Pressure to breed #climatesmart crops—from #salttolerant rice to #heattolerant tomatoes—is rising as farmers battle rising #soilsalinity, higher temperatures, and more erratic weather. But traditional #cropbreeding can take decades to bear fruit, while #transgeniccrops face regulatory and cultural barriers. Two startups out of 10 chosen from 600+ applicants for the 2023 cohort of AgFunder’s GROW impact accelerator are adopting approaches they believe can both accelerate the breeding process for #climateresilient crops and ease their regulatory path. OlsAro (Sweden) is developing climate-adapted crops using AI-enabled trait discovery; while Amatera (France) is accelerating the breeding of climate-resilient perennial crops including coffee. Get the lowdown here from OlsAro CEO Elén Faxö and Amatera CEO Omar Dekkiche:
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Congrats to our exceptional scientists for contributing with this publication to a better understanding of coffee plants ☕️ Rayan Awada & Lucas Laflaquiere ☕️ Here is the 🔗 if you want to learn more about it: https://lnkd.in/eU78DRwg
Coffee somatic embryogenesis: Advances, limitations, and outlook for clonal mass propagation and genetic transformation
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🇪🇺 We are delighted to announce that Amatera has been selected to join the 2024 EIT Food Accelerator Network programme from over 500+ registrations. We can't wait to join the EIT Food Accelerator Network programme and with it the world’s largest and most dynamic food innovation community to further validate our technology, accelerate and advance our investment and commercial readiness journey ☕️ 🌱 #coffee #cropbreeding #sustainability
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☕️ Thrilled to share that Amatera has been recognized as one of the top 9 foodtech startups to watch in Sifted magazine! Congratulations from our fellow nominees from CarbonFarm (congrats Vassily Carantino & James Hastwell 🌾), Kern Tec, Fermify, planetary, HEALTHY-LONGER GmbH, Eatch Technologies, Tierra-Foods and one • fıve! Dive into the Sifted article to discover more: https://lnkd.in/gxnHV-xy
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🌱☕ Amatera raised €1.5 million to speed up the development of climate resilient coffee and perennial crops! We are pleased to share that we have successfully secured our Pre-Seed round to accelerate the development of our non-GMO breeding platform and bring to life the Robustica, a new coffee variety with the resilience and yields of Robusta and the taste of Arabica, and the naturally caffeine-free Arabica, eliminating the need for chemical and polluting decaffeination processes. Thank you and welcome to our new partners in this mission PINC (Paulig Incubator), Exceptional Ventures, Mudcake (prev. Trellis Road), Joyance Partners, AgFunder, Amar Shah, Nicolas Morin-Forest, Snaw Ventures, Lara Nuchowicz Congratulations to the whole team for this great milestones, and many thanks to our partners that have supported us since day one: CIRAD, Entrepreneur First, Bpifrance, GROW, Agoranov, WILCO & Genopole.
Amatera raises €1.5M to speed up the development of climate resilient coffee and perennial crops
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