Incredible Genomics
Seedbed Incubator 2025 Cohort
Associated university
University of Hamburg
Technology field
AgTech
About your innovation
Small and medium-sized plant breeders lack access to the most advanced genetic tools. We want to empower them to rapidly develop resilient, high-yield crop varieties by using our Genetic Pen to re-write crop DNA as a service, giving them a competitive edge in adapting to the effects of climate change.
What motivated you to build a startup in this sector?
We aim to address a critical bottleneck in global agriculture: the lack of fast, precise, and scalable breeding tools capable of addressing the combined pressures of climate change, food insecurity, and declining arable land. During our doctoral research in plant genetics, we experienced firsthand the frustration of working with genome editing tools that were too slow, unpredictable, or ineffective, especially in complex, polyploid crops
