Hidden hunger
people are deficient in essential vitamins and minerals.
Backed by visionaries
What Gennate makes
Plant nutrition, reengineered at the nano scale.
Gennate makes precision nano-nutrients for crops and plants, engineered to improve how efficiently a plant receives the nutrition it needs.
NanoViva™
Our trademarked line of plant-nutrition products. NanoViva™ Zinc is the first formulation, designed for seed priming, foliar spray and soil application.
- First formulation
- Zinc · 500 ml
- For
- Commercial growers, trials and partners
01 Stable formulation
02 Precision uptake
03 Increased germination
04 Increased biomass
05 Drought resistance
01 Roots of our existence
Agriculture must yield more amid growing uncertainty.
Nanotechnology has transformed medicine, energy and electronics. Cost and scale have kept its potential out of the field, precisely when the field needs it most.
To help create a more productive, sustainable and food-secure world, at a time when it is needed more than ever.Our mission
Climate stress
lost to climate-related agricultural hazards.
Food loss
lost every year before it reaches retail.
02 Technology
The precision dose.
The Nano-Formulator™ engineers the surface charge and characteristics of nutrient nanoparticles, creating a stable formulation designed for efficient plant uptake.
Stable by design
Engineered to remain uniform without conventional toxic chemical stabilisers.
Tuneable to nature
Nano-particle sizing characteristics can be tuned to produce high nutrient bioavailability for crops.
Built to scale
A continuous-flow nanoreactor platform designed to move beyond the batch experiment.
Platform → productNano-Formulator™ creates the NanoViva™ product line.
Our nanoreactor technology
The goose that lays the golden eggs.
Gennate’s proprietary nanoreactor produces highly uniform, tuneable, reproducible and scalable nanoparticles—free from synthetic stabilisers or detergents.
03 Outcomes
For everyone who grows.
From a coated seed in a tray to a field at harvest, NanoViva™ can be tuned to the way each grower actually works.
01
Germination
Start stronger.
Precise nutrition at the earliest stage, when a small dose can shape what follows.
- Seed coating
- Nurseries and garden centres
- Home growing
02
Open field
Make every season count.
For field systems where uptake, uniformity and resilience decide the outcome.
- Cereals
- Field crops
- Commercial growers
03
Controlled growing
Precision you can repeat.
For systems where every input is measured and the formulation has nowhere to hide.
- Greenhouses
- Vertical farms
- Hydroponics
04
Managed landscapes
Performance the eye can see.
For turf, amenity planting and cultivated spaces held to a visible standard.
- Landscaping
- Golf and turf
- Gardeners
04 The science
Measured, not promised.
Four views of the evidence: germination, formulation tunability, drought response and recovery.
Figure 01 · Germination
Wheat seeds germinate faster, stronger, with higher yields.
Wheat seed primed for 12 hours before sowing, soluble zinc against Gennate nano zinc.
Figure 02 · Tunability
Nano treatment drives up to 60% greater cress growth.
Relative growth by treatment, normalised to the water control (H₂O = 100%).
Control baseline · Nano ZnOFR75 = peak
Figure 03 · Drought resistance
Wheat survives the drought and comes back stronger.
Wheat shoot green biomass index over time. Watering stopped at day 10 and resumed at day 12.
H₂O control
ZnSO₄
NanoViva™ (NRV-37.5-12)
Cress and wheat trials run by Gennate. Shoots treated with a water control, soluble zinc and Gennate nano zinc, then left to dry for 48 hours before watering resumed. Charts redrawn from Gennate’s own trial data.
Figure 04 · After 48 hours dry
Same drought. Three different endings.
Cress seeds treated with water, soluble zinc and Gennate nano zinc, then left to dry for 48 hours.
05 The team
Grown in Manchester.
A focused deep-tech team building plant-nutrition science for industrial reality.
Head office in Manchester. Laboratory at Kilburn House, Manchester Science Park. Moving toward pilot-scale manufacturing and early product deployment.
Dr Imad Naasani
Founder & CEO
20+ years in nanotechnology. More than 50 patents.
Dr Farid Khan
Co-founder
Biotech entrepreneur. Salonica Infinity Fund.
Dr Jamie Baily
Senior scientist
Chemical engineering and research.
Ms Zainab Dawood
Laboratory technologist
Chemical engineering and development.
Dr Leopoldo Herrera
Advisor
Plant science and commercialisation.This funding is a strong validation of our scientific breakthrough and our vision to make nanotechnology commercially viable at an industrial scale. It enables us to move decisively toward pilot production and sets the company up for early product deployment and global growth.Dr Imad Naasani, Founder & CEO
06 Get in touch
Let’s grow together.
Trial NanoViva™. Bring it to market. Help scale the science. Tell us what you are growing and where you want to go next.