AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Dahl is President and CEO of ZIVO Bioscience , a ag biotech R&D company engaged in the commercialization of nutritional and medicinal products derived from proprietary algal strains. The growth potential is limited only by investment in production and processing capacity to establish a robust, ever-expanding supply chain.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

We've been meticulously tracking climate tech investment, deal by deal, since the term ‘climate tech’ emerged. In 2023, a challenging macro environment marked by higher interest rates and a cautious private investment market raised the hurdles for deployment.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 30, 2023

Other investors included Lowercarbon Capital , which invests in companies that reduce carbon emissions, Paris-based and sport star-studded investment firm Teampact Ventures , and global investment group ACE & Company. One popular insect, the black soldier fly, has an industry projection of $3.96 billion by 2023.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 21, 2021

They also continue to be in high demand as the global population grows, emerging economies develop, and infrastructure investment accelerates. Prior to Kanin, Janice was an early employee and Director at Generate Capital, a project finance investment firm that focused on investing in renewable energy projects.

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 15, 2020

One investment theme we’re increasingly excited about is synthetic biology, due to its potential to replace carbon emitting production methods for a number of products reliant on fossil fuels, from food and materials to therapeutics and petrochemicals. We’ve made two recent investments in this space?—?in

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 14, 2022

90% of institutional investors are more likely to divest from companies with poor sustainability performance, meaning investors are paying more attention to a brand’s sustainability performance when making investment decisions. What is the return on investment (ROI) of green business certification ? B Corp Certification.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2020

Demand for protein from sea creatures such as tuna, salmon and shrimp is growing far faster than for animal proteins. Demand for sea creatures such as tuna, salmon and shrimp grew 3.2 Much of the fuss related to sustainable food systems is focused on land-centric technology solutions. The next horizon, however, may lie offshore.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Editor’s Note: Yanniv is an investment associate at AgFunder. As a result, follow-on investments will be rare, and startups are likely to see demotivating and bad term sheets in their next funding rounds. There is no glory in investing at too high of a valuation.”.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2020

In the biotech industry, which I think folks herald as a well-functioning market, once companies reach a certain validation of their technology and approach, there's a payoff there," he said. In the early 2000s, there was a well-publicized boom then bust in clean energy investing. The new wave of climate tech investors.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

However, it is also clear the pandemic has turbocharged the sector's growth beyond previous expectations, with a more recent report from FAIRR noting that the plant-based protein sector attracted double the amount of venture investment in the first half of 2020 than it did the whole of 2019, at $1.1bn.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Global food and ingredients group Archer Daniels Midland also invested via its venture arm ADM Ventures, along with Cavallo Ventures, the venture group of agriculture products retailer and ingredients business Wilbur Ellis, and GELITA , the leading global supplier of collagen proteins.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Global food and ingredients group Archer Daniels Midland also invested via its venture arm ADM Ventures, along with Cavallo Ventures, the venture group of agriculture products retailer and ingredients business Wilbur Ellis, and GELITA , the leading global supplier of collagen proteins.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. The top 2022 deal was Getir’s $768 million Series E raise led by Emirati and state-owned Mubadala Investment Company. Image credit: Getir. Getir – $768m. Image credit: Swiggy. Swiggy – $700m.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 3, 2021

To meet demand, the company “reverse engineered” the product using petroleum-based chemicals, according to a Zymergen spokesperson. In contrast, “synthetic biotech allows you to go right to the final chemical transformation,” Tickner said.

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Better Ventures

APRIL 13, 2021

Even leading general tele-health providers like Teledoc and Doctor on Demand have gotten into the behavioral health game. New Applications for Psychedelic Drugs Offer Hope for Hard to Treat Conditions Compass Pathways : a biotech company leveraging psychedelics. Hallelujah! Quartet enables “collaborative care” and “total health”.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 10, 2023

The reason it's such a great initial market is because fashion has been the first-mover in at least trying to adopt sustainable new materials, because their consumers are heavily demanding change and sustainability. It means so much to have a customer want to invest to help scale up something like this. Subscribe Now

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 30, 2019

The largest private company in the US invested $75 million investment in Beyond Meat’s pea protein supplier Puris , as a follow-on to an earlier $25 million deal last year after the two companies formed a joint venture for pea protein ingredients. Keeping up with demand. Disrupting the fish & shrimp feed sector.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

I left Cypress last summer and formed Lacuna Sustainable Investments with Patrick McConnell and David Riester. Cypress, on the other hand, invested in a nascent market that evolved into a fantastic market, and used the resulting development investments as collateral for its initial corporate facility. There’s binary risk.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Editor’s Note: Rob Leclerc is a Founding Partner at venture capital firm AgFunder where he co-leads the investment team with Founding Partner Michael Dean. The market demands them, but it shows little allegiance to their mode of production. The opinions expressed are those of the authors. Food may be next. And switch fast.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As such the CBI boss argued that regulation needed to be thought about more "holistically" and called on regulators to "pioneer pro-investment and pro-innovation regulation, alongside competition and consumer price". I can promise you that the only F words I will be using are foreign investment, fair trade, fiscal policy and fiduciary duty.".

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AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Global demand for aquatic foods — that’s fish and seafood — is expected to double by 2050, according to estimates that base the rise mostly on population growth. Forsea claims that eels have become an endangered species, after demand for the delicacy surged in Asia and Europe in particular.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

President Obama offered soft loans to exciting clean tech companies and made investment in greener cars a condition of the multi-billion dollar bailouts awarded to US car companies. But ultimately such measures emerged as piecemeal additions to wider stimulus programmes that simultaneously drove high carbon investment. Do what works.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

million) investment in Arkeon from global Israeli specialty minerals company ICL Group , AFN spoke to Gregor Tegel (GT) about Arkeon’s uniqueness in successfully combining ingredients with amino acids as well as its intentions of applying its one-step patented process beyond the food industry. Or is it a factor of demand?

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Join us for a webinar Jan 25th on Sightline Climate’s 2023 investment trends, insights, and discussion.   Ammonia demand for fertilizer and other existing uses by IEA scenario (Source: IEA ) Shipping fuel: Maritime shipping, which accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions, is betting big on ammonia.   Want more deals?

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 29, 2024

…and for those who missed it, Kim and Mark reviewed climate tech investments in 2023, check out the recording here.  H2 received $4.2bn from 20 lenders including the European Investment Bank and multinationals like BNP Paribas. tons of H2’s steel for 5-7 years, setting the stage for future investments.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Even the negatives — the politicization of ESG investing and reporting, the economic downturn, the energy crisis created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — are temporal phenomena, part of the regular ebbs and flows of economics and policy. Overall, it was more positives than negatives. And then there's the legal side.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

She became intrigued by her clients’ requests for investments with a triple bottom line — and the very notion that profitability and impact needn’t be mutually exclusive. . Six years later, he is CEO of Clara Foods, a biotech food company that uses fermentation to create egg proteins without involving chickens. Deonna Anderson.

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