PURE Bioscience

PURE Bioscience

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Private Company

Total funding raised: $9.4M

Market Cap: $7.8MFounded: 1992HQ: El Cajon, United States

Overview

PURE Bioscience's mission is to elevate cleanliness and safety standards in the food industry through its proprietary Silver Dihydrogen Citrate (SDC) technology. The company has achieved commercial success with multiple EPA-registered and FDA-approved products, securing notable customers like Chipotle Mexican Grill. Its strategy focuses on direct sales and distributor partnerships to penetrate the food safety market, leveraging SDC's unique dual mechanism of action and favorable safety profile to displace traditional, harsher chemicals.

Infectious Disease

Technology Platform

Patented Silver Dihydrogen Citrate (SDC), an ionic silver complex with a dual mechanism of action designed for broad-spectrum antimicrobial efficacy while mitigating resistance.

Funding History

2
Total raised:$9.4M
PIPE$2.5M
IPO$6.9M

Opportunities

The large and non-discretionary global food safety market demands more effective, user-friendly, and sustainable sanitation solutions.
PURE's SDC technology, with its regulatory approvals and strong case studies, is positioned to displace traditional harsh chemicals in processing plants and major restaurant chains.

Risk Factors

The company's micro-cap financial position severely limits its commercial scaling capabilities.
Success depends on outperforming large, entrenched competitors and convincing a cost-sensitive industry to adopt a new technology, despite potential higher upfront costs.

Competitive Landscape

Competes against large producers of traditional chemicals (quats, chlorine) and alternative technologies like electrochemically activated water. PURE's differentiation lies in SDC's combined efficacy, material safety, and no-rinse approvals, but it lacks the sales and marketing scale of its rivals.

Company Timeline

1992Founded

Founded in El Cajon, United States

2014IPO

IPO — $6.9M

2018PIPE

PIPE: $2.5M