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Country: France
Toulouse-based technology research company, spun off from CNRS, develops insecticides and natural and crop protection products
Around 50 professionals
Has already raised over €50 million to finance its research
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Micropep, the start-up that found an eco-friendly pesticide in tomatoes 13/08/2024
- - Amount raised: €27 million to finance regulatory procedures for a biological fungicide against soybean rust and potato and vine mildew.
- - New investors: Bpifrance and Swiss fund Zebra Impact Ventures. Historic investors also reinvest, including Supernova Invest, Sofinnova Partners, IRDI Capital, FNC Corporate Ventures, and Fall Line Capital.
- - Total raised since inception: 48 million euros since 2016.
- - Number of employees: 50, including 10 in the United States.
- - Active principle discovered in tomato plants and derived from research at CNRS and Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse.
- - Key benefits: More environmentally friendly than chemical fungicides, degrades rapidly, harmless to wildlife, selective against pathogens and effective at low doses.
- - Some 50 trials to be carried out between 2021 and 2023 in Europe, the United States and Latin America.
- - Efficacy comparable or even superior to chemical products
- - Targets: Approvals for use in 2027 in Latin America, 2028 in the United States and 2030 in Europe.
- - Future development: Expansion of the micropeptide library and preparation of a herbicide.
- - Around ten companies worldwide use this technology, including Vestaron, which already markets an insecticide for greenhouse crops.
- - Production outsourced to biotech companies.

Micropep: 27 million euros to further develop its alternatives to traditional pesticides 06/08/2024
- New round of financing completed by Micropep at the end of July: €27 million.
- Total funds raised by Micropep since its creation in 2016: nearly 50 million euros.
- Micropep's creation date: 2016. in Toulouse.
- Micropep's business sector: development of alternatives to traditional pesticides, specifically micropeptides for regulating plant gene expression.
- expected year of marketing authorization in the USA: 2025, in Europe: 2027.
- Current development focus: fungicide for field crops.
- Efficacy higher than the average for biocontrols, with a marketing price similar to that of crop protection products Internalization of active ingredient production envisaged, search for partners for final production or distribution.
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