TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Lyon, France-based precision fermentation startup Bon Vivant, which is using biotech techniques to reprogram yeast microorganisms to produce animal-free milk proteins with a substantially lower environmental footprint than traditional dairy, credits clarity of strategy and execution for keeping its investors enthused at a time when raising remains (..)

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

10 – The Gates Foundation’s $55 million equity investment last fall into a German biotech company could have big payoff: an. ImpactAlpha, Nov.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

"My Green Lab is a brilliant project because it reaches out to change behavior and mindset of scientists in the lab," said Pernilla Sörme, risk management lead in global safety, health and environment at AstraZeneca, which expanded Green Lab Certification to seven sites across its global portfolio. Projects and progress.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 25, 2022

Indian insect biotech startup Loopworm has raised $3.4 “Insect-based products are majorly driving sustainability, whereas what I feel is that they should promote health and nutrition first then sustainability as an add-on,” he says. million in seed funding co-led by Indian agrifood VC Omnivore and WaterBridge Ventures.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

BIOMEM is a consortium led by Danish biotech company Aquaporin, with research led by Aston University’s Dr Alan Goddard. A project aiming to develop a novel bioinspired membrane to selectively extract compounds from water has won a €3m grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder programme.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The biotech company’s production system leverages black soldier fly larvae to produce proteins for animal feed and fertilizers. Singapore-based insect protein producer Nutrition Technologies has closed a $20 million equity round.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Early 18 Clean Food Group , Willicroft DSM Venturing Netherlands Corporate venturing arm of health and nutrition company DSM. Multistage 18 (12 new investments) Rival Foods , Standing Ovation , Forsea Döhler Ventures Germany Corporate venturing arm of food and beverage ingredients company Döhler.

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TechCrunch: Climate

AUGUST 20, 2024

BEVC is the latest life sciences VC to add planetary health to its portfolio, suggesting that the trend is catching hold. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch: Climate

MARCH 5, 2025

startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2019 in London, Epoch Biodesign now a 30+ strong multidisciplinary team of chemists, biologists and software engineers.

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TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The synthetic biology and precision fermentation space is a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity these days. But it’s not every day you come across a startup that’s using genetic engineering to produce natural rubber — a substance that’s challenging to reproduce in a lab because of how long its polymer is.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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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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. XCH supports the health and well-being of their employees. Xavier Creative House is a sustainable marketing agency. XCH delivers unprecedented results for their clients.

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2021

Vaccines are under development but need to be fully efficacious,” says Michael Bonsall , a mathematical biologist at the University of Oxford, who is not affiliated with Oxitec but has collaborated with the company in the past, and who worked with the World Health Organization to produce a GM mosquito-testing framework.

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TechCrunch: Climate

MARCH 24, 2025

Calling all tech innovators, startup fanatics, marketing gurus, and emerging VCs this is your moment! You’ve waited long enough, and now the time has come to step into the spotlight at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 2729 in San Francisco. Share your expertise with over 10,000 eager attendees and make an impact by […]

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Better Ventures

APRIL 13, 2021

How technology will enable a new wave of startup companies to make tele-behavioral health better than in-person therapy There’s an old story in technology circles about how at the dawn of television, people didn’t know what to do with it, so they basically put a radio show on television. And so it is with tele-behavioral health?—?you

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TechCrunch: Climate

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The early bird gets the worm and time is running out! You have less than 24 hours left to save up to $1,130 when purchasing passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. If you want massive savings on Disrupt 2025 individual passes and up to 30% on group tickets, secure your low ticket rate today. These offers […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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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. Specifically, some algae R&D companies—such as Corbion Biotech’s TerraVia , Cyanotech Corp., Algae’s Remarkably Adaptable Attributes.

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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. Specifically, some algae R&D companies—such as Corbion Biotech’s TerraVia , Cyanotech Corp., Algae’s Remarkably Adaptable Attributes.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

One is this drive to become a tech powerhouse and the other one is a drive to get the UK public to consume healthier food and have better diets and therefore better health. million last year in a project called the ‘Culturedmeat Project’ by Spanish cultivated meat startup BioTech Foods. Government investments.

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TechCrunch: Climate

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Cultivated chicken doggie snacks have gone on sale at a U.K. pet food retailer, Pets at Home. The retailer also happens to be a major investor in Meatly, the startup producing the meat ingredient contained in dog food brand The Pack’s Chick Bites, as the slaughter-free, low carbon treats are billed.

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TechCrunch: Climate

MARCH 10, 2025

From October 27-29, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 will bring together over 10,000 startup pioneers, VC leaders, and tech enthusiasts at Moscone West in San Franciscothe epicenter of innovation set to reshape the future of technology. Whats in it for your startup?

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TechCrunch: Climate

MARCH 20, 2025

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TechCrunch: Climate

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The last three days to save up to $1,130 to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 are winding down! Get your tickets today for massive savings on Disrupt 2025 individual passes and up to 30% on group tickets. These offers end February 28 at 11:59 p.m. PT, so dont miss out on major savings of the year. […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2020

Today, the health and welfare decisions for thousands of fish are based on observing a few individual fish that are taken out of the water and manually inspected - a data-gathering process that's time-consuming, unreliable and impossible to scale," writes Neil Davé , general manager for Tidal, in a Medium post.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 31, 2020

According to the World Health Organisation , 25 per cent of vaccines are lost in transport due to breaks in the cold chain, creating waste. "We look at that as an opportunity to inject sustainability into this rapid innovation and restructuring of the cold chain," said Paul Camuti, chief technology and strategy officer for Trane Technologies.

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TechCrunch: Climate

JANUARY 9, 2025

Using LEDs has the potential to bring down the cost of biomanufacturing, allowing such processes to make materials that previously would have been too expensive. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The plant-based meat and dairy market is expected to balloon over the years to come, as consumers increasingly seek to reduce the environmental impact of their diet while tapping the health benefits related to reducing meat consumption. On the one hand, people are at home, preparing many more meals, and starting to experiment more.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

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. Wherever we look, humans have consistently built technologies that surpass their animal predecessors.

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TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The offices of plant-based protein startup Heura are tucked away down a narrow street a short distance from one of Barcelona’s main tourist draws.

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TechCrunch: Climate

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Gates Foundation is pumping millions into C16 Biosciences, the Y Combinator-backed company fermenting palm oil alternatives. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch: Climate

JANUARY 8, 2024

At CES 2024, French startup Neoplants is showing off its progress with its houseplants that work as air purifiers designed for the home. The bio-engineered plants can, according to the company, replace 20 “regular” houseplants, as measured by how many pollutants the plants can remove from the air.

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TechCrunch: Climate

DECEMBER 15, 2023

What do iconic Valley investors Zachary Bogue and Chris Sacca have in common? They are both trying to stop cows from burping methane. No, really. And a Sacca investment just raised $20 million to do just that. What gives? With the conclusion of COP28, the global talks on the climate crisis, Methane is going up […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch: Climate

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Turning sunflower seeds into sustainable, cocoa-free chocolate has netted Munich-based B2B food tech startup Planet A Foods (formerly QOA) a $30 million Series B funding round. Now, the Y Combinator alum is gearing up for industrialization, with the funds set to be deployed to scale its production capacity by around 7.5x.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

It’s all about planetary health. It’s all about human health. AFN : What do you want to see Arkeon achieve? GT: Arkeon is a company that wants to create pain-free ingredients for the planet. What we have to do to make that happen is to produce things smarter and with less impact to the planet.

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TechCrunch: Climate

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A love of food — and, well, cheese — has landed German fermentation startup Formo‘s co-founder Roman Plewka and its team a hefty $61 million Series B round to keep scaling production of their climate-friendly, animal-free cheese.

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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. Ghana-based AppCyclers aims to tackle this crisis across Africa via an online marketplace, where individuals and businesses can buy and sell recyclable e-waste.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

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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