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Our Bioinformatician and AI-expert Sameer Hassan at Plant Breeding Symposium University of Hohenheim with a focus on state of the art trait development in cereals🌾

🌍🌾 Pakistan - saline-resistant wheat trials! Pic from our collaboration with University of Peshawar to trial OlsAro’s saline-resistant wheat lines in three locations across Pakistan. 👉 With 10 million hectares of saline soils and an annual wheat production of 22 million tons in Pakistan, the potential for impact with a saline resistant wheat is significant. Aiming to enable food security in a changing climate.

OlsAro recruitment alert!📣 🌾Do you have experience in trait development, breeding & agronomy? Are you passionate about securing food supply in a changing climate & thrive in a dynamic startup setting? Then we might be a match! Please spread the word or apply via the link provided in the comments below🤩 For questions please reach out to our CEO Elén Faxö our our CTO Henrik Aronsson

Milestone celebration🎉 Last year this incredible team managed to hit the highly set milestone on initiating field trials with partners on 7 markets globally! Markets such as India, Pakistan, Egypt and Kenya with OlsAro lines in saline or heat conditions, comparing performance to local elite varieties 👩🌾🌾We are much grateful for all the great partnerships on local markets! Great effort, so what could really be better than to celebrate together with true chocolate cake? 😋

We are attending the GoWest - Nordic Venture Capital Forum! Our colleagues Elén Faxö and Amanda Axman will be there. If you’re planning to attend, let us know!🤗🌾 #GoWest2025 #Innovation #VentureCapital

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 🌾