FMC Corporation

FMC is an agricultural sciences company that develops and sells crop-protection products — insecticides, herbicides, fungicides — alongside a growing biologicals platform and precision-agriculture technologies. The firm exited lithium, food ingredients, and health-and-nutrition businesses over the last decade and now generates effectively all revenue from the agricultural sector (per the firm's 2023 10-K).

In 2017 FMC executed a transformative asset swap with DuPont, exchanging its health-and-nutrition business for a substantial portion of DuPont's crop-protection portfolio and $1.2 billion in cash. The transaction was part of DuPont's regulatory remedy required for its merger with Dow. Before that, FMC had already divested its lithium, soda ash, and hydrogen peroxide businesses under CEO Pierre Brondeau.

Yes. FMC Ventures invests directly in early-stage companies focused on soil health, agricultural robotics, and digital agronomy. Known portfolio positions include Trace Genomics (a soil-DNA analytics company) and Guardian Agriculture (an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing crop-spraying system).

Latin America and Asia together account for the majority of the company's crop-protection revenue, with Brazil and India representing the largest single-country exposures outside the United States (per the firm's segment reporting). The November 2023 reorganization into two geographic units — North America/Latin America and Asia/EMEA — formalized that operational concentration.

FMC Ventures operates as a dedicated team within the corporate structure, reporting through the chief technology officer and ultimately to CEO Pierre Brondeau. The firm has not publicly named a standalone Ventures managing director as of mid-2024.

FMC Corporation is a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker FMC. It is not a family office, though it occasionally appears in family-office databases due to the longevity of its corporate pension plan and its direct venture investment activity.

Rynaxypyr (chlorantraniliprole) is FMC's flagship diamide insecticide active ingredient, acquired with the DuPont crop-protection portfolio in 2017. Along with the related compound Cyazypyr, the franchise generated peak annual revenue exceeding $1.5 billion and anchored FMC's insecticide segment through patent protection that expired in key markets during 2022–2023 (per the firm's 10-K filings).