Amatera
Amatera applies accelerated breeding and tissue culture to develop perennial grain and oilseed crops. Farmers cultivate these varieties to reduce replanting, improve soil health, and lower agricultural inputs over multiple harvests.
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.