The problem
A single degree of warming shaves 5–10% off wheat, soy, and corn yields, and coffee and olive oil prices have already multiplied — while the fixes on offer (gene editing, heavy inputs) stall on cost or public trust.
How it works
Spun out of Kyushu University’s century-old crop-science laboratory, SACMOTs applies controlled environmental stress to parent plants to lift the epigenetic locks on dormant genes — two to three thousand shifting at once in rice — so offspring inherit whole-plant resilience with the DNA sequence untouched. Its banner is “Green Revolution 2.0”: upgrading seeds, fertilizer, and agrochemicals together.
Pain points
Heat-driven yield losses, input bills farmers can’t pass on, and a market that resists gene-edited seed even where regulators allow it.
Business model
Near-term paid PoCs from the Fukuoka FiaS/Ito Lab Plus base; the long-term bet is treated seed sold each season — if the team proves the effect holds stably into grandchild generations.
Challenges
A months-old company (incorporated December 2025) with lab-scale proof: inheritance duration unproven, the seed-pricing model unresolved, and no disclosed venture funding — survival depends on converting PoCs into a seed round.
Funding
- Raised: none disclosed (pre-seed; UTokyo IPC 1stRound 10th-cohort non-equity support).
- Valuation: MISSING.
Latest — August 2026
In August 2026 SACMOTs was profiled as a Kyushu University spinout with paid proof-of-concept work coming into view, pushing its non-GMO epigenome seed technology toward commercial validation.