Developing salt-tolerant crops using AI-enabled trait discovery.
Location: Sweden
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | GROW | gogrow.co |
| - | GU Venture... | guventures... |
| 29.04.2024 | Future Foo... | futurefood... |
Mentions in press and media 6
| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.02.2025 | Can OlsAro’s genetic breakthrough solve the global soil salinity crisis? | Salt-contaminated soil is a global threat to crop production and soil health. Research reveals that over 1 billion hectares of soil suffer from salinisation. Globally, about 20 per cent of irrigated soils are salinised, with this figure ris... |
| 16.04.2024 | Swedish agtech startup OlsAro bags €2.5M to develop its AI-enabled crop-breeding platform | Read this article in: Gothenburg-based OlsAro, an agtech startup focused on developing wheat varieties resilient to climate stresses such as salt, heat and drought, has secured €2.5M in funding. Future Food Fund and PINC, Paulig’s venture a... |
| 16.04.2024 | OlsAro raises $2.7m to expand climate smart crop breeding platform: ‘We’re enabling farming on otherwise unfarmable land’ | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in OlsAro.] OlsAro—a Swedish startup developing wheat varieties resilient to environmental stressors—has raised a €2.5 million ($2.7 million) seed round led by Future Food Fu... |
| 21.09.2023 | From salt-tolerant wheat to Robusta coffee that tastes like Arabica, two climate smart startups to watch | Pressure to breed ‘climate smart’ crops—from salt tolerant rice to heat-tolerant tomatoes—is rising as farmers battle rising soil salinity, higher temperatures, and more erratic weather. But traditional crop breeding can take decades to bea... |
| 03.05.2023 | The AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator announces 2023 cohort of agrifoodtech startups | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder. GROW, the Singapore-based agrifoodtech ecosystem builder backed by agrifoodtech investor AgFunder, has unveiled the 10 startups participating in the 2023 AgFunder GROW Impact Accelerator. The ac... |
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