OlsAro

Wishing our network the best of holidays ahead🎅✨ An intense year have come to an end, so what can be better than to wrap up with some highlights of 2024: 💰Closed a €2,5million seed round, onboarding the fantasticly skilled agrifood investors AgFunder, PINC, Future Food Fund, Mudcake, FLORA Ventures. 🌍Field trials initiated with partners on markets such as India, Egypt, Pakistan, Kenya but also initiated dialogs on markets such as Australia, Brazil and Argentina. 🌾Successful first year of the regulatory DUS-trial in Bangladesh, now the second and last year initiated. 🤝Closed a research and collaboration term sheet for joint efforts to commercialize our second innovation, a heat tolerant wheat, together with Lal Teer Seed. 💚Onboarded three new members to our team Rana Essa, Amanda Axman, Emma Egonson, strengthening our capacities on the commercial, operations and technology side. The warmest holiday wishes from the OlsAro team!  We will now charge the batteries for an exiting 2025 to come🚀

Wow! We won the "Team Of The Year" in GU Ventures Award! 💃 GU Ventures was the first investor in OlsAro and has been a solid rock along our startup journey. Therefore, we are extra happy for this award, coming from an organization that knows us well, in high competition with their 80 other portfolio companies. Big thanks to you Klementina Österberg the entireness of your great team Sofia Hjelmberg, Sofia (Anna-Karin) Ström) (former) and many more🌟 And yes, dream team alert on OlsAro, so no wonder the award 🤷♀️💚

🌏 Asian Seed Congress 2024! Our CEO Elén Faxö and Business Developer Rana Essa represented OlsAro at this year’s Asian Seed Congress in Sanya, China — a premier event uniting key stakeholders in the seed industry to discuss innovation, sustainability, and the future of agriculture. It’s been a pleasure connecting with so many dedicated professionals and organizations driving progress in agriculture Nikkie van Bers, Michiel van Eijk, Lelia Lim, Mary Ann Sayoc, Penny Peng, Charlotte Magnette, Fabrice Mattei, Rogerio A Andrade and many more, thanks for great dialogs 🌾 #AsianSeedCongress #Sustainability #Agriculture #Innovation #Collaboration

👏 Increase in Asia Pacific Agrifoodtech investments and spotlight on OlsAro in AgFunders Asia Pacific Agrifood Investment Report 2024! 🌏 👉 "Asia Pacific agrifoodtech now accounts for 31% of global agrifoodtech funding, year to date, a notable increase from the 26% share of global funding it’s had on average over the past decade, highlighting the region’s pivotal role in advancing agrifoodtech innovation and investment globally." Link to full report in comment below 🌟Kudos to AgFunder team for providing such valuable insights, as aways. Ryan Lee, Angela Tay, Louisa Burwood-Taylor and team

Board strategy days in Gothenburg last week! 👏 Updates on the global field trials, commercial dialogs and strategizing for coming equity round. Big thanks to you Marika King, Jaap Strengers, An Michiels (and we missed you Michael Dean) 👉 Some glimpses from the facility tour highlighting the OlsAro work with climate adaption of cereals, including our trait identification, gene editing and screening efforts to enable varieties fit for a changing climate 🌾

Asian Seed Congress up and coming! 🌾🌏 During December our Business Developer Rana Essa and our CEO Elén Faxö will head for China to attend the 2024 edition of the Asian Seed Congress. 👉 Will you be there? Please reach out and book us for a chat on the topic of climate adaption of wheat 💚

Team at #parkannual spreading the agtech-vibe 🌾Thanks for a great event Sahlgrenska Science Park

🌱 Warm welcome to the OlsAro Team, Rana! 🌱 We’re excited to introduce our newest colleague, Rana, as our new Business Developer! With a bachelor's degree in biotechnology and a master's in business Creation in Biomedicine, Rana has a strong foundation within the biotech space together with valuable experience in building strong partner relationships from previous roles. She chose OlsAro because it aligns with her passion for contributing to a more resilient and sustainable agriculture and making a positive impact 🌏 🌾 We are more than thrilled to have you on board Rana Essa! 🤩 #OlsAro #Sustainability #Agriculture

World Agritech in London 🙌🌾 In OlsAro we presented, exhibited and met up with old and new contacts within the agrifood space. Days stuffed with insightful scene program covering topics like global food security, regenerative farming, the impact potential of new genomic techniques and most importantly the collective drive towards more innovation and collaboration within the ag-sector 🤝 Thanks for nice chats An Michiels, Marika King, Omar Dekkiche, Louisa Burwood-Taylor, Chiara Molena, Nicky Deasy, Patrice Sellès, Dr. Alexander M. Wiegelmann and many more🌟 And thanks for such a well organized event Callum Broadley, Joe Alexander Dicksee and the team 🙌

In today's start-up pitching session, eight start-ups pitched their innovative solutions for optimisation, crop protection and sustainable supply chains. Meet the start-ups: Thierry Laval, General Secretary, FoodPilot Elén Faxö, CEO, OlsAro Doris Gusenbauer, Business Development, Ensemo GmbH Philippe HERVE, CBO, GREEN IMPULSE Olufemi Samuel Aiki, Co-Founder & CEO, Foodlocker Guadaluna Chaer, Co-Founder & CEO, LUXEED Robotics Giacomo Bastianelli, Founder, Rainbow Crops Mary Ellis, CEO, PheroSyn