Forbes Green Tech

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Patricia Gifu, Co-founder of Biomede, was working in cancer research when she connected the dots between proliferation in cancer cases and toxins in the soil.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Special guest: author Richard Morais, whose latest The post The Brief: Zebras take on unicorns, Africa’s soil startups, climate-analytics consolidation, St. Paul’s creativity economy appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These new tools — under development or in the early phases of testing — are helping put numbers to the abstract concept of regenerative agriculture and helping measure metrics such as biodiversity, carbon sequestration and other soil health considerations. . Measuring soil carbon levels with a handheld probe. Courtesy of Yard Stick.

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U.S. Green Technology

MAY 31, 2022

ANALYSIS OF SOIL AND FIELD: Drones can be extremely useful at the beginning of the agricultural cycle. They create exact 3-D maps for early soil analysis and seed planting pattern planning. Drone-assisted soil analysis gives data for irrigation and nitrogen control after planting.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. Plowing or tilling soil has been done for thousands of years.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 22, 2021

Twenty-six startups joined our community in Q2 2021, working on innovations as diverse as kinetic wave energy, soil carbon measurement, efficient wind turbine installation, and electric, uncrewed surface vehicles. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Agtech + water.

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TechCrunch: Climate

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most electronic waste isn’t recycled; instead, our dumped devices (and the toxic metals within) pile up in landfills, polluting the air and contaminating nearby soil and groundwater. The startup says its mission […]

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Consumption of animal products should and will decrease, but many alt protein brands and startups will disappear before that happens. The twist: No one disputes that these efforts will be good for soil health. If so, should we be building an offsets market around soil credits? Some prominent experts think not.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This startup is pumping trees full of probiotics to clean up contaminated land — and help tackle climate change. Originally posted here: Using inoculated trees to clean up soil.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Earth is rich with existing carbon “sinks” that already draw down CO2, like forests, soils, and wetlands.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

There may be more funding for climate tech startups floating around than ever - roughly $17bn in the first half of 2021 alone - but that doesn't mean investors aren't doing their due diligence. "It The startup's technology helps verify the carbon sequestered by forestry projects. What's up with some Accelerate alumni.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

A documentary charting water scarcity and a collaborative accelerator programme for technology startups were also award winners. We would not be here without the startups and innovators themselves and we always invite others to join them.”

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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.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

1 , AGCO is sowing the seeds for a global refresh of its mission — including electrified farm machinery, autonomous field robots that swarm through fields and smart tractor retrofits that provide farmers with insights into metrics such as the organic matter in their soil. With new CEO Eric Hansotia poised to step up Jan. Courtesy of.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

And the good news is that nearly 85% of dollar investment in upstream African agrifoodtech went to climate-focused startups, according to the 2022 Africa AgriFoodtech Investment Report. BIV also invested in another South African startup – De Novo Dairy , a producer of animal-free dairy through precision fermentation.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

Second quarter food startup roundup Jim Giles Fri, 06/04/2021 – 02:30 Welcome to the second quarter edition of Food Weekly’s startup roundup. One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

On the indoor side, the update comes in the form of details on a big vertical farm that the startup Plenty is building in Compton, California. As well as building soil fertility, these moves potentially could lead to the drawdown of millions of tons of carbon dioxide every year. . The momentum here is very clear.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 8, 2023

They’re everywhere — in our walls, our coastlines, our roads and our soils. The post These Carbon Removal Startups Are Turning Everyday Materials Into the Foundation of Our Climate Future appeared first on Elemental Excelerator. What do these things all have in common? Find more from Elemental Interactive 2023 at our YouTube page.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Agricultural practices routinely involve large-scale monocrop operations that negatively impact soil health and utilize unsustainable chemical practices, producing harmful waste streams. Check out all of our startups that are developing agricultural solutions here ! million people in the U.S., Regenerative Agriculture.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

Second quarter food startup roundup Jim Giles Fri, 06/04/2021 – 02:30 Welcome to the second quarter edition of Food Weekly’s startup roundup. One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors. Yet another natural sink absorbs about as much carbon dioxide as our planet’s soils and forests combined: the world’s coastal and ocean waters. That’s why one recent survey recorded almost $160 million spent on forest offsets in 2019.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

And a newer option, soil carbon, also is generating investment from multiple corporate sectors. Yet another natural sink absorbs about as much carbon dioxide as our planet’s soils and forests combined: the world’s coastal and ocean waters. That’s why one recent survey recorded almost $160 million spent on forest offsets in 2019.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 5, 2019

At Greentown Labs, we have the privilege of working with our corporate partners and startups within our Greentown Launch program to forge corporate partnerships. Our Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, Katie MacDonald , has compiled a few lessons for corporates pursuing startup partnerships. Explain who you are.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

That’s the backstory behind its relationship with the Soil & Water Outcomes Fund , a program intended to support farmers who design and implement initiatives aimed at improving water quality and mitigating flooding and runoff, increasing carbon sequestration, reducing emissions from on-farm operations, and creating or protecting habitat.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 4, 2023

Piles of decomposing cow manure emit methane and nitrous oxide, in addition to polluting water and contaminating soil. The startup plans to sell its pellets to energy power plants. Our Co-founder José Antonio Caraball had a mission to reduce pollution in Chilean cities,” says Agustín Ríos , the startup’s COO.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet. These same principles of human healthcare, and these same scientific and technological advances, are starting to be applied to soil — our most important asset for securing our food supply. Soil at the center . Poornima Param….

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 10, 2020

Carcinogenic aflatoxins, caused by soil-based molds, affect as much as 40% of nut and grain harvests worldwide, Clean Crop’s Dan White told ImpactAlpha. The startup uses ionized gasses, produced. The post Prime Impact Fund leads Clean Crop’s $3 million round appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Even in the old normal, the healthy $100m investment disclosed this week by agtech startup Pivot Bio - which hopes to disrupt the $65bn global market for synthetic nitrogen fertilizer - would be impressive. The microbes in the soil can already do this; we just have to figure out how to wake them up," Pivot Bio CEO Karsten Temme told GreenBiz.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 26, 2021

World-leading life science company will engage directly with climatetech startups to advance agriculture technology. May 26, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, today announced Bayer as the newest member of its growing corporate partner network. Somerville, Mass., billion in funding.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 26, 2019

SatAgro provides customers access to Planet’s daily satellite imagery, alongside data from NASA and ESA missions, and complementary information like weather and soil sampling, to increase the efficiency of their farms via their app. Winter wheat harvest in Pomorskie Voivodship, Poland // Credit: David Kaszlikowski and SatAgro.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 9, 2020

The ashes are mixed with soil at the base, along with a memorial marker. In May, I spoke with another intriguing agroforestry startup, Propagate Ventures , part of the fall 2018 cohort at Elemental Excelerator. See original here: How tree-planting startup Propagate Ventures monetizes land conservation.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 17, 2023

Sukhadia is the head of growth and finance at Sol Clarity , a Greentown Labs startup with a dual mission: clearing solar panels of dust that can significantly reduce their power output, while saving massive quantities of water that are currently needed to conduct this cleaning. Greentown has literally all we need.”

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Its microbial fertilizer fixes nitrogen (moves nitrogen from the air to the soil) so that plants can use it as food. Kula Bio’s technology also boosts soil health, according to its team, helping farmers treat their land responsibly. Every ecologist you talk to will say that is the cornerstone way to start improving soil health.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While this partnership—which will strengthen ties and facilitate knowledge flow between Agilent and Greentown’s startup community—is new, Agilent has already been supporting Greentown entrepreneurs for years. We want to have more contact, more interactions with Greentown startups,” Kimmel says. “We We have people who are Ph.D.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Incumbents and specialized startups alike have a new tool at their disposal when it comes to disclosing the sustainability of their alternative protein products. Many of the alt-meat and alt-dairy startups that have emerged in the last several years would rely on this framework. of all anthropogenic GHG emissions.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 7, 2022

US-based agtech startup Fyto has raised $15 million in Series A funding for its specialized aquatic “superplants” that can be used for animal feed, food and soil health ingredients. Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Fyto. The company is starting with feed for dairy cows.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

billion tonnes of waste is dumped globally, with devastating effects on our air, oceans and soil. The startup already counts some of the largest waste management and recycling firms across the UK and France as customers, including SUEZ UK and Cawleys. This unique use of AI offers a digitised solution to a very physical problem.

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