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Sharks, beauty and synthetic biotech

GreenBiz

Synthetic biotechnology is projected to surpass $61 billion in revenue by 2030, driven by companies interested in shifting sourcing strategies away from petrochemicals or practices harmful for biodiversity

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Unilever invests in biotech alternatives to palm oil for greener cleaning

GreenBiz

New $120m venture aims to scale up biotechnology alternative to palm oil and fossil fuels used to make everyday products

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ImpactAlpha Deal Spotlight: Nature-based biotech

Impact Alpha

The post ImpactAlpha Deal Spotlight: Nature-based biotech appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, January 20 — Forests, oceans and soils play a crucial role in absorbing greenhouse gas emissions – and they could use some.

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Welsh biotech firm announces AD-boosting additive

Envirotec Magazine

Cardiff-based biotech company Genesis Biosciences has developed what it describes as a novel and low site footprint solution to help bolster the performance and environmental credentials of anaerobic digestion (AD) systems. Wastewater treatment plant.

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The Hong Kong stock exchange is helping biotech companies raise billions

Impact Alpha

The post The Hong Kong stock exchange is helping biotech companies raise billions appeared first on Impact Alpha. Editor’s note: Impaakt is a crowd-sourced platform that uses collective intelligence to produce impact analyses and scores. Each week, the Impaakt reviewing team.

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Circulate Capital backs three U.S. biotech and recycling startups

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, December 8 — The Singapore-based manager’s Disrupt fund made its first investments in Arzeda, a Seattle-based biotech company that develops healthy and. biotech and recycling startups appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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The Brief: Impact VC performance, BlocPowered, Black-led biotech, solar-powered windows, BMW’s venture fund, e-waste reduction

Impact Alpha

The post The Brief: Impact VC performance, BlocPowered, Black-led biotech, solar-powered windows, BMW’s venture fund, e-waste reduction appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Voices Do impact venture capital funds outperform traditional VC?

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With $3bn in deals, agrifoodtech startups prove themselves a vital part of climate tech investment

AFN Sustainable Protein

This includes many categories in agtech, from ag biotech and alternative protein to novel farming systems and like vertical farms. Climate tech investment landed in the spotlight in 2022. While other sectors (e.g.,

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Greener cleaning? Unilever and Genomatica team up to develop biotech alternatives to palm oil

Business Green

The consumer goods giant announced this morning that it had partnered with US biotech firm Genomatica on a £120m venture to commercialise and scale alternatives to environmentally damaging feedstocks used to manufacture everyday cleaning and personal care products.

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Cleantech 50 to Watch Case Study: Ryp Labs

CleanTech Group

Nisa Mirza of Cleantech Group sat down with Moody Soliman, 50 to Watch Agriculture & Food Biotech food waste greenhouse gas emissionsSolution: Ryp Labs produces fresh produce preservation solutions using a bio-inhibitor sticker.

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Who were the most active food and agriculture technology venture capital firms in 2022?

AFN Sustainable Protein

Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder, a food and agriculture technology venture capital firm.

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Biotech France 2020 International Conference and Exhibition

Eco-Business

Biotech France 2020 Conference will be held in Paris- France from 24 to 26June 2020. This international event will reflect the full diversity of current biotechnology science advances in research and practice that open opportunities for exploitation of knowledge, commercially or otherwise, together with news, discussion and comment on broader issues of general interest and concern

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India’s first insect farming startup Loopworm secures $3.4m seed round led by Omnivore, WaterBridge

AFN Sustainable Protein

Indian insect biotech startup Loopworm has raised $3.4 Accelerators & startups Investment News Seed Tech VC Uncategorized alternative protein asia biotech food waste india insect farming Startups sustainability sustainable protein

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The Brief: Gender-smart call, biotech nudges, sustainable food in China, preserving jobs in emerging markets, ESG pendulum swings

Impact Alpha

Featured: Gates Foundation’s role in Pfizer’s promising COVID vaccine is part of a strategy, not a conspiracy. The Brief

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The Brief: Climate-committed shareholders, secondary market for community lenders, super app for Africa’s drivers, European crowdfunding, women-led biotech

Impact Alpha

The historic Reconstruction resonates in today’s efforts to expand voting rights, The post The Brief: Climate-committed shareholders, secondary market for community lenders, super app for Africa’s drivers, European crowdfunding, women-led biotech appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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The 4th edition of Biotech France 2020 International Conference and Exhibition

Eco-Business

Biotech France 2020 Conference will be held in Paris- France from 23 to 25June 2020

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Singapore-based biotech startup RWDC Industries closes US$133 million in Series B funding

Eco-Business

Harnessing nature to battle the world’s single-use plastics problem, biotech company will accelerate plans to meet increasing demand for materials to replace plastics for food service, food packaging, consumer goods packaging and other consumer items

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Brief: Nutrition Technologies lands $20m to expand insect-protein operation across Asia

AFN Sustainable Protein

The biotech company’s production system leverages black soldier fly larvae to produce proteins for animal feed and fertilizers. Singapore-based insect protein producer Nutrition Technologies has closed a $20 million equity round.

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Meet the founder: Mzansi Meat’s co-founders on building a global foodtech company with African roots

AFN Sustainable Protein

AFN: What was your experience in putting together a biotech team? In South Africa, we were the first company to [apply biotech to food], so we didn’t have a precedence. For instance, Wade, our R&D director, has g20 years of commercial biotech experience.

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The Brief: Larry’s letter, immersive third spaces, diverse businesses, biotech funding, black innovation economy

Impact Alpha

Fink The post The Brief: Larry’s letter, immersive third spaces, diverse businesses, biotech funding, black innovation economy appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact!

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BREAKING: Entocycle lands $5m Series A from Climentum, Lowercarbon Capital to roll-out precision ag tech for insect farms

AFN Sustainable Protein

Accelerators & startups FoodTech Investment News Series A Startup Funding Tech VC Africa asia biotech Europe food tech food waste singapore Startup Corner Startups sustainability sustainable protein

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Biotech in the built environment is turning Tallinn’s city waste circular

Climate-KIC

The post Biotech in the built environment is turning Tallinn’s city waste circular appeared first on Climate-KIC What happens to waste from cities? Could we build cities in future which will produce energy while consuming it? And how can we create interactions between nature and our urban architecture? Speaking at TedxBucharest in April, Marco Poletto, Director of ecoLogicStudio, explained how the historic quest for sanitation has shaped the footprint of our cities […].

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Green City Solutions fights air pollution with IoT, biotech and moss

Green Tech Challenge

Air pollution is becoming a global threat as 90% of urban populations breaths polluted air. We have all seen the images of a smog-filled China city, people wearing masks and authorities banning people to go outside. In December 2016, the Chinese government reported the highest air pollution and the red alert was implemented in 23 cities in northern China. In 2016, World Energy Outlook made a study on air pollution as the fourth-largest threat to human health – but also to our environment.

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Brief: GOOD Meat set to significantly cut costs with Singapore’s approval of new cell meat growth material

AFN Sustainable Protein

Accelerators & startups Alt Meat/Protein FoodTech Industry Uncategorized alternative protein asia biotech food tech Industry Brief policy Startups sustainability sustainable protein United States

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UK alternative protein: UK could be leader with faster regulation, more funding for cell ag

AFN Sustainable Protein

million last year in a project called the ‘Culturedmeat Project’ by Spanish cultivated meat startup BioTech Foods. All eyes are on the next country in the world to approve and regulate the sale of alternative meat products produced through cell-culturing techniques.

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Meet the founder: Arkeon CEO Gregor Tegel on creating food ingredients out of air

AFN Sustainable Protein

Accelerators & startups Alt Meat/Protein FoodTech Industry Investment News People Q&A Research & Data Startup Funding Uncategorized alternative protein asia biotech Europe food tech israel plant-based Startups sustainability sustainable protein United States

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How Forsea is avoiding the “scaffolding challenge” of cultivated meat and seafood

AFN Sustainable Protein

Accelerators & startups Alt Meat/Protein FoodTech Industry Investment News Seed Startup Funding Tech VC Uncategorized alternative protein biotech food tech israel Research & Data Startups sustainability sustainable protein

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Meet the founder: Marica Quarsingh of Sea-Stematic on creating the ‘Tesla of Seafood’

AFN Sustainable Protein

They have run and owned some parts of the value chain and have biotech companies that have patents in different parts of the world that have been majorly funded.

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Alternative protein research should be open access – GFI’s Kell

AFN Sustainable Protein

Alt Meat/Protein FoodTech Funds Industry Research & Data alternative protein biotech Europe Startups sustainability sustainable protein UK“We need a lot of publicly-funded open-access research to advance this field as quickly as possible.”

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Building Customer Awareness for the Next Biotech Startup: Lessons from Brands & Biology

Forbes Green Tech

How do you tell the story of clean meat, sustainable fashion, brewed buildings, carbon recyclables, consumer care, and skiing? The answer: through biology. Innovation /innovation Green Tech /green-tech Business

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Recent Deals-11 May: Microbial Nitrogen Technology, Zinc-Air Batteries, Support-Free 3-D Printing and More

CleanTech Group

Agriculture & Food Energy & Power Materials & Chemicals Resources & Environment Transportation and Logistics 3-D printing Batteries Biochemicals Biotech energy Logistics Recent Deals transportationWhat’s happening with cleantech deals in the midst of Covid?

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Lamps by Biohm are made from coffee and orange peel

Inhabitat - Innovation

Biohm, a London biotech and biomanufacturing startup, has created a line of sustainable lampshades called Obscure that are made of 100% coffee chaff and orange peel. Biohm has become an example of what's possible in development and bio-manufacturing of natural materials for the built environment

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New way of producing useful compounds from birch for the cosmetics industry

Green Living Guy

Breaking Green News Conservation going green green business green living news green products biotech birch tree cells cosmeticsCosmetics from Birch Leaves VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has used plant or birch tree cell culture technology.

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Future Food-Tech London

AFN Sustainable Protein

The Future Food-Tech Summit returns to London and brings together over 500 leaders, senior executives, pioneering innovators and VCs from around the globe.

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Who’s bringing China its bacon now that it’s running low?

AFN Sustainable Protein

AgTech Alt Meat/Protein FoodTech Industry Research & Data animal health asia biotech livestock sustainable proteinA worldwide pork deficit is impending and one virus is to blame. But who’s going to fill in the gaps? Meat giant Tyson’s latest earnings reveal it’s not them, with the US-China trade war largely to blame. Could they lose out to alternatives like Impossible Foods? The post Who’s bringing China its bacon now that it’s running low? appeared first on AgFunderNews.

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Future Food-Tech New York

AFN Sustainable Protein

Held annually in New York, San Francisco, London and Singapore, the Future Food-Tech Summit is an international networking event, bringing together 400+ leading food brands, entrepreneurs and investors to showcase solutions, share ideas and create new alliances to accelerate the adoption of new technology solutions.

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Future Food-Tech San Francisco

AFN Sustainable Protein

Future Food-Tech is a world-leading event series focusing on the most disruptive technologies transforming our food system.

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Deaflow spotlight: Agrifood megadeals

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, July 23 – Breakthrough biotech research is driving eight- and nine-digit investments in alternatives to high-carbon food production. Plant-based cheesemaker Nobell Foods, an. The post Deaflow spotlight: Agrifood megadeals appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Agrifood Tech Dealflow

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Gates Foundation’s role in Pfizer’s promising COVID vaccine is part of a strategy, not a conspiracy

Impact Alpha

10 – The Gates Foundation’s $55 million equity investment last fall into a German biotech company could have big payoff: an. ImpactAlpha, Nov. Beats Catalytic Capital Health and Medtech Impact Tech

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This Australian Founder Is Tackling Food Waste With Robot-Managed Maggots

Forbes Green Tech

Goterra Founder, Olympia Yarger, shares her inspirational journey from farmer to founder of a highly innovative, fast-growth biotech startup. Innovation /innovation Green Tech /green-tech

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Switch Bioworks raises $4.3 million for sustainable nitrogen biofertilizer

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 31 — Biotech companies are promising to help farmers cut down on synthetic, and expensive, nitrogen fertilizer. San Carlos, Calif.-based based Switch. The post Switch Bioworks raises $4.3 million for sustainable nitrogen biofertilizer appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Kula Bio raises $50 million to meet demand for sustainable nitrogen biofertilizer

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, February 1 — A raft of biotech startups are helping farmers improve soil quality and rely less on synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, a. The post Kula Bio raises $50 million to meet demand for sustainable nitrogen biofertilizer appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Pivot Bio rakes in $430 million to replace synthetic nitrogen in agriculture

Impact Alpha

based biotech company Pivot Bio wants to make corn, wheat and rice – the world’s three biggest cereal. ImpactAlpha, July 19 — Berkeley, Calif.-based The post Pivot Bio rakes in $430 million to replace synthetic nitrogen in agriculture appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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