Company

Amatera Biosciences

Head Office:
84 boulevard de la République – F-92100 Boulogne Billancourt
R&D Laboratory:
Pépinière Genopole Entreprises – 4, rue Pierre Fontaine – Genopole Campus 3 – 91000 Evry-Courcouronnes
Email : lucie@amatera.bio

Omar DEKKICHE: President – CEO
Lucie KRIEGSHAUSER: General Manager – CTO

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Amatera - Genopole's Company - 2024

Amatera - Genopole's Company - 2024

#Ag Industry #Environmental technologies

Agro/environment
Foodtech
Agtech
Greentech

Field of Activity

Amatera is a non-GMO platform to optimize variety improvement of long-maturation plants. Focusing initially on coffee plants, the company aims to develop the first naturally decaffeinated Coffea arabica, thus eliminating the need for polluting, chemical decaffeination processes.

BACKGROUND

Amatera is the brainchild of Omar Dekkiche, an agriculture-impassioned engineer, and Lucie Kriegshauser, a CNRS then Inrae-trained plant biologist, who met during an Entrepreneur First program.

DESCRIPTION OF PRODUCTS / SERVICES / TECHNOLOGY

Via a genetic but non-GMO approach, we are developing the first-ever naturally caffeine-free Coffea arabica and other varieties resistant to climate change.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS / PARTNERSHIPS / HIGHLIGHTS
Our partners include the University of Costa Rica, the CIRAD, and Inrae’s IPS2 lab.

PARTNERSHIPS SOUGHT
Partner in somatic meiosis

FURTHER INFORMATION

STRENGHTS
in vitro culture / microculture / chemical mutagenensis / Tilling
/ cellular biology / Tillin-by-sequencing

INNOVATION ASSETS
Accelerated breeding of long-maturation plants

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With the support from

Région île de France

Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la recherche

AFM-Téléthon

Communauté d'agglomération Grand Paris Sud

Département de l'Essonne - Terre D'avenirs

Ville d'Evry-Courcouronnes
2023

Centre hospitalier Sud Francilien

Université d'Evry - Paris Saclay

Université PAris-Saclay