Our founder, Jim Wilson, is fascinated with growing things and taking a top-down approach to ensure they succeed.

Perhaps it's the farmer from a small town inside him combined with his  many years as a pilot. Either way, he is always blazing a new path that not many have traversed, and even fewer have envisioned--a world where we grow our own medicine.

Zea started in the food industry, growing and selling lettuce in 2016--where teams were able to optimize a unique growing platform that could deliver a path to the predictability and unrivaled precision.

The crisis of COVID-19 gave Zea a unique opportunity to move the precision growing platform into the pharmaceuticals market.

Along with a vastly experienced science board and management team, Zea has rapidly accelerated its technology platform over the last 24 months--believing that plant biologics can transform the treatment of diseases both from a production and manufacturing point of view.  

Today, Zea is able to identify, test and trial the existence of molecules and their reproduction inside plants --similar to a bioreactor. Zea has many pilot projects in the pipeline, too.

"We believe our vision of growing medicine in plants and sharing it with the world will become a beacon of hope. That is why our platform is aptly named The Lighthouse. " --Jane Lalonde, CMO

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