited to cannabis, tomatoes, grape vines, lavender, begonias, and grasses. If you grow something and are interested in our products, please feel free to reach out.

What species of plants do your products work on?

We love composting, and understanding how it works most effectively (as well as anaerobic fermentation and other organics recycling techniques) was a key part of developing Re-Gen. Traditional composting invites the microbes required to breakdown organic matter.

Imio Re-Gen directly introduces the microbes that are best at recycling plant stalks and leftover biomass which makes a huge differences in the process and the impact of the output:

Speed & efficiency of the process: recycling with Re-Gen takes 2-4 weeks to produce usable material, where composting stalks can take over a year

The impact of the output: plants treated with Re-Gen recycled material grew 40% larger than premium compost over a 2 month period

Root is composed of naturally occurring microbes that naturally produce plant hormones and stimulate the plant’s ability to do the same. 

Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is a rooting and plant growth hormone naturally produced by plants and certain microbes. Popular rooting gels replicate this hormone with a synthetically derived version, 1-Napthaleneacetic acid (NAA). These compounds differ slightly as shown in the diagram to the left, resulting in less effective plant interactions. 

Synthetic rooting products impact humans as well due to carcinogenic and mutagenic components.

Is Root the same as the other cloning products on the market?

About us

IMIO develops and manufactures regenerative agricultural products designed to outperform leading ag chemicals.

Our mission

We’re working to make farms more profitable by restoring their soil health.

Our philosophy

Our approach

01.

Regenerate

02.

Collaborate

03.

Iterate

04.

Replicate

Harnessing the power of microbes

Our partners

National Science Foundation

Cleantech Open Accelerator

The University of Vermont

G—W Studios

A true growth opportunity