Plantik Biosciences

#Agbiotech #hemp #quinoa #tomato

• Plant breeding
• Plant engineering
• Genome editing
• Hemp
• Quinoa
• Lupin
• Tomato

BACKGROUND
Founded by Ying Shao and Aditya Nayak, Plantik is a French startup that aims to accelerate the conventional plant breeding process manifold to speed up the development of more resilient and diverse crops.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PRODUCTS / SERVICES / TECHNOLOGY
Plantik Biosciences is building a next-generation plant engineering toolbox. The toolbox enables plant engineers to unlock significant, untapped traits and crop diversity with a lot more ease while cutting down the development time considerably. The toolbox is adaptable to different plant species and is currently used for hemp, quinoa, and tomatoes.
The company offers

• Services in the identification and validation of genetic targets through different CRISPR genome editing systems;
• A powerful platform for plant genome analysis, which can be adapted to various species to optimize breeding strategies.

CUSTOMER REFERENCES / COLLABORATIONS / HIGHLIGHTS
With Wageningen Plant Research, Radicle Crops, and Lekker Lupine: Acceleration of quinoa and white lupin breeding (€2M consortium).
Collaboration with University College Dublin to develop new traits in hemp.

COLLABORATIONS SOUGHT
Plant breeding, genome editing and engineering in hemp, quinoa, and tomato.

• FURTHER INFORMATION

  STRENGTHS
  Plantik is developing an all-in-one toolbox to advance the application of genome editing technologies in agriculture to make it significantly simpler, cheaper, and faster to develop new crops for the future.

  • Scalability and adaptability of the technology platform to diverse plant species
  • An edge on emerging and sustainable crops
  • Complementary team with experts in plant genome editing and international business

  INNOVATION ASSETS
  Proprietary plant engineering platform, genome editing protocols, and resulting traits and germplasms.

  OTHER FACTS

  • Nominated “Next Heros in Food & Ag” (2022) by F&A Next. This award is given to those startups which are solving some of the food system’s most pertinent problems.
  • Nominated “Future 40” of Station F, the 40 most promising startups selected among the 1000+ early-stage companies in Station F.
  • Incubated by HEC Incubator and alumni of European agri-food accelerators EIT Food & Startlife, and deeptech program Creative Destruction Lab.