GreenBiz

JUNE 24, 2022

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

Biotech 370

Biotech Biotechnology Fossil fuels Investment 370

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 21, 2024

Smart Ops technology has fulfilled the requirements of a significant environment technology verification programme administered by the Indian government, in an apparent first for a water-treatment method. Environmental technology company Smart Ops launched a biotechnology solution said to improve global access to clean water, on 21 May.

Biotech 147

Biotech Pollution Biotechnology Technology 147

Impact Alpha

JANUARY 20, 2023

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.

Biotech 52

Biotech Soil Carbon 52

Impact Alpha

JUNE 8, 2021

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.

Biotech 105

Biotech 105

Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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. The post Circulate Capital backs three U.S.

Biotech 52

Biotech Startups Recycling Recycling 52

Impact Alpha

JANUARY 18, 2022

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. Featured: Impact Voices Do impact venture capital funds outperform traditional VC? Yes, no and maybe. Not all impact investing.

Biotech 98

Biotech Solar Power Waste Waste 98

Impact Alpha

JUNE 8, 2021

The post The Brief: Capitalism reimagined, good jobs in Pakistan, impact exit in Uganda, edtech in Vietnam, biotech financing in Hong Kong, biodiversity risk disclosure appeared first on Impact Alpha. Reminder: Tideline is hosting “Impact Investment at the Institutional Tipping Point,” Thursday, June. Featured: Capitalism Reimagined Omidyar.

Biotech 119

Biotech Biodiversity Investment 119

Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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.

Biotech 245

Biotech Startups Sustainability 245

Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 6, 2021

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.

Biotech 52

Biotech 52

Business Green

JUNE 15, 2022

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.

Biotech 68

Biotech Biotechnology Fossil fuels Resilience 68

TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Lyon, France-based precision fermentation startup Bon Vivant, which is using biotech techniques to reprogram yeast microorganisms to produce animal-free milk proteins with a substantially lower environmental footprint than traditional dairy, credits clarity of strategy and execution for keeping its investors enthused at a time when raising remains (..)

Biotech 100

Biotech Startups Health 100

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Industry Insights : Gain valuable perspectives from panelists with diverse application backgrounds including biotech, environmental science, industrial applications, security, and academic research. Why Attend?

Biotech 147

Biotech Technology 147

Impact Alpha

JANUARY 15, 2020

Fink The post The Brief: Larry’s letter, immersive third spaces, diverse businesses, biotech funding, black innovation economy appeared first on ImpactAlpha. “In the near future, and sooner than most anticipate, there will be a significant reallocation of capital,” BlackRock’s Larry Fink writes in his annual letter to CEOs.

Biotech 52

Biotech Innovation Investment Sustainability 52

Climate-KIC

MAY 9, 2018

The post Biotech in the built environment is turning Tallinn’s city waste circular appeared first on Climate-KIC. Speaking at TedxBucharest in April, Marco Poletto, Director of ecoLogicStudio, explained how the historic quest for sanitation has shaped the footprint of our cities […].

Biotech 40

Biotech Waste Waste Energy 40

AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 25, 2023

This includes many categories in agtech, from ag biotech and alternative protein to novel farming systems and like vertical farms. In agrifood, climate tech startups raised $3 billion in VC deals, according to AgFunder data. Disclosure: AFN’s parent company is AgFunder.]

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Startups Biotech Investment Climate change 112

Renew Economy

OCTOBER 11, 2023

AGL seals a seven-year deal with biotech giant CSL to supply enough green electricity to cover all of the energy needs of its Victorian operations. The post AGL inks another renewable off take deal for Macarthur wind farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Biotech 101

Biotech Electricity Energy Energy 101

Impact Alpha

MARCH 27, 2024

Santiago-based biotech company Done Properly uses fermentation to produce healthy and sustainable food alternatives, including meat and additives. Mexico City-based climate tech VC. The post Mexico’s Savia Ventures backs Chilean alt-protein startup Done Properly (video) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

Startups 52

Startups Biotech Sustainability 52

Impact Alpha

JULY 23, 2021

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.

Biotech 111

Biotech Carbon Investment 111

Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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.

Demand 98

Demand Biotech Sustainability Soil 98

Impact Alpha

JULY 19, 2021

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.

Agriculture 111

Agriculture Biotech 111

Business Green

MARCH 26, 2024

EXCLUSIVE: UK biotech firm secures investment from the Clean Growth Fund to accelerate commercialisation of its low carbon fats and oils alternatives technology

Biotech 44

Biotech Technology Sustainability Carbon 44

Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

10 – The Gates Foundation’s $55 million equity investment last fall into a German biotech company could have big payoff: an. ImpactAlpha, Nov.

Biotech 111

Biotech Investment Health 111

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

New 14,000 sq ft facility on London's Old Street will be used to produce cultivated animal fats for a range of uses, including plant-based meats

Biotech 44

Biotech 44

Impact Alpha

APRIL 5, 2021

The biotech company has raised. ImpactAlpha, April 5 — Greenland, New York-based Ecovative produces sustainable materials from mycelium for textile, food and packaging. The post Ecovative secures $60 million to produce fungus-based materials appeared first on Impact Alpha.

Biotech 97

Biotech Packaging Sustainability 97

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2022

A new fund has been launched by the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) to enable biotech companies to access specialist facilities, equipment and resources. IBioIC’s Facilities Access Fund will allow businesses to apply for grants of up to £10,000 to support critical research and development projects.

Biotechnology 246

Biotechnology Biotech Innovation Waste 246

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Further collaborations with organizations like Biotech Partners aim to introduce biotech education, including the use of EcoFABs, to minority-serving high schools across the Bay Area. “This was incredibly important for students to get to see not just how roots grow, but to understand microbial communities.”

Biotech 147

Biotech Education Soil Organic 147

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A collaboration between biotech firm LanzaTech and Spanish clothing retailer Inditex has led to the design of a capsule collection for the latter’s largest brand Zara , incorporating fabric seemingly made from waste carbon emissions.

Fashion 147

Fashion Carbon Biotech Retail 147

Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 23, 2020

Goterra Founder, Olympia Yarger, shares her inspirational journey from farmer to founder of a highly innovative, fast-growth biotech startup.

Biotech 75

Biotech Waste Waste Startups 75

Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

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

Biotech 98

Biotech Sustainability 98

Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 6, 2017

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.

IoT 73

IoT Pollution Biotech Building Energy Monitoring 73

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

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. In South Africa, we were the first company to [apply biotech to food], so we didn’t have a precedence. The rest of the team is R&D focused.

Africa 105

Africa Biotech Startups Retail 105

Forbes Green Tech

DECEMBER 8, 2020

How do you tell the story of clean meat, sustainable fashion, brewed buildings, carbon recyclables, consumer care, and skiing? The answer: through biology.

Biotech 41

Biotech Fashion Startups Recycling 41

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

“Our commercial demonstrator plant, due to be completed early in 2023, will help us improve food security globally, while our research department continues to drive the development of exciting, commercially viable biotech innovations.”.

Biotechnology 246

Biotechnology Sustainability Biotech Investment 246

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The CO is captured initially using technology from Italian biotech firm Lanzatech – a proprietary fermentation process that depends upon “selected and naturally occurring bacteria”, which converts the carbon-rich gas to ethanol.

Carbon 278

Carbon Plastics Biotech Biotechnology 278

AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 25, 2022

Indian insect biotech startup Loopworm has raised $3.4 Loopworm sees massive potential in transforming cultivated insects into value-added nutrients and ingredients, and Omnivore believes the company will quickly become one of India’s leading biotech startups,” said Mark Kahn, Managing Partner at Omnivore.

Startups 119

Startups Biotech Waste Waste 119

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

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.

Asia 92

Asia Technology Biotech Waste 92

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

The consortium includes five UK-based companies – Fiberight Ltd; project co-ordinators Oakdene Hollins Ltd; Aberystwyth University Royal Charter; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and Knauf Insulation Ltd, along with German companies EW Biotech GmbH and IFEU – Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, plus Celignis Ltd (..)

Waste 245

Waste Waste Biotech Biotechnology 245