Amatera
Amatera is leveraging the latest techniques in biotechnology to create the perennial crop varieties of tomorrow.
Perennial crops are under serious threat of climate change and diseases. Unfortunately, it can take over 20 years to improve these crops with conventional breeding.
Amatera has developed a non-GMO breeding platform for use with perennial crops, accelerating the natural evolution of plants, their selection and hybridization, and advancing plant cell culture. They are already using this technology to create climate-resistant as well as naturally caffeine-free coffee, and they are partnering with agrifood companies and research institutes to generate new and improved perennial crop varieties in a much shorter time frame.
Founders
Omar Dekkiche
CEO
Omar is a second-time deeptech founder and a management and civil engineering graduate. He worked in the M&A team at BNP Paribas before founding his first company, Gemini Quant, to empower data-driven investment decision in the asset management industry.
Lucie Kriegshauser
CTO
Lucie holds a PhD in Molecular Plant Biology, and is specialized in secondary plant metabolism and genome editing. Prior to founding Amatera, she worked as a technical sales engineer for laboratory equipment supplier Ozyme, and later as a plant metabolic engineering researcher at INRAE.
Milestones
Founded at Entrepreneur First
Pre-Seed (€1.5 million) led by PINC