Decibel Bio, a plant biotechnology company building the world's first crop epigenetic platform, emerged from stealth with the announcement of an oversubscribed $12M financing round from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Future Ventures, and industry leaders Bayer and Syngenta. The funding will be used to advance Decibel's proprietary platform for both reading and writing the plant epigenome to create crop varieties with higher yield, efficiency, and resilience to a changing environment.