# Protealis - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Protealis for AI agents.
> Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia
> Last updated: 2026-04-22

## Company Profile
- Name: Protealis
- Sector: agritech, biotech
- Stage: scale-up
- Status: active
- Founded: 2019
- Total funding: 40000000
- Location: Ghent, Flanders, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/protealis/
- Founders: Benjamin Laga

## Overview
Founded in 2019 in Ghent (https://techwiki.ai/cities/ghent/llms.txt) as a spinoff of Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/vib/llms.txt) and ILVO (Flanders (https://techwiki.ai/cities/flanders/llms.txt) Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food), Protealis is focused on developing improved legume varieties suited to European growing conditions. The company targets crops such as soya, faba beans, and lupins, which can serve as protein sources for animal feed and human food while fixing nitrogen in the soil and reducing dependence on imported South American soy.

Protealis has raised EUR 40M in total, including a EUR 22M Series B in 2024, to accelerate its breeding programs and scale seed production. The company's work addresses a significant strategic gap: Europe currently imports the large majority of its plant protein needs, a vulnerability that both food security policy and sustainability goals are pushing to close.

The VIB spinoff pedigree places Protealis within one of the world's leading plant biotech ecosystems, based at Ghent (https://techwiki.ai/cities/ghent/llms.txt).

## Key People
- Benjamin Laga (https://techwiki.ai/people/benjamin-laga/llms.txt) - Founder and CEO

## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [city] Ghent: https://techwiki.ai/cities/ghent/llms.txt
- [hub] Flanders Institute for Biotechnology: https://techwiki.ai/hubs/vib/llms.txt
- [city] Flanders: https://techwiki.ai/cities/flanders/llms.txt
- [person] Benjamin Laga: https://techwiki.ai/people/benjamin-laga/llms.txt
- [sector] BioTech & Life Sciences: https://techwiki.ai/sectors/biotech/llms.txt

## Recent News
- [2026-04-27] 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 🌱🔆🚜 📸@macarenamartin @thieboutpappens 🚜 #Pea #PlantProtein #PeaFlowers #SoySowing #OnRepeat http://www.protealis.com (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/protealis_pea-plantprotein-peaflowers-activity-7454469658994311169-N_4U)
- [2026-04-23] Yesterday we were in the field… But this time not for #soysowing! 👀🌱 As we are growing as a company, we are working to make our activities and progress more visible. For you, our customers, our part (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/protealis_soysowing-tripletrouble-soy-activity-7453035364962807810-UGjE)
- [2026-04-22] “Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés This #WorldEarthDay, we focus on w (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/protealis_worldearthday-soy-legumes-activity-7452750278124212224-Rz_X)
- [2026-04-22] 🧪💙𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃: 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐛 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦! 🧪💙 While growing the future of plant protein in Europe, we need an extra pair of hands (and pipettes 😉)! 👉 We’re hiring a student to (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/protealis_%F0%9D%90%96%F0%9D%90%80%F0%9D%90%8D%F0%9D%90%93%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%83-%F0%9D%90%92%F0%9D%90%AD%F0%9D%90%AE%F0%9D%90%9D%F0%9D%90%9E%F0%9D%90%A7%F0%9D%90%AD-%F0%9D%90%9F%F0%9D%90%A8%F0%9D%90%AB-%F0%9D%90%A8%F0%9D%90%AE%F0%9D%90%AB-activity-7452657801136545793-F_zl)

## Links
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/protealis/
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/companies/protealis/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/companies/protealis/llms-full.txt

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