Biotalys

Biotalys CEO Kevin Helash recently took to the World Agri-Tech summit stage to discuss crop protection regulatory pathways, champion biological innovations, and share how Biotalys is uniquely positioned to become a top asset in the crop protection toolkit. Get his full point of view in AgFunder News : https://lnkd.in/gzh7MmDd

On Thursday 5 December, the Vlaamse Federatie van Beleggers organises a visit to Biotalys in Ghent. Interested investors are welcome to meet management, hear about our recent progress, and visit our state-of-the-art laboratories together with our scientific team. 👩🔬👨🔬 Registration either via the VFB website or via IR@biotalys.com. Start of the event: 6pm Address: Buchtenstraat 9, 9051 Gent

Biotalys' CEO Kevin Helash recently gave a lengthy interview to AgFunder on the potential of biologicals and the need for an appropriate regulatory framework. Many thanks to journalist Elaine Watson for the great read! Read the interview here: https://lnkd.in/gzh7MmDd

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming an #investor club from Vlaams-Brabant at our premises in Ghent. We presented our company, technology and product pipeline and showed them around the lab. These retail investors have Biotalys in their investment #portfolio and we're happy to see they are closely following up our activities. Great to have these folks from Brabantse Business Club on site and many thanks to the colleagues supporting the event! #investorrelations #protein-based #biocontrols

🌻Meet this year's winners of the Bernard Blum Award! 👏Our warmest congratulations to: 🥇Certis Belchim/Certis Biologicals for Toltek, a solution that combats Take-all, one of Europe’s most devastating cereal diseases. 🥈Cearitis for their push & pull combination, REMO, PIRA, SAMO, a method that effectively targets fruit flies. 🥉Biotalys for their protein-based solution designed to protect crops from potentially catastrophic fungal diseases. 🏅Product assisting uptake: Crop Capsule company for Cotton Cap which targets Silverleaf Whitefly in broad acre rain grown and irrigated cotton production systems.

Biotalys' first biofungicide, #EVOCA™, has just won bronze at the 2024 Bernard Blum #Awards granted at the annual biocontrol industry meeting in Basel, Switzerland! EVOCA is a novel #protein-based biofungicide that helps control fungal disease in fruits and vegetables. Demonstrating strong performance in trials across multiple regions, climates, soil types, production types, pathogen pressure and crops to date, EVOCA is currently under review for regulatory approval in both the US and EU. EVOCA will pave the way for EVOCA NG, which is expected to be Biotalys’ first commercial fungicide from its #AGROBODY™ technology platform. EVOCA and EVOCA NG have the same active ingredient which is also protected by the patent grants in Europe and the U.S. Biotalys is developing a series of protein-based biocontrols based on its AGROBODY™ technology platform. By applying a discovery method based on defined molecular targets, Biotalys’ scientists are focusing on developing products with multiple modes of action. Thank you IBMA - International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association and congratulations to the whole Biotalys team 👏

Biotalys is pleased to announce the appointment of Kamal El Mernissi as Chief Business Development Officer (#CBDO), effective today. Simon Moroney, Chairman of Biotalys said: “I'm delighted to welcome Kamal to the Executive Committee. With more than 15 years of experience in #agriculture and a broad variety of leadership positions in marketing and sales, he is an excellent addition to the #leadership team. The board looks forward to working with Kamal as he builds the company’s roster of partnerships, with a focus on maximizing long-term value for Biotalys and its stakeholders.” “I had the pleasure of working with Kamal as part of my team at Marrone Bio Innovations and am delighted to welcome him to the executive leadership at Biotalys,” said Kevin Helash, CEO of Biotalys. “As #partnerships become increasingly important for us to bring our growing pipeline of novel and effective biocontrols to market, Kamal’s expertise in fostering strong business relationships will be invaluable in the next phase of Biotalys’ growth.” Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/g8zrwVJ

This #WorldFoodDay, we celebrate everyone’s right to nutritious, safe and sustainable food for a better life and a better future. 

Our CFO Douglas Minder spoke with economic tv-channel Trends Kanaal Z on our new capital raise: https://lnkd.in/e9MQtxFU (as of 8:30)

We are happy to announce a #capital raise of EUR 15 million through new and current investors. ✨ Kevin Helash, Biotalys’ CEO, said: "We are proud to welcome a.s.r. vermogensbeheer as a new investor to our company and are very appreciative of the additional support of our current shareholders, Ackermans & van Haaren and Agri Investment Fund. We are committed to being good stewards of this investment, maintaining our culture of cost consciousness. We will strategically deploy these funds to advance our R&D pipeline with a target of launching one new project annually, such as the recently announced addition of BioFun-8 for expanded fungal control. The timing of this investment extends our cash runway as we await final regulatory approvals for EVOCA and move toward commercializing EVOCA NG and generating a strong and increasing revenue stream long-term.” Read the full press release, including quotes from Ko van Nieuwenhuijzen (ASR), Piet Bevernage (AvH), Patrik Haesen (AIF), here: https://lnkd.in/g8zrwVJ