DELTAGee

What DELTAGee does

DELTAGee SAS is a privately held French biotechnology software company headquartered in Ajaccio, Corsica, that develops decision-support tools for plant breeding professionals. Its core product, CERTAIN-TI™, optimizes trait introgression protocols by selecting the best plants at each backcross generation and dynamically adjusting protocol intensity in real time to hit time, quality, and resource targets. In October 2023 DELTAGee acquired PROGENO, a complementary software solution for phenotypic and genomic selection, and now offers the combined portfolio alongside a Custom Decision-Making Optimization professional services line. The technology approach combines genetics and plant breeding with statistical modeling, mathematical optimization, and operations research, and the company is led by co-founders Michel Ragot (CEO), François Brunetti (CSO, ex-nuclear physicist), and Jean-Claude Franc (CTO), with additional senior hires through 2023–2024 across product, technology, and sales.

Name

DELTAGee

Website

https://deltagee.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DELTAGee is a French biotechnology software company that builds decision-support tools for plant breeders, including its CERTAIN-TI™ trait introgression platform and the acquired PROGENO genomic/phenotypic selection software. It sells subscriptions and custom optimization services to enterprise seed companies worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Biotechnology Software

NAICS

Support Activities for Crop Production (11511)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Trait Stacking & Trait Introgression (Backcrossing, pyramiding) (AFABALAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Selective Breeding Program Design & Consulting (AFAEAJAE), Genetic Trait Selection (e.g., polled, disease resistance) Services (AFAEAJAJ), Breeding Program Design & Genetic Consulting (Mating Plans, EPD/Index Selection) (AFACAEAD)

Keywords

• Plant breeding software
• Trait introgression optimization
• Decision-support software
• Seed industry analytics
• Breeding process optimization

Headquarters

HQ city

Ajaccio

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Software Licenses/Subscriptions (CERTAIN-TI™): DELTAGee offers CERTAIN-TI™ software for trait introgression optimization, likely sold as enterprise software licenses or subscriptions to seed companies and breeding organizations.
2. Custom Decision-Making Optimization Services: Professional services for custom process optimization and decision-making support tailored to specific client needs, applying their multi-disciplinary approach to various decision-making processes.
3. PROGENO Software: Phenotypic and genomic selection software acquired in October 2023, now part of DELTAGee's product portfolio.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

DELTAGee develops and sells decision-support software and services for plant breeding professionals, anchored by its proprietary CERTAIN-TI™ tool that optimizes trait introgression protocols, selects the best plants at each backcross generation, and applies real-time adjustments to minimize time, quality, and resource costs. The portfolio is complemented by the acquired PROGENO software for phenotypic and genomic selections, and Custom Decision-Making Optimization services that apply statistical modeling and operations research to client-specific breeding problems.

Product overview

DELTAGee offers a portfolio of software products and decision-making optimization services for plant breeding professionals. The core offering is CERTAIN-TI™ software dedicated to optimizing Trait Introgression protocols, combined with the acquired PROGENO software for phenotypic and genomic selections. These products are complemented by Custom Decision-Making Optimization services that apply statistical models, data analytics, and operations research to breeding processes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CERTAIN-TI™: Software solution dedicated to optimise Trait Introgression protocols, delivering the fastest and most effective trait introgression path to market through optimized protocols, plant selection, and real-time adjustments.

Products and services

• CERTAIN-TI™ A proprietary decision-support software that optimizes trait introgression protocols for plant breeding. It identifies optimized protocols based on time, quality, and resource targets, selects the best plants at each backcross generation, and enables real-time adjustments to ensure on-time, minimum-resource trait introgression completion. Targeted at enterprise seed companies and plant breeding professionals commercializing new varieties.
• PROGENO A software solution that supports phenotypic and genomic selections, acquired by DELTAGee in October 2023 to broaden its decision-making-support and process optimization portfolio for breeding professionals. PROGENO complements CERTAIN-TI™ by addressing the genomic and phenotypic selection stages of breeding programs.
• Custom Decision-Making Optimization A multi-disciplinary consulting and professional services engagement that applies DELTAGee's statistical models, data analytics, and operations research expertise to client-specific decision-making processes outside of trait introgression, delivering more value and faster results to enterprise customers seeking to optimize their own processes.

Quantifiable outcome

• Avoiding the extra year in herbicide resistance soybean development (late 1990s) could have saved approximately $400 million in market share penalties

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• PROGENOcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 October 2023DELTAGee acquired PROGENO, a software solution that supports phenotypic and genomic selections. This acquisition broadens DELTAGee's portfolio and leverages their position in decision-making support and process optimization for breeding professionals. PROGENO is a complementary add to their CERTAIN-TI™ software dedicated to trait introgression optimization.
• Eurofins Agroscience ServicescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2022Eurofins Agroscience Services and DELTAGee announced a strategic partnership in October 2022 to speed-up and facilitate the introduction of new, high-value traits into plant varieties and growers' fields. By joining their forces, they are able to provide unique turnkey trait introgression services to plant breeders. The partnership was covered by European Seed Magazine.
• INIZIÀcoreOthers · 1 January 2021INIZIÀ is DELTAGee's partner from Day One and enables them to be an international startup from Corsica island in the Mediterranean sea. The incubator is based in Bastia, Corsica, and has supported DELTAGee's growth since inception, including participation in events like VivaTech.
• l'Agence de Développement Economique de la CorseminorGTM or Marketing PartnerThe Corsican Economic Development Agency partnered with DELTAGee for their participation in Viva Technology 2023 in Paris, providing support for international visibility.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Inari Agriculture: Inari applies AI-driven predictive design and multiplex gene editing to seed development, combining computational and biological approaches to create new varieties — directly comparable to DELTAGee's decision-support software for plant breeding.
• NRGene: NRGene provides genomic analytics and big-data solutions for plant breeding, including trait discovery and assembly — directly overlapping with DELTAGee's PROGENO offering for phenotypic and genomic selection.
• Equinom: Equinom is a computational breeding company that uses genomics and AI to develop improved seed varieties for food companies, operating a similar software-and-breeding platform model as DELTAGee.

Emerging players

• Pairwise: Pairwise uses CRISPR-based gene editing and proprietary Fulcrum™ platform to develop improved crops, intersecting with DELTAGee's trait introgression and breeding optimization domain in plant biotechnology.
• Tropic Biosciences: Tropic Biosciences applies gene editing and computational biology to crop improvement in tropical crops like banana and coffee, intersecting with DELTAGee's trait introgression and breeding optimization focus.
• Hudson River Biotechnology: Hudson River Biotechnology offers precision plant breeding services using advanced genomics and molecular biology tools, sharing DELTAGee's customer base of seed companies and breeding professionals.
• Phytoform Labs: Phytoform Labs uses AI and genome editing to develop improved crop varieties, similar in combining computational tools with plant breeding outcomes — a thematic peer to DELTAGee.

Broad incumbents

• Benson Hill: Benson Hill combines an AI-driven breeding platform (CropOS) with seed production, operating in the same crop improvement space as DELTAGee but at significantly larger scale as a publicly-traded incumbent.
• Bayer (Climate Corporation / FieldView): Bayer's Climate Corporation / FieldView platform is a broad ag-tech incumbent with digital farming and breeding analytics capabilities. While not focused narrowly on breeding decisions, it represents the in-house alternative large seed companies may pursue instead of DELTAGee.
• Syngenta Group: Syngenta is one of the world's largest seed and crop protection companies with proprietary breeding informatics and digital tools. It is both a potential customer and a competitive incumbent that may build or acquire similar optimization software.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/deltagee

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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