Aardaia bags €5M to build the next generation of crops

Aardaia , a Wageningen-based agritech startup developing new crop varieties from wild plants, has raised €5 million in a seed funding round led by Point Nine . Existing investor FoodLabs participated in the round alongside new investors Astanor, Grey Silo and a group of angel investors. Founded in 2025 by Pádraic Flood and Mike Henske , Aardaia is developing a breeding platform that identifies and domesticates wild plant species to create new crops without using genetic modification or gene edit