Morgan Lewis Advises Demea Sustainable Investment and Oyster Bay Venture Capital on €6 Million Funding Round for Amatera Biosciences

PARIS, March 4, 2026: Morgan Lewis advised Demea Sustainable Investment and Oyster Bay Venture Capital on their co-led €6 million funding round in French biotechnology startup Amatera Biosciences. The new capital will support Amatera’s expansion beyond coffee and wine grapes into annual crops. It will also further scale automation and enable the commercialization of its genetics platform.

Subsidiary of Demea Invest, Demea Sustainable Investment is a leading investment company dedicated to the sustainable growth of agriculture, agrifood, energy, and ecological transition. Oyster Bay Venture Capital is Germany’s first specialized food VC, focusing on early-stage EU-focused startups investments within the food and agriculture sectors. Amatera, a Paris based company, combines advanced plant cell, automation, and AI technologies to accelerate the creation of resilient, non GMO crop varieties that help agriculture adapt to climate change.

The Morgan Lewis team advising Demea Sustainable Investment and Oyster Bay Venture Capital included partners Alexandre Omaggio, Mathilde Carle, Clémentine de Guillebon, Marcus Schmidbauer and associate Camille Jannin.

For more information, read Amatera’s announcement.