Our vision
Facilitate the expansion of sustainable agriculture
that preserves natural resources and regenerates the soil
PermaTechnics sprang from the idea that smallholder farming is better placed to tackle the environmental challenges, and those linked to climate change, but that smallholders need an overall management tool to improve their productivity and efficiency.

Regenerative agriculture, as practised by smallholders, requires more manual labour. Though a good thing in itself, this unfortunately further increases their competitive disadvantage vis-à-vis conventional growers.
But this approach does permit higher yields while lowering the consumption of water and inputs and enabling the soil to regenerate.
Cutting back on nitrogen fertilisers is critical here, as by far the greatest part of them is not absorbed by the crops targeted. Rather, it is lost into the groundwater in the form of nitrites or it evaporates as nitrous oxide, which is 296 times more atmosphere-warming than CO₂!
And with regard to yield, there’s a lot at stake, as Wallonia is only 17% self-sufficient in vegetables!

Mission Statement
PermaTechnics aims to provide technical solutions to those who practise regenerative agriculture, so enabling them to increase their yields and profitability.
Its founders are executives in technology companies and decided to use their experience in order to meet this challenge.

Jean-Marie Arnould
Founder & CEO
- Economist by trade
- Long experience as CFO with tech start-ups/scale-ups
- Long experience scaling hyper-growth companies (a.o. cumulative fund raising in excess of €1B)

Didrik Pinte
Co-founder & CTO
- Bio-engineer by trade
- Long experience as a CTO for start-ups
- Expertise in data modelling and machine learning
- Expertise in management of agro-environment data

Nicolas Heinrich-Thuet
Product Manager
- Bio-engineer by trade
- Experience in market gardening (research on biodiversity and market gardening practices and thesis on root development)
- Modeling experience

Morgan Alexandre
Market Gardener Expert
- Extensive experience in No-Till Market Gardening
- Experience selling organic farming products to retailers
- Experience in implementing time-savings solutions tailored to Market Gardeners

Geoffroy Surault (contractor)
Project Manager
- 10 years’ experience as Product Management & Project Management
- Extensive experience in launching solutions addressed to professionals (SaaS, marketplaces)
- Expertise in web apps design with a focus on value added

Donovan Benfouzari (contractor)
Senior Developer
- Full stack Developer
- 15+ years’ experience in the web applications
- Expertise in Domain-Driven Design, Ports and Adapters and Functional Programming
- Extensive experience with large scale projects from idea creation thru go-live deployment

Emilie Peiffer
Intern
- Bio-engineer by trade
- Created a sensor-based model to monitor irrigation for chard crops
- Created a model to quantify the GHG emissions linked to nitrogen-based fertilizers
Interested in our solutions ?
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