AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is according to a report by Better Origin , a Cambridge-based and AI-enabled insect tech startup that produces animal feed. takes a look at the extent of the UK’s food waste with food insecurity as a background and presents food upcycling as a solution to this waste. The whitepaper dubbed the ‘Food Chain 2.0’

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 25, 2022

Indian insect biotech startup Loopworm has raised $3.4 Loopworm is the first Indian technology startup to farm insects for animal feed. The investment is Omnivore’s second investment under its OmniX Bio initiative, which backs early-stage agrifood life science startups. . Regional fundraising.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fourteen startups joined our community in the third quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a carbontech solution for aluminum manufacturing, an AI platform for tracking scope 1 and scope 3 vehicle emissions, and waste-biomass-turned-biochar for replacing cement.

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The post How To Make Your Startup More Eco-Friendly appeared first on Green Living Guy. All over the world, the business community is pitching in with innovative solutions that won’t break the bank. Here are a few tips for […].

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

And today, a new wave of startups is entering the coffee-imitation game, motivated by the threat climate change poses to the world’s coffee supply. When Anderson first began reporting the story, “as someone who drinks coffee and is attached to coffee,” she was highly skeptical of what these startups were offering.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 24, 2024

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 21, 2023

Climatetech leaders from the Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA Welcome Eight Startups to the Initiative Somerville, Mass. Climatetech leaders from the Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA Welcome Eight Startups to the Initiative Somerville, Mass. and New York City, N.Y., and New York City, N.Y.,

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Tyson Foods is making a two-fold investment in insect protein startup Protix to increase production for animal feed ingredients, aquaculture and pet food. The two companies will also build and operate a facility in the US that will be the “first at-scale facility” of its kind to upcycle manufacturing byproduct into insect protein.

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Charged

JUNE 11, 2021

UK-based Lunaz upcycles and converts legacy vehicles to EVs, using a proprietary electric powertrain. His investment company has successfully backed a number of startups in the eSports and athletic recovery sectors. Beckham’s expertise extends to more than just bending it on the football pitch. Source: Lunaz.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 12, 2022

Climatetech leaders from Fluor, the Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA Welcome Eight Startups to the Initiative. Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Canada) utilizes point-source CO2 and mineralizes it with waste materials to create supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) that can be used in building materials.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fortuna Cools recently announced the launch of the Nutshell Cooler, a collapsible cooler made using upcycled coconut fiber sourced from the Philippines and designed to outperform plastic. Read the original here: This collapsible cooler is insulated with upcycled coconut fiber.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 22, 2024

The initiative’s third cohort included eight carbontech startups that were chosen in a highly competitive selection and deliberation process that saw more than 160 applications from 26 countries. The startup, formerly known as C-Quester, is based in Los Angeles, CA. Detailed results from Year 1 and Year 2 are available.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 24, 2024

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 24, 2023

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 20, 2023

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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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. The startup is backed by unusually diverse array of funders. It’s exciting to see so many startups targeting the problem of food waste.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

SpadXTech’s microbes eat sugar and channel carbon to spin out cellulose fibers, which the startup can then process into a wide range of materials, including plastic-free, vegan leather. ACCEL gives participating startups a stipend, but all the benefit we’re getting from the program is so much more than that.

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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. The startup is backed by unusually diverse array of funders. It’s exciting to see so many startups targeting the problem of food waste.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 23, 2023

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

ACCEL is an accelerator from Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space (BGS) that’s dedicated to bolstering BIPOC-led startups as they develop critical climatetech solutions by offering access to funding, networking connections, resources, and opportunities that structural inequities put out of reach.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 30, 2023

Entocycle , a UK startup that provides technologies and services for the insect farming industry, has secured $5 million in a Series A round from a pool of climate-positive institutional investors and athletes as angel investors. One comprises insect farming companies and waste upcycling companies that want to increase their efficiencies.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2020

Startups begun by ecopreneurs often use the “triple bottom line” method, consisting of: Social bottom line – How does the business give back to the community, and help those around it in need? Upcycling and rehabilitating furniture that would otherwise be thrown away. The “Triple Bottom Line” Method For Ecopreneurs.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

As analysts, investors, journalists, and other experts offer up their predictions for this year’s climatetech areas to watch, Greentown’s featuring just a sampling of our startup members innovating in these key categories. Want to engage with these startups and other Greentown members? Industry experts: mentor a startup.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The startup began selling its spirits this month to bars and restaurants around New York City, after years of development in the lab. Two startups, Carbon Upcycling Technologies and Sky Baron, recently launched a line of such products. They provide a really important revenue stream for budding startups.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

The startup works with farmers to permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere and enhance crop yields by spreading basalt dust - waste created when quarries crush basalt rock for other uses - onto farmlands. I recently spoke to Yap about her young startup, life as an entrepreneur, the path she took to get there, and what inspires her.

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GreenTech Gazette

AUGUST 21, 2020

European fashion outlet H&M has come under fire from critics who accused the brand of greenwashing after pairing with Swedish company Re:newcell to create more sustainable upcycled clothes from a circulose / viscose blend. EcoLogic Studio.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the wings: startups touting a new generation of textiles, production methods and business models, suggesting there are a lot more innovations in store. German sportswear company adidas committed to using only recycled polyester across its supply chain by 2024. Forestry took root on the balance sheet.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 16, 2021

Joanna Sadler, co-author of the study, said, “This is the first example of using a biological system to upcycle plastic waste into a valuable industrial chemical and it has very exciting implications for the circular economy.”

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 24, 2022

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 2, 2020

Over the past three editions Future Food Asia has empowered 38 early stage startups from Asia Pacific by providing them the stage to present their cutting-edge innovations and distributed US$ 1 million in awards.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 28, 2021

If you think about it, a livestock farm is a grass factory and cows are upcyclers. What do ag-tech startups often get wrong in trying to sell new technologies to farmers? Do you mean that we would not have enough food to feed ourselves, or that there would be downstream environmental consequences if we stopped grazing cattle?

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

In mid-April, two climate-tech startups focused on decarbonizing the world's most widely used construction material, CarbonCure Technologies and UCLA CarbonBuilt , split the top prize in the $20m NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition. Both startups address CO2 at the manufacturing site. Each will receive $7.5m

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the wings: startups touting a new generation of textiles, production methods and business models, suggesting there are a lot more innovations in store. German sportswear company adidas committed to using only recycled polyester across its supply chain by 2024. Increased concern for farmers is also on the menu.

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Green Tech Challenge

MARCH 1, 2019

If you are just a sentimental person or quality-focused savvy buyer, startups like CLOTHES DOCTOR from London, REPAMERA from Sweden and TADAM from Belgium are providing digital platforms for clothe repairing. REPAMERA does not only collect repairable items for individuals but also large volume batches for fashion company as well.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

💨 Avnos , a Los Angeles, CA-based direct air capture startup using a CO2 adsorbent, raised $80M from ConocoPhillips, JetBlue Ventures, and Shell Ventures. ♻️ Re-Fresh Global, a Berlin, Germany-based textile upcycling company, raised $1M in Pre-seed funding from Earlybird and Serpentine Ventures.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Startups are at an advantage in that they are early in their business’ lifecycle and can focus on equity both in their workforces (equity in) and in how they deploy their products or services (equity out) and scale those practices as they grow,” says Sara Chandler, our Managing Director of Equity and Access. Why do we love them?

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