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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 This led them to start projects in paper and plastic upcycling but then they came to another realisation; that food waste was considered a negative value resource. There has to be a significant health or nutrition benefit that would push this into the human market.”

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Impact unicorns: Green firms dominate list of UK's most valuable tech start-ups

Business Green

The government said impact investment had risen 127 per cent in the UK since 2018, demonstrating how technology has become ever more important for tackling the world's biggests problems, such as climate change, escalating health risks, and food insecurity, and that investors are increasingly taking note.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people.

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Novel biomembranes project receives €3m Pathfinder grant

Envirotec Magazine

BIOMEM is a consortium led by Danish biotech company Aquaporin, with research led by Aston University’s Dr Alan Goddard. The BIOMEM consortium will take transport proteins from biological cell membranes and embed them in more robust, industrial plastic membranes to create extremely selective separation membranes.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

Labs also send massive amounts of water down the drain and discard possibly billions of pounds of single-use plastics every year. My Green Lab's 15 partners and sponsors include biotech giant Genentech, MilliporeSigma and USA Scientific. They did 'a day in the lab' to find out how much they used plastic-wise.

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? $32bn and 30% drop as market hits pause in 2023

Climate Tech VC

Despite traditional venture’s focus on software and asset-light business models, half of the deal activity in climate tech goes towards sectors requiring physical assets such as hardware, deeptech, biotech, consumables, or project development.    Declining graduation rates are a symptom of investment health.

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

And despite its many shortcomings, plastic continues to take market share from leather. Applying the latest technologies from biotech, tissue engineering, artificial intelligence, and food science, entrepreneurs are trying to create new animal-free products that are cheaper, healthier, tastier, and more sustainable. Food may be next.