Business

Nitroduck

Website
Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-10-26

Overview

We make gene editing easy for all crops. To make pesticides obsolete across vegetables and fruits, enabling coffee to withstand heat waves, making almonds independent of pollinators, pistachios independent of winter chill, and much more. To let breeders create novel, consumer-facing crop varieties like pink pineapples, seedless cherries, and non-browning avocados.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Matúš Grieš

Founder/CTO

Co-founder & CTO at Nitroduck (YC F26). I co-led iGEM Brno 2025 to Grand Prize against 330 teams including Stanford and Oxford. I worked at Karolinska Institutet (Amgen Scholars), building nanoparticles for drug delivery to placenta and at CEITEC, where I demonstrated plant telomere proteins bind human DNA more tightly than their own. I'm a National Decathlon Champion and 13x silver medalist in triple jump and high jump.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-10-26
3team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-26

Founded 2026 · Source

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Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedBrno, South Moravian Region, Czechia
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 2 of 6 areas documented

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