"Enthela" comes from En — inside, and Tela — tissue. It reflects what we do at every level: we work inside the biological tissue of agriculture — inside the capsule, inside the rhizosphere, inside the problem — to engineer solutions from the ground up.
Founders
Martin Nedev
CEO & Co-Founder
Business Administration & Entrepreneurship (AUBG). Leads strategy, partnerships, funding, and project delivery. Built Enthela from idea to EU-funded R&D company.
Angel Hristov
COO & Co-Founder
Forestry & Agriculture (LTU/AU). Certified farmer and agronomist with hands-on experience selling biological products to 200+ grain producers across Bulgaria.
Prof. Dr. Heribert Hirt
Co-Founder & Scientific Advisor
300+ publications. Academia Europaea. Wittgenstein Prize. Founder of Darwin21. Professor of Plant Science at KAUST. Leading Enthela's microbial selection strategy for drought-resilient agriculture.
Dr. Maged M. Saad
Co-Founder & Scientific Advisor
CEO of GrowBioM (KAUST spin-off). Darwin21 coordinator. Expert in fermentation scale-up, bioprocess optimization, and ecological restoration. Driving Enthela's upstream biology and commercialization bridge.
Team
Margarita Popova
Lab Director / CTO
MSc Plant Biotechnology, PhD candidate in soil microorganisms for crop resilience under drought. Leads all R&D operations — strain screening, encapsulation development, and lab-to-pilot transition.
Hristiyan Stoyanov
Lab Scientist
4th-year Biotechnology student with hands-on experience in cell culture processes, laboratory operations, and experimental support for Enthela's screening and formulation work.
