Campuses

As France's leading biocluster, Genopole is an incubator for cutting-edge projects in biotechnology. Located in the city of Évry, just south of Paris, Genopole provides a unique environment for scientists and entrepreneurs seeking to advance research and innovation.

Discover >

Advantages

Genopole accompanies researchers, postdocs and start-up entrepreneurs through all the phases of their projects to ensure the best possible conditions for business development.

Discover >

Genopole’s citizens

Every day, at Genopole, researchers, entrepreneurs and students cross paths, share ideas and unite forces in a veritable melting pot for innovation.

Discover >

Highlights

Giving wings to research and empowering employment in our community are cornerstones of Genopole's mission. Catch up on recent scientific advances, the accomplishments of our biotech actors and the events that enliven the biocluster.

Discover >

Innovate with us

Discover >
Enterprise

Plantik Biosciences


Headquarters:
SAS Immeuble Val de Loire
4 passage de la Râpe – F-45006 Orléans

R&D Office:
4 rue Pierre Fontaine
F-91000 Evry-Courcouronnes

Mail: hello@plantik.bio

Ying SHAO, CEO
Aditya Nayak, CTO
Site Web >
Logo Plantik Biosciences - Entreprise Génopolitaine Logo Plantik Biosciences - Entreprise Génopolitaine

#Agbiotech #hemp #quinoa #tomato

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

Field of Activity


AgBiotech company developing innovative technologies to accelerate plant engineering.

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.

     

Share
Genopole’s companies

#Therapeutic Products


In the same field

Logo Proteme - Entreprise génopolitaine

Proteme

Food coating solution for fruits & vegetables that extends their shelf life and protects them against storage diseases

Discover
Auralip - Entreprise genopolitaine - Logo

Auralip

AuraLIP – Low Impact Protein – develop a fermentation technology for plant alternatives to animal proteins : Good to eat, Healthy for consumers and Environmentally friendly.

Discover
FUNGU'IT - Entreprise génopolitaine
Gene.iO#3

FUNGU’IT

Manufacturer of clean, sustainable, and healthy ingredients derived from solid fermentation of agricultural by-products and filamentous fungi for the agri-food industry.

Discover
Onima-logo

Onima

Onima develops sustainable and healthy super-flours for the food & agriculture industry.

Discover
Leafy - Entreprise génopolitaine

Leafy

Development of decision support systems for crop protection.

Discover
Amatera - Genopole's Company - 2024

Amatera Biosciences

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.

Discover
DNTech - Genopole's Company - Logo

DNTech

DNTech’s technology offers detection of microorganisms in less than an hour.

Discover
The Very Food Co. - Logo - Genopole Company

The VERY Food Co

Activity of research, sale, production, distribution and marketing of all unregulated food and agri-food products.

Discover
SafeInsight - Entreprise génopolitaine

SafeInsight

SafeInsight seeks to provide a response to the growing concerns of consumers for the composition of the products they buy and accompanies manufacturers aiming to attentively circumscribe the problem of endocrine disruptors.

Discover
Nutropy - Genopole's company

Nutropy

Nutropy develops gourmet French cheese alternatives that are more sustainable and better for our health and animal welfare.

Discover
Maison M - Startup génopolitaine

Maison M

Personalized and sustainable Cosmetic House inspired by various and unique beauties. The innovative Maison M lipstick delivers any shade customized by its user.

Discover
nextProtein - Genopole's company

nextProtein

The French start-up nextProtein uses black soldier fly larvae to convert food & agriculture by-products into ingredients for animal feed with the objective of accelerating the advent of sustainable agriculture.

Discover
Altar - entreprise génopolitaine - intégre le groupe Ginko Bioworks

Altar

Ginkgo Bioworks is a specialist in the conception and operation of automated fluidic continuous culture systems for adaptive laboratory evolution and the development of microbial strains for industry.

Discover
Ynsect - Genopole's company

Ÿnsect

Ÿnsect, a pioneering company in the "insect" industry, is breeding and processing insects thanks to its large-scale production and processing technologies to provide high quality and value-added products, particularly for pets, fish of aquaculture, plants and human nutrition.

Discover
Global Bioenergies - entreprise génopolitaine - logo 2022

Global Bioenergies

Global Bioenergies is developing a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation.

Discover
Algentech Plant Gene Technologies - Genopole's company

Algentech

Green factories for specialty ingredient production in plant cells. Synthetic biology, enzymes and proteins production for organelles.

Discover
agdia EMEA - entreprise génopolitaine Evry

Agdia EMEA

Leading the way to healthy crops. Agdia-EMEA provides diagnostic solutions based on immunological and molecular technologies for plant pathogens and GMOs. Our mission is to help the different players of the agricultural industry to obtain high quality productions by providing them with reliable diagnostic tools and high level services.

Discover
View all >
With the support from
Région île de France