Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Xavier Creative House (XCH) is a sustainable marketing agency operating in the healthcare industry, specializing in pharmaceuticals, biotech, and medical devices. This is the third year running in which Xavier Creative House have addressed their carbon footprint by investing in carbon offset schemes.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Government investments. Walden and Dillon both believe that for the UK alternative protein sector to establish itself as a leader, it needs to invest in establishing more support for the sector to grow in the country, besides the regulatory landscape. Spain also invested $5.2 UK alternative protein consumer education.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Within the Green Deal, the EU’s “Farm to Fork” strategy includes a 50 percent reduction in pesticide use and a 20 percent reduction in fertilizer use, and a 25 percent increase in organic farming. These investments, however, would be impacted should the EU’s pesticides reduction target be adopted.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2020

per cent annually between 1961 and 2016 - that's far faster than the demand for animal proteins and the growth in population, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Demand for sea creatures such as tuna, salmon and shrimp grew 3.2

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 5, 2019

For now, the products that the Chicago-based biotech startup plans to launch are a complete secret. After a trip to Yellowstone, SBP observed how certain extremophile organisms can survive in the National Park’s volcanic streams sparking a quest to create edible proteins with nutritional value from these hearty microbes.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

While certain labels, namely "organic," allow farmers to charge a premium to a niche market, there is no inherent bonus to farms for following most pro-climate practices, such as planting cover crop. Indigo Ag was the fifth biotech company founded by von Maltzahn. That brings us to why FedEx invested in Indigo Ag.

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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. Media Source.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 10, 2023

Do they come directly from living organisms? For our minimum viable product (MVP) system, we've looked across all published literature and data on enzymes, and optimized a pathway across living organisms of the best enzymes that can do this. It means so much to have a customer want to invest to help scale up something like this.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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. Looking at AgFunder’s 2017 AgriFoodTech investing report , the most active VC made nine investments during the year.

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Better Ventures

APRIL 13, 2021

New Applications for Psychedelic Drugs Offer Hope for Hard to Treat Conditions Compass Pathways : a biotech company leveraging psychedelics. We need to be treated like whole people, the brain being one more organ needing care. Raised $14M from Octopus Ventures, Merck, Venus and Serena Williams and Y Combinator. That’s not what we need.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It’s still early days, but public and private sector organizations alike — all recognized on our top 25 most sustainable fleets list this week — are making the transition, and solving thorny infrastructure and workforce challenges along the way.

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Farming on the continent is plagued by under investment and smallholders are already in the grip of the climate crisis, hit by floods, droughts and depleted soils. Participants must put forward funding and a proposal, and Aim4C organizers then choose successful sprints to champion to 2025. African farmers face critical challenges.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Such crops became known as genetically modified organisms (GMOs). What genome editing technologies allow you to do is to make really precise changes to the DNA that already exists in an organism. Yes, these companies do invest huge amounts of capital and time developing innovations such as gene-edited crops. It's not clear.

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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. First is the emergence of social media , which led to the formation of new food tribes and trends including organic, gluten-free, vegan, keto, flexitarian and reducetarian.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

San Francisco Bay Area biotech giant Genentech is a world leader in making medicines for diseases such as cancer and cystic fibrosis; it’s even trialing one of its medicines for helping treat COVID-19. Retaining the best talent is crucial to Genentech’s ability to stay ahead with biotech innovation. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Gregor Tegel, Dr. Günther Bochmann and Dr. Simon Rittmann, claims to be the only company creating 20 proteinogenic amino acids by feeding carbon dioxide to single-celled micro-organisms called archaea – without the need for genetic engineering. So what was behind Arkeon’s creation? Following the recent $2.9 million (€2.75

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Prithivi Chellamuthu currently works as Senior Scientist – Curative, a biotech/healthcare startup involved in improving healthcare access to the community. Alexandra (Aly) Criscuolo, a GreenBiz 30 Under 30 recipient, is determined to make sports and organizations more sustainable. Prithivi Chellamuthu. (He/Him/His)

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 15, 2021

San Francisco Bay Area biotech giant Genentech is a world leader in making medicines for diseases such as cancer and cystic fibrosis; it’s even trialing one of its medicines for helping treat COVID-19. Retaining the best talent is crucial to Genentech’s ability to stay ahead with biotech innovation. And Genentech isn’t the only one.

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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. . environmental organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council. . Drawn to finance, Ballen started her career at Morgan Stanley in traditional asset management.

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