
Before Botalys could grow rare plants indoors, Pierre-Antoine Mariage had to grow a company around an experiment. His story runs through patient research, a complementary partnership and the expensive distance between a promising prototype and a working factory.
Pierre-Antoine Mariage is the founder and CEO of Botalys, a Belgian agtech company that grows rare medicinal plants like Korean ginseng and Fjord Rhodiola indoors using a proprietary hydroponic technology, supplying ultra-pure botanical ingredients to the nutraceutical, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.